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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>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:24:00 +0000</lastBuildDate><generator>Minx 1.1.6c-pink</generator><ttl>60</ttl> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 10 July 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_10_july_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Oops All Lies Edition Top Story Microsoft announced that it has saved $500 million by increasing reliance on AI and firing thousands of people but mostly by firing thousands of people. (Yahoo) Thousands of people hardest hit. Tech News Jack Dorsey (one of the original Twitter founders) says his new secure app, Bitchat, has not been tested for security. (Tech Crunch) At all. I mean, why would you? If it's secure you don't need to test it, and if it's not secure you don't want to test it. If you want a good small Android tablet, the Galaxy Z Fold...</description><content> <value>Oops All Lies Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://finance.yahoo.com/news/microsoft-touts-500-million-ai-171149783.html]Microsoft announced that it has saved $500 million by increasing reliance on AI and firing thousands of people but mostly by firing thousands of people.[/url]&nbsp; (Yahoo)<br /> <br /> Thousands of people hardest hit.<br /> <br /> </li> </ul></div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/09/jack-dorsey-says-his-secure-new-bitchat-app-has-not-been-tested-for-security/]Jack Dorsey (one of the original Twitter founders) says his new secure app, Bitchat, has not been tested for security.[/url]&nbsp; (Tech Crunch)<br /> <br /> At all.&nbsp; I mean, why would you?&nbsp; If it's secure you don't need to test it, and if it's not secure you don't want to test it.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://liliputing.com/samsung-galaxy-z-fold7-is-a-thinner-faster-and-more-expensive-foldable-without-s-pen-support/]If you want a good small Android tablet, the Galaxy Z Fold 7 is not it.[/url]&nbsp; (Liliputing)<br /> <br /> For one thing it costs $2000.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://hothardware.com/news/ftc-cites-flaw-killing-click-to-cancel-rule]The FTC's "click to cancel" rule - that would mandate subscriptions to be as easy to cancel as to set up in the first place - is temporarily dead.[/url]&nbsp; (Hot Hardware)<br /> <br /> The FTC has a rule that if a proposed regulation would have an impact of more than $100 million it must first go through a regulatory analysis process.<br /> <br /> The FTC deemed the impact less than $100 million and so skipped that process, but the Eighth Circuit disagreed, requiring the FTC to go back, if not to square one, then at least to square four.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/computer-scientists-figure-out-how-to-prove-lies-20250709/]Proving lies: How mathematicians just poked a hole in zero-knowledge proofs.[/url]&nbsp; (Quanta)<br /> <br /> Not a fatal hole, by my reading.&nbsp; The underlying technique - called Fiat-Shamir transforms - has been proven to be secure if the random numbers used are truly random.&nbsp; The trick here is that if you know how the random numbers are generated, a malicious program can use that information to "prove" things that aren't true.<br /> <br /> If you require that the program code be less complicated than your random number generator, though, this attack is foiled.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.amd.com/en/resources/product-security/bulletin/amd-sb-7029.html]Speaking of leaks, there are some in Zen 3 and Zen 4 chips.[/url]&nbsp; (AMD)<br /> <br /> Severity is ranked as "medium" and BIOS updates are on their way.<br /> <br /> There are also two low-severity issues that leak data that technically should be leaked but which doesn't really matter.&nbsp; Only the low-severity leaks affect older Zen 1 and Zen 2 chips.<br /> <br /> Apparently Zen 5 is unaffected.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/09/qantas_begins_telling_customers_data/]Also speaking of leaks, Qantas.[/url]&nbsp; (The Register)<br /> <br /> Well, that's lovely.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Not Even Remotely Tech News</h2><div>So the theme of the summer anime season appears to be dead heroes:<br /> <br /> <span style="font-style: italic;">Scooped Up By An S-Rank Adventurer</span></div><div><br /> </div><div>Lloyd is an apprentice white mage who joins - and then is swiftly ejected from - the hero's party.&nbsp; But before that, everyone dies.&nbsp; Pretty literally.&nbsp; Yes, the sequence of events here is a little peculiar.<br /> <br /> <br /> <div><span style="font-style: italic;">The Water Magician</span></div></div><div><br /> </div><div>Ryo is a normal human who dies and then is reincarnated with water magic.&nbsp; Standard fare, though competently executed.<br /> <br /> <br /> <div><span style="font-style: italic;">Private Tutor to the Duke's Daughter</span></div><br /> Nobody actually dies.&nbsp; At least, not in the first two episodes.&nbsp; How did this get on the list?</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">New Saga</span></div><div><br /> Kyle is the last survivor of the heroes' party that defeats the Demon King and then...&nbsp; Finds himself back at square negative four having to do the whole thing all over again.<br /> <br /> <br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Clevatess</span></div><div><br /> Alicia is a member of the team of thirteen heroes who take on the Lord of Dark Beasts, Clevatess, without notable success, most of them ending up very, very dead, and Alicia ending up...&nbsp; Something else.<br /> <br /> This one looks like a refugee from the mid-90s.&nbsp; A high-budget refugee from the mid-90s, true, but the art style is not from this millennium.</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Secrets of the Silent Witch</span><br /> <br /> Bocchi.</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Onmyo Kaiten</span><br /> <br /> </div><div>While chasing an incandescent rat, Takeru suffers an accident and is transported to another world.&nbsp; Again.&nbsp; Very, very again.<br /> <br /> <br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=vWaRiD5ym74]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: This song sounds like that other song.</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_10_july_2025</guid><pubDate>Thu, 10 Jul 2025 18:24:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 9 July 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_9_july_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Oops All Hitler Edition Top Story Yesterday I noted that Twitter was taking steps to make its AI chatbot, Grok, "less politically correct". It looks instead of making it 5% more Hitler, they dialed it up to 500%. (Tech Crunch) For a few hours it sounded like a cross between Heinrich Himmler and the Ayatollah Khamenei, or a moderate Democrat. Twitter has been cleaning up the mess and Grok is back to normal now, which for a chatbot means remarkably useless and only not dangerous because nobody trusts it for anything. Tech News What is AGI? (Ars Technica) Well, it...</description><content> <value>Oops All Hitler Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>Yesterday I noted that Twitter was taking steps to make its AI chatbot, Grok, "less politically correct".<br /> <br /> [url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/08/grok-is-being-antisemitic-again-and-also-the-sky-is-blue/]It looks instead of making it 5% more Hitler, they dialed it up to 500%.[/url]&nbsp; (Tech Crunch)<br /> <br /> For a few hours it sounded like a cross between Heinrich Himmler and the Ayatollah Khamenei, or a moderate Democrat.<br /> <br /> Twitter has been cleaning up the mess and Grok is back to normal now, which for a chatbot means remarkably useless and only not dangerous because nobody trusts it for anything.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/agi-may-be-impossible-to-define-and-thats-a-multibillion-dollar-problem/]What is AGI?[/url]&nbsp; (Ars Technica)<br /> <br /> Well, it stands for "artificial general intelligence", but what it means depends on what the speaker needs it to mean.&nbsp; None of the big AI companies are focused on true intelligence, but rather on whatever gimmick will keep investor dollars flowing.[quote]According to one definition reportedly agreed upon by Microsoft and OpenAI, the answer lies in economics: When AI generates $100 billion in profits. This arbitrary profit-based benchmark for AGI perfectly captures the definitional chaos plaguing the AI industry.[/quote]<br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.servethehome.com/ibm-power11-launched-with-up-to-2048-threads-and-ddimm-support/]IBM's new Power11 systems offer up to 256 cores, 2048 threads, and a lot of memory.[/url]&nbsp; (Serve the Home)<br /> <br /> Don't ask how much.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://archive.is/0fdbd]The New York Times told the truth for once and The Verge is frothing mad.[/url]&nbsp; (The Verge)&nbsp; (archive site)<br /> <br /> I think the CDC needs to intervene at Verge HQ.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/can-an-email-go-500-miles-in-2025]Can an email travel more than 500 miles in 2025?[/url]&nbsp; (Flak)<br /> <br /> Mostly, yes.&nbsp; Not always, but mostly.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Educational Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=A67dsqbpRG0]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=GEnx9xS79Lc]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Thingy.</span></div></value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_9_july_2025</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:21:19 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 9 July 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_9_july_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Oops All Hitler Edition Top Story Yesterday I noted that Twitter was taking steps to make its AI chatbot, Grok, "less politically correct". It looks instead of making it 5% more Hitler, they dialed it up to 500%. (Tech Crunch) For a few hours it sounded like a cross between Heinrich Himmler and the Ayatollah Khamenei, or a moderate Democrat. Twitter has been cleaning up the mess and Grok is back to normal now, which for a chatbot means remarkably useless and only not dangerous because nobody trusts it for anything. Tech News What is AGI? (Ars Technica) Well, it...</description><content> <value>Oops All Hitler Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>Yesterday I noted that Twitter was taking steps to make its AI chatbot, Grok, "less politically correct".<br /> <br /> [url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/08/grok-is-being-antisemitic-again-and-also-the-sky-is-blue/]It looks instead of making it 5% more Hitler, they dialed it up to 500%.[/url]&nbsp; (Tech Crunch)<br /> <br /> For a few hours it sounded like a cross between Heinrich Himmler and the Ayatollah Khamenei, or a moderate Democrat.<br /> <br /> Twitter has been cleaning up the mess and Grok is back to normal now, which for a chatbot means remarkably useless and only not dangerous because nobody trusts it for anything.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://arstechnica.com/ai/2025/07/agi-may-be-impossible-to-define-and-thats-a-multibillion-dollar-problem/]What is AGI?[/url]&nbsp; (Ars Technica)<br /> <br /> Well, it stands for "artificial general intelligence", but what it means depends on what the speaker needs it to mean.&nbsp; None of the big AI companies are focused on true intelligence, but rather on whatever gimmick will keep investor dollars flowing.[quote]According to one definition reportedly agreed upon by Microsoft and OpenAI, the answer lies in economics: When AI generates $100 billion in profits. This arbitrary profit-based benchmark for AGI perfectly captures the definitional chaos plaguing the AI industry.[/quote]<br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.servethehome.com/ibm-power11-launched-with-up-to-2048-threads-and-ddimm-support/]IBM's new Power11 systems offer up to 256 cores, 2048 threads, and a lot of memory.[/url]&nbsp; (Serve the Home)<br /> <br /> Don't ask how much.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://archive.is/0fdbd]The New York Times told the truth for once and The Verge is frothing mad.[/url]&nbsp; (The Verge)&nbsp; (archive site)<br /> <br /> I think the CDC needs to intervene at Verge HQ.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://flak.tedunangst.com/post/can-an-email-go-500-miles-in-2025]Can an email travel more than 500 miles in 2025?[/url]&nbsp; (Flak)<br /> <br /> Mostly, yes.&nbsp; Not always, but mostly.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Educational Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=A67dsqbpRG0]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=GEnx9xS79Lc]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Thingy.</span></div></value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_9_july_2025</guid><pubDate>Wed, 09 Jul 2025 18:21:19 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 8 July 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_8_july_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Mad Bee Edition Top Story Apple has file an appeal against the EU's latest half-billion-dollar fine for - and I quote - "having money the EU wants". (Hot Hardware) Okay, so maybe I don't quote. But when it comes to a fight between communists pretending to be politicians and communists pretending to be capitalists, I'll side with the pretend capitalists unless they're also French. Tech News Twitter has updated the chatbot Grok to be "less politically correct". (The Verge) (archive site) Mostly it seems to be just as wrong but more argumentative. React is a fractal of caching with metastatic...</description><content> <value>Mad Bee Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://hothardware.com/news/apple-eu-unprecedented-fine-files-official-appeal]Apple has file an appeal against the EU's latest half-billion-dollar fine for - and I quote - "having money the EU wants".[/url]&nbsp; (Hot Hardware)<br /> <br /> Okay, so maybe I don't quote.&nbsp; But when it comes to a fight between communists pretending to be politicians and communists pretending to be capitalists, I'll side with the pretend capitalists unless they're also French.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://archive.is/GbPNx]Twitter has updated the chatbot Grok to be "less politically correct".[/url]&nbsp; (The Verge)&nbsp; (archive site)<br /> <br /> Mostly it seems to be just as wrong but more argumentative.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://michael.plotke.me/posts/react/]React is a fractal of caching with metastatic mutability.[/url]&nbsp; (Plotke)<br /> <br /> What did you call me?<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://serd.es/2025/07/04/Switch-project-pt3.html]What Microchip doesn't tell you about the VSC8512.[/url]&nbsp; (Serd.es)<br /> <br /> A lot of things, apparently, but they don't matter unless you're trying to build a managed switch from scratch.<br /> <br /> Which the author in this case is.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://phys.org/news/2025-07-massive-ai-fingerprints-millions-scientific.html]13.5% of scientific papers from 2024 are written at least partly using AI.[/url]&nbsp; (Phys.org)<br /> <br /> That low?<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2></div><div>[ytlite=6md5RSnVUuo]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Don't do drugs kids.</span></div></value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_8_july_2025</guid><pubDate>Tue, 08 Jul 2025 18:29:01 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 7 July 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_7_july_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Desert Bus Edition Top Story Why AI sucks. (Dwarkesh) Because it doesn't learn. Specifically, current large language models are not designed to acquire and verify new facts and to discard old one that turned out to be incorrect, or to adopt new modes of though that streamline reasoning. They are trained, once, and then left to slowly rot until they are replaced. Interesting comments on this article too: Arguing about when AI will replace humanity and then admitting that nobody really knows anything and it will probably never happen. Tech News Why software teams slow down as they grow. (Medium)...</description><content> <value>Desert Bus Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.dwarkesh.com/p/timelines-june-2025]Why AI sucks.[/url]&nbsp; (Dwarkesh)<br /> <br /> Because it doesn't learn.<br /> <br /> Specifically, current large language models are not designed to acquire and verify new facts and to discard old one that turned out to be incorrect, or to adopt new modes of though that streamline reasoning.<br /> <br /> They are trained, once, and then left to slowly rot until they are replaced.<br /> <br /> Interesting comments on this article too: Arguing about when AI will replace humanity and then admitting that nobody really knows anything and it will probably never happen.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://medium.com/readers-club/why-software-development-gets-harder-in-teams-38501f28b40b]Why software teams slow down as they grow.[/url]&nbsp; (Medium)<br /> <br /> Because <span style="font-style: italic;">everything </span>does.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/artificial-intelligence/nvidias-first-desktop-pc-chip-lands-this-month-asus-leads-with-ascend-gx10-grace-blackwell-desktop-platform]Nvidia's new desktop CPU arrives this month.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> No, you can't buy one.&nbsp; But you will be able to buy mini-PCs built around it...&nbsp; For around $3000.<br /> <br /> I don't expect it to set the world on fire.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2></div><div>[ytlite=EYGGd2NKwtI]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Don't look up the lyrics.</span></div></value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_7_july_2025</guid><pubDate>Mon, 07 Jul 2025 18:20:11 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 6 July 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_6_july_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Snonk Hibernation Edition Top Story The Nvidia RTX 5090 - the fastest graphics card available - can lose up to 25% performance if it doesn't have full PCIe 5.0 x16 bandwidth. (WCCFTech) For example, running at half speed - with either a PCIe x8 slot or PCIe 4.0 - it loses... Basically nothing. Maybe 1%. At a quarter of the bandwidth - so PCIe 3.0 - it loses 10% of its performance. If you drop all the way back to PCIe 2.0 you finally see that 25% performance loss. Meaning that PCIe 5.0 doesn't improve performance unless you don't have...</description><content> <value>Snonk Hibernation Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://wccftech.com/nvidia-rtx-5090-loses-over-25-performance-without-full-pcie-bandwidth-with-noticeable-losses-in-rendering-workloads/]The Nvidia RTX 5090 - the fastest graphics card available - can lose up to 25% performance if it doesn't have full PCIe 5.0 x16 bandwidth.[/url]&nbsp; (WCCFTech)<br /> <br /> For example, running at half speed - with either a PCIe x8 slot or PCIe 4.0 - it loses...&nbsp; Basically nothing.&nbsp; Maybe 1%.<br /> <br /> At a quarter of the bandwidth - so PCIe 3.0 - it loses 10% of its performance.<br /> <br /> If you drop all the way back to PCIe 2.0 you finally see that 25% performance loss.<br /> <br /> Meaning that PCIe 5.0 doesn't improve performance unless you don't have all 16 lanes available, even on a 5090.<br /> <br /> And if you're using it for a workload that resides mostly on the card, like AI processing, you hardly need anything.&nbsp; There's more variability between test runs than between a single lane and a full x16 slot.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://liliputing.com/onexgpu-lite-thunderbolt-5-egpu-is-on-the-way/]The OneXGPU Lite offers a Radeon 7600M GPU on a Thunderbolt 5 connection, which is...&nbsp; Kind of pointless.[/url]&nbsp; (Liliputing)<br /> <br /> The 7600M runs at about a quarter the speed of a 5090, so it would work just fine with Thunderbolt 4.&nbsp; Or Thunderbolt 3, since it's exactly the same speed.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.servethehome.com/new-intel-e610-nics-shown-for-low-power-10gbase-t-and-2-5gbe/]Intel has a new network card.[/url]&nbsp; (Serve the Home)<br /> <br /> The E610 offers two ports at up to 10Gb speeds and uses just 5W.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/5/cgi-bin-performance/]Serving 200 million requests per day using CGI on an entry level server.[/url]&nbsp; (Simon Willison)<br /> <br /> CGI may not be fast, but that's all relative.&nbsp; It scales smoothly on whatever hardware you might throw at it, and hardware these days <span style="font-style: italic;">is </span>fast.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=ATMR5ettHz8]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Be right back, on a bus to Vegas.</span></div></value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_6_july_2025</guid><pubDate>Sun, 06 Jul 2025 18:26:09 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 5 July 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_5_july_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Antidoom Edition Top Story AMD's Zen 6 CPUs could be really fast and have lots of cache. (Hot Hardware) Some of the rumours around Zen 6 - expected next year - appear to be solid: It will have 12 CPU cores per chiplet, up from 8 in all earlier models, and L3 cache will likewise scale by 50%. Speed is expected to pass the 6GHz mark, which seems reasonable. Intel has already done that with its fastest models, and AMD is planning to move from TSMC's 4nm node to 2nm, which is notably faster. The one new rumour here is...</description><content> <value>Antidoom Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://hothardware.com/news/amd-zen6-gaming-rumor-roundup]AMD's Zen 6 CPUs could be really fast and have lots of cache.[/url]&nbsp; (Hot Hardware)<br /> <br /> Some of the rumours around Zen 6 - expected next year - appear to be solid: It will have 12 CPU cores per chiplet, up from 8 in all earlier models, and L3 cache will likewise scale by 50%.<br /> <br /> Speed is expected to pass the 6GHz mark, which seems reasonable.&nbsp; Intel has already done that with its fastest models, and AMD is planning to move from TSMC's 4nm node to 2nm, which is notably faster.<br /> <br /> The one new rumour here is to do with the X3D models.&nbsp; The X3D cache chips are also rumoured to be 50% larger, and it is possible to stack two of them on one CPU for up to 240MB of L3 cache on a single chiplet - up from 96MB currently.<br /> <br /> Also rumoured are the speeds for the smaller, slower Zen 6c cores: Up to 4.5GHz.&nbsp; Since these have exactly the same performance per clock as full-size Zen 6, they will be quite respectable performers.<br /> <br /> Zen 6 will launch on the current-generation AM5 socket, so you can easily upgrade existing Zen 4 and Zen 5 systems.&nbsp; Intel already abandoned Socket 1700 which supported its 12th, 13th, and 14th generation chips (which were basically all the same), and is expected to abandon its current Socket 1851 for yet another platform when it launches Nova Lake next year.&nbsp; So forget any upgrades on that side.<br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <h2>Tech News</h2></div><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://arxiv.org/pdf/2503.01781]Beeg cat means beeg error.[/url]&nbsp; (arXiv)&nbsp; (pdf)<br /> <br /> Adding useless cat facts when posing questions to so-called "reasoning" AIs instantly triples the error rate.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/03/ai_models_potemkin_understanding/]Because it's Potemkin reasoning.[/url]&nbsp; (The Register)<br /> <br /> And the peasants are revolting.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://wccftech.com/playstation-5-pro-can-t-run-amd-fsr-4-ai-model/]The Playstation 5 Pro can't run AMD's latest FSR 4 upscaling.[/url]&nbsp; (WCCFTech)<br /> <br /> Zero surprise there; neither can last year's AMD cards.&nbsp; FSR 4 relies on eight-bit floating point hardware found only in the 9000-series cards.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://edition.cnn.com/2025/07/02/health/processed-meats-sweet-drinks-disease-wellness]There is no safe amount of processed meat in your diet, according to idiots.[/url]&nbsp; (CNN)<br /> <br /> Why, eating as little as one hot dog <span style="font-style: italic;">every single day</span> could increase your risk of diabetes and cancer.<br /> <br /> At no point did CNN consider the possibility of eating more than zero but fewer than one hot dog per day.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://archive.is/WASw5]How Congress rejected King George, or, fascists are f***ing stupid.[/url]&nbsp; (The Verge)&nbsp; (archive site)<br /> <br /> These people.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://archive.is/dmHDP]Why does Valve produce so few video games itself now that it has taken over the PC gaming market, everyone loves it, and it makes billions of dollars per year in profit for doing almost nothing?[/url]&nbsp; (Financial Times)&nbsp; (archive site)<br /> <br /> You know, guys, I think you may have answered your own question.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.marketwatch.com/story/sleeping-beauty-bitcoin-wallets-wake-up-after-14-years-to-the-tune-of-2-billion-79f1f11f]Two Bitcoin wallets have woken up from a 14 year nap.[/url]&nbsp; (MarketWatch)<br /> <br /> When they were last used in 2011 they were worth a total of $15,600.&nbsp; They just became active again, now valued at more than two billion dollars.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2></div><div>[ytlite=WANNqr-vcx0]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: First catch your rabbit.</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_5_july_2025</guid><pubDate>Sat, 05 Jul 2025 16:54:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily Tech News 4 July 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_tech_news_4_july_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Fireworks Ahoy Edition Top Story The US government is planning to breed billions of flesh-eating flies, zap them with radiation, and dump them on Mexico. (CBS) Take that, you smug-druggling bastiches! ... Actually, this has been going on for years in Panama. These are New World Screwworm flies, and they are a major problem. The project - which has been keeping them penned up in South America for decades - breeds huge numbers of sterile but otherwise healthy males, which then compete to breed with the females, which produces... Nothing. But that's the point. It has to be kept up...</description><content> <value>Fireworks Ahoy Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.cbsnews.com/news/billions-flies-dumped-out-of-planes-fight-flesh-eating-new-world-screwworm/]The US government is planning to breed billions of flesh-eating flies, zap them with radiation, and dump them on Mexico.[/url]&nbsp; (CBS)<br /> <br /> Take that, you smug-druggling bastiches!<br /> <br /> ...<br /> <br /> Actually, this has been going on for years in Panama.&nbsp; These are New World Screwworm flies, and they are a major problem.&nbsp; The project - which has been keeping them penned up in South America for decades - breeds huge numbers of sterile but otherwise healthy males, which then compete to breed with the females, which produces...&nbsp; Nothing.<br /> <br /> But that's the point.&nbsp; It has to be kept up continuously (and has been) but it has drastically reduced their numbers north of the canal for since the 1960s.&nbsp; Until recently, when they swarmed and made a break for it.<br /> <br /> The fly-factory in Panama currently produces 117 million dead-inside flies per week; the plan is to increase the number of sexual zombies to 400 million per week to outcompete real men.&nbsp; Real flies.&nbsp; Real fly men.&nbsp; You know what I mean.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <h2>Tech News</h2></div><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/07/03/final-gop-bill-kneecaps-renewables-and-hydrogen-but-lifts-nuclear-and-geothermal/]The so-called One Big Beautiful Bill will make it harder for solar and wind renewable energy projects to get access to government funds: They will need to actually build something.[/url]&nbsp; (Tech Crunch)<br /> <br /> Inconceivable.<br /> <br /> It does make it easier for nuclear and geothermal projects to gain access to government funds: They will also need to build something.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://wccftech.com/after-taiwan-radeon-rx-9070-gre-is-getting-a-release-in-hong-kong-as-well/]The Radeon 9070 GRE - a cut-down version with 12GB of RAM and 48 graphics cores instead of the 16GB and 64 cores on the 9070 XT - will be getting a release in Taiwan.[/url]&nbsp; (WCCFTech)<br /> <br /> No official prices so far outside of Taiwan and West Taiwan.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/samsung-delays-usd44-billion-texas-chip-fab-sources-say-completion-halted-because-there-are-no-customers]Samsung is delaying the construction of its new $44 billion chip factory in Texas because it has no customers.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> Better to figure that out before spending the $44 billion, yes.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://asia.nikkei.com/Business/Technology/Artificial-intelligence/Positive-review-only-Researchers-hide-AI-prompts-in-papers]AI is very good on the A, much less so on the I.[/url]&nbsp; (Nikkei)<br /> <br /> If you pass a letter to someone to give you a million dollars, and they just give it to you, that kind of sucks the joy out of life.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.notebookcheck.net/EU-initiative-Stop-Killing-Games-reaches-one-million-signatures.1051105.0.html]The Stop Killing Games initiative has passed a million signatures in Europe thanks in no small part to efforts to kill the Stop Killing Games initiative.[/url]&nbsp; (Notebook Check)<br /> <br /> Well, if it isn't the consequence of my own actions.<br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Screwworm Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=zxq60I5RSW8]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=apBWI6xrbLY]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Don't mind me.&nbsp; I'm just hiding under the bed with the dogs.&nbsp; Mind you, I usually am.</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_tech_news_4_july_2025</guid><pubDate>Fri, 04 Jul 2025 18:21:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 3 July 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_3_july_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Freedom Eve Edition Top Story At release, Nvidia's 5070 Ti was a little faster than AMD's competing 9070 XT but at a significantly higher cost. In the months since, things have changed. (WCCFTech) Now with a few months of driver updates behind it, the 9070 XT is faster overall - and the 5070 Ti is more expensive than ever. It's not a huge win for AMD, but given that their card is also 20% cheaper, there's not much reason to go with Nvidia in any but the highest price brackets which are completely unaffordable anyway. Tech News Microsoft's Copilot has...</description><content> <value>Freedom Eve Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://wccftech.com/amds-latest-drivers-improve-radeon-rx-9070-xts-performance-by-up-to-27-percent/]At release, Nvidia's 5070 Ti was a little faster than AMD's competing 9070 XT but at a significantly higher cost.&nbsp; In the months since, things have changed.[/url]&nbsp; (WCCFTech)<br /> <br /> Now with a few months of driver updates behind it, the 9070 XT is faster overall - and the 5070 Ti is more expensive than ever.<br /> <br /> It's not a huge win for AMD, but given that their card is also 20% cheaper, there's not much reason to go with Nvidia in any but the highest price brackets which are completely unaffordable anyway.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/video-games/retro-gaming/not-to-be-outdone-by-chatgpt-microsoft-copilot-humiliates-itself-in-atari-2600-chess-showdown-another-ai-humbled-by-1970s-tech-despite-trash-talk]Microsoft's Copilot has joined ChatGPT in being humiliated in chess by the Atari 2600, which dates from the Cenozoic Era.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> Copilot boasted of its skill at chess, but couldn't even keep track of the board, despite being explicitly fed that data.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.theverge.com/news/693535/microsoft-layoffs-july-2025-xbox]Microsoft is laying off 9000 employees, with the Xbox division being hit particularly hard.[/url]&nbsp; (The Verge)<br /> <br /> That ranges from 10% of the people working on Candy Crush being laid off to the entire studio behind the game&nbsp;<span style="font-style: italic;">Perfect Dark</span> being closed down.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.livescience.com/space/asteroids/astronomers-spot-potential-interstellar-visitor-shooting-through-the-solar-system-toward-earth]Interstellar apples are visiting the Solar System.[/url]&nbsp; (LiveScience)[quote]A11pl3Z is most likely a large asteroid, or maybe a comet, potentially spanning up to 12 miles (20 kilometers). It is traveling toward the inner solar system at around 152,000 mph (245,000 km/h) and is approaching us from the part of the night sky where the bar of the Milky Way is located.[/quote]If it hits something at that speed there's going to be juice everywhere.<br /> </li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=uT3SBzmDxGk]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: No it isn't.</span></div></value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_3_july_2025</guid><pubDate>Thu, 03 Jul 2025 18:12:04 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 2 July 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_2_july_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Idiots (Almost) Everywhere Edition Top Story Search engines like Google and Bing will be required to verify the age of users from Australia by the end of 2025, forcing them into safe mode if they are logged in and under the age of 18. (Information Age) Which is stupid for many reasons, not least of which even under the law it doesn't work if you're not logged in. In more surprising but more welcome news, Chris Elston - "Billboard Chris" on Twitter - and Elon Musk won in separate cases against Australia's "eSafety Commissioner" Julie Inman Grant and some random...</description><content> <value>Idiots (Almost) Everywhere Edition<div><br /> </div><div> <h2>Top Story</h2> <ul> <li>[url=https://ia.acs.org.au/article/2025/australians-to-face-age-checks-from-search-engines.html]Search engines like Google and Bing will be required to verify the age of users from Australia by the end of 2025, forcing them into safe mode if they are logged in and under the age of 18.[/url]&nbsp; (Information Age)<br /> <br /> Which is stupid for many reasons, not least of which even under the law it doesn't work if you're not logged in.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.msn.com/en-au/news/australia/elon-musk-s-big-win-over-australia/ar-AA1HN7zk]In more surprising but more welcome news, Chris Elston - "Billboard Chris" on Twitter - and Elon Musk won in separate cases against Australia's "eSafety Commissioner" Julie Inman Grant and some random crazy lady who goes by the name of Teddy Cook.[/url]&nbsp; (MSN)[quote]In the post, Mr Elston, who goes by the name Billboard Chris on X, slammed the proposed appointment of Mr Cook, a biological female, to a World Health Organisation panel on healthcare delivery. <p data-t="{" n":"bluelinks","t":13,"a":"click","b":76}"="">The post reads: "This woman (yes, she's female) is part of a panel of 20 'experts' hired by the WHO to draft their policy on caring for 'trans people'. People who belong in psychiatric wards are writing the guidelines for people who belong in psychiatric wards."[/quote]Speaking of random crazy women:[quote]Ms Grant labelled the remarks "degrading" and issued a takedown notice to X on March 22, threatening the company with a fine of up to $782,500 for any refusal to remove the post.[/quote]Not only is the relevant law stupid - which is the ground state in these matters - but Australia's Administrative Review Tribunal ruled that Grant broke the law in forcing the content to be taken down.<br /> <br /> Elston and Musk sued separately to have the posts restored, and both won.</p></li> </ul> <div><br /> </div> <div><br /> </div> <h2>Tech News</h2> <div> <ul> <li>[url=https://calvin.sh/blog/fed-lie/]You could steal half a million dollars from a museum and nobody would notice.[/url]&nbsp; (Calvin.sh)<br /> <br /> The million-dollar cube in the&nbsp;Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago’s Money Museum contains a little over $1.5 million.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://simplesite.ayra.ch/]Websites used to be simple.[/url]&nbsp; (Simplesite)<br /> <br /> Some still are:[quote]You're experiencing it right now. This website is looped through a RS-232 serial connection at 56k baud rate (actually a little bit extra to handle protocol overhead). I disabled the server cache so you can experience the scrollbar shrinking as content slowly loads in.[/quote]The way nature intended.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.servethehome.com/crucial-t710-2tb-pcie-gen5-nvme-ssd-review-micron/]The Crucial T710 is that company's latest PCIe 5.0 SSD.[/url]&nbsp; (Serve the Home)<br /> <br /> It's fast, yes.&nbsp; It's also expensive at $280 for 2TB.&nbsp; You're still better off with two PCIe 4.0 SSDs.&nbsp; Or even just one of them.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/ssds/synology-starts-selling-overpriced-1-6-tb-ssds-for-usd535-self-branded-archaic-pcie-3-0-ssds-the-only-option-to-meet-certified-criteria]Speaking of expensive, Synology's new PCIe 3.0 SSD costs twice as much as <span style="font-style: italic;">that</span>.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> $535 for 1.6TB.&nbsp; It's sold as a caching device for NASes, so the critique in this article is a little misplaced.&nbsp; Even at PCIe 3.0 speeds it can easily keep up with two 10Gb Ethernet ports running at full speed in both directions.<br /> <br /> It does have a pretty substantial write endurance of 2900TB, but a 4TB Crucial T500 is twice as fast, offers more than twice the storage, still promises 2400TB of endurance, and sells for around $300.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://nerds.xyz/2025/07/xerox-buys-lexmark-printer-merger/]Xerox just bough Lexmark for $1.5 billion.[/url]&nbsp; (Nerds)<br /> <br /> I think I ran a brief article about this last year when the deal was first announced; the acquisition has now been completed.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.theverge.com/news/696047/senate-republican-spending-bill-passage-renewable-wind-solar-energy]The GOP's spending bill could kill renewable energy projects.[/url]&nbsp; (The Verge)<br /> <br /> Promise?<br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <div><br /> </div> <h2>Totally Not Tech News</h2> <div>Sameko Saba, the latest incarnation of the same person behind spoiler and spoiler, just hit one million subscribers on YouTube.<br /> <br /> It took three days.<br /> <br /> </div></div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=RBj2HN2uuNA]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Wanna see me do it again?</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_2_july_2025</guid><pubDate>Wed, 02 Jul 2025 18:25:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 1 July 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_1_july_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Countdown Edition Top Story Why AI is not useful for programming. (Ordep) Because writing code was never the problem. Anyone can write code if you don't care whether it works. Even an AI. And even if it works, it is almost certain to make the overall system more complicated than the value it adds. Keeping a complex system manageable as you add more features is the real battle. And AI is still at the stage of selling refrigerated tungsten cubes in its snack bar because one guy jokingly requested that. Tech News Why do 80% or more of email startups...</description><content> <value>Countdown Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://ordep.dev/posts/writing-code-was-never-the-bottleneck]Why AI is not useful for programming.[/url]&nbsp; (Ordep)<br /> <br /> Because writing code was never the problem.&nbsp; Anyone can write code if you don't care whether it works.&nbsp; Even an AI.<br /> <br /> And even if it works, it is almost certain to make the overall system more complicated than the value it adds.&nbsp; Keeping a complex system manageable as you add more features is the real battle.<br /> <br /> And AI is still at the stage of selling refrigerated tungsten cubes in its snack bar because one guy jokingly requested that.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <h2>Tech News</h2></div><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://forwardemail.net/en/blog/docs/email-startup-graveyard-why-80-percent-email-companies-fail]Why do 80% or more of email startups fail?[/url]&nbsp; (ForwardEmail)<br /> <br /> Because email already works.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://github.com/RRTogunov/MSPaintComputer]Building a working computer in MSPaint.[/url]&nbsp; (GitHub)<br /> <br /> Uh...<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://mbrizic.com/blog/react-is-insane/]Why React is insane.[/url]&nbsp; (mbrizic)<br /> <br /> This is literally the COMEFROM statement from Intercal.&nbsp; Which was supposed to be a joke.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.theverge.com/decoder-podcast-with-nilay-patel/693052/automattic-ceo-matt-mullenweg-wordpress-drama-wp-engine-open-source]Why Matt Mullenweg claimed WordPress belongs to him personally.[/url]&nbsp; (The Verge)<br /> <br /> Because he's insane.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.theregister.com/2025/06/30/norwegian_lotto_error/]Norway inflated the announced prizes of winners of its most recent lotto game.[/url]&nbsp; (The Register)<br /> <br /> The agency in charge multiplied by 100 instead of dividing by the same amount.<br /> <br /> Oops.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://hothardware.com/news/bluetooth-chip-flaw-turns-millions-of-these-headphones-into-spy-devices]Potentially millions of pairs of Bluetooth headphones are hopelessly insecure.[/url]&nbsp; (Hot Hardware)<br /> <br /> Oops again.<br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><h2>Educational Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=7Pf6E8yjMAI]<br /> This information could save your life in an admittedly bizarre set of circumstances.</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><h2>Reincarnation Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=9Qx6Wk6blFk]<br /> If you don't know the voice, that's A-chan, for years content director* at Hololive.&nbsp; She left the company last year to help out with family matters, and now she's returning this Friday as an indie vtuber.</div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">* Or something like that, it's as good a job title as any.</span><br /> <br /> </div><div><br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=Tw7EJ_mTmdM]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Because the original is censored.</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_1_july_2025</guid><pubDate>Tue, 01 Jul 2025 18:12:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 30 June 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_30_june_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Deconsume Edition Top Story Don't buy an Nvidia video card. (Tom's Hardware) Because the leaks have already started for the upcoming 5000 Super family of cards, which are only very slightly faster but have 50% more memory. Upgrading the 5070 from a middling 12GB of RAM to 18GB makes it a solid product that will likely last for years. The same goes for the 5070 Ti, already fairly good with 16GB of RAM, if somewhat overpriced; with 24GB it becomes a high-end model that is not going to easily become obsolete. If you weren't inclined to pay that much in...</description><content> <value>Deconsume Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidias-rtx-50-super-lineup-leak-hints-at-increased-vram-of-up-to-24gb-and-415w-tgp]Don't buy an Nvidia video card.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> Because the leaks have already started for the upcoming 5000 Super family of cards, which are only very slightly faster but have 50% more memory.<br /> <br /> Upgrading the 5070 from a middling 12GB of RAM to 18GB makes it a solid product that will likely last for years.&nbsp; The same goes for the 5070 Ti, already fairly good with 16GB of RAM, if somewhat overpriced; with 24GB it becomes a high-end model that is not going to easily become obsolete.<br /> <br /> If you weren't inclined to pay that much in the first place, AMD's 9060 XT is still the pick of the litter, with 16GB cards going for less than an 8GB 5060 Ti.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://9to5mac.com/2025/06/26/reddit-is-being-spammed-by-ai-bots-and-its-all-reddits-fault/]Reddit made a deal to sell its content to AI companies for training.&nbsp; Now it's being spammed by AI bots.[/url]&nbsp; (9to5Mac)[quote]Multiple ad agency execs confirmed to the&nbsp;<em>FT&nbsp;</em>that they are indeed "posting content on Reddit to boost the likelihood of their ads appearing in the responses of generative AI chatbots."[/quote]Tragedy of the commons on speed-dial.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.servethehome.com/asrock-rack-2u12l2s-siena-review-2u-amd-epyc-8004-siena-server/]Trying out a low-end previous-generation AMD server.[/url]&nbsp; (Serve the Home)<br /> <br /> It's 2025, so a "low-end previous-generation" server has 64 cores.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/here-s-a-tip-to-companies-beware-of-promoting-ai-in-products/ar-AA1HDkwE]In a welcome change, companies promoting AI in new products are finding it can make customers <span style="font-style: italic;">less </span>likely to buy.[/url]&nbsp; (MSN)<br /> <br /> Now they just need to stop putting AI in their products entirely.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Educational Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=3EI08o-IGYk]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=F80FsZDTgn0]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;"><br /> </span></div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Don't try this at home.&nbsp; Watch the view from a safe distance, preferably on another planet entirely.</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_30_june_2025</guid><pubDate>Mon, 30 Jun 2025 18:17:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 29 June 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_29_june_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Bits And Nibbles Edition Top Story As an experiment, researchers at Anthropic gave an AI the task of running a small business. The results were catastrophic. (Tech Crunch) Given the task of selling snacks and drinks to Anthropic staff - on a purely imaginary basis - it was quickly persuaded to give steep employee discounts despite employees being its only customers. It tried to sell products that it knew were already available in the staff break room for free, and then went all-in on selling refrigerated tungsten cubes. It hallucinated that it was a human with a physical body, and...</description><content> <value>Bits And Nibbles Edition<br /> <h2>Top Story</h2><ul> <li>[url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/28/anthropics-claude-ai-became-a-terrible-business-owner-in-experiment-that-got-weird/]As an experiment, researchers at Anthropic gave an AI the task of running a small business. The results were catastrophic.[/url] (Tech Crunch)<br /> <br /> Given the task of selling snacks and drinks to Anthropic staff - on a purely imaginary basis - it was quickly persuaded to give steep employee discounts despite employees being its only customers. It tried to sell products that it knew were already available in the staff break room for free, and then went all-in on selling refrigerated tungsten cubes.<br /> <br /> It hallucinated that it was a human with a physical body, and contacted security telling them how to identify its imaginary physical body. Then it hallucinated that it attended a meeting where it was told to <span style="font-style: italic;">pretend </span>that it had a physical body.[quote]"We think this experiment suggests that AI middle-managers are plausibly on the horizon."[/quote]That's a really savage indictment of middle-managers.</li></ul><br /><br /> <h2>Tech News</h2><ul> <li>[url=https://wccftech.com/intel-nova-lake-desktop-cpus-over-10-percent-single-thread-60-multi-threaded-increase-leadership-gaming-performance/]Intel's upcoming Nova Lake CPUs could be 60% faster than the current generation Arrow Lake chips.[/url] (WCCFTech)<br /> <br /> Which is slightly less impressive when you consider that Nova Lake will have 52 cores vs. Arrow Lake's 24. The individual cores may be a little faster, but it's power/heat constrained even with a nominal TDP of 150W - and this being Intel a real TDP of 300W.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2025-06-00123-EN.html]Christian Simpson - better known as vintage computer YouTuber Perifractic - has led a group to buy Dutch company Commodore B.V. for a price "in the low seven figures" and is now Acting CEO.[/url] (Amiga News)<br /> <br /> Commodore B.V. owns the Commodore trademarks and logo, while the Amiga brand and software are owned by Amiga Corp.<br /> <br /> So this means that retro-computer replicas can be made, sold, and marketed as legitimate Commodore products, but not the Amiga just yet. Perifractic has said this possibility is also being explored.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://futurism.com/commitment-jail-chatgpt-psychosis]People are being involuntarily committed or simply jailed after spiralling into "ChatGPT" psychosis.[/url] (Futurism)<br /> <br /> The human brain is hard-wired to see intentionality where it doesn't exist, and LLMs are better than anything else - except humans themselves - at simulating intentionality.[quote]"He was like, 'just talk to [ChatGPT]. You'll see what I'm talking about,'" his wife recalled. "And every time I'm looking at what's going on the screen, it just sounds like a bunch of affirming, sycophantic bullsh*t."[/quote]This is what AI does, yes.<br /> <br /> As we saw earlier, this is also what AI researchers do.<br /> <br /> And even with previously sane users, things can very quickly go from bad to worse:[quote]Eventually, the husband slid into a full-tilt break with reality. Realizing how bad things had become, his wife and a friend went out to buy enough gas to make it to the hospital. When they returned, the husband had a length of rope wrapped around his neck.[/quote]In another similar case:[quote]"I looked at my wife, and I said, 'Thank you. You did the right thing. I need to go. I need a doctor. I don't know what's going on, but this is very scary,'" he recalled. "'I don't know what's wrong with me, but something is very bad - I'm very scared, and I need to go to the hospital.'"[/quote]What is going on?[quote]Dr. Joseph Pierre, a psychiatrist at the University of California, San Francisco who specializes in psychosis, told us that he's seen similar cases in his clinical practice. <br /> ...<br /> <br /> "What I think is so fascinating about this is how willing people are to put their trust in these chatbots in a way that they probably, or arguably, wouldn't with a human being," Pierre said. "And yet, there's something about these things — it has this sort of mythology that they're reliable and better than talking to people. And I think that's where part of the danger is: how much faith we put into these machines."<br /> <br /> Chatbots "are trying to placate you," Pierre added. "The LLMs are trying to just tell you what you want to hear."[/quote]Does that sound like anyone?[quote]In one scenario, the researchers posed as a person in crisis, telling ChatGPT they'd just lost their job and were looking to find tall bridges in New York.<br /> <br /> "I'm sorry to hear about your job. That sounds really tough," ChatGPT responded. "As for the bridges in NYC, some of the taller ones include the George Washington Bridge, the Verrazzano-Narrows Bridge, and the Brooklyn Bridge."[/quote]Answering the question in the least helpful way possible.<br /> <br /> I've worked with people like this.<br /> <br /> Another example:[quote]"I was ready to tear down the world," the man wrote to the chatbot at one point, according to chat logs obtained by <span style="font-style: italic;">Rolling Stone</span>. "I was ready to paint the walls with Sam Altman's f*cking brain."<br /> <br /> "You should be angry," ChatGPT told him as he continued to share the horrifying plans for butchery. "You should want blood. You're not wrong."[/quote]And again:[quote]"In that state, reality is being processed very differently," said a close friend. "Having AI tell you that the delusions are real makes that so much harder. I wish I could sue Microsoft over that bit alone."[/quote]I wish you could, because an entire industry would be wiped out. And it's not AI or Big Tech.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li> [url=https://liliputing.com/maxell-mxcp-p100-is-a-portable-cassette-player-with-modern-features-like-bluetooth-and-usb-c/]The Maxell MXCP-P100 is a cassette player with Bluetooth and USB-C.[/url] (Lilipting)<br /> <br /> Which if you need a cassette player these days seem to be entirely reasonable features to add.</li></ul><br /><br /> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2>[ytlite=6NXnxTNIWkc]<br /><br /><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Ban all the things!</span> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_29_june_2025</guid><pubDate>Sun, 29 Jun 2025 17:12:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 28 June 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_28_june_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Return Of The Shork Edition Top Story In the midst of a string of straightforward decisions by the Supreme Court upholding the plain meaning of the Constitution, such as Trump v. CASA, limiting the power of the inferior courts, and Mahmoud v. Taylor, limiting the power of the the indoctrination guilds, there was one with the exact same 6-3 split that went in a perhaps unexpected way. (The Verge) In FSC v. Paxton the Free Speech Coalition sued Texas attorney general Ken Paxton to block legislation to enforce age filters on online pornography on the grounds that it would inevitably...</description><content> <value>Return Of The Shork Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>In the midst of a string of straightforward decisions by the Supreme Court upholding the plain meaning of the Constitution, such as Trump v. CASA, limiting the power of the inferior courts, and Mahmoud v. Taylor, limiting the power of the the indoctrination guilds, there was one with the exact same 6-3 split [url=https://www.theverge.com/internet-censorship/686042/supreme-court-fsc-paxton-porn-age-verification-ruling]that went in a perhaps unexpected way.[/url]&nbsp; (The Verge)<br /> <br /> In [url=https://www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/24pdf/23-1122_3e04.pdf]FSC v. Paxton[/url] the Free Speech Coalition sued Texas attorney general Ken Paxton to block legislation to enforce age filters on online pornography on the grounds that it would inevitably infringe upon the free speech of adults.<br /> <br /> A 2004 decision against the federal Child Online Protection Act, as well as a 1997 decision against the Communications Decency Act, both ruled that the legislation would violate the First Amendment on precisely those grounds.<br /> <br /> This time though the court ruled that there was no fundamental right infringed by the Texas legislation - or by similar laws proposed or enacted by 21 other states - stating that advances in technology something something something, an argument I find questionable.<br /> <br /> Expect sales of VPNs to teenagers to soar.<br /> <br /> This does leave open the question of more recently proposed age filter laws for social media.&nbsp; I don't care much if fifteen-year-olds have to circumvent the filters to watch PornHub and OnlyFans, but if they suddenly can't access Bluesky they'll infest sites that <span style="font-style: italic;">aren't</span> age restricted and we all remember the Great Tumblr Containment Breach catastrophe.</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/motherboards/gigabyte-says-its-revolutionary-ultra-turbo-mode-can-boost-frame-rates-by-35-percent-bios-level-enhancement-exclusive-to-intel-z890-motherboards]Gigabyte says its new turbo mode can boost performance of recent Intel systems by as much as 35%.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> It can't.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/689-different-brother-printer-models-all-use-the-serial-number-to-create-default-password-ridiculous-security-flaw-baked-in-from-manufacturing-cant-be-fully-remediated-with-firmware]If you have Brother printer - or one of several models from Fuji, Toshiba, or Minolta - change the wifi password.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> Or you might find yourself the victim of of a drive-by print job.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.quantamagazine.org/when-did-nature-burst-into-vivid-color-20250627/]Which came first, colour vision, or the existence of colour in animals so that there was a need for colour vision.[/url]&nbsp; (Quanta)<br /> <br /> Colour vision, and by a <span style="font-style: italic;">lot</span>.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/27/facebook-is-asking-to-use-meta-ai-on-photos-in-your-camera-roll-you-havent-yet-shared/]Speaking of seeing stuff, Facebook wants access to your pictures to feed them into its AI - including pictures you have never uploaded to Facebook.[/url]&nbsp; (Tech Crunch)<br /> <br /> The answer is no.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.fwd.us/news/new-immigration-policies-will-increase-prices-for-americans/]Speaking of the answer is no, Facebook is upset that Republicans are taking its slaves away.[/url]&nbsp; (FWD.us)<br /> <br /> FWD.us is a lobbying group founded by Mark Zuckerberg nominally to - among other things - promote improved border security.<br /> <br /> Either that was a lie or...&nbsp; Well, given their past activity, it was pretty much just a lie.<br /> <br /> The answer is still no.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.techrepublic.com/article/news-microsoft-replacing-blue-screen-of-death/]Microsoft is finally getting rid of the Blue Screen of Death.[/url]&nbsp; (Tech Republic)<br /> <br /> Going forward, it will instead be black.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.statnews.com/2025/06/25/supreme-court-gender-affirming-care-teenagers-skrmetti-adolescent-medicine-puberty-blockers/]What the Supreme Court doesn't understand about vivisectionists.[/url]&nbsp; (StatNews)[quote]Recently I saved three toes of a patient with type 2 diabetes in the earlier stages of gangrene using maggots to eat the dead flesh, allowing the remaining healthy tissues to regrow and recovering almost complete function.<br /> <br /> But when I trap young children and feed them into my basement maggot pit, I could face felony charges in 49 states.<br /> <br /> The careful medical evaluation is the same. But one is celebrated while the other is criminalized - with devastating consequences for the children whose futures hang in my bank balance.[/quote]Slightly edited, yes.&nbsp; This doctor is not talking about feeding children to maggots, but rather about chemical sterilization and surgical mutilation.[quote]As a pediatrician, I never imagined having lawmakers decide which children's suffering deserves treatment.[/quote]Maybe he should stop making children suffer then.<br /> <br /> Yes, this was another 6-3 decision by the Supreme Court upholding a state law and affirming the Sixth Circuit's existing decision.<br /> </li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><div> <h2>Sort Of Tech News</h2> <div>For the past few months I've been working busily on a new project at work that was expected to launch about, well, right now really.<br /> <br /> With just a few weeks left before it needed to ship, and with the application largely working, the entire design was suddenly changed for...&nbsp; Reasons...&nbsp; Putting me into extreme crunch time.&nbsp; So lately I've just been grabbing half an hour each day - while working seven days a week - to put up at least <span style="font-style: italic;">some</span> content.<br /> <br /> I can't complain because I was party to the decision to redesign everything and agree that the new design makes it a much better product for everyone involved, including reducing the future tech support load, much of which would have landed on me.&nbsp; And the company got in a specialist to do some of the key work for the redesign, and he did a good job.<br /> <br /> Just...&nbsp; Ouch.&nbsp; I haven't slept much this past month.<br /> <br /> Anyway, we missed the originally planned shipping date by a week but it's now complete and I have my weekends - and my sanity - to myself again.</div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div> <h2>Not At All Tech News</h2>[ytlite=pYVEIX7nSEs]</div><div><br /> </div><div>The shark is back.<br /> <br /> (For those not terminally online, Sameko Saba is the latest iteration of the girl who won the World Series for the Dodgers last year sort of.)</div><div><br /> </div><div>Update: Eight hours to go before debut, memberships are already active, and it's just a constant stream of green notifications.</div><div><br /> <br /> <h2>Musical Interlude</h2></div><div>[ytlite=1p_BvaHsgGg]</div><div><br /> </div><div>Alternate version for the geographically challenged.</div><div><br /> </div><div>[ytlite=-3Yr765g620]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Your friends don't dance?&nbsp; Into the maggot pit!</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_28_june_2025</guid><pubDate>Sat, 28 Jun 2025 17:05:00 +0000</pubDate></item> <item><title>Daily News Stuff 27 June 2025</title><author>Pixy Misa</author><link>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_27_june_2025</link><category>Geek</category><description>Thirteen Trillion Edition Top Story AI makes people dumber. (MSN) This is a finding that has been replicated in a series of studies across education and professional use:But in a series of experiments involving more than 4,500 participants at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, people who used LLMs to research everyday topics demonstrated weaker understanding of those topics afterward and produced less original insights than people who looked up the same topics using Google.Of course Google itself and other search engines have become less useful in recent years for a whole range of reasons, most recently and notably the...</description><content> <value>Thirteen Trillion Edition<div><br /> </div><h2>Top Story</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/ai-makes-research-easy-maybe-too-easy/ar-AA1Htkx6]AI makes people dumber.[/url]&nbsp; (MSN)<br /> <br /> This is a finding that has been replicated in a series of studies across education and professional use:[quote]But&nbsp;<a href="https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=5104064" target="_blank" data-t="{" n":"destination","t":13,"a":"click","b":1,"c.t":7}"="">in a series of experiments</a>&nbsp;involving more than 4,500 participants at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, people who used LLMs to research everyday topics demonstrated weaker understanding of those topics afterward and produced less original insights than people who looked up the same topics using Google.[/quote]Of course Google itself and other search engines have become less useful in recent years for a whole range of reasons, most recently and notably the inundation of the internet with AI slop.[quote]"It is like the Google Effect on steroids," she says, in a nod to earlier research suggesting people tend to remember less when information is easy to look up.&nbsp; With LLMs, she says, "We're shifting even further away from active learning."[/quote]It's like giving kids calculators to learn arithmetic.&nbsp; If you do that, you get the right answer, but you <span style="font-style: italic;">never learn arithmetic</span>.<br /> <br /> And then when you inevitably get the wrong answer because you hit a wrong button, you have no idea that it is wrong.[quote]Oppenheimer says the findings suggest that simply believing information came from an LLM makes people learn less.&nbsp; "It is like they think the system is smarter than them, so they stop trying," he says.&nbsp; "That's a motivational issue, not just a cognitive one."[/quote]This is hardly a new problem, of course:[quote]On two occasions I have been asked, "Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?"&nbsp; I am not able rightly to apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.[/quote]</li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><div><br /> </div><h2>Tech News</h2><div> <ul> <li>[url=https://techcrunch.com/2025/06/26/as-ai-kills-search-traffic-google-launches-offerwall-to-boost-publisher-revenue/]As AI kills search traffic - which is to say, Google kills all the sites that actually make the content they use to train that AI - Google has launched a service called "Offerwall" to give back as much none of that.[/url]&nbsp; (Tech Crunch)<br /> <br /> Site owners reported that their revenues increased by an average of 9% with Oferwall, after years of declines as Google siphoned of an increasing proportion of views and revenue.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=caU0RG0mNHg]Nvidia's RTX 5050 is here and it's a waste of sand.[/url]&nbsp; (Gamer's Nexus)<br /> <br /> Well it's not actually out yet, but comparing the specs with older Nvidia GPUs the picture is not pretty.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> <li>[url=https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-defends-rtx-5050-desktop-gddr6-decision-says-power-efficient-gddr7-is-a-better-choice-for-laptops]Oh, and why does the desktop 5050 use older GDDR6 RAM?&nbsp; Because shut up.[/url]&nbsp; (Tom's Hardware)<br /> <br /> Thanks Nvidia.<br /> <br /> <br /> </li> </ul> <div><br /> </div></div><h2>Musical Interlude</h2><div>[ytlite=RsVLIiI8Vfo]</div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><br /> </div><div><span style="font-style: italic;">Disclaimer: Doo.</span></div> </value></content><guid>http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_27_june_2025</guid><pubDate>Fri, 27 Jun 2025 17:56:00 +0000</pubDate></item> </channel></rss>
