Friday, September 27
Daily News Stuff 27 September 2024
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- The Chief Technology Officer, Chief Research Officer, and VP of Research have all left OpenAI this week as Doc Sam "Snake Oil" Altman tightens his grip on the company. (Ars Technica)
The core issue is the change of OpenAI's status from a public benefit company to slush fund for the select few to loot. Altman himself is looking at a $10 billion payday at current valuation.
This is likely a disaster for the company and its shareholders.
- As for the researchers fleeing the oncoming catastrophe they are likely to do just fine.
Google is paying $2.7 billion to rehire an early employee who built an AI chatbot years before ChatGPT. (MSN)
Specifically, he left Google and founded his own company, and Google has paid $2.7 billion to license that company's technology with the proviso that he return to work at Google.
The amounts of money being flushed down the drain on this are insane.
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- Wordpress has declared war on Wordpress hosting company WP Engine. (Tech Crunch)
Wordpress itself is open source and anyone can download it and use it, or offer it as a commercial service to their customers.
Apparently the entire fuss is over the use of the letters W and P. Wordpress chief Matt Mullenweg is accusing WP Engine of everything short of serial genocide over those two letters.
- HP is adding AI to its printers. (Ars Technica)
We're already not buying your printers, guys. You can stop making them worse.
- Speaking of HP the HP EliteBook X G1a actually looks good. (Notebook Check)
It has a Ryzen AI 9 HX Pro 375 CPU, a 2880x1800 14" OLED display, and almost the four essential keys (Home shares a key with F12).
No pricing yet.
- Why Volvo changed its "EV or bust" strategy. (The Verge)
Because the customers said "okay, bust it is".
- There's a five alarm fire vulnerability in every version of Linux unless there isn't. (HackRead)
If you're a sysadmin you might want to drink heavily in preparation for actual useful details on October 6.
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"Home shares a key with F12"
I can't say I've ever thought of that particular abomination, but thanks, HP! Dante will be inventing entirely new levels of hell for y'all.
I can't say I've ever thought of that particular abomination, but thanks, HP! Dante will be inventing entirely new levels of hell for y'all.
Posted by: normal at Friday, September 27 2024 09:07 PM (bg2DR)
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HP keyboard: well, HP. I'm still boycotting HP, except for the printer I "had" to buy for my last job.
As for the AI thing, it took that stupid Arse article like 83 paragraphs to finally get to the point, and I suppose some of what HP's trying to do isn't actually a bad idea, but I'd still rather avoid HP completely.
As for the AI thing, it took that stupid Arse article like 83 paragraphs to finally get to the point, and I suppose some of what HP's trying to do isn't actually a bad idea, but I'd still rather avoid HP completely.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, September 27 2024 10:54 PM (pnaK4)
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Something I saw yesterday suggested it's potentially bad...but only if you have an unusual port open to the Internet. The guy who discovered it seems to be butthurt about everyone not getting up and running around like their hair's on fire, though.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, September 27 2024 11:04 PM (pnaK4)
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My HP laptop suddenly decided that it doesn't have WiFi hardware any more.
Posted by: Mauser at Saturday, September 28 2024 09:26 AM (nk1Z+)
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Mauser, have you tried hitting it with a rock and getting a Dell?
Posted by: Rick C at Sunday, September 29 2024 12:59 AM (pnaK4)
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