Wednesday, November 22
Daily News Stuff 22 November 2023
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- The DOJ has apparently succeeded in shaking down Binance for $4 billion. (Wall Street Journal) (archive site)
The fines will settle civil liabilities over violating US financial sanctions in allowing people to transfer imaginary money over the internet, and CEO Changpeng Zhao will plead guilty to one criminal charge and - since he's not a Republican - probably get off with probation.
Tech News
- Sarah Silverman's lawsuit alleging that all generative AI constitutes copyright infringement continues to fall apart. (Hollywood Reporter)
If only someone could have predicted this.
- Sunbird is a secure messaging app that doesn't store any of your private information on its servers. (The Verge)
It stores them on someone else's servers.
Unencrypted.
- Striated caracaras perform as well as Goffin's cockatoos with puzzle boxes. (Phys.org)
Wait, I think that might be the wrong link.
- Rich people have money. This is bad. (Phys.org)
The solution is to make sure nobody has any money, and if at all possible, make sure there are no people at all.
- Intel's Meteor Lake laptop chips - the real 14th generation, for small values of real - are almost here, and they're just plain not very good. (Notebook Check)
Lots of off-the-record quotes from laptop makers who are basically saying they're turning to AMD because Intel is a hot mess right now.
- Former OpenAI employees call Sam Altman a scum-sucking pig and soul vampire. (WCCFTech)
Well, they didn't use those words. Or they might have done; I didn't read it all.
But after he joined as CEO the company's attrition rate spiked to 50%.
Disclaimer: Scum-Sucking Pigs WBAGNFARB.
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One place I worked at thought they were doing a good job once they got the annual turnover rate down to 50%. For me it was just a placeholder until I could get a better job elsewhere.
Posted by: Frank at Wednesday, November 22 2023 07:52 PM (0001W)
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"after he joined as CEO the company's attrition rate spiked to 50%"
See, I was all prepared to despise the guy, and you have to go and flatter him. Also, it looks like that "Kyle Wiggers" article from the other day was spot-on. No, the other one.
See, I was all prepared to despise the guy, and you have to go and flatter him. Also, it looks like that "Kyle Wiggers" article from the other day was spot-on. No, the other one.
Posted by: normal at Thursday, November 23 2023 01:39 AM (LADmw)
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