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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>Sun, 11 May 2025 17:59:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><generator>Minx 1.1.6c-pink</generator><ttl>60</ttl> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 11 May 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_11_may_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Wagon Age Edition Top Story Microsoft is planning an update to Windows 11 with a less terrible version of the start menu. (Thurrott) Don't worry, all the other terrible features are still there. Meanwhile, Teams is basically Skype. I installed the free app for work. It's... Not horrible. Tech News AMD is changing sockets for its next-generation server CPUs. (Tom's Hardware) Two sockets, in fact. The low-end SP8 supporting up to 96 Zen 6 cores or 128 Zen 6c cores, and the high-end SP7 supporting up to 256 Zen 6c cores. I don't know why SP7 is bigger than SP8....</description><content> <value>Wagon Age Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.thurrott.com/windows/windows-11/320717/microsoft-details-the-new-windows-11-start-design]Microsoft is planning an update to Windows 11 with a less terrible version of the start menu.[/url]&nbsp; (Thurrott)<br /> <br /> Don't worry, all the other terrible features are still there.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>Meanwhile, Teams is basically Skype.<br /> <br /> I installed the free app for work.&nbsp; It's...&nbsp; Not horrible.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-6th-gen-epyc-9006-venice-cpus-reportedly-offer-up-to-96-zen-6-or-256-zen-6c-cores]AMD is changing sockets for its next-generation server CPUs.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> Two sockets, in fact.&nbsp; The low-end SP8 supporting up to 96 Zen 6 cores or 128 Zen 6c cores, and the high-end SP7 supporting up to 256 Zen 6c cores.<br /> <br /> I don't know why SP7 is bigger than SP8.&nbsp; It just is.<br /> <br /> No specific word on whether the current AM5 desktop socket will support the next generation of desktop CPUs, but probably.&nbsp; AMD's own history suggests it will only change once DDR6 memory is available, which will be a couple of years yet.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://apnews.com/article/texas-google-settlement-8097e181cc7cb8522781db8a9a897eea]Google will pay Texas a $1.4 billion settlement over collecting Texans' data without permission.[/url]&nbsp; (AP News)<br /> <br /> And they promise not to do it again, pinky swear.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://liliputing.com/beelink-me-mini-is-now-available-for-329-nas-with-intel-n150-and-up-to-6-nvme-ssds/]The Beelink Me Mini NAS is now available starting at $329 including a 2TB SSD.[/url]&nbsp; (Liliputing)<br /> <br /> It has an Intel N150 CPU - not fast, but it gets the job done, 12GB of soldered RAM, two 2.5Gb Ethernet ports, three USB ports, HDMI, and six M.2 slots.<br /> <br /> Those slots mostly only support PCIe 3.0 x1, but even that is enough for a single SSD to flood both network ports.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/chromebooks/a-new-tiktok-challenge-has-kids-attempting-to-short-circuit-school-issued-chromebooks]There's a new stupid TikTok trend that is actually less likely than others to leave children dead or in jail.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> The same site that promoted cheque fraud and autoasphyxiation is now just teaching children to short out their school-supplied laptops.<br /> <br /> So that's nice.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <h2>Chemical Interlude</h2>[ytlite=elR5vcAJ-PA]</div><div><br /> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2></div><div>[ytlite=5W_wd9Qf0IE]</div><div><br /> </div><div>Song is <span style="font-style: italic;">Code Monkey</span> by Jonathan Coulton.&nbsp; Anime is <span style="font-style: italic;">Black Heaven</span>, a story about saving the world through the power of rock.</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: The elements are the bottom of the periodic table are free.&nbsp; You can take them home.&nbsp; I have 5713 elements.</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_11_may_2025</guid><pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2025 17:59:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 10 May 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_10_may_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Algorithmic Decycling Edition Top Story A lithium deposit valued at $1.5 trillion has been discovered in Oregon. (Earth) Well, that's Portland sorted out. Tech News Mexico has sued Google over naming the Gulf of America the Gulf of America on American maps after the American government voted to name it the Gulf of America. (The Guardian) Yes, that's sure to work. A Florida state bill requiring backdoors for minors' social media accounts has quietly died... But not before passing the state Senate. (Tech Crunch)Digital rights group the Electronic Frontier Foundation called the bill "dangerous and dumb." Security professionals have long...</description><content> <value>Algorithmic Decycling Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.earth.com/news/volcanic-white-gold-a-lithium-deposit-valued-at-1-5-trillion-has-been-discovered-in-the-u-s/]A lithium deposit valued at $1.5 trillion has been discovered in Oregon.[/url]&nbsp; (Earth)<br /> <br /> Well, that's Portland sorted out.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <h2>Tech News</h2></div><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/may/09/mexico-google-lawsuit-gulf-of-mexico]Mexico has sued Google over naming the Gulf of America the Gulf of America on American maps after the American government voted to name it the Gulf of America.[/url]&nbsp; (The Guardian)<br /> <br /> Yes, that's sure to work.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/09/florida-bill-requiring-encryption-backdoors-for-social-media-accounts-has-failed/]A Florida state bill requiring backdoors for minors' social media accounts has quietly died...&nbsp; But not before passing the state Senate.[/url]&nbsp; (Tech Crunch)[quote]Digital rights group the&nbsp;<a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/floridas-new-social-media-bill-says-quiet-part-out-loud-and-demands-encryption" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener nofollow">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a>&nbsp;called the bill "dangerous and dumb."&nbsp; Security professionals have&nbsp;<a href="https://techcrunch.com/2024/10/07/the-30-year-old-internet-backdoor-law-that-came-back-to-bite/" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer noopener">long argued</a>&nbsp;that it is impossible to create a secure backdoor that cannot also be maliciously abused, and encryption backdoors put user data at risk of data breaches.[/quote]State legislatures tend to be dangerous and dumb.&nbsp; Sometimes their worst instincts are restrained.&nbsp; Sometimes you get California.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.hackingwithswift.com/articles/277/whats-new-in-swift-6-2]What's new in Swift 6.2?[/url]&nbsp; (Hacking with Swift)<br /> <br /> Things.&nbsp; I haven't really looked at Swift since I tested it against the PyPy Python compiler and found it about 0% faster.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/05/ai-use-damages-professional-reputation-study-suggests/]AI use damages professional reputation.[/url]&nbsp; (Ars Technica)<br /> <br /> As it should.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=rINrDjNiZbU]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div>Song is Lone Digger by Caravan Palace.&nbsp; Anime is various.</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: To be fair anime is usually various.</span></div></value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_10_may_2025</guid><pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2025 18:10:16 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 9 May 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_9_may_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Botch Epoch Edition Top Story Who is winning the war between search engines and AI chat bots? Search engines, and it's not even close. (WCCFTech) In fact, if you add up all the search engines and all the AI services, 90% of the activity is Google search and everything else is just noise. Meanwhile Alibaba has release new AI code that allows AI to act as a search engine without needing a search engine. (VentureBeat) Called ZeroSearch, a 7-billion parameter version outperformed Google Search in undefined and indefensibly stupid scenarios. It's the equivalent of claiming that you managed to condense...</description><content> <value>Botch Epoch Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://wccftech.com/google-attracts-1-6-trillion-visitors-or-34x-compared-to-chatgpt-as-it-dominates-search-engine-battle/]Who is winning the war between search engines and AI chat bots?&nbsp; Search engines, and it's not even close.[/url]&nbsp; (WCCFTech)<br /> <br /> In fact, if you add up all the search engines and all the AI services, 90% of the activity is Google search and everything else is just noise.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://venturebeat.com/ai/alibabas-zerosearch-lets-ai-learn-to-google-itself-slashing-training-costs-by-88-percent/]Meanwhile Alibaba has release new AI code that allows AI to act as a search engine without needing a search engine.[/url]&nbsp; (VentureBeat)<br /> <br /> Called ZeroSearch, a 7-billion parameter version outperformed Google Search in undefined and indefensibly stupid scenarios.&nbsp; It's the equivalent of claiming that you managed to condense the Encyclopaedia Britannica down to a bowl of alphabet soup.&nbsp; I don't know what you actually did, but I know you're not worth talking to until you grow up.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://liliputing.com/zettlab-ai-nas-stores-transcribes-and-makes-all-your-data-searchable-crowdfunding/]Zettlab's new NASes look nice but.[/url]&nbsp; (Liliputing)<br /> <br /> Supporting up to eight hard drives and two M.2 SSDs, with an Intel 125H CPU, up to 96GB of RAM and two 10Gb Ethernet ports, the hardware specs are solid enough.<br /> <br /> Unfortunately it runs a custom AI-focused Linux distribution and must be cleansed from the Earth with fire.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://liliputing.com/lenovos-new-gaming-tablet-combines-snapdragon-8-elite-a-165hz-display-and-an-optional-game-controller/]Lenovo's Legion Tab 4 actually looks nice.[/url]&nbsp; (Liliputing)<br /> <br /> The CPU has been bumped from the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 to the new Snapdragon 8 Elite, which has custom CPU cores rather than the regular Arm ones.&nbsp; And pixel density for the 8.8" screen has been increased by nearly 20% to 3040x1904.&nbsp; The older model already had a very fast CPU and a great screen, so these were not urgent updates, but are certainly not objectionable.<br /> <br /> The missing microSD slot on the Tab 3 also showed up, supporting up to 2TB of extra storage.<br /> <br /> Right now only available in China for around $450.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.notebookcheck.net/HarmonyOS-5-This-is-how-Huawei-s-alternative-to-Windows-and-macOS-looks-like.1012763.0.html]What does Huawei's new HarmonyOS look like?[/url]&nbsp; (Notebook Check)<br /> <br /> It's Android you idiots.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.theverge.com/news/663322/bill-gates-elon-musk-trump-childhood-deaths-usaid]Bill Gates is mad that CIA cut-out USAID got shut down.[/url]&nbsp; (The Verge)<br /> <br /> Okay.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/08/chinas-geely-moves-to-take-ev-startup-zeekr-private-amid-trade-war-with-us/]China's Squeely is moving to take AV company Blookit private in a credit default swap on the Chicago Commodity Exchange.[/url]&nbsp; (Tech Crunch)<br /> <br /> Actually none of that is true but you didn't miss any useful information.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=XKuJUxGntRI]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Or Pycrete.</span></div></value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_9_may_2025</guid><pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2025 18:30:52 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 8 May 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_8_may_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Portable Soup Edition Top Story Apple vice president Eddy Cue says you may not need an iPhone ten years from now. (The Verge) Not a huge stretch of the imagination, since I don't need an iPhone now and didn't need an iPhone ten years ago. On the other hand, possibly not the best message to send about a product that represents half your company's revenue. I did buy an iMac ten years ago. Great hardware. Solid operating system. UI sucked. Tech News Europe has announced plans to spend $500 million over three years to make the continent a "magnet for...</description><content> <value>Portable Soup Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.theverge.com/news/662769/apple-iphone-may-not-need-10-years]Apple vice president Eddy Cue says you may not need an iPhone ten years from now.[/url]&nbsp; (The Verge)<br /> <br /> Not a huge stretch of the imagination, since I don't need an iPhone now and didn't need an iPhone ten years ago.<br /> <br /> On the other hand, possibly not the best message to send about a product that represents half your company's revenue.<br /> <br /> I did buy an iMac ten years ago.&nbsp; Great hardware.&nbsp; Solid operating system.&nbsp; UI sucked.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.theregister.com/2025/05/06/eu_us_science_scheme/]Europe has announced plans to spend $500 million over three years to make the continent a "magnet for scientists".[/url]&nbsp; (The Register)<br /> <br /> Scientists are not ferromagnetic.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://liliputing.com/beelink-gtr9-pro-is-an-amd-strix-halo-mini-pc-that-looks-like-a-mac-studio/]The Beeling GTR9 Pro is another AMD Strix Halo mini-PC designed like a Mac Studio.[/url]&nbsp; (Liliputing)<br /> <br /> 16 CPU cores, 40 GPU cores, and up to 128GB of RAM on a 256-bit bus.&nbsp; Mostly designed for running AI tasks locally because it can dedicate up to 96GB of RAM to the GPU, but makes a very nice computer for anything that needs a fast processor and solid graphics.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.servethehome.com/ampereone-m-finally-brings-the-big-12-channel-socket-to-its-arm-cpus/]Meanwhile if you need a 192-core Arm CPU with 12-channel memory you can now get one.[/url]&nbsp; (Serve the Home)<br /> <br /> You probably don't need one, but it's nice that it exists.&nbsp;<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/07/stripe-unveils-ai-foundation-model-for-payments-reveals-deeper-partnership-with-nvidia/]Stripe has unveiled an "AI foundation model" for payments.[/url]&nbsp; (Tech Crunch)<br /> <br /> Not a model for payments for AI services, but a model for payments using AI services.<br /> <br /> Cash or gold only.&nbsp; No cards.&nbsp; No cheques.&nbsp; No credit.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/05/02/ai-chatbots-are-juicing-engagement-instead-of-being-useful-instagram-co-founder-warns/]AI chatbots are juicing engagement instead of being useful, warns...&nbsp; Instagram?[/url]&nbsp; (Tech Crunch)<br /> <br /> Isn't that the entire point of Instagram?<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://blog.jetbrains.com/clion/2025/05/clion-is-now-free-for-non-commercial-use/]JetBrains CLion is now free for non-commercial use.[/url]&nbsp; (JetBrains)<br /> <br /> CLion supports C and C++ (and also Python), and joins WebStorm (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) and RustRover (Rust) in its lineup of free IDEs for hobbyists.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=NNC0kIzM1Fo]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Also dust.&nbsp; Sorry, I've been cleaning.</span></div></value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_8_may_2025</guid><pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2025 18:27:58 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 7 May 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_7_may_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Fear Fire Foes Edition Top Story Skype is dead. Here's five alternatives. (Hot Hardware) I wish it were dead. I've received eight messages on it from work today. The first of those at four minutes past midnight. Tech News Intel's 265K has been cut in price from $399 to $299. (Tom's Hardware) While overall I would recommend AMD's platform, that does deliver 80% of the performance of Intel's current top-of-the-line chip for 50% of the price. It's a little faster than AMD's 9900X and now 20% cheaper as well. If Intel wasn't planning a new socket next year cutting off...</description><content> <value>Fear Fire Foes Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://hothardware.com/news/skype-shuts-down-5-alternatives]Skype is dead.&nbsp; Here's five alternatives.[/url]&nbsp; (Hot Hardware)<br /> <br /> I <span style="font-style: italic;">wish </span>it were dead.&nbsp; I've received eight messages on it from work today.&nbsp; The first of those at four minutes past midnight.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-officially-cuts-core-ultra-7-200-series-desktop-cpu-prices-by-up-to-25-percent]Intel's 265K has been cut in price from $399 to $299.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> While overall I would recommend AMD's platform, that does deliver 80% of the performance of Intel's current top-of-the-line chip for 50% of the price.&nbsp; It's a little faster than AMD's 9900X and now 20% cheaper as well.<br /> <br /> If Intel wasn't planning a new socket next year cutting off any possibility of upgrades it might actually be worth recommending.&nbsp; But they are so it's not.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://archive.is/7dgsh]Under RDK, "Make America Healthy Again" means junk science like, uh, evolution.[/url]&nbsp; (The Verge)&nbsp; (archive site)[quote]"There's a sort of Darwin-esque notion that only the fittest survive," says Paul Offit, a vaccine scientist, virologist, and professor of pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.[/quote]"Only the fittest survive" is tautological.&nbsp; In evolution, fitness is <span style="font-style: italic;">defined </span>by survival to reproduction.[quote]"But these viruses can kill anybody, so that's just wrong."&nbsp; In the recent deaths, the first from measles in a decade, no underlying medication conditions have been reported.&nbsp; Both of the Texas <span style="font-weight: bold;">children </span>were reportedly healthy before they contracted measles. They could have stayed that way.[/quote]Measles doesn't just "kill anybody" as Offit knows perfectly well.&nbsp; It was a major killer before the introduction of the vaccine, and we certainly shouldn't abandon that vaccine.<br /> <br /> But it kills children.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=LTrk4X9ACtw]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Poit.</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_7_may_2025</guid><pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2025 18:29:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 6 May 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_6_may_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Alarums And Excursums Edition Top Story Microsoft has shut down Skype for good. (The Verge) (archive site) I wish. It's still bloody working. I got a call from work fifteen minutes ago. Tech News Dimension 126 isn't a place. (Quanta) Strangely worded headline. Strangely worded article. 126-dimensional spaces allow for certain strangely twisted shapes, that are possible only in spaces with dimensionality of the form 2n-2 - so 2, 6, 14, 30, 62 - but disproven in 2009 for spaces with 254 or more dimensions. That left only 126 dimensional space to have this property confirmed or denied, and now...</description><content> <value>Alarums And Excursums Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://archive.is/uEvH3]Microsoft has shut down Skype for good.[/url]&nbsp; (The Verge)&nbsp; (archive site)<br /> <br /> I wish.&nbsp; It's still bloody working.&nbsp; I got a call from work fifteen minutes ago.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/dimension-126-contains-strangely-twisted-shapes-mathematicians-prove-20250505/]Dimension 126 isn't a place.[/url]&nbsp; (Quanta)<br /> <br /> Strangely worded headline.&nbsp; Strangely worded article.<br /> <br /> 126-dimensional spaces allow for certain strangely twisted shapes, that are possible only in spaces with dimensionality of the form 2<span style="vertical-align: super;">n</span>-2 - so 2, 6, 14, 30, 62 - but disproven in 2009 for spaces with 254 or more dimensions.<br /> <br /> That left only 126 dimensional space to have this property confirmed or denied, and now it has been proven true.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.upstartsmedia.com/p/scoop-databricks-talks-to-acquire-neon]Databricks is looking to acquire serverless Postgres company Neon in a deal valued at about $1 billion.[/url]&nbsp; (Upstarts Media)<br /> <br /> Neon advertises its blazing speed with queries taking as little as ten milliseconds, which is miserably slow compared to running your own database and completely impossible if you are more than ten milliseconds away from one of their servers.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>Touchscreens are everywhere, but proper tactile interfaces have significant benefits.&nbsp; [url=https://www.theverge.com/news/661611/stretchable-touchscreen-buttons]But what if your touchscreen could form its own tactile buttons on demand?[/url]&nbsp; (The Verge)<br /> <br /> LG is planning to show off exactly that next week, with a new automotive control interface featuring a touchscreen that changes shape instantly to create buttons and dials for physical controls.<br /> <br /> The demo is intriguing, though the unit displayed is rather bulky and it's not clear how much of that bulk is necessary.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2></div><div>[ytlite=bbr60I0u2Ng]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: I'll stick with a comfortable zero dimensions, thanks.</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_6_may_2025</guid><pubDate>Tue, 06 May 2025 18:21:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 5 May 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_5_may_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Tonstant Weader Edition Top Story Intel may have sold off a majority of its Altera acquisition to balance the books, but it hasn't given up in other areas: The B770 GPU could be here as soon as Computex, which is in just (searches frantically) over two weeks. (WCCFTech) This will likely be a mid-range 16GB card. The existing B580 offers 12GB of RAM at $250, which is already a better bet in the current market than 8GB cards, except for the minor problem that there aren't any. And Intel's third-generation "Celestial" GPUs could be here by CES. (Hot Hardware) That...</description><content> <value>Tonstant Weader Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>Intel may have sold off a majority of its Altera acquisition to balance the books, but it hasn't given up in other areas: [url=https://wccftech.com/intel-battlemage-arc-b770-gpu-could-be-unveiled-as-soon-as-computex-2025/]The B770 GPU could be here as soon as Computex, which is in just (searches frantically) over two weeks.[/url]&nbsp; (WCCFTech)<br /> <br /> This will likely be a mid-range 16GB card.&nbsp; The existing B580 offers 12GB of RAM at $250, which is already a better bet in the current market than 8GB cards, except for the minor problem that there aren't any.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://hothardware.com/news/celestial-tape-out-soon]And Intel's third-generation "Celestial" GPUs could be here by CES.[/url]&nbsp; (Hot Hardware)<br /> <br /> That seems a bit ambitious, to be honest.&nbsp; Expect this to take more like a year to reach retail even if things go well, and eighteen months if they need more than a simple tweak moving from test samples to production.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>Apples are selling twice as fast as any other type of orange: [url=https://wccftech.com/clair-obscur-expedition-33-is-selling-2x-as-fast-as-any-other-jrpg-on-steam-proving-square-enix-wrong/]<span style="font-style: italic;">Clair Obscur: Expedition 33</span> is selling twice as fast as any other JRPG on Steam.[/url]&nbsp; (WCCFTech)<br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Expedition 33</span> is indeed a success, but it's a weird comparison since the J in JRPG means Japanese, and <span style="font-style: italic;">Expedition 33</span> is a French game created by French developers in France.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://pluralistic.net/2025/04/27/some-animals/]Stalin didn't go far enough in his purges.[/url]&nbsp; (Pluralistic)<br /> <br /> Jobs are bad!&nbsp; Unions are good!&nbsp; Dark humour is like food, not everyone gets it!<br /> <br /> I'm so old I remember when Cory Doctorow could write a coherent sentence.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://archive.is/KwH0k]People are losing their loved ones to AI-fueled spiritual fantasies and mental illness but mostly mental illness.[/url]&nbsp; (Rolling Stone)&nbsp; (archive site)<br /> <br /> I thought mental illness was seen as a positive thing on the left, given how much time and effort they devote to wallowing in it.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://archive.is/HqZmi]Speaking of which.[/url]&nbsp; (The Verge)&nbsp; (archive site)<br /> <br /> You have to understand, he is not just playing as a bunny in a fantasy world, he is playing as a <span style="font-style: italic;">negro </span>bunny.&nbsp; His words.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://apnews.com/article/assassins-creed-video-game-harassment-4b68890b7ed9ead8dbe3ad09dbee9859]Yasuke - the pseudohistorical star of Ubisoft's latest commercial catastrophe <span style="font-style: italic;">Assassin's Creed 14: The Assassining</span>, was never a samurai and all the claims to the contrary were cooked up very recently by a single lunatic.[/url]&nbsp; (AP News)<br /> <br /> The article doesn't mention that.&nbsp; The article in fact is completely useless.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=KOok1WzZbOY]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer, n: Rebuttal; disavowal.&nbsp; "I reject your reality and substitute my own."</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_5_may_2025</guid><pubDate>Mon, 05 May 2025 15:30:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 4 May 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_4_may_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Good News Edition Top Story All the major browsers are set to lose their funding. (Dan Fabulich) Google pays 80% of the budget for Safari and Mozilla, Edge is just Chrome, and Chrome actually is Chrome. So with Google's illegal practices on multiple fronts coming to a head with the company losing two antitrust cases, the whole metastatic structure is set to implode. More than that, Google's payments to Apple, which are likely to end abruptly, cover 60% of the latter company's total R&D budget. Waah says Mozilla. (The Verge) And nothing of value was lost. Mozilla killed itself off...</description><content> <value>Good News Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://danfabulich.medium.com/all-four-major-web-browsers-are-about-to-lose-80-of-their-funding-0e42ceb358f1]All the major browsers are set to lose their funding.[/url]&nbsp; (Dan Fabulich)<br /> <br /> Google pays 80% of the budget for Safari and Mozilla, Edge is just Chrome, and Chrome actually is Chrome.&nbsp; So with Google's illegal practices on multiple fronts coming to a head with the company losing two antitrust cases, the whole metastatic structure is set to implode.<br /> <br /> More than that, Google's payments to Apple, which are likely to end abruptly, cover 60% of the latter company's <span style="font-style: italic;">total</span> R&amp;D budget.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.theverge.com/news/660548/firefox-google-search-revenue-share-doj-antitrust-remedies]Waah says Mozilla.[/url]&nbsp; (The Verge)<br /> <br /> And nothing of value was lost.&nbsp; Mozilla killed itself off as a realistic option years ago.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <h2>Tech News</h2></div><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-rtx-5060-ti-8gb-loses-up-to-10-percent-performance-when-using-pcie-4-0]Nvidia's RTX 5060 Ti 8GB model loses up to 10 percent of performance when running with PCIe 4.0.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> That's accurate in itself, but the main story is don't even <span style="font-style: italic;">think </span>about buying the 8GB model.<br /> <br /> For example, playing <span style="font-style: italic;">Dragon Age Veilguard</span> - which nobody does; the game flopped hard - the 16GB card achieves a reasonable 57 fps at 1440p, dropping very slightly to 56.9 fps when using a PCIe 4.0 slot.&nbsp; Fair enough and in line with other tests.&nbsp; Even the 5090 only loses a couple of percentage points in performance with a PCIe 4.0 slot.<br /> <br /> With the 8GB model, performance drops to just 34 fps.&nbsp; And with the 8GB model in a PCIe 4.0 slot, it can't even manage 5 fps.<br /> <br /> Most games cope better than that, but some games were even worse.&nbsp; The new Indiana Jones game would not run at all on the 8GB version with the same settings used on the 16GB card, and <span style="font-style: italic;">Spider-Man 2</span> ran but crashed often enough on the 8GB card to make it a truly miserable experience.<br /> <br /> The two 5060 Ti models share a name, but the 16GB model is adequate, while the 8GB model is simply inadequate.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-11-wont-let-you-shut-down-change-this-setting-right-away]How to use RegEdit to totally brick Windows instead of clicking a button when it's slow to reboot.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> Do not do this.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2></div><div>[ytlite=z9nkzaOPP6g]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Do not.</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_4_may_2025</guid><pubDate>Sun, 04 May 2025 18:00:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 3 May 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_3_may_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Blargh Edition Top Story Apple is teaming up with Anthropic on a new vibe coding platform. (Bloomberg) (archive site) Vibe coding is a term where a developer has no idea how to program - let alone build a complete application - and also no idea about the problems inherent in the application domain. So someone trying to launch, say, a map to guide mining of rare earth elements when you not only can't program but also have no idea what an element is. Apple's own vibe coding platform was quietly scuttled last year when it turned out to be completely...</description><content> <value>Blargh Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://archive.is/1zTlY]Apple is teaming up with Anthropic on a new vibe coding platform.[/url]&nbsp; (Bloomberg)&nbsp; (archive site)<br /> <br /> Vibe coding is a term where a developer has no idea how to program - let alone build a complete application - and also no idea about the problems inherent in the application domain.&nbsp; So someone trying to launch, say, a map to guide mining of rare earth elements when you not only can't program but also have no idea what an element is.<br /> <br /> Apple's own vibe coding platform was quietly scuttled last year when it turned out to be completely worthless, so they're doing it again.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/techandscience/gta-6-release-date-announcement-reveals-it-s-delayed-to-2026/ar-AA1E37x2]Grand Theft Auto VI, the latest iteration in the Grand Theft Auto series, logically enough, in which the character does stuff - GTA 5 is actually quite fun in multiplayer because you can get up to all sorts of shenanigans - has had its release delayed to May 26.[/url]&nbsp; (MSN)<br /> <br /> Of next year.<br /> <br /> 13 years after GTA 5.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://archive.is/wNmXL]Thunderbolts is Marvel's latest attempt at clawing its way into an existential void.[/url]&nbsp; (The Verge)&nbsp; (archive site)<br /> <br /> Exactly why they wish to that that is unclear, but they do.<br /> <br /> Marvel movies used to be dependably fun popcorn flicks.<br /> <br /> This has now been corrected.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>And nothing of value was lost: [url=https://www.theverge.com/news/660548/firefox-google-search-revenue-share-doj-antitrust-remedies]Firefox could die if funding from Google is cut off due to antitrust proceedings.[/url]&nbsp; (The Verge)<br /> <br /> Okay.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://arstechnica.com/space/2025/05/eric-schmidt-apparently-bought-relativity-space-to-put-data-centers-in-orbit/]Eric Schmidt - former CEO of Google - bought Relativity Space to put datacenters into orbit.[/url]&nbsp; (Ars Technica)<br /> <br /> Does any of this make sense?&nbsp; No.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2></div><div>[ytlite=g33Tqj1DA5c]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Nope.</span></div></value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_3_may_2025</guid><pubDate>Sat, 03 May 2025 17:46:31 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 2 May 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_2_may_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Phase Collect Edition Top Story After years of ripping off developers by taking a cut of off-platform payments for transactions they had no part in, and then when courts ruled against them, more years of making things deliberately and systematically worse for everyone, a federal judge finally had enough and nuked Apple. (The Verge) (archive site) The ruling is crystal clear: Apple can not demand any cut of off-platform payments, nor can they add roadblocks for developers or for end users. That was just yesterday. Spotify is already moving its payment processing away from Apple, and Patreon plans to do...</description><content> <value>Phase Collect Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://archive.is/YzFXY]After years of ripping off developers by taking a cut of off-platform payments for transactions they had no part in, and then when courts ruled against them, more years of making things deliberately and systematically worse for everyone, a federal judge finally had enough and nuked Apple.[/url]&nbsp; (The Verge)&nbsp; (archive site)<br /> <br /> The ruling is crystal clear: Apple can not demand any cut of off-platform payments, nor can they add roadblocks for developers or for end users.<br /> <br /> That was just yesterday.&nbsp; [url=https://www.theverge.com/news/659891/spotify-ios-app-update-apple-payment-rules]Spotify is already moving its payment processing away from Apple, and Patreon plans to do the same.[/url]</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://antirez.com/news/151]Redis is open source again.[/url]&nbsp; (Antirez)<br /> <br /> Redis tried shifting to a have-your-eat-and-cake-it-too license that nobody liked, and spawned a veritable forest of forks.<br /> <br /> It's back under AGPL now, which is fine for most uses.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/california-gas-powered-vehicle-ban-house-votes-to-block-hjres88/]The House of Representatives has voted to nuke California.[/url]&nbsp; (CBS)<br /> <br /> Starting with California's plan to ban new gas-powered vehicles starting in 2035, and proceeding until California stops being stupid.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/security/blog/2025/05/01/pushing-passkeys-forward-microsofts-latest-updates-for-simpler-safer-sign-ins/]Microsoft is making accounts passwordless by default going forward, moving to newer and less secure methods.[/url]&nbsp; (Microsoft)<br /> <br /> Like locally caching the passwords of remote machines and letting you log in if the local copy is right even if the remote one has changed.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://kotaku.com/polygon-sold-vox-media-valnet-layoffs-digital-gaming-1851778655]Polygon, a gaming news website that everyone forgot within a year of its creation, has been sold off to a content farm upstate.[/url]&nbsp; (Kotaku)<br /> <br /> Polygon was bad from the beginning, and has been insufferable for years.&nbsp; Pretty much everyone was laid off.<br /> <br /> Kotaku is next.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/30/metas-reality-labs-posts-4point2-billion-loss-in-first-quarter.html]Meta's Reality Labs lost $4.2 billion in its first quarter.[/url]&nbsp; (CNBC)<br /> <br /> Doing <span style="font-style: italic;">what?!</span><br /> <br /> Reality Labs doesn't seem to do anything except bleed <span style="text-decoration-line: line-through;">cache</span> cash.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>Phase Connect has gathered in Clio Aite, Marimari_EN, and Sleepy into a new Invaders generation starting this weekend.<br /> <br /> Pippa can't stop winning.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>Also, ENReco stage 2 starts this weekend.<br /> <br /> [ytlite=xb2pi8p9A8U]</li> </ul></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=KQkIF0RLYzU]<br /> <br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Gotta get 'em all.</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_2_may_2025</guid><pubDate>Fri, 02 May 2025 18:29:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 1 May 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_1_may_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Somewhere Beyond The Sea Edition Top Story AMD is reportedly preparing Ryzen 9000G desktop processors. (Tom's Hardware) These will be repurposed laptop chips just like previous G-series CPUs. The difference is that these will offer up to twelve Zen 5 cores (or more specifically four Zen 5 cores and eight of the slower Zen 5c cores) plus up to 16 GPU cores. And up to 256GB of RAM, since they are after all desktop chips and that's how much you can put in a regular desktop system these days. Judging by the prices of the laptops though I expect the...</description><content> <value>Somewhere Beyond The Sea Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-is-reportedly-readying-ryzen-9000g-gorgon-point-and-epyc-4005-grado-cpus-for-am5]AMD is reportedly preparing Ryzen 9000G desktop processors.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> These will be repurposed laptop chips just like previous G-series CPUs.&nbsp; The difference is that these will offer up to twelve Zen 5 cores (or more specifically four Zen 5 cores and eight of the slower Zen 5c cores) plus up to 16 GPU cores.<br /> <br /> And up to 256GB of RAM, since they are after all desktop chips and that's how much you can put in a regular desktop system these days.<br /> <br /> Judging by the prices of the laptops though I expect the top models to be expensive.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://wccftech.com/samsung-aiming-to-mass-produce-2nm-gaa-wafers-by-h2-2025/]Samsung plans to enter full production with its own 2nm process node in the second half of this year.[/url]&nbsp; (WCCFTech)<br /> <br /> Now they just need to find customers.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://apnews.com/article/microsoft-earnings-0c9702a96b50e943b0ed48bca980630c]Microsoft's profits grew by 18% in the latest quarter, buoyed by rising sales of its key product, Slurm.[/url]&nbsp; (AP News)<br /> <br /> It has electrolytes.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/google-funding-electrician-training-ai-200254193.html]Google is spending $10 million to train 100,000 new electricians.[/url]&nbsp; (Yahoo)<br /> <br /> Yeah, I don't think that's quite enough, guys.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://liliputing.com/minisforum-n5-pro-nas-with-amd-ryzen-ai-9-hx-pro-370-oculink-and-10-gb-lan-is-coming-soon/]The Minisforum N5 Pro is a NAS.[/url]&nbsp; (Liliputing)<br /> <br /> It has the familiar twelve core Ryzen 370 and supports five SATA drives and three NVMe drives.<br /> <br /> And OCuLink, without which it would be able to support five NVMe drives, and which is kind of useless in a device like this.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>Moved my Minecraft server from a VirtualBox VM on my laptop to an LXC container on my server.&nbsp; I expected to see some improvement: They're both Zen 3 cores, but the server is a full desktop system rather than a low-power laptop.<br /> <br /> It's four times as fast, which I was <span style="font-style: italic;">not </span>expecting.<br /> <br /> I'm not sure why it is so fast, or more accurately, why my laptop is so slow.&nbsp; I'll play around and see if I can work out what is going on there but I am not unhappy with the outcome.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=ywz8fY4TbG4]</div><div><br /> </div><div>From <span style="font-style: italic;">Mirror, Mirror</span>, a Snow White remake that just has fun with the story rather than trying to tie it into knots.</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Somewhere, beyond the sea, somewhere waiting for me, my lover stands on golden sands, and says "Heya, stinky."</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_1_may_2025</guid><pubDate>Thu, 01 May 2025 18:18:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 30 April 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_30_april_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Bedknobs And Beyond Edition Top Story Google Play has lost nearly half of its apps in the past year. Here's why that's a good thing. (Tech Crunch) Developers aren't leaving Android. Much. Rather, Google is belatedly taking steps to weed out the tsunami of crap that has been infesting the plague store for years. Not sure how you weed a tsunami. Which might be why it has taken them so long. In addition to removing 1.6 million garbage apps, Google rejected 2.3 million new apps before they could ever reach the app store, and banned 158,000 developer accounts that were...</description><content> <value>Bedknobs And Beyond Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/29/google-play-sees-47-decline-in-apps-since-start-of-last-year/]Google Play has lost nearly half of its apps in the past year.&nbsp; Here's why that's a good thing.[/url]&nbsp; (Tech Crunch)<br /> <br /> Developers aren't leaving Android.&nbsp; Much.&nbsp; Rather, Google is belatedly taking steps to weed out the tsunami of crap that has been infesting the plague store for years.<br /> <br /> Not sure how you weed a tsunami.&nbsp; Which might be why it has taken them so long.<br /> <br /> In addition to removing 1.6 million garbage apps, Google rejected 2.3 million new apps before they could ever reach the app store, and banned 158,000 developer accounts that were attempting various kinds of nefariousness.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.404media.co/reddit-issuing-formal-legal-demands-against-researchers-who-conducted-secret-ai-experiment-on-users/]Reddit is issuing firmly-worded letters against researchers who exposed their users as gullible morons.[/url]&nbsp; (404 Media)<br /> <br /> The researchers at the University of Zurich used an AI chatbot to argue with Reddit users, and succeeded at winning the arguments more often than nominal humans.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.pcgamer.com/hardware/bitcoin-mining-now-just-totes-unprofitable-costing-over-usd137-000-to-mine-just-one-btc-in-the-us-and-near-usd200-000-per-coin-in-germany/]It costs more than one Bitcoin to mine one Bitcoin.[/url]&nbsp; (PC Gamer)<br /> <br /> That'll slow the fish down.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://9to5google.com/2025/04/28/lg-shut-down-update-servers-june-2025/]If you are still using an LG phone, update it now.[/url]&nbsp; (9to5Google)<br /> <br /> Not because it's been hacked, but because the update servers will shut down at the end of June.<br /> <br /> LG shut down its phone division four years ago, but has kept the software updated since then.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/linux/kali-linux-warns-of-update-failures-after-losing-repo-signing-key/]If you are running Kali Linux, you'll need to add a new update key.[/url]&nbsp; (Bleeping Computer)<br /> <br /> Because they lost the old one.&nbsp; They weren't hacked; it wasn't compromised.&nbsp; It just fell down the back of the sofa.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://archive.is/8yFNz]One word: Trees.[/url]&nbsp; (WSJ)&nbsp; (archive site)<br /> <br /> Carbon sequestration is potentially a $250 billion market - says the article - but what do you do when the forest you are paying for you carbon credits...&nbsp; Burns down?<br /> <br /> Better call the Lorax.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2></div><div>[ytlite=tK-vUY6erQU]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Eek!</span></div></value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_30_april_2025</guid><pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2025 18:25:46 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 29 April 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_29_april_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Songbirds And Cockroaches Edition Top Story We didn't get hacked or hit by ransomware. We didn't need to. We run Oracle. (CNBC) 45 hospitals belonging to Tennessee-based Community Health Systems lost access to all their electronic records for five days because... Oracle accidentally deleted them. Tech News The Radeon 9070 GRE is up for pre-order in China with cards shipping May 8. (Tom's Hardware) At a price that will excite no-one since this 12GB card costs more than the MSRP of the 16GB 9070. PyXL is a chip that runs Python. (RunPyXL) In hardware. Albeit at 100MHz on an FPGA....</description><content> <value>Songbirds And Cockroaches Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.cnbc.com/2025/04/28/oracle-engineers-caused-days-long-software-outage-at-us-hospitals.html]We didn't get hacked or hit by ransomware.&nbsp; We didn't need to.&nbsp; We run Oracle.[/url]&nbsp; (CNBC)<br /> <br /> 45 hospitals belonging to Tennessee-based Community Health Systems lost access to all their electronic records for five days because...&nbsp; Oracle accidentally deleted them.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/rx-9070-gre-pre-orders-go-live-in-china-may-8-retail-usd575-msrp-and-6-percent-faster-than-the-rx-7900-gre]The Radeon 9070 GRE is up for pre-order in China with cards shipping May 8.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> At a price that will excite no-one since this 12GB card costs more than the MSRP of the 16GB 9070.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.runpyxl.com/gpio]PyXL is a chip that runs Python.[/url]&nbsp; (RunPyXL)<br /> <br /> In hardware.&nbsp; Albeit at 100MHz on an FPGA.<br /> <br /> How fast it is really is unclear but it achieves a 30x reduction in latency for simple I/O tasks common on embedded systems.<br /> <br /> Though it's not clear how directly it runs the Python bytecode, since the notes mention that it compiled into PyXL assembly before running.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://deadmoney.gg/news/articles/migrating-away-from-rust]Moving away from Rust.[/url]&nbsp; (Dead Money)<br /> <br /> Not because the language is bad, necessarily.&nbsp; If I were writing a new operating system kernel it would be a strong contender.<br /> <br /> But most people are not writing new operating system kernels.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://zylinski.se/posts/no-engine-gamedev-using-odin-and-raylib/]Writing a computer game without a game engine.[/url]&nbsp; (Karl Zylinski)<br /> <br /> Caught between Unreal Engine and its problems, Unity and its license, and Godot and its absolute barking insanity?&nbsp; Why not try none of them!<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://rambo.codes/posts/2025-04-24-how-a-single-line-of-code-could-brick-your-iphone]How to soft-brick an iPhone in a perpetual boot loop and collect a $17,500 bug bounty from Apple.[/url]&nbsp; (rambo.codes)<br /> <br /> Though this specific instance has been fixed - probably - and you'll need to find your own.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.notebookcheck.net/Boox-Mira-Pro-Color-25-inch-e-ink-monitor-with-3-2K-resolution-unveiled.1006307.0.html]The Boox Mira Pro Color is a 3200x1800 25-inch e-ink colour display.[/url]&nbsp; (Notebook Check)<br /> <br /> And it costs just $1899.<br /> <br /> No, I didn't add a digit at the end there.&nbsp; Or at the beginning.&nbsp; Or in the middle.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=qP-7GNoDJ5c]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Turtle.</span></div></value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_29_april_2025</guid><pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2025 18:24:40 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 28 April 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_28_april_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Embedded Edition Top Story Google's DeepMind team in the UK is reportedly seeking to unionise, upset by Google dropping the "don't be evil" motto about seventeen years ago. (Tech Crunch) We regret to inform you that Google's DeepMind team in the UK has been replaced by DeepMind. Meanwhile Microsoft's massive AI efforts have come to a screeching halt. (XDA Developers) People are willing to dabble with AI, but far fewer are willing to have it infect their own devices. Copilot has one twentieth the userbase of ChatGPT and is only falling further behind. Tech News The Lenovo Legion Tab 3...</description><content> <value>Embedded Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/04/26/googles-deepmind-uk-team-reportedly-seeks-to-unionize/]Google's DeepMind team in the UK is reportedly seeking to unionise, upset by Google dropping the "don't be evil" motto about seventeen years ago.[/url]&nbsp; (Tech Crunch)<br /> <br /> We regret to inform you that Google's DeepMind team in the UK has been replaced by DeepMind.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.xda-developers.com/microsofts-huge-venture-flatlines/]Meanwhile Microsoft's massive AI efforts have come to a screeching halt.[/url]&nbsp; (XDA Developers)<br /> <br /> People are willing to dabble with AI, but far fewer are willing to have it infect their own devices.&nbsp; Copilot has one twentieth the userbase of ChatGPT and is only falling further behind.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.notebookcheck.net/The-super-lightweight-tablet-with-two-USB-ports-covers-all-bases-thanks-to-a-stylus-Lenovo-Legion-Tab-3-review.1005405.0.html]The Lenovo Legion Tab 3 is pretty good if you're looking for a small, fast Android tablet with a high resolution screen.[/url]&nbsp; (Notebook Check)<br /> <br /> Which is a good thing since it is the <span style="font-style: italic;">only </span>small Android tablet with a high resolution screen, apart from Aliexpress deals.<br /> <br /> Also good because I just bought one.<br /> <br /> However, the Lenovo Legion Tab 4 has already been leaked, so you might not want to buy this one unless you see it on sale.&nbsp; Which I did.<br /> <br /> It's comparable to Apple's latest iPad Mini - in fact, the review scores of the two devices were only 0.1% apart.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://liliputing.com/minisforum-ms-a2-goes-on-sale-for-839-and-up-mini-pc-with-ryzen-9-9955hx-and-10-gigabit-networking/]Minisforum has a new mini-PC that is not quite so mini.[/url]&nbsp; (Liliputing)<br /> <br /> It has a 16 core Ryzen 9 9955HX laptop CPU, up to 96GB of RAM (or 128GB if you can find the modules), three M.2 slots, a PCIe slot (for very small PCIe cards), two 2.5Gb Ethernet ports, and two 10Gb Ethernet ports, which is a bit unusual in this class of device.&nbsp; They're SFP rather than RJ45, though, so you'll need transceivers or fancy cables.<br /> <br /> Prices start at $839.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2></div><div>[ytlite=OZ0VESjYjyQ]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: A farewell to owls, and for the moment, frogs.</span></div></value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_28_april_2025</guid><pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2025 18:27:10 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 27 April 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_27_april_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Moomin Edition Top Story 4chan is back. (Slashdot) This will annoy the terminally-online haters and delight the... Also terminally-online haters. I don't think I've ever visited 4chan, but as a natural-born archivist I'm glad that it's not lost. Tech News Hyte - maker of the Hololive limited edition computer cases and apparently other stuff as well - has suspended shipments of certain products to the US due to tariff uncertainties. (Tom's Hardware) Maybe they could try shipping them to Australia instead, because it cost me as much in shipping as the case itself to get the Calliope Mori model. Blue...</description><content> <value>Moomin Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://tech.slashdot.org/story/25/04/27/0252257/4chan-returns-details-breach-blames-funding-issues-ends-shockwave-board]4chan is back.[/url]&nbsp; (Slashdot)<br /> <br /> This will annoy the terminally-online haters and delight the...&nbsp; Also terminally-online haters.<br /> <br /> I don't think I've ever visited 4chan, but as a natural-born archivist I'm glad that it's not lost.</li> </ul></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/pc-cases/pc-case-and-components-maker-hyte-pauses-shipments-to-u-s-customers-amid-tariff-pressures]Hyte - maker of the Hololive limited edition computer cases and apparently other stuff as well - has suspended shipments of certain products to the US due to tariff uncertainties.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> Maybe they could try shipping them to Australia instead, because it cost me as much in shipping as the case itself to get the Calliope Mori model.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.csoonline.com/article/3970155/lesson-from-huge-blue-shield-california-data-breach-read-the-manual.html]Blue Shield California shared personal information of 4.7 million members with Google Ads.[/url]&nbsp; (CSO Online)<br /> <br /> The outsourced site analytics to Google and then shared the Google Analytics data with Google Ads, because...&nbsp; Because they're dumbfucks, basically.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/almost-perfect-mini-nas-my-mini-rack]Do not buy GMKtec's mini-NAS.[/url]&nbsp; (Jeff Geerling)<br /> <br /> This device offers four M.2 SSD slots and an Intel N150 CPU in a compact device, just a little larger than a regular mini-PC.<br /> <br /> It also overheats.<br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Badly</span>.&nbsp; The low-power CPU hits 85C under load and the SSDs hit 70C at idle.<br /> <br /> If you throttle the CPU to just 800MHz, and throttle the M.2 bays to PCIE 1.0 speeds&nbsp; - still fast enough to flood 2.5Gb Ethernet - and also attach heatsinks to two of the I/O chips, <span style="font-style: italic;">and </span>attach high-end heatsinks to the SSDs, then you can get those temperatures under control.<br /> <br /> And somewhere along the way it stopped crashing.<br /> <br /> But at that point it was twice the size it originally shipped at and ran slower than a Raspberry Pi.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=u7K72X4eo_s]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Press Q to confuzzle.</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_27_april_2025</guid><pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2025 18:06:00 +0000</pubDate></item> </channel></rss>
