Wednesday, February 14
Daily News Stuff 14 February 2024
Diggy Diggy Hole Edition
Diggy Diggy Hole Edition
Top Story
- A judge has dismissed most of the claims in a series lawsuits by several authors against OpenAI. (Ars Technica)
The authors claimed that every text produced by ChatGPT was an infringement of their work because... Because, basically, it had read their work. Though they had no proof even of that.
There is a surviving claim of unfair business practices under California law, by, essentially, reading the author's works without written permission, but that merely hasn't been dismissed out of hand; it still has to withstand trial.
Tech News
- The original proposal for the World Wide Web was written in Microsoft Word for Mac 4.0. Can we still read it? (JGC)
Yes... Mostly. Though not in Word itself. Libre Office works though.
- IBM is 100 years old today-ish. (IEEE Spectrum)
Happy birthday. Your cloud services suck.
- Damn Small Linux is back. (Tom's Hardware)
Though at 700MB it's no longer particularly small.
- The Flipper Zero security testing device has gained a video game attachment, with video output and motion control. (Tom's Hardware)
Because they could, I guess.
- How does Nvidia's GTX Titan, the fastest video card available in 2013, stack up against modern rivals? Badly. (Tom's Hardware)
In 9 out of 12 games tested - ignoring the ones that wouldn't run at all - it was slower than an entry-level Radeon 6400.
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