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Hi everybody. Are you ready for tech news? Great. Steam was the subject of a spat between the world's biggest Valve critic slash Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and gamers at large over games that use generative AI. Currently, developers of such games must disclose how they used AI on their game's Steam page. But But In a reply to a tweet from game dev turned AI lobbyist Matt Workman, Sweeney agreed that this is dumb because AI is the future of games anyway, and if we label the games now, the clankers will be upset later. Oh no, I said it. Sweeney's remarks came after another reply to the same tweet from an artist at Valve, Ayi Sanchez, who pointed out that transparency on the use of AI or anything else really shouldn't be considered a bad thing in this context. Now Workman is concerned that labeling games hurt their sales. Meanwhile, Arc Raiders has such a label and it's hotter than a jet turbine strapped to the side of a data center. Got em. Sanchez theorizes that the only devs afraid of an AI label quote are the ones that know their product is low effort. Oh, that's where, that's where. Oh yeah, there. But oop, here comes Tim Sweeney again to ask why we would stop at labels for AI. Might as well force devs to disclose what shampoo brand the developer uses. And to be fair, if a developer did find some way to develop a game using shampoo, I would want to know that.
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Maybe they're born with it. Maybe it's programmed.
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Maybe it's head and shoulders. The memory crisis has gotten so bad that Nvidia has reportedly stopped including VRAM on the GPU modules it sells to some of its board partners, according to reasonably reliable rumor monger Golden Pig Upgrade. Now, not including VRAM is apparently standard procedure for Nvidia sales to the biggest GPU vendors. But that's not the case for smaller board partners with fewer memory industry connections, who will now have to wait outside a 711 to panhandling for spare Ram. But if they can't score any memory chips that way, if they're camped at a 711 in Korea, they could buy memory themed chips because the convenience store chain collabed with memory company SK Hynix to launch a snack called HBM Chips, which simultaneously stands for High Bandwidth Memory and Honey Banana Matte. Matte being the Korean word for flavor. Now this is extremely confusing to me for possibly because I'm not Korean enough, but 711 apparently wants to do stuff like this to create unexpected, fun purchasing experiences for younger consumers who are just bouncing off the walls with hype over the next hot new snack from their favorite semiconductor manufacturer. Whoa, you got the new SK Hynix. Yeah man, smoke some weed. The European Union has agreed on new rules that would hold tech companies liable for scams hosted on their platforms. And once the EU Parliament and Council adopt the new rules, payment service providers like PayPal and Stripe, but also social media companies like Meta and TikTok will be punished if they fail to remove scams that have been reported. So I guess the EU is still doing stuff to keep big Tech in check as long as it's not AI Related The Block's Digital Services Act, Digital Markets act, and it's Still Developing AI act have all been put in jeopardy by pressure from the US Government, who would like Europe to stop telling American companies what they can or can't do in Europe. That's communism. Correct me if I'm wrong, one particular European who doesn't like the American approach is French President Emmanuel Macron, who accused Brussels of being too afraid to push back. And one of our writers points out that there has to be a joke here about macaroni and Brussels sprouts. And I would argue that no, there doesn't.
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Yeah, all right, you got me.
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Let's have a baby that'll save our marriage.
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MIT researchers say their iceberg index simulation of the US labor market shows that 11.7% of US jobs could already be handled by current AI. No problem. Importantly, the tool is meant to flag vulnerable roles, not to predict layoffs. At least jobs appear safe from AI at Nvidia, where CEO Jensen Huang told an all hands meeting that AI will not replace them and asked managers who have been telling their employees to use less AI. Are you insane? Meanwhile, Nvidia tried to calm financial analysts worried about the company's books by insisting in a leaked memo that they are not Enron. Okay, not Enron. The poster child for accounting fraud. Now, I'm not sure if that's gonna calm anyone down. A business bringing up Enron feels a bit like saying Macbeth in the theater.
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The theater.
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Of course, if you do that, then dbrand steals your soul. 404 Media reporter Joseph Cox has reported that his idevices bizarrely began suddenly opening random podcasts all on their own, some with silent audio, which is even more creepy, and others linking to pages that could be considered malicious. Security researcher Patrick Wardle was able to replicate the phenomenon, but qualified that it isn't a full blown hack yet. However, it would be a great delivery system if a real flaw exists. A few outlets reached out to Apple for clarification, and in true Apple fashion, they haven't commented yet, and probably won't because you Taiwanese authorities have raided the home of former TSMC senior VP Lo Wei Jiang, who's accused of leaking trade secrets to his new employer, intel, who insists Low didn't hand over anything sensitive, just the normal stuff. But investigators still searched his Taipei and Hsinchu residences and froze assets as part of a national security probe tied to TSMC's cutting edge chip tech, which Taiwan views as incredibly important to their security and sovereignty. Intel thinks the whole thing is overblown, though, and if they had gotten secrets you'd definitely see their chips running a little bit faster by now, so. And scientists at Tulane University have made a major breakthrough this week in finding a literal pain switch in the brain. I mean, not literal in the switch. It's not a. But you get it. An enzyme called VLK that neurons launch outside the cell to crank up pain signals after injury. Mice without VLK barely felt post surgery pain and still moved normally, suggesting that future meds could target this switch without the messy side effects of current pain relief medications. If this study holds up and the same is found to be true in humans, then hoo wee pain relief may have just gotten a whole lot less painful.
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Pain switch in the membrane Pain switch.
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In the brain Backpack. Hey, thanks for exploring the wild and wacky world of tech news with me today. What was your favorite part? Fantastico. Remember, come back on Monday for another Riley adventure. And if TSMC raids your home, remember to repeat after me, swipe or no swiping. Hasta luego, amigos.
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