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Richard Lawler

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    Court reveals the two people who helped Sam Bankman-Fried post bail.

    The former FTX crypto tycoon is living with his parents in California instead of sitting in jail, thanks to a $250 million bail secured by his parent’s home as well as two people who had been kept anonymous.

    Today, after news organizations argued for the information to be released, the court revealed Stanford research scientist Andreas Paepcke put up $200,000 and former Stanford Law School dean Larry Kramer put up $500,000. SBF’s parents teach law at Stanford.

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    Richard Lawler
    Install those OS updates ASAP.

    Beyond unplugging Internet Explorer and improving crash detection, updates for both Microsoft and Apple operating systems are fixing security flaws that they report have already been exploited by attackers.

    A WebKit exploit on iOS applies no matter which browser you’re using, so you’ll want to update right away.

    BleepingComputer has a rundown of the security fixes, which includes one for the Microsoft Store on Windows, so make sure you have updates turned on for that app specifically — it won’t get patched via Windows Update alone.

    Microsoft February 2023 Patch Tuesday fixes 3 exploited zero-days, 77 flaws

    [BleepingComputer]

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    Green light.

    In Elon news: he’s apparently running Twitter the same way I would if I spent $44 billion on it and plans to keep running it directly for most of this year.

    In non-Elon news: Are you ready for the Galaxy S23 Ultra’s rating? We gave it a 9. Also, expect earnings updates today from Roblox and Roku, but don’t miss Liz’s breakdown of what happens in tech when the money stops being cheap.

    Less money and more fear: what’s going on with tech

    Elizabeth Lopatto
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    Sometimes AI chatbot responses are clear, detailed, and wrong.

    From last week’s Vergecast: there’s one small problem with this Bing AI response about The Verge’s history with Elon Musk and Elon Musk impersonators.

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    Richard Lawler
    Getting approved for a loan from Apple could depend on how much gear you’ve bought.

    The details are apparently coming out as Apple tests its “buy now, pay later” service with employees. The service was supposed to launch last year.

    From Bloomberg reporter Mark Gurman:

    The Apple Pay Later service — announced last year but still in the testing phase — will evaluate borrowers based on their spending history and even which of the company’s devices they own. The program, which lets shoppers make purchases and then pay over installments, also will look at whether customers have applied for an Apple Card credit card and the other cards they have linked to their Apple Pay accounts.

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    This $15,000 GPU doesn’t even have modern ray tracing or AI built-in.

    Last year’s big GPU price drop doesn’t apply to a prototype version of the never-officially-released 3DFX Voodoo 5 6000 that sold on eBay over the weekend (via Videocardz.com).

    Representing the potential top of the line in 2000-era video card tech, the listing says it has four GPUs and 128MB VRAM onboard and claims it’s been reworked to handle 8X FSAA.

    eBay listing for a prototype 3DFX Voodoo 5 6000 graphics card
    Image: gtastuntcrew302 / eBay
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    Richard Lawler
    Green light.

    The Super Bowl is over, and all the advertisements are now easily available on YouTube (for movie trailers other than The Flash, check Polygon’s roundup linked below).

    Did you check out Fox’s 1080p HDR-upconverted-to-4K broadcast? How’d it look?

    Watch all the trailers that played during the Super Bowl

    [Polygon]

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    Fox shares Elon Musk’s real-time coordinates -- the kind of thing that gets journalists banned on Twitter.

    He’s in a luxury box at the Super Bowl, next to Rupert Murdoch (who also knows the pain of wasting money on a social media site you’ve purchased and run into the ground, even if MySpace only cost Fox $580 million instead of $44 billion).

    But at least no one can tweet where Elon’s private jet is.

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    You might be able to see SpaceX test the Starship launch system on this stream.

    During an event on Wednesday, SpaceX president Gwynne Shotwell said the company would attempt a 33-engine static fire test today.

    Naturally, the folks at NASA Spaceflight have their cameras trained on the test stand in Rocketland / Boca Chica, TX, and the livestream has caught signs that the time of the test is approaching soon.

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    Richard Lawler
    Green light.

    So, what do you think of Microsoft’s new AI-enhanced search? Check out what it’s telling us in our first tests, and let us know in the comments if there are any other questions we should be asking.

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