December 13, 2022 - Softs Geek

2 Minutes

World

Stock futures are flat as investors await Wednesday’s Federal Reserve rate hike decision

Sources December 13, 2022

Stock futures were flat Tuesday evening as investors await the Federal Reserve’s latest interest rate hike decision in its effort to crush inflation, set to be delivered on Wednesday. Dow Jones Industrial Average futures...

8 Minutes

Technology

Elon Musk says he can stop child exploitation on Twitter. So far, he’s axed jobs and pushed out watchdogs

Sources December 13, 2022

Less than a month after taking control of Twitter, Elon Musk said addressing child sexual exploitation content on the social media platform was “Priority #1.” But there is little evidence that the company is...

1 Minute

Software

Sam Bankman-Fried is denied bail in the Bahamas

Sources December 13, 2022

Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and former CEO of FTX, was denied bail on Tuesday after a Bahamian judge deemed him a flight risk, according to Reuters. An extradition hearing is scheduled for February 8th. Bankman-Fried,...

3 Minutes

Hardware

Preliminary GeForce RTX 4060 Ti Specs Leak: 220W and a Short PCB

Sources December 13, 2022

Preliminary specifications of Nvidia’s performance mainstream GeForce RTX 4060 Ti graphics card indicate that the board won’t be as power hungry as the company’s high-end offerings, with a short PCB that will fit nicely...

5 Minutes

Software

The many lies of Sam Bankman-Fried

Sources December 13, 2022

The US government says it was fraud from the jump. The complaint made public today by the Commodity Futures Trading Commission has some hair-raising details — and if it’s right, Sam Bankman-Fried hasn’t been telling...

2 Minutes

Software

Tidal is testing a new DJ session feature for HiFi Plus subscribers

Sources December 13, 2022

Tidal, the high-bitrate quality music streaming service, is testing a new feature that lets its HiFi Plus subscribers play DJ. Participants of the service’s Early Access Program can switch from playing music just for...

2 Minutes

World

Musk’s Twitter reportedly hasn’t paid rent on its office spaces for weeks

Sources December 13, 2022

Pedestrians walk in front of the Twitter Inc. headquarters in San Francisco, California. David Paul Morris | Bloomberg | Getty Images In an effort to cut costs following Elon Musk’s chaotic $44 billion acquisition...

1 Minute

Software

YouTube will start warning comment spammers when they violate the rules

Sources December 13, 2022

YouTube says it will begin to warn users when it’s spotted and removed their comments for violating the company’s guidelines, according a post signed by “Rob” at TeamYouTube. Big creators have been increasingly drawing...

6 Minutes

Technology

Google execs warn company’s reputation could suffer if it moves too fast on AI-chat technology

Sources December 13, 2022

Google senior fellow Jeff Dean speaks at a 2017 event in China. Source: Chris Wong | Google Google employees are seeing all the buzz around ChatGPT, the artificial intelligence chatbot that was released to...

2 Minutes

Technology

Sam Bankman-Fried denied bail in Bahamas on FTX fraud charges, judge cites flight risk

Sources December 13, 2022

A magistrate judge in the Bahamas on Tuesday denied bail to FTX co-founder Sam Bankman-Fried, citing heightened flight risk, and said he should be remanded to Bahamian custody until February 8, 2023, hours after...