A screenshot showing a machine-translated story from the Chinese IT Home outlet. The text reads: "The latest developments of Gionee founder Liu Lirong after disappearing for 8 years: He has been reported to be selling furniture in Indonesia, with Haier, CATL, and Xiaomi among his clients."

One of my favourite tech scandals is the Gionee founder who gambled away as much as $140m of the smartphone company's funds in 2018. Turns out he's resurfaced in Indonesia as a furniture exec lol.
www.ithome.com/0/939/207.htm

Why was Fallout Boy watching YouTube from the closet lol

Data centers are creating ‘heat islands’ and warming the land around them by up to 16 degrees | CNN The vast data centers that power artificial intelligence are so energy hungry that they’re heating up their surroundings, according to new research. It’s an alarming finding given the number of data c...

With only the slightest apology for my language:

Who the fuck actually wants these damned data centres?

Oh come on, Sting Ray. Such ridiculous blocking. The team should've warned him. #indycar

Lindblad, take a bow. Bortoleto also doing really nicely to get through to Q3. #F1 #JapanGP

lol guess Krafton board approves of using ChatGPT to get out of contracts
source: www.thelec.kr/news/article...

Protect this woman at all costs.

A screenshot of a machine-translated Weibo post by OnePlus China executive Li Jie Louis. The post confirms that the upcoming OnePlus 15T smartphone has a 3.5x telephoto camera. But Louis also mentions that it "supports 7x lossless optical zoom."

UGH. It's NOT "lossless optical zoom", OnePlus! One of my biggest pet peeves in the smartphone industry is how companies market lossless-resolution zoom (i.e. cropping the camera but retaining the default output resolution). Google, Apple, and others are guilty of this fudging too.

It's really been a great week for AI slop.
- Krafton losing Subnautica 2 court case cos CEO Changhan Kim ignored legal advice and used ChatGPT to get out of paying bonuses
- Sam Altman being called a Nazi to his face for getting in bed with US military
- Nvidia's DLSS 5 lol

what data do you need? He has literally mentioned that he wants to run for a third term and acknowledged that the constitution doesn't allow it, but that he has a "lot of great people." And said that he's not joking about the possibility.

Me reading Mad Magazine as a young teen: Oh man, Disparate Low-Lives! What a name instead of Desperate Housewives! Hahaha Snoozin, not Susan!

lol I've never seen Digital Foundry readers just calling them out in such a way before. People really fucking hate DLSS5. And why shouldn't they hate gen AI slop like this.

Pronounced "Seen" obviously. Although I'll accept "Bawn"

Sean Bean Casserole lol

One can hope 😄

Nicely done, Kirkwood. Bold pass on Palou, of all people. WTF happened with Grosjean and Siegel? #indycar #ArlingtonGP

Pit stops are gonna cost Andretti today, eh? #indycat #arlingtongp

Ah, so silly that they didn't send an email to Indycar Live subscribers

Wtf i missed the Indycar start? Indycar Live said yesterday it started at 6:30pm GMT+2? @indycar.com wth?

Really happy to see Lewis finally getting a podium. Hopefully the first of many this season. #F1 #ChineseGP

GRANDE KIMI! Well deserved drive. Giving us a scare too. #ChineseGP #F1

"I thought that was a rear end there." Oooo Jolyon. #F1 #ChineseGP

I want Kimi to win but these Ferraris wtf. Great viewing but extinguishing any chances of a Ferrari win. #ChineseGP #F1

Webber Start for Kimi incoming? 🫠

GRANDE KIMI! Youngest pole sitter. Wow. #F1

Fun sprint, that. Nice to see Lawson and Bearman in the points. Good drives. #F1

great username lol

Sunrise at Bathurst 12 Hour, so pretty. #bathurst12hour

No no no. I'M the most incompetent person writing about tech. :P

Israel used weapons in Gaza that made thousands of Palestinians evaporate US-made thermal weapons burning at 3,500C caused 2,842 people to "evaporate" in Gaza, Al Jazeera investigation finds.

“Four of my children just evaporated,” Badran said, holding back tears. “I looked for them a million times. Not a piece was left. Where did they go?”

There are no words to adequately describe the evil here.