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<?xml version="1.0"?><rss version="2.0"> <channel><title>Ambient Irony</title><link>http://ai.mee.nu/</link><description>Little blogses made out of ticky-tacky...</description><language>en-us</language><lastBuildDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:20:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><generator>Minx 1.1.6c-pink</generator><ttl>60</ttl> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 15 September 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_15_september_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Retroarchaeology Edition Top Story Children are hacking their own schools for fun, warns the UK Information Commissioner's Office. (BBC) Translation: The British government is run by and staffed with idiots.It says more the majority of so-called "insider" cyber attacks and data breaches in education settings - meaning they have been carried out by someone with access to internal systems - originate with students.I think they've confused insider with inmate. An insider attack would be by the staff, not by the students."What starts out as a dare, a challenge, a bit of fun in a school setting can ultimately lead to...</description><content> <value>Retroarchaeology Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c203pedz58go]Children are hacking their own schools for fun, warns the UK Information Commissioner's Office.[/url]&nbsp; (BBC)<br /> <br /> Translation: The British government is run by and staffed with idiots.[quote]It says more the majority of so-called "insider" cyber attacks and data breaches in education settings - meaning they have been carried out by someone with access to <span style="font-style: italic;">internal </span>systems - originate with students.[/quote]I think they've confused insider with <span style="font-style: italic;">inmate</span>.&nbsp; An insider attack would be by the staff, not by the students.[quote]"What starts out as a dare, a challenge, a bit of fun in a school setting can ultimately lead to children taking part in damaging attacks on organisations or critical infrastructure," said Heather Toomey, Principal Cyber Specialist at the ICO.[/quote]Reefer madness, IT edition.[quote]Since 2022, the ICO has investigated 215 hacks and breaches originating from inside education settings and says 57% were carried out by children.[/quote]Translation: The British government is run by and staffed with idiots. <div data-component="text-block">&nbsp;</div></li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.cubbyathome.com/boxed-cake-mix-sizes-have-shrunk-80045058]Why grandma won't buy Betty Crocker cake mixes any more.[/url]&nbsp; (Cubby)<br /> <br /> Shrinkflation and ratios.<br /> <br /> Specifically, the boxes have shrunk from 18.25 oz to 15.25 oz and now to 13.25 oz.&nbsp; So if you follow an older recipe specifying a box of cake mix and specific amounts of wet ingredients, you're going to end up with slop rather than cookies.<br /> <br /> You can get away with changes like this in cooking generally, but <span style="font-style: italic;">not </span>in baking.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>I checked the benchmarks of the two tablet CPUs on Nanoreview.&nbsp; The Idea Tab's A76 (in a Mediatek Dimensity 6300) scores 782 on single-threaded Geekbench.<br /> <br /> The Legion Tab's X4 core (in a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3) scores 2193 - nearly three times as fast.<br /> <br /> The A715 core used in the Idea Tab Plus lands right in the middle with 1398.<br /> <br /> For an idea of how far we've come, an A53 core running at 1.3GHz from the beginning of 2016 scored just 141.&nbsp; So the A76 is a <span style="font-style: italic;">lot </span>faster than older low-end tablets which mostly ran the A53 core, and it's just a little slow compared to modern high-end hardware.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://liliputing.com/beelink-me-mini-review-the-mini-pc-makers-first-nas-supports-6-nvme-ssds/]A look inside the Beelink ME NAS device.[/url]&nbsp; (Liliputing)<br /> <br /> The ME is almost a latter-day Cobalt Qube - you can even buy it in blue.&nbsp; Two network ports, HDMI, and USB ports accompany an Intel N150 CPU, 12GB of RAM, a 64GB boot device, and six M.2 slots (five PCIe 3.0 x1 and one PCIe 3.0 x2).<br /> <br /> One interesting point that I hadn't considered: The N150 has nine PCIe lanes but only supports five independent devices.&nbsp; The ME has the six SSDs and two 2.5Gb Ethernet controllers, and eight is more than five.<br /> <br /> So how did Beelink do that?&nbsp; Apparently they just did it and it worked.<br /> <br /> The review goes into benchmarks but they're pretty much as you'd expect - the CPU is not particularly fast, but is more than fast enough to fill both 2.5Gb Ethernet ports simultaneously.<br /> <br /> The also tested with a 5Gb USB Ethernet adaptor, and it worked and filled that with data easily, with a top read speed of around 600MBps.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/14/vibe-coding-has-turned-senior-devs-into-ai-babysitters-but-they-say-its-worth-it/]Vibe coding has turned senior developers into AI babysitters but they say it's worth it.[/url]&nbsp; (Tech Crunch)<br /> <br /> While blinking rapidly in Morse code.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/13/hike-once-a-unicorn-shuts-down-as-india-cracks-down-on-real-money-gaming/]Indian tech startup Hike took one.[/url]&nbsp; (Tech Crunch)<br /> <br /> The company abruptly shut down after crowing about how well its US division was doing on Saturday.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2></div><div>[ytlite=Fpu5a0Bl8eY]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: In the American version they simply shot the balloons and the song was quite short.&nbsp; Let this be a lesson.&nbsp; Of some kind.</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_15_september_2025</guid><pubDate>Mon, 15 Sep 2025 18:20:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 14 September 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_14_september_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Sloping Diagonals Edition Top Story China's Great Firewall turns out not to be watertight: It sprang a leak involving 500GB of code and documentation relating to the firewall itself. (Tom's Hardware) That's a lot of data to sift through but it spells years of trouble for the maintainers of the firewall, whether in China itself of in it client states Myanmar, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Ethiopia, all of which run versions of the same totalitarian control software. Tech News Didn't get a lot of time to test the tablets, but they are both set up and working fine. The two 2560x1600...</description><content> <value>Sloping Diagonals Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/chinas-great-firewall-springs-huge-leak]China's Great Firewall turns out not to be watertight: It sprang a leak involving 500GB of code and documentation relating to the firewall itself.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> That's a <span style="font-style: italic;">lot </span>of data to sift through but it spells years of trouble for the maintainers of the firewall, whether in China itself of in it client states Myanmar, Pakistan, Kazakhstan, and Ethiopia, all of which run versions of the same totalitarian control software.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>Didn't get a lot of time to test the tablets, but they are both set up and working fine.<br /> <br /> The two 2560x1600 displays look great.&nbsp; The "paper-like" screen on the cheaper Idea Tab stands out in particular as a pleasant user experience.&nbsp; Colours don't pop quite the way they do on my OLED screens, but it's not washed out or muted, just not aggressive about grabbing your attention.&nbsp; It's listed as covering 72% of the NTSC colourspace, which is the number to look for - it's the equivalent of 100% sRGB.&nbsp; It doesn't seem to handle DCI-P3, which you'll find on televisions and OLED panels, but it's a perfectly good screen, and considering that it's on a budget tablet it's a <span style="font-style: italic;">very </span>good screen.&nbsp; And the resolution is as sharp as you could ask for unless you have some very specific needs.<br /> <br /> The CPU on the Idea Tab...&nbsp; Is a budget CPU.<br /> <br /> Using the much more expensive Legion Tab (my price A$799), tasks are done before you can start to wait for them.&nbsp; Using the Idea Tab (my price A$249) it's not slow, exactly, but you can definitely feel the 2018 Arm A76 shouldering the weight of a 2024 version of Android.<br /> <br /> Maybe I should have set up the slower model first.<br /> <br /> I haven't tested sound extensively but the speakers on both tablets sound just fine at the default settings.<br /> <br /> The 11" Idea Tab has a headphone jack and a microSD slot in addition to the USB-C port.&nbsp; The 8.8" Legion Tab has two USB-C ports, which might be useful, I guess, but I'd much rather they just return the headphone jack and microSD slot.&nbsp; (Reportedly the coming Legion Tab 4 will restore the microSD slot.)<br /> <br /> I also need to test the pen that came with the Idea Tab.&nbsp; The web site doesn't say this, but [url=https://9to5google.com/2025/01/11/lenovo-legion-tab-stylus-pen-support/]according to 9to5Google[/url] that pen and only that pen also works with the Legion Tab.&nbsp; (You can also buy that pen by itself, but general-purpose Android pens aren't supported by the Legion Tab.)<br /> <br /> Perfect opportunity to confirm this, or at least the first part.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>Also mowed the lawn.&nbsp; Last time I did that I noted my cardiovascular health seemed to be shot from the earlier bout of RSV.&nbsp; It was just two days later that I got my scary blood pressure reading and found new things to worry about.<br /> <br /> So: Definitely on the mend, but definitely not fully mended.&nbsp;<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.tuni.fi/en/news/myocardial-infarction-may-be-infectious-disease]Are heart attacks contagious?[/url]&nbsp; (TUNI)<br /> <br /> I mean, probably not, but nobody believed that stomach ulcers and gastric cancer were largely caused by bacteria until Barry Marshall chugged a beaker of <span style="font-style: italic;">H. pylori</span> in 1984 and landed himself in hospital and in the history books - winning the Nobel Prize in Physiology for an unauthorised experiment on himself.<br /> <br /> (He got better.)<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2025/sep/08/myanmar-military-junta-scam-centres-trafficking-crime-syndicates-kk-park]Five years ago KK Park in Myanmar was farmland.&nbsp; Now it's a bustling town, home to many of the country's 100,000 trafficked slaves working in scam call centers.[/url]&nbsp; (The Guardian)<br /> <br /> Null route the entire fucking country.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.404media.co/the-software-engineers-paid-to-fix-vibe-coded-messes/]We clean up after vibe coding.&nbsp; Literally.[/url]&nbsp; (404 Media)<br /> <br /> Vibe coded your way into disaster?&nbsp; Know literally nothing and can't find your way out?&nbsp; Now you can outsource your mess to a Polish tech team which maybe you should have done in the first place.<br /> <br /> (I took a moment to look up the location of one of the countries mentioned in the article.&nbsp; <span style="font-style: italic;">Not </span>the third world.&nbsp; Potentially a viable solution.)<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2025/09/250911073204.htm]"Forever chemicals" have been found in 95% of beer tested in the US.[/url]&nbsp; (Science Daily)<br /> <br /> At long last you can buy beer and not just rent it.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2></div><div>[ytlite=CS9OO0S5w2k]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Down in both directions.</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_14_september_2025</guid><pubDate>Sun, 14 Sep 2025 18:13:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 13 September 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_13_september_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Top Story Intel has announced two new desktop CPUs. Do not buy them. (Tom's Hardware) The first is the i5 120, a six core part that has the exact same specs as the Core i5 12400 from 2022, mostly because that's what it is. Admittedly not an awful part, particularly if you didn't run a workload that would make good use of the "efficiency" cores, because it didn't have any of those. The second is the i5 110, a six core part that has the exact same specs as the Core i5 10400 from 2020, mostly because... Yeah. The 10th...</description><content> <value><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intels-14nm-desktop-cpus-are-making-a-comeback-chipmaker-inexplicably-resurrects-comet-lake-from-five-years-ago-with-new-core-i5-110]Intel has announced two new desktop CPUs.&nbsp; Do not buy them.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> The first is the i5 120, a six core part that has the exact same specs as the Core i5 12400 from 2022, mostly because that's what it is.&nbsp; Admittedly not an awful part, particularly if you didn't run a workload that would make good use of the "efficiency" cores, because it didn't have any of those.<br /> <br /> The second is the i5 110, a six core part that has the exact same specs as the Core i5 10400 from 2020, mostly because...&nbsp; Yeah.&nbsp; The 10th generation chips didn't even have "efficiency" cores yet, so you're safe there.&nbsp; But you will need to find a five year old motherboard and DDR4 RAM for it, because none of this modern stuff will work.<br /> <br /> Oh, and it's 14nm.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.notebookcheck.net/Arm-shows-off-new-Lumex-CPU-cores-and-Mali-G1-Ultra-GPU-for-smartphone-SoCs.1110133.0.html]Arm has introduced four new CPUs.[/url]&nbsp; (Notebook Check)<br /> <br /> The C1 Ultra replaces the X925 (which replaced the X4) as Arm's new flagship mobile core.<br /> <br /> The C1 Premium replaces the A725 (latest in the same line as the A78, for example) as a sub-flagship core.<br /> <br /> The C1 Pro also replaces the A725 which is a bit confusing, but is optimised for smaller size and lower power.<br /> <br /> And the C1 Nano replaces the A520 (latest in the same line as the good old A53) as a core that also exists and powers your budget tablet probably.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.notebookcheck.net/Arm-shows-off-new-Lumex-CPU-cores-and-Mali-G1-Ultra-GPU-for-smartphone-SoCs.1110133.0.html]Speaking of budget tablets, I have my Lenovo Idea Tab and Lenovo Legion Tab charging right now ready for testing tomorrow.[/url]&nbsp; (Notebook Check)<br /> <br /> And a couple of older models I dug out to see how things have improved over the years.<br /> <br /> Couple of things immediately evident:<br /> <br /> First, the more expensive Legion Tab boots much faster, which it should do since it has a much faster CPU (Arm X3 vs. A76 cores).<br /> <br /> Second, while the Legion Tab has a glossy screen, the Idea Tab is matte.&nbsp; Very matte.&nbsp; Lenovo's marketing material describes it as "paper-like" and at first glance that is correct.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://iamvishnu.com/posts/utf8-is-brilliant-design]UTF-8 is a brilliant design.[/url]&nbsp; (I Am Vishnu)<br /> <br /> A brilliant implementation of a terrible idea.<br /> <br /> UTF-8 is the default implementation of Unicode, and Unicode is an attempt to create a single alphabet that can encode every human symbol ever, from all languages including ones we can't read and ones that have syllabaries or pictograms rather than alphabets, and also everything else.<br /> <br /> But it's just an alphabet.&nbsp; There is no embedded context as to what language you are using if the same symbol appears in more than one.&nbsp; Which happens <span style="font-style: italic;">all the time</span>.<br /> <br /> Which makes it impossible to write anything that can be read unambiguously.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-02911-1]AI-generated medical data can be used without ethical concerns, say exceptionally unethical people.[/url]&nbsp; (Nature)<br /> <br /> If you are wondering how the AI learned to generate useful fake medical data, then your most likely guess is precisely correct: It was trained on real human medical data.<br /> <br /> The issues here are large enough and obvious enough to provide roosting space for the entire former eastern seaboard population of the passenger pigeon.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://torrentfreak.com/employee-who-leaked-spider-man-blu-ray-sentenced-to-nearly-5-years-in-prison-on-gun-charge/]The employee of a DVD manufacturer who leaked the Spider-Man Blu-Ray has been sentenced to nearly five years in prison...[/url]&nbsp; (TorrentFreak)<br /> <br /> ... On unrelated firearms charges.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://liliputing.com/samsung-galaxy-tab-a11-budget-tablets-with-8-7-inch-and-11-inch-screens-is-coming-soon/]Samsung is releasing the Galaxy Tab A11 range, consisting of unusable low-resolution garbage.[/url]&nbsp; (Liliputing)<br /> <br /> 1340x800 on even an 8" screen is unacceptable. Google fixed that in the Nexus 7 in 2013.<br /> <br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul></div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=miFCWJDjL1w]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: In a world of bear, be frog.</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_13_september_2025</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 19:35:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 12 September 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_12_september_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Built A Bot Edition Top Story AI use in large companies - over 250 staff - is showing a decline, with adoption rate falling from 14% to 12% since June, the largest drop off ever recorded by the survey. (Gizmodo) Which is not saying that much since the survey has only existed for two years. But not good news if your company was planning to burn through $115 billion in the next four years and just signed up for a $300 billion five-year cloud services plan. Tech News Apple's A19 Pro beats AMD's 9950X3D in Geekbench single-core tests. (Tom's Hardware)...</description><content> <value>Built A Bot Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://gizmodo.com/ai-adoption-declining-at-large-companies-2000655693]AI use in large companies - over 250 staff - is showing a decline, with adoption rate falling from 14% to 12% since June, the largest drop off ever recorded by the survey.[/url]&nbsp; (Gizmodo)<br /> <br /> Which is not saying that much since the survey has only existed for two years.<br /> <br /> But not good news if your company was planning to burn through $115 billion in the next four years and just signed up for a $300 billion five-year cloud services plan.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/apples-a19-pro-beats-ryzen-9-9950x-in-single-thread-geekbench-tests-iphone-17-pro-chip-packs-11-12-percent-cpu-performance-bump-gpu-performance-up-37-percent-over-predecessor]Apple's A19 Pro beats AMD's 9950X3D in Geekbench single-core tests.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> Though the A19 Pro has two full-speed cores and the 9950X3D has sixteen of them.&nbsp; Though Geekbench seems to favour Apple, it's still a solid result.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/nano11-compresses-windows-11-install-footprint-to-as-little-as-2-8gb-extreme-experimental-script-is-3-5-times-smaller-than-tiny11-and-comes-with-none-of-the-fluff]Nano11 can have Windows 11 installed and working in just 2.8GB of disk space.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> Minuscule by today's standards.&nbsp; I expect it will bloat up quite a bit once Windows Update has had a chance to work its will for a few months.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://andre.arko.net/2025/09/11/rails-on-sqlite-exciting-new-ways-to-cause-outages/]Deploy your Rails app on SQLite and relax.[/url]&nbsp; (Arko)<br /> <br /> A guide to the possible fireworks and how to avoid them.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://43081j.com/2025/09/bloat-of-edge-case-libraries]Javascript, Node, and NPM are all plagues.[/url]&nbsp; (43081j)<br /> <br /> Burn them.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/no-tax-on-tips-guidance-creators-trump-treasury-1236366513/]"No tax on tips" now applies to vtubers.[/url]&nbsp; (Hollywood Reporter)<br /> <br /> For the first $25,000 of income anyway.&nbsp; If you're earning less than $150,000 overall.&nbsp; But that should definitely be welcome to most of the smaller US-based channels that I watch.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/gartner_vmware_migration_advice/]VMWare looks to lose 35% of its customers over the next three years.[/url]&nbsp; (The Register)<br /> <br /> Don't worry, they just need to increase prices by 50% to cover that.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=65hSsPiwZhc]</div><div><br /> </div><div>Song is <span style="font-style: italic;">I Turn My Camera On</span> by Spoon.&nbsp; Anime is a whole bunch, but <span style="text-decoration-line: line-through;">almost</span> all from Kyoto Animation which is why the character designs and overall art style match so well across scenes.</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Rule 6: No flashbacks.</span></div></value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_12_september_2025</guid><pubDate>Fri, 12 Sep 2025 18:24:57 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 11 September 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_11_september_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>24 Edition Top Story Oracle's contracted-but-unbilled revenue projections have soared 359% since last year to $455 billion, with share prices up 27% and Larry Ellison poised to retake the title of richest man in the world. (The Register) It's not a bubble. OpenAI will pay Oracle $300 billion over the next five years in its wild pursuit of scale. (The Register) It's not a bubble. Tech News Bending Spoons (who?) has bought dying video platform Vimeo for $1.38 billion. (Petapixel) Bending Spoons bought Filmic - maker of camera app Filmic Pro - in 2022 and subsequently laid off the company's...</description><content> <value>24 Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/10/oracle_cloud_llm_cash/]Oracle's contracted-but-unbilled revenue projections have soared 359% since last year to $455 billion, with share prices up 27% and Larry Ellison poised to retake the title of richest man in the world.[/url]&nbsp; (The Register)<br /> <br /> It's not a bubble.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.theregister.com/2025/09/11/openai_reportedly_on_the_hook/]OpenAI will pay Oracle $300 billion over the next five years in its wild pursuit of scale.[/url]&nbsp; (The Register)<br /> <br /> It's not a bubble.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul></div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://petapixel.com/2025/09/10/bending-spoons-buys-video-platform-vimeo-for-1-38-billion/]Bending Spoons (who?) has bought dying video platform Vimeo for $1.38 billion.[/url]&nbsp; (Petapixel)<br /> <br /> Bending Spoons bought Filmic - maker of camera app Filmic Pro - in 2022 and subsequently laid off the company's entire staff.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-confirms-arrow-lake-refresh-set-for-2026-nova-lake-later-that-year-company-admits-there-are-holes-to-fill-on-the-desktop-front-says-it-is-confident-in-the-roadmap]Intel has confirmed Arrow Lake Refresh chips for Socket 1851 next year, to be followed almost immediately by Nova Lake on Socket 1954.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> So while AMD's Socket AM5 will see Zen 4, Zen 5, and Zen 6, plus the in-between APU generations, currently limited to the Ryzen 8000 range.<br /> <br /> Where Intel's Socket 1851 will see...&nbsp; Arrow Lake.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://liliputing.com/lenovo-idea-tab-plus-12-1-inch-android-tablet-coming-in-october-for-270-and-up/]Lenovo has announced the 12.1" Idea Tab Plus for $270, which seems to slot in between the 11" Idea Tab and the 12.7" Idea Tab Pro.[/url]&nbsp; (Liliputing)<br /> <br /> This market segment is getting just a wee bit overcrowded, it seems to me.<br /> <br /> My Idea Tab arrived today.&nbsp; I was looking at buying the pen for it, but it seems to be both expensive and hard to find.&nbsp; Turns out it comes with a pen.<br /> <br /> I'll get it set up this weekend and post a quick review of both it and the Legion Tab.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div> <div><br /> </div> <h2>Not Remotely Tech News</h2> <div>Got dizzy after a shower, slipped and fell, and took a minute to collect myself and get up again.&nbsp; Dried off, got dressed, found my glasses (which had landed in the bathtub), and took my blood pressure.</div></div><div><br /> </div><div>Almost normal.&nbsp; Down to 141/83.&nbsp; I suspect it dropped a little too much, and then I did.</div><div><br /> </div><div>I'll monitor and talk to my doctor about the dosage on my blood pressure meds.</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><h2>Anime Update</h2><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Clevatess:</span> The bad guys are not as smart as they think they are, and the good guys are not as dumb as <span style="font-style: italic;">we </span>think they are.&nbsp; Things are rapidly coming to a head, the city is on fire, headless kings are walking, so here's a huge flashback to fill in the main villain's backstory.&nbsp;</div><div><br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=1w7OgIMMRc4]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: The sun will rise again tomorrow, even if for a moment you wish it wouldn't.</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_11_september_2025</guid><pubDate>Thu, 11 Sep 2025 18:07:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 10 September 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_10_september_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Orange Air Edition Top Story Apple has announced its new phones: The iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, and the iPhone Air. (Tom's Hardware) These start at eight times the price of my Moto G14 from last year, and with the 2TB iPhone 17 Pro Max go up to 21 times the price - ranging from very expensive to painfully expensive. The iPhone 17 and iPhone Air feature the new six-core A19 chip, while the Pro and Pro Max feature the new six-core A19 Pro chip. Yeah, Apple is really phoning it in with this announcement. ... Sorry....</description><content> <value>Orange Air Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/apple-debuts-a19-and-a19-pro-processors-for-iphone-17-iphone-air-and-iphone-17-pro]Apple has announced its new phones: The iPhone 17, iPhone 17 Pro and Pro Max, and the iPhone Air.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> These start at eight times the price of my Moto G14 from last year, and with the 2TB iPhone 17 Pro Max go up to 21 times the price - ranging from very expensive to painfully expensive.<br /> <br /> The iPhone 17 and iPhone Air feature the new six-core A19 chip, while the Pro and Pro Max feature the new six-core A19 Pro chip.<br /> <br /> Yeah, Apple is really phoning it in with this announcement.<br /> <br /> ...<br /> <br /> Sorry.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/software/microsoft-resale-fight-heads-to-uk-court]Microsoft is battling those cheap key resellers in court, arguing that its software licenses can't be resold because they do not license the software.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> Specifically that yes they license the software but only the software, not, for example, the user interface that allows you to use the software.<br /> <br /> Apparently the key resale market is enabled by European law and Microsoft wants desperately to kill it, but this argument is far worse than the disease itself.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.anthropic.com/news/create-files]Claude can now use Excel.[/url]&nbsp; (Anthropic)<br /> <br /> Making it so that AI can drive programs that actually work rather than attempting to do everything itself and inevitably getting it wrong is a potentially positive step, though I'm not sure it's worth $115 billion.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.404media.co/hhs-asks-all-employees-to-start-using-chatgpt/]HHS has asked all employees to start using ChatGPT.[/url]&nbsp; (404 Media)<br /> <br /> Blergh.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/intel-ousts-ceo-of-products-as-part-of-the-latest-executive-shake-up-ending-30-year-career-company-also-establishes-new-custom-chip-design-unit]Intel has fired its CEO of Products.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> Intel had a CEO of Products?<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-govt-tech-giants-unite-against-isp-piracy-liability-ruling-at-supreme-court/]The US government has filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court, siding firmly with Cox against the $1 billion decision against it from a jury verdict in the inferior courts, since upheld by the Fourth Circuit.[/url]&nbsp; (TorrentFreak)<br /> <br /> Amazon, Microsoft, Google, Mozilla, and Pinterest have also sided with Cox.<br /> <br /> So have AT&amp;T and Verizon, the Electronic Frontier Foundation, the American Library Association, Re:Create, Public Knowledge, the CCIA, the ACLU, a collection of legal scholars, the Internet Society, and the platform formerly known as Twitter.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://liliputing.com/lenovo-yoga-tab-coming-in-october-for-550-and-up-a-slightly-smaller-cheaper-alternative-to-the-yoga-tab-plus/]Lenovo's Yoga Tab is a smaller, cheaper, and, oddly, higher resolution version of the existing Yoga Tab Plus.[/url]&nbsp; (Liliputing)<br /> <br /> Scaled down from 12.7" to 11.1" - making it pretty standard for a full size tablet and almost exactly the same size and weight as the budget Idea Tab I mentioned a couple of days ago - it also boasts a 3200x2000 display, which is so sharp you could cut yourself.<br /> <br /> It features a Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 and 12GB of RAM, the same as my Legion Tab, putting it in pretty serious performance territory too.<br /> <br /> Price is expected to be $550 when it ships next month.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2></div><div>[ytlite=d27gTrPPAyk]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Go fish.</span></div></value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_10_september_2025</guid><pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2025 18:20:22 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 9 September 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_9_september_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Quando Vadis Edition Top Story OpenAI is expected to burn through $115 billion through 2029. (MSN) This includes expected losses of $8 billion this year, $15 billion next year, $35 billion in 2027, and $45 billion in 2028. It might just be me, but that does not seem supportable in the long run. Or even in the short run. Meanwhile NPM got massively compromised, again. (Aikido) Friends don't let friends use Node. But if you were forced to by your enemies, and you use the debug or chalk packages, or any of a couple of dozen related packages, or a...</description><content> <value>Quando Vadis Edition<div><br /> </div><div> <h2>Top Story</h2> <div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/openai-expects-business-to-burn-115-billion-through-2029-the-information-reports/ar-AA1LZ2Kq]OpenAI is expected to burn through $115 billion through 2029.[/url] (MSN)<br /> <br /> This includes expected losses of $8 billion this year, $15 billion next year, $35 billion in 2027, and $45 billion in 2028.<br /> <br /> It might just be me, but that does not seem supportable in the long run.<br /> <br /> Or even in the short run.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.aikido.dev/blog/npm-debug-and-chalk-packages-compromised]Meanwhile NPM got massively compromised, again.[/url]&nbsp; (Aikido)<br /> <br /> Friends don't let friends use Node.<br /> <br /> But if you were forced to by your enemies, and you use the <span style="font-style: italic;">debug </span>or <span style="font-style: italic;">chalk </span>packages, or any of a couple of dozen related packages, or a package you do use, uses any of those, you just got yourself a nasty and viral piece of malware.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div> <div><br /> </div> <h2>Tech News</h2> <ul> <li>[url=https://nerds.xyz/2025/09/plex-suffers-security-incident-exposing-user-data-and-urging-password-resets/]Plex got hacked too, with an unauthorised third party gaining access to email addresses, usernames, and encrypted passwords.[/url]&nbsp; (Nerds)<br /> <br /> Time to reset your password.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://blog.6nok.org/experimenting-with-local-llms-on-macos/]Experimenting with LLMs locally on your Mac without spending $115 billion.[/url]&nbsp; (Fatih's Personal Blog)<br /> <br /> Including a guide to prebuilt LLMs that can be run on modest hardware.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.theverge.com/news/773937/nova-launcher-founder-left-kevin-barry-branch-open-source-android]Nova Launcher has left the building.[/url]&nbsp; (The Verge)<br /> <br /> This was my Android app launcher of choice for many years.<br /> <br /> Nova was bought by mobile analytics company Branch in 2022, and since then all the developers including the original creator have left the new company.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/09/all-54-lost-clickwheel-ipod-games-have-now-been-preserved-for-posterity/]All 54 games written for the original clickwheel iPod have now been recovered.[/url]&nbsp; (Ars Technica)<br /> <br /> You just need an iPod to play them.<br /> <br /> It's not like saving a long-lost Scopitone film reel, but it's something.<br /> </li> </ul>&nbsp; <div><br /> </div> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2> <div>[ytlite=mKoXFSV1ZXE]</div> <div><br /> </div> <div><br /> </div> <div><br /> </div> <div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Quando quando quando, quando quand.</span></div> </div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_9_september_2025</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 21:53:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 8 September 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_8_september_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Hornet Breaks The Internet Edition Top Story Silksong, sequel to successful indie game Hollow Knight, went on sale Friday after six years in development. (The Guardian) The pent-up demand crashed Steam. And the Microsoft Store. And the Playstation Store. And Nintendo's eShop. And Humble Bundle, for what that's worth. No official sales figures have been released, but half a million people were playing the game on Steam later that same day, so somewhere north of that. The game was developed by three guys from Adelaide, South Australia, who are now set for life. Tech News The EU has fined Google...</description><content> <value>Hornet Breaks The Internet Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.theguardian.com/games/2025/sep/05/hollow-knight-silksong-launch-crashes-online-gaming-stores-popularity-demand-australian-game]<span style="font-style: italic;">Silksong</span>, sequel to successful indie game&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">Hollow Knight</span>, went on sale Friday after six years in development.[/url]&nbsp; (The Guardian)<br /> <br /> The pent-up demand crashed Steam.&nbsp; And the Microsoft Store.&nbsp; And the Playstation Store.&nbsp; And Nintendo's eShop.&nbsp; And Humble Bundle, for what that's worth.<br /> <br /> No official sales figures have been released, but half a million people were playing the game on Steam later that same day, so somewhere north of that.<br /> <br /> The game was developed by three guys from Adelaide, South Australia, who are now set for life.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/06/eu-fines-google-3-5b-over-adtech-abuse/]The EU has fined Google $3.5 billion because it preferred its ad network to other ad networks that may or may no exist.[/url]&nbsp; (Tech Crunch)<br /> <br /> Add it to their tariff bill and keep moving.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/burger-king-hacked-digital-platform-as-solid-as-a-paper-whopper-wrapper-in-the-rain-easy-security-bypass-exploited-catastrophic-vulnerabilities-also-worked-on-other-rbi-brands-like-tim-hortons-and-popeyes]Burger King was hacked - fortunately by ethical hackers who said they were "impressed by the commitment to terrible security practices".[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> It was all there from passwords hard-coded into the HTML to signup workflows that allow anyone to join without so much as email verification.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/red-sea-cable-cut-takes-azure-routes-down]The&nbsp;SEA-ME-WE-4 and IMEWE cables joining Europe to the Middle East were both cut this weekend in the Red Sea.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> Not clear how long repairs will take, not least because cable repair boats are sitting ducks for every kind of offensive measure common in the region.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2></div><div>[ytlite=RJre-YHmLaI]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Wut?</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_8_september_2025</guid><pubDate>Mon, 08 Sep 2025 16:09:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 7 September 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_7_september_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>In With The Old Edition Oops Ran out of disk space while I was sick* and the database stalled taking the sites down. All cleaned up now. * I've been sick since July, so it was nice of it to wait. Mostly better now. Top Story Google is facing a $425 million fine, not from Europe for once but from a federal court in California, for continuing to track millions of people for years after they had turned off the tracking feature. (AP News) Okay, yeah. Nail their hides to the wall on this one. Tech News Business Insider retracted...</description><content> <value>In With The Old Edition<div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><h2>Oops</h2><div>Ran out of disk space while I was sick* and the database stalled taking the sites down.&nbsp; All cleaned up now.</div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">* I've been sick since July, so it was nice of it to wait.&nbsp; Mostly better now.</span><br /> <br /> </div><div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://apnews.com/article/google-smartphone-surveillance-verdict-damages-c93e0150089fd47ec396f1d0abacb4a8]Google is facing a $425 million fine, not from Europe for once but from a federal court in California, for continuing to track millions of people for years after they had turned off the tracking feature.[/url]&nbsp; (AP News)<br /> <br /> Okay, yeah.<br /> <br /> Nail their hides to the wall on this one.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <h2>Tech News</h2></div><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/technology/business-insider-yanked-40-essays-with-suspect-bylines-are-they-related/ar-AA1M0fAD]Business Insider retracted forty articles because they were obvious low-grade AI slop.[/url]&nbsp; (MSN)<br /> <br /> The freelancer violated the first rule of journalism: Don't be obvious.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://avi.im/blag/2025/oldest-txn/]The oldest database transaction in the world is a cuneiform tablet recording the sale of malt and barley groats from around 3100 BC.[/url]&nbsp; (Avi.im)<br /> <br /> Meanwhile MySQL cannot even record a date that old.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/hdds/seagate-exos-m-30tb-hdd-review]Benchmarking Seagate's new 30TB HAMR hard drive.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> Spoiler: It's slow even for a hard drive.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>Everything old is new again: [url=https://www.gigabyte.com/PC-Accessory/AI-TOP-CXL-R5X4]Memory expansion cards for PCs are back.[/url]&nbsp; (Gigabyte)<br /> <br /> This particular model from Gigabyte lets you add up to 512GB of DDR5 registered memory to a suitable CXL-supporting Threadripper motherboard like the [url=https://www.gigabyte.com/Motherboard/TRX50-AI-TOP]TRX50 AI TOP[/url] which already supports 2TB of RAM.<br /> <br /> So not immediately useful for most people.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.notebookcheck.net/Extremely-affordable-Android-tablet-with-5G-matte-screen-and-pen-Lenovo-Idea-Tab-review.1107555.0.html]Is the Lenovo Idea Tab any good?[/url]&nbsp; (Notebook Check)<br /> <br /> If you're looking for a budget tablet, rather than a high-end workhorse, then the answer may well be yes.&nbsp; It's a basic 11" model with a sharp 2560x1600 screen.&nbsp; The A76 CPU cores are far from the latest but twice as fast as older models that just had something like the A53.<br /> <br /> It all depends on what price Lenovo is offering right now - Lenovo runs sales every day of the year and just cycles products around.&nbsp; Right now in Australia the 4GB/128GB version of this tablet is available for $249 including tax and delivery - around US$150 - making it a very affordable option to keep a second screen handy.<br /> <br /> Cheaper in fact than the less capable Lenovo Tab One with half the resolution.<br /> <br /> Thinking of picking one up because my current large tablet - also a Lenovo - is one of those older models with just an A53 CPU and a 1920x1200 screen.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div> <h2>Anime Catchup</h2> <div><span style="font-style: italic;">Ruri Rocks </span>- I came seeking copper and found platinum which I can tell because I ran a test of its specific gravity against a sample of gold.&nbsp; Continues to charm even though it is 100% a sales brochure for future geology students.</div> <div><br /> </div> <div>Ep7: We get to meat the fourth member of <span style="font-style: italic;">Team Rock</span>.<br /> <br /> <br /> </div> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2> <div>[ytlite=5uZQFOfMSfY]</div> <div><br /> </div> <div><br /> </div> <div><br /> </div> <div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Oof.</span></div></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_7_september_2025</guid><pubDate>Sun, 07 Sep 2025 17:51:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 6 September 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_6_september_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Blame Canada Edition Top Story AI will make a few people much richer and most people poorer, says Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Laureate and so-called "Godfather of AI", who coincidentally sold his own AI startup in 2023 for $44 million. (Financial Times) (archive site) Hinton knows where to lay the blame, too: It's all the fault of capitalism. Yeah. He's an idiot. Anthropic just made a lot of people richer and itself poorer. (CNN) The company has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit over its use of copyrighted material in AI training for $1.5 billion. The use of copyrighted material in...</description><content> <value>Blame Canada Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://archive.is/eP1Wu]AI will make a few people much richer and most people poorer, says Geoffrey Hinton, Nobel Laureate and so-called "Godfather of AI", who coincidentally sold his own AI startup in 2023 for $44 million.[/url]&nbsp; (Financial Times)&nbsp; (archive site)<br /> <br /> Hinton knows where to lay the blame, too: It's all the fault of capitalism.<br /> <br /> Yeah.&nbsp; He's an idiot.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://edition.cnn.com/2025/09/05/business/anthropic-ai-settlement-authors-claude]Anthropic just made a lot of people richer and itself poorer.[/url]&nbsp; (CNN)<br /> <br /> The company has agreed to settle a class-action lawsuit over its use of copyrighted material in AI training for $1.5 billion.<br /> <br /> The use of copyrighted material in AI training <span style="font-style: italic;">in general</span> was ruled fair use, a blow for authors and a win for AI companies but as far as I can tell an accurate reading of copyright law.<br /> <br /> Where Anthropic came unstuck is that it downloaded around seven million books without paying for them.&nbsp; It is now paying around $200 each.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>Of all the AMD Strix Halo mini-PCs that have been announced recently [url=https://liliputing.com/minisforum-ms-s1-max-ai-pc-features-amd-strix-halo-80-gbps-usb-10-gb-lan-and-pcie-x16/]the Minisforum MS-S1 Max looks to be the most compelling.[/url]&nbsp; (Liliputing)<br /> <br /> Well perhaps looks isn't the right term since it is an unremarkable small form-factor workstation you might find in any office, right until you check the specs.<br /> <br /> It has four USB-C ports (two USB4v2 at 80Gbps, and two USB4 at 40Gbps), five USB-A ports, HDMI, two audio jacks at front and rear, and two 10Gb Ethernet ports - RJ-45 too, so no fiddling about here.&nbsp; Plus it has a PCIe slot, albeit limited to half-height half-length cards, though my QNAP 4-slot M.2 adaptor should fit.&nbsp; And and internal 320W power supply so you don't need to worry about a chunky external brick.<br /> <br /> M.2 storage not mentioned in the article but presumably present.&nbsp; Memory is the standard quad-channel LPDDR5X providing up to 128GB of soldered RAM at 8000MHz.<br /> <br /> As a reminder, this chip has 16 Zen 5 CPU cores paired with 40 RDNA 3.5 GPU&nbsp; cores, giving it a very fast CPU and the fastest integrated GPU of any PC.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>Speaking of QNAP and 10GBase-T [url=https://www.servethehome.com/qnap-qsw-m3216r-8s8t-16-port-10gbe-managed-marvell-switch-review/]QNAP has a new 10Gb Ethernet switch - 16 ports, available on Amazon for $599.[/url]&nbsp; (Serve the Home)<br /> <br /> 8 10GBase-T ports and 8 SFP+ ports, and it supports 2.5Gb and 5Gb speeds.&nbsp; It's managed or you can save $50 and buy the unmanaged version though I don't really know why you would do that.&nbsp; Except probably not even QNAP can load a security flaw into an unmanaged switch.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://wccftech.com/warner-bros-discovery-takes-midjourney-to-court-over-ai-generated-superman-batman-scooby-doo-and-other-iconic-characters/]Warner Bros has filed suit against AI image generation company Midjourney after discovering to its shock that artists - including AI "artists" - can draw pictures of things they have seen.[/url]&nbsp; (WCCFTech)<br /> <br /> In this case, of Warner Bros characters.<br /> <br /> But that is legal.<br /> <br /> You can learn how to draw Superman.<br /> <br /> You can draw Superman.<br /> <br /> What you cannot legally do is distribute your artwork of Superman.<br /> <br /> Which Midjourney didn't do.<br /> <br /> Hoping this case reaches a sensible conclusion.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=3YWHtOwA3_A]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Flew too close to the ceiling.</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_6_september_2025</guid><pubDate>Sat, 06 Sep 2025 17:53:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 5 September 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_5_september_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Bee's Pajamas Edition Top Story Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring. (The Verge) Except it's not. We could better write this headline as Wikipedia is resilient only to the extent that it is boring because the moment something catches the attention of the politically motivated* they will burn it to the ground in a self-righteous frenzy. The article goes on at length not to discuss resilience but dysfunction at every level of the organisation. But it all comes down to one thing: At Wikipedia, Truth is controlled by the True Believers, and the safest bet for factual accuracy is...</description><content> <value>Bee's Pajamas Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.theverge.com/cs/features/717322/wikipedia-attacks-neutrality-history-jimmy-wales]Wikipedia is resilient because it is boring.[/url]&nbsp; (The Verge)&nbsp;<br /> <br /> Except it's not.<br /> <br /> We could better write this headline as <span style="font-style: italic;">Wikipedia is resilient only to the extent that it is boring</span>&nbsp;because the moment something catches the attention of the politically motivated* they <span style="font-style: italic;">will</span> burn it to the ground in a self-righteous frenzy.<br /> <br /> The article goes on at length not to discuss resilience but dysfunction at every level of the organisation.<br /> <br /> But it all comes down to one thing: At Wikipedia, Truth is controlled by the True Believers, and the safest bet for factual accuracy is political irrelevance.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">* And yes, I mean communists.<br /> <br /> <br /> </span></li> <li>Tech Note: Due to the archive sites I was using for sites that block adblockers instituting a "human identification" layer, I'm switching to recommending Brave in its place.&nbsp; It so far seems to cut neatly through the crap.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/04/stripe-enlists-a-whos-who-including-anthropic-openai-and-paradigm-to-build-a-new-blockchain/]Stripe is building a blockchain.[/url]&nbsp; (Tech Crunch)<br /> <br /> Fuck, not another one.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://fil-c.org/fugc]One garbage collector to rule them all.[/url]&nbsp; (Fil-C)<br /> <br /> This actually looks good if you are in need of a C/C++-oriented garbage collector which I am.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://softwarearthopod.substack.com/p/vibe-coding-our-way-to-disaster]Vibe coding our way to disaster.[/url]&nbsp; (The Bug in Our Code)<br /> <br /> Another warning on the painfully obvious pitfalls of the disastrously bad idea of "vibe coding".<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://programmingsimplicity.substack.com/p/type-checking-is-a-symptom-not-a]Type checking is a symptom, not a solution.[/url]&nbsp; (Programming Simplicity)<br /> <br /> Not only is that not true, but everything in the entire article is wrong.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>Lenovo launched a whole lot of new products all at once, but none of them are particularly interesting.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.popsci.com/health/bathroom-doomscrolling-hemorrhoids/]Browsing your phone on the toilet can increase the risk of&nbsp;hemorrhoids.[/url]&nbsp; (Popular Science)<br /> <br /> You're holding it wrong.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=QNAVrQ96mpA]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: I slept in a bed last night.</span></div></value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_5_september_2025</guid><pubDate>Fri, 05 Sep 2025 18:26:52 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 4 September 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_4_september_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Untrustables Edition Top Story AI could bring us a smarter home - if we can trust it, which we obviously can't. (The Verge) (archive site) They're talking about combining three things, each hilariously unreliable: The Internet of Things, consumer appliances, and LLM-driven AI. It all reminds me of this:Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via alexa! I love the future! Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer...</description><content> <value>Untrustables Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://archive.is/wwXyI]AI could bring us a smarter home - if we can trust it, which we obviously can't.[/url] (The Verge) (archive site)<br /> <br /> They're talking about combining three things, each hilariously unreliable: The Internet of Things, consumer appliances, and LLM-driven AI.<br /> <br /> It all reminds me of this:[quote]Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via alexa! I love the future!<br /> <br /> Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.[/quote]My house was built in 2019 and it contains no smart anythings.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://wccftech.com/amd-rejects-ai-bubble-defends-500-billion-ai-market-says-chip-price-hikes-are-due-to-high-costs/]AMD says there is no AI bubble, the $500 billion AI market is real, and its chips are expensive because have you seen the price of potatoes?[/url] (WCCFTech)<br /> <br /> Okay, Jean, whatever.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://wccftech.com/openai-boosts-share-sale-to-10-billion-says-report-days-after-ceo-altman-warned-of-an-ai-bubble/]OpenAI has lifted its share offering from $6 billion to $10 billion just days after CEO Sam Altman warned that AI was in a bubble.[/url] (WCCFTech)<br /> <br /> Burn money.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.evalapply.org/posts/poor-mans-time-oriented-data-system/index.html]Building a bitemporal database from string cheese and floor wax.[/url] (Eval Apply)<br /> <br /> Sorry, no idea.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://liliputing.com/acer-swift-air-16-is-a-lightweight-laptop-with-a-big-screen-starting-under-2-2-pounds/]The Acer Swift Air 16 could be decent.[/url] (Liliputing)<br /> <br /> It has (up to) a Ryzen 350 CPU, which compared to my 7730U is 30% faster single-threaded, 50% faster multi-threaded, and twice as fast on integrated graphics. Memory is soldered but it has 32GB. And it offers a 16" 2880x1600 120Hz OLED display, which is basically what I have in my current laptop and is about as good a screen as you can find.<br /> <br /> Plus two USB-C ports, one USB-A, HDMI, and a headphone jack.<br /> <br /> Oh, and it weighs 1kg, which is <span style="font-style: italic;">very </span>light for a full-size laptop.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>I set a personal goal last weekend to lose 10kg by the end of the year, not realising how much of the extra weight I was carrying was just water.<br /> <br /> So...&nbsp; Merry Christmas, I guess.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=iPUmE-tne5U]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: I think Katrina also lost 22lbs in the space of a week.</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_4_september_2025</guid><pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2025 18:52:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 3 September 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_3_september_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Modeling Modelry Edition Top Story Do AI systems need world models to augment their knowledge with facts rather than just stories? Yes. Duh. (Quanta) Although the answer is painfully obvious and we have covered it here many times, the article is worth reading. Worth reading because it covers SHRDLU, a classic AI system from the 1960s that notably included a world model with impressive results, and also because it goes into the difficulty of scaling this to modern AI systems, such as nobody having the faintest bloody idea how to do it. Tech News The judge in the Google antitrust...</description><content> <value>Modeling Modelry Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/world-models-an-old-idea-in-ai-mount-a-comeback-20250902/]Do AI systems need world models to augment their knowledge with facts rather than just stories?&nbsp; Yes.&nbsp; Duh.[/url]&nbsp; (Quanta)<br /> <br /> Although the answer is painfully obvious and we have covered it here many times, the article is worth reading.&nbsp; Worth reading because it covers SHRDLU, a classic AI system from the 1960s that notably included a world model with impressive results, and also because it goes into the difficulty of scaling this to modern AI systems, such as nobody having the faintest bloody idea how to do it.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/09/02/google-avoids-break-up-faces-new-oversight-in-search-antitrust-trial/]The judge in the Google antitrust trial has issued a ruling which not only doesn't break up Google but doesn't seem to do much of anything.[/url]&nbsp; (Tech Crunch)<br /> <br /> I'd have to read the ruling but the penalties really seem to be minimal.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://blog.ctms.me/posts/2024-07-26-i-want-to-be-left-alone/]I want to be left alone.[/url]&nbsp; (CTMS)<br /> <br /> I feel you.&nbsp; And yes, there's always an exception for cats.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.brendanlong.com/cpu-utilization-is-a-lie.html]CPU utilisation is a lie.[/url]&nbsp; (Brendan Long)<br /> <br /> I've noted for years that a system reporting a 50% CPU load was typically somewhere closer to 65% thanks to variable clock speeds and multi-threaded cores, and here are charts to demonstrate it.&nbsp; And it gets much worse with certain workloads - a processor running matrix math is typically at 100% load when it is reporting 50% load.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.servethehome.com/samsung-9100-pro-8tb-pcie-gen5-nvme-ssd-review/]If you need to biggest fastest drive that will fit in a single M.2 slot, the 8TB Samsung 9100 is that.[/url]&nbsp; (Serve the Home)<br /> <br /> At $1000 MSRP it is not cheap, but it is big and fast.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>I have now lost twenty pounds in five days.&nbsp; The rate has slowed sharply but it was a pretty wild ride.<br /> <br /> This was the swelling I mentioned a couple of times - all water weight - and when the underlying health issue was addressed it just went away.<br /> <br /> Into the toilet.&nbsp; Hourly.&nbsp; All night.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=xvaEJzoaYZk]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Hair of the dog...&nbsp; Doglike creature...&nbsp; That bit you?</span></div></value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_3_september_2025</guid><pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2025 18:11:03 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 2 September 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_2_september_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>A Farewell To Feets Hurts Edition Top Story Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has fired four thousand customer support staff and replaced them with AI during a period he called "eight of the most exciting months of my career". (KRON) Well, good for you, Marc. I wish you many more exciting months as you reduce your company to ash and gravel. Tech News Books. (World of Interiors) Lots of books. Cox has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a $1 billion copyright liability ruling set by a jury and the lower courts. (TorrentFreak) Not just because of the billion dollars, though...</description><content> <value>A Farewell To Feets Hurts Edition<br /><br /> <h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.kron4.com/news/technology-ai/sf-tech-ceo-says-ai-enabled-him-to-cut-4000-jobs/]Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff has fired four thousand customer support staff and replaced them with AI during a period he called "eight of the most exciting months of my career".[/url]&nbsp; (KRON)<br /> <br /> Well, good for you, Marc.&nbsp; I wish you many more exciting months as you reduce your company to ash and gravel.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <h2>Tech News</h2></div><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.worldofinteriors.com/story/richard-axe-second-hand-books-yorkshire]Books.[/url]&nbsp; (World of Interiors)<br /> <br /> Lots of books.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://torrentfreak.com/cox-brief-asks-supreme-court-to-reverse-draconian-piracy-liability-ruling/]Cox has asked the Supreme Court to overturn a $1 billion copyright liability ruling set by a jury and the lower courts.[/url]&nbsp; (TorrentFreak)<br /> <br /> Not just because of the billion dollars, though that certainly matters, but because the terms of the ruling would make American ISPs into judge, jury, and executioner for copyright cases except with all the liability and no legal authority.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/core-ultra-3-205-flaunts-30-percent-higher-multi-core-performance-over-core-i3-14100-in-early-benchmarks-extra-e-cores-seemingly-contribute-to-uplift]Intel's new low-end 3-series chip seems to perform like a previous-generation 5-series chip.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> Perhaps because it includes four fast cores and four slow cores, just like a previous generation 5-series chip.<br /> <br /> In the benchmarks listed it is still slower on both single and multi-core tests than last years Ryzen 7600 with its six fast cores, so I'd recommend one of those instead.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[s]Fifteen pounds in four days.[/s]<br /> Nineteen pounds in five days.<br /> <br /> Also got prescribed a medicated ointment to deal with the feets hurts issue.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=DC-cqWO_GM0]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Blood pressure meds so I don't explode: $&nbsp; &nbsp;Feets hurts cream: $$$$&nbsp; Fifteen pounds in four days: Priceless.</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_2_september_2025</guid><pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2025 18:32:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 1 September 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_1_september_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Waterworks Edition Top Story AI web crawlers are destroying the web. (The Register) And there's not even a nominal quid-pro-quo where they get your content but they index it for you and point it at your site. They get your content and they basically just keep it. On the plus side, humans are now being hired to make AI slop look slightly less sloppy. (NBC News) But not being paid very much. Tech News A look at the HP Zbook Ultra G1a. (Hot Hardware) This model is build on the Ryzen AI Max 395+ - a chip with 16 CPU...</description><content> <value>Waterworks Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.theregister.com/2025/08/29/ai_web_crawlers_are_destroying/]AI web crawlers are destroying the web.[/url]&nbsp; (The Register)<br /> <br /> And there's not even a nominal quid-pro-quo where they get your content but they index it for you and point it at your site.&nbsp; They get your content and they basically just keep it.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/tech-news/humans-hired-to-fix-ai-slop-rcna225969]On the plus side, humans are now being hired to make AI slop look slightly less sloppy.[/url]&nbsp; (NBC News)<br /> <br /> But not being paid very much.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://hothardware.com/reviews/hp-zbook-ultra-g1a-128gb-review]A look at the HP Zbook Ultra G1a.[/url]&nbsp; (Hot Hardware)<br /> <br /> This model is build on the Ryzen AI Max 395+ - a chip with 16 CPU cores and 40 graphics cores, about the fastest thing you can find in a laptop these days.<br /> <br /> Performance is solid, and it has a 2880x1800 OLED display and almost the four essential keys to go with that CPU and 128GB of RAM.<br /> <br /> Not one I'd recommend unless you have a direct use for that 128GB of RAM and integrated GPU, which basically implies running LLMs locally.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>I may have mentioned in passing that my feets hurts due to edema - fluid retention - brought on by my recent high blood pressure.&nbsp; The usual treatment for edema is diuretics, which help you reabsorb and pee out the unwanted fluid, and my doctor duly prescribed me such a medication which did very little for the first four days.<br /> <br /> Well, the pills finally kicked in.&nbsp; And how.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=wBl2QGAIx1s]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: [s]Eight[/s] [s]nine[/s] eleven pounds in one week.</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_1_september_2025</guid><pubDate>Mon, 01 Sep 2025 18:16:00 +0000</pubDate></item> </channel></rss>
