Monday, September 09
Daily News Stuff 9 September 2024
TikToking Along Edition
TikToking Along Edition
Top Story
- Idiots who tried TikTok's viral "free money glitch" at ATMs are getting reported for fraud. (Gizmodo)
The "glitch" involved depositing a cheque that you wrote on your own account into your own account at an ATM, and then withdrawing the funds immediately before the cheque bounced.
There is a term for this.
Though doing it from and to your own bank account is an artistic touch of idiocy I had never considered.It's not entirely clear how many people may have tried this scheme, but the Journal describes it as "thousands." The viral meme got so popular that tens of millions of people have watched TikTok videos about the "glitch" at this point, according to the Journal.
People haven't gotten dumber, it's just that technology allows them to do more dumb things faster.
- Though considering that many of these people posted video of themselves committing grand larceny in a manner where the bank also has video of them, maybe they really are getting dumber.
- Though again, considering that criminal mastermind Frank Abnagale, the subject of the movie Catch Me If You Can, only managed to make off with $1448.60 in his own cheque fraud scheme before being caught and sent to prison, maybe not.
Tech News
- Elon Musk has said that no, Tesla is not licensing AI from xAI. (Tech Crunch)
Considering that the two AI platforms serve completely different purposes, this report only serves to highlight that the mainstream and tech media alike don't know what they are talking about.
- AMD's Radeon 8000 series will target the mainstream first, not the high end. (WCCFTech)
The usual pattern is to put out the fastest, most expensive cards in a new generation first, and then trickle out more affordable options. AMD plans to reverse that with the new generation - expected to launch at CES in January - because its high-end cards don't sell all that well anyway.
This is a much better plan to compete with Nvidia because Nvidia will be launching its own high end cards around the same time, with its mainstream cards coming months afterwards.
- Speaking of launches, SpaceX is hoping to start launching unmanned Starship missions to Mars late in 2026. (Next Big Future)
If all goes to plan, manned missions will follow in 2028 or 2030.
- China meanwhile is planning a return flight to Mars in 2028. (Space News)
"Merely an unmanned mission to return small samples. To Mars. Well, from Earth, to Mars, and back to Earth. Round trip. Steerage class.
Disclaimer: Port out, starboard home...
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dear frenz,
I find myself wondering: What if the PRC intended for TikTok to be a platform for inciting criminal acts by Americans?
I find myself wondering: What if the PRC intended for TikTok to be a platform for inciting criminal acts by Americans?
Posted by: PatBuckman at Monday, September 09 2024 11:53 PM (rcPLc)
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They're helpfully filtering idiots out of society?
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, September 10 2024 07:38 AM (PiXy!)
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All of the above?
(no, actually tick tock (sp?) is simply used as a broad-brush sort of spying tool: keep in mind that the PRC has the sort of numerical advantage that they can simply put tens of millions of human eyes to work doing that jobs that we use AI for)
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, September 10 2024 09:59 AM (bg2DR)
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In is East, East is Out, Out is West, West is In.
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, September 10 2024 10:32 AM (bg2DR)
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The Differential Shrubs.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, September 10 2024 11:22 AM (PiXy!)
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You didn't even have to look it up, did you?
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, September 10 2024 12:05 PM (bg2DR)
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I did not.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Tuesday, September 10 2024 06:15 PM (PiXy!)
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It *was* pretty IYKYK.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, September 11 2024 10:35 PM (pnaK4)
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