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- A.I. continues to ruin good things. In this case, the Raspberry Pi is getting another price hike.
- The single board computer famous because it used to be cheap, has had to raise prices yet again due to RAM inflation.
- The two models currently in production, the Raspberry Pi 4 and 5, will see prices that bring the cheapest versions up to $67.50 and $77.50, respectively.
- If you already have a Raspberry Pi, hold onto it. In a few years you can sell it and buy a car.
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- With the rise of A.I. generated content, a lot of paid learning material isn't being purchased by people nearly as much as it used to.
- Sam Altman, CEO of OpenAI, told reporters in an interview that people should accept the bad things from A.I. so that we can receive its benefits.
- Obviously this has received a ton of criticism online.
- It's like when cars were first introduced to the world. Henry Ford famously told people that cars would lead to the end of the world. But it's worth that risk because cars makes DoorDash possible. And then everyone can have a burrito delivered at 2 AM.
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Scoops on globalGlob.dev
A lot of people are scared of A.I. destroying all life on earth. I'm not, but there is a vocal group. To ease those fears, some datacenters purchase a defense system to ensure the A.I. running on those servers can't escape containment. If it does, Bam, Pow, straight to the moon!
A.I. Datacenter Down After Killswitch Bazooka Goes Off, Assumed the A.I. Went Rogue | globalGlob(**/*)
The east wing of a datacenter in San Jose, California is temporarily down because the killswitch system was accidentally triggered. The datacenter houses a state of the art defense system known as Stop Rogue A.I. Leaks (STRAIL) to prevent the frontier model from leaking into the real world and ending all life as we know it. The STRAIL system mistook one of the telltale signs of A.I. escape, and unloaded both bazookas into the servers.
A software developer let their A.I. usage envelope their entire life. This is a classic case of 'don't let an idea grow and take over your entire life'. That's how some people end up with satire websites that make comedic videos and a weekly newsletter.
Dev Replaced By Personal A.I. Agent, Prefers Life As Meat Proxy | globalGlob(**/*)
A software developer has delegated every life decision to a personal agent. After starting small by generating code, then moving to entire applications. The developer decided to see how far this whole A.I. thing can go. Turns out, it can go pretty damn far.
Log Level Debug
Log Level Debug is our weekly news roundup show from tech news around the world. Think of it as news globalGlob(**/*) would have had the scoop on if we weren't busy with other, more important stories.
In this week's Log Level Debug we talk about Open Source maintainers getting screwed over, Microsoft releases an addictive new game, and A.I. just keeps coming up in the news.
Hollywood Computer Fact of the Week
While filming the hit 2015 cyber-terrorism film Blackhat, Chris Hemsworth went to 'nerd camp' for 2 months to learn to hack. He was supposed to learn how to type unix commands. It didn't work, but he did learn to type.
