Daily Tech News 9 September 2024

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Idiots who tried TikTok's viral "free money glitch" at ATMs are getting reported for fraud. (Gizmodo)

The "glitch" involved depositing a cheque that you wrote on your own account into your own account at an ATM, and then withdrawing the funds immediately before the cheque bounced.

There is a term for this.

Though doing it from and to your own bank account is an artistic touch of idiocy I had never considered.
It's not entirely clear how many people may have tried this scheme, but the Journal describes it as "thousands." The viral meme got so popular that tens of millions of people have watched TikTok videos about the "glitch" at this point, according to the Journal.
People haven't gotten dumber, it's just that technology allows them to do more dumb things faster.
Though considering that many of these people posted video of themselves committing grand larceny in a manner where the bank also has video of them, maybe they really are getting dumber.
Though again, considering that criminal mastermind Frank Abnagale, the subject of the movie Catch Me If You Can, only managed to make off with $1448.60 in his own cheque fraud scheme before being caught and sent to prison, maybe not.

Tech News

Elon Musk has said that no, Tesla is not licensing AI from xAI. (Tech Crunch)

Considering that the two AI platforms serve completely different purposes, this report only serves to highlight that the mainstream and tech media alike don't know what they are talking about.
AMD's Radeon 8000 series will target the mainstream first, not the high end. (WCCFTech)

The usual pattern is to put out the fastest, most expensive cards in a new generation first, and then trickle out more affordable options. AMD plans to reverse that with the new generation - expected to launch at CES in January - because its high-end cards don't sell all that well anyway.

This is a much better plan to compete with Nvidia because Nvidia will be launching its own high end cards around the same time, with its mainstream cards coming months afterwards.
Speaking of launches, SpaceX is hoping to start launching unmanned Starship missions to Mars late in 2026. (Next Big Future)

If all goes to plan, manned missions will follow in 2028 or 2030.
China meanwhile is planning a return flight to Mars in 2028. (Space News)

"Merely an unmanned mission to return small samples. To Mars. Well, from Earth, to Mars, and back to Earth. Round trip. Steerage class.

Disclaimer: Port out, starboard home...

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:17 AM

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1 Hey

Posted by: Ciampino - Si Ispettore, non ho trovato le cose rubate at September 09, 2024 04:20 AM (qfLjt)

2 Top 5?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 09, 2024 04:20 AM (omVj0)

3 Morning Pixy

Posted by: Ciampino - No Ispettore, non ho trovato le cose rubate at September 09, 2024 04:21 AM (qfLjt)

4 Morning and evening to all the early risers and late toilers!

Yes, it's a Monday. But as long as you are on the right side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 09, 2024 04:21 AM (omVj0)

5 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 09, 2024 04:23 AM (fwDg9)

6 small kumquats

I'm right here you know...

Posted by: Elderly Git at September 09, 2024 04:24 AM (pD2Aq)

7 As the saying goes, fools and their money are soon parted. I imagine that those check/cheque frauds are going to cost prison time and monetary fines as well.

Posted by: Ciampino - No Ispettore, non ho rubato i soldi at September 09, 2024 04:25 AM (qfLjt)

8 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 09, 2024 04:28 AM (dg+HA)

9 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

Concave.

Posted by: mikeski at September 09, 2024 04:35 AM (DgGvY)

10 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 09, 2024 04:35 AM (JhrF+)

11 Congress routinely write and cash bad checks.

Posted by: 13times at September 09, 2024 04:35 AM (1KkPJ)

12 AOSHQ has always been posh

Posted by: tmitsss at September 09, 2024 04:41 AM (tHPV4)

13 12 AOSHQ has always been posh
Posted by: tmitsss at September 09, 2024 04:41 AM (tHPV4)

Pish.

Posted by: m at September 09, 2024 04:51 AM (64Zez)

14 Morning all!

Watching some footsball yesterday and Kamalalalalal ad telling us how she will lower taxes on the middle class.

Something that she wasn't allowed to do the last 4 years?

Posted by: Bruce at September 09, 2024 04:52 AM (kwYKG)

15 Pish.
Posted by: m

You watch your phraseology!

Posted by: Bruce at September 09, 2024 04:53 AM (kwYKG)

16 I had seen videos of the check scam. What a buncha...

Posted by: Bruce at September 09, 2024 04:54 AM (kwYKG)

17 15 Pish.
Posted by: m

You watch your phraseology!
Posted by: Bruce at September 09, 2024 04:53 AM (kwYKG)

Ha!

Posted by: m at September 09, 2024 04:55 AM (64Zez)

18 "Though again, considering that criminal mastermind Frank Abnagale, the subject of the movie Catch Me If You Can, only managed to make off with $1448.60 in his own cheque fraud scheme before being caught and sent to prison, maybe not."

From the article...
"He was sentenced to ten years in 1971 for forging checks that totaled $1,448.60 (equivalent to $11,225.45 in 2024)"

Inflation makes the crime worser.

Posted by: Bruce at September 09, 2024 05:02 AM (kwYKG)

19 Speaking of launches, SpaceX is hoping to start launching unmanned Starship missions to Mars late in 2026. (Next Big Future)

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So we can ship a crew consisting of Hillary, Kommie-la, and Rear Admiral Levine?

Posted by: ShainS -- If Your Independence Lasts Over 4 Hours, You May Have Been Red-Pilled at September 09, 2024 05:23 AM (10Lv1)

20 Morning and evening to all the early risers and late toilers!

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You excluded those of us with insomniac privilege, h8r!

Posted by: ShainS -- If Your Independence Lasts Over 4 Hours, You May Have Been Red-Pilled at September 09, 2024 05:26 AM (10Lv1)

21 AOSHQ has always been posh
Posted by: tmitsss at September 09, 2024

***
Port out, starboard home?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 09, 2024 05:33 AM (omVj0)

22 Good morning, good people from the suddenly downright chilly Adirondacks, a harbinger of what is coming.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 09, 2024 05:38 AM (hKoQL)

23 I hadn't heard about the "glitch" business before the hoax got exploded. But then I don't use Tacky Tick. And I figure by the time I tried such a thing, even if it were real, the bank would have fixed any problems.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 09, 2024 05:38 AM (omVj0)

24 16 I had seen videos of the check scam. What a buncha...
Posted by: Bruce
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I saw them too. The pure joy in there dumb little faces. Filming themselves too!! Greed, narcissism, and stupidity. What could go wrong?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 09, 2024 05:40 AM (JhrF+)

25 There's an incipient storm in the Gulf, and it's predicted to head NE -- in fact it's been tracking a little more to the east while they've been watching it. Which means a possibility of tons of rain for yours truly. I suppose I'd better gas up the car this morning and grab a few more canned goods at the store tonight. I'm not worried about flooding here, only the loss of power.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 09, 2024 05:47 AM (omVj0)

26 Didn't post my last message
What a long ride

Posted by: Skip at September 09, 2024 05:51 AM (7T4Or)

27 Gas is $.20 cheaper here than home so stopped at the Wawa down the road.

Posted by: Skip at September 09, 2024 05:52 AM (7T4Or)

28 I loved this devotional. A man from Georgia talks abou the days when gas station were called "filling stations" and how we as Christian need to filled with God and His love The passage is from Phillipians 4:10-20

https://tinyurl.com/37wsut99

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 09, 2024 05:53 AM (YA1d7)

29 Tea. Erl Grey. Hot.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at September 09, 2024 05:53 AM (VdhcA)

30 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 09, 2024 05:53 AM (agte1)

31 Not hugely worried about power loss, I have enough Coleman stuff to be okay indefinitely and can heat the house with wood, water may be an issue.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 09, 2024 05:54 AM (hKoQL)

32 From the article...
"He was sentenced to ten years in 1971 for forging checks that totaled $1,448.60 (equivalent to $11,225.45 in 2024)"

Inflation makes the crime worser.
Posted by: Bruce at September 09, 2024 05:02 AM (kwYKG)
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He's made a lot more money since then advising banks how to detect fraud.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at September 09, 2024 05:54 AM (VdhcA)

33 29 Tea. Erl Grey. Hot.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at September 09, 2024 05:53 AM (VdhcA)

Would you like to buy an "a"?

Posted by: m at September 09, 2024 05:56 AM (64Zez)

34 Good morning early risers!

Posted by: Rosasharn at September 09, 2024 05:56 AM (PzBTm)

35 Happy Monday

Posted by: rhennigantx at September 09, 2024 05:57 AM (gbOdA)

36 Couple songs a moving version of an old gospel tune, "Come Ye Sinners"

https://tinyurl.com/ycvp6w9p

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 09, 2024 05:58 AM (YA1d7)

37 I don't like Monday
Boom Town Rats

Posted by: Skip at September 09, 2024 05:59 AM (7T4Or)

38 Would you like to buy an "a"?
Posted by: m at September 09, 2024 05:56 AM (64Zez)
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It's 0300 here. I'm doing well to put in any vowels at all.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at September 09, 2024 06:00 AM (VdhcA)

39 Generous patron picks up all the checks in a Long Island restaurant:

https://tinyurl.com/yxm2j9tt

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 09, 2024 06:04 AM (YA1d7)

40 Tea. Erl Grey. Hot.
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea, Radioactive Knight, Concertina Czar at September 09, 2024 05:53 AM (VdhcA)

Would you like to buy an "a"?
Posted by: m

Erl Grey is the oil you put in your car in when in the south.

If you're feeling fancy.

Posted by: Bruce at September 09, 2024 06:05 AM (kwYKG)

41 Generous patron picks up all the checks in a Long Island restaurant:

https://tinyurl.com/yxm2j9tt
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Nice!

Posted by: Bruce at September 09, 2024 06:06 AM (kwYKG)

42 I wonder how many of the fraudsters doing this tack toc scheme are going to serve jail time?

Posted by: cicero skip at September 09, 2024 06:08 AM (4ezYQ)

43 WSJ:

JPMorgan Plans to Report Customers Who Exploited TikTok ‘Glitch’ to Authorities

https://archive.is/TBaGa

Posted by: m at September 09, 2024 06:09 AM (64Zez)

44 the e makes it English, where Earl Grey blend tea originated in 1830

also I don't understand the check writing scam
sound s like people were scamming... themselves?

Posted by: Don Black at September 09, 2024 06:13 AM (/7KEl)

45 so they wrote a check on their own account, fed the check into the ATM, then withdrew funds? what am I missing here

Posted by: Don Black at September 09, 2024 06:15 AM (/7KEl)

46 Good morning all.
It's actually chilly out this morning, beautifully clear with bright stars (the moon was lovely last night, too).

I scored an issue missing from my collection of Taproot magazine on eBay yesterday evening. I knew if I kept the search up long enough, one would eventually appear.
I was actually working on a card index of the collection, to remember just where was that shawl pattern, tea recipe, etc. yesterday afternoon. Synchronicity!

Posted by: sal at September 09, 2024 06:15 AM (bx3Km)

47 45 what is missing is how stupid these people are that they thought they would get away with it.

Posted by: cicero skip at September 09, 2024 06:19 AM (4ezYQ)

48 also I don't understand the check writing scam
sound s like people were scamming... themselves?
Posted by: Don Black at September 09, 2024 06:13 AM (/7KEl)

45 so they wrote a check on their own account, fed the check into the ATM, then withdrew funds? what am I missing here
Posted by: Don Black at September 09, 2024 06:15 AM (/7KEl)

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. Your bank account has a balance of $0.01.
. You deposit a check into that account for $100,000.
. You then immediately (before the check clears) withdraw $100,000 from your bank account.
. PROFIT???

/or CRIME???

Posted by: ShainS -- If Your Independence Lasts Over 4 Hours, You May Have Been Red-Pilled at September 09, 2024 06:21 AM (10Lv1)

49 47 what is missing is how stupid these people are that they thought they would get away with it.
Posted by: cicero skip at September 09, 2024 06:19 AM (4ezYQ)

Honestly, I'm looking forward to the trials and hearing their explanation. $10 says that they are going to argue that it's reparations.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 09, 2024 06:24 AM (lXoJ5)

50 "People haven't gotten dumber, it's just that technology allows them to do more dumb things faster."

Eldest daughter and I were explaining this to one of the grandkids (not that they'd do these things).

In the before times, if you took an embarrassing pic of a friend, you had to go the One-Hour Photo and get it developed and printed before showing it to everybody.
By hand.

Not a couple of clicks.

Posted by: sal at September 09, 2024 06:25 AM (bx3Km)

51
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Posted by: rhennigantx at September 09, 2024 06:26 AM (gbOdA)

52 these people sound very dumb- the ATM has a camera

Posted by: Don Black at September 09, 2024 06:27 AM (/7KEl)

53 Man with severely autistic son goes shopping for him and gets a blessing:

https://tinyurl.com/3vyds367

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 09, 2024 06:27 AM (YA1d7)

54 already

pretty soon the MR will be the ONT

Posted by: Don Black at September 09, 2024 06:27 AM (/7KEl)

55 Disclaimer: Port out, starboard home...

Red on the right, when returning at night!

Posted by: Adriane the Steering Critic in Steerage . . . at September 09, 2024 06:29 AM (TX4bP)

56 People actually believed that a bank (and the law) wouldn't come after them for this fraudulent activity?

Life's hard. It's a lot harder if you're stupid.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 09, 2024 06:41 AM (O7YUW)

57 If you're looking for the "Bulletproof" book, you can get it at Thriftbooks or Skyhorsepublishing instead of Amazon since they're going to be dicks about it.

Posted by: Ribbed at September 09, 2024 07:27 AM (B0mGw)

58 The rate of dumb. dumb/second

Posted by: banana Dream at September 09, 2024 09:48 AM (Y6IkP)

59 I'll post Stirling's evergreen observation:

"I'll believe in people settling Mars at about the same time I see people settling the Gobi Desert. The Gobi Desert is about a thousand times as hospitable as Mars and five hundred times cheaper and easier to reach. Nobody ever writes "Gobi Desert Opera" because, well, it's just kind of plonkingly obvious that there's no good reason to go there and live. It's ugly, it's inhospitable and there's no way to make it pay. Mars is just the same, really. We just romanticize it because it's so hard to reach."

Posted by: Daniel Ream at September 09, 2024 11:22 AM (0Go0g)

60 Minor quibble, AMD is still releasing their fastest and most expensive card first; they're just only targeting the mainstream, because they don't have the feature set to make competing at the high end make sense.

As I understand it they're probably going to be able to offer 4070 Super to 4080 performance for a $550-600 price point from a monolithic chip that uses half the silicone of the 7900XTX

Given the 5090 is going to cost anywhere between $1600 to $2500, and the 4080 is enough to roflstomp most games, a 8800 XT at a $500-600 price range should do pretty well.

Posted by: Voyager at September 09, 2024 11:46 AM (OPIYi)

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