• Are AI agents compromised by default?  Yes.  (Computer)
  
  
  Well, that's awkward for the brand new multi trillion dollar industry.
  
  
  Also awkward is the web page: You have to load the page and then download the PDF to read it.  You can't statically link to the PDF.
  
  
  
  
• Are the people using AI agents compromised by default?  Apparently also yes.  (404 Media)  (archive site)
  
  
  A lawyer appearing before the New York state supreme court was ordered to show why he shouldn't be sanctioned after presenting multiple AI generated citations of cases that don't exist.
  
  
  His filing in the sanctions hearing...  Contained multiple AI generated citations of cases that don't exist.
  
  
  At least he's consistent.

• The DOJ has recovered $15 billion in Bitcoin from a massive "pig butchering" fraud ring based in Cambodia.  (CNBC)
  
  
  Well, I think this calls for celebrations.  Root beer floats all 'round.
  
  
  
  
• The Nvidia DGX Spark - a competitor to the various AMD Strix Halo mini-PCs that have been surfacing lately - is cool but not quite ready for prime time.  (Serve the Home)
  
  
  And expensive.
  
  
  The 20 core ARM CPU is competitive with the 16 core Zen CPU in the Strix Halo, and the GPU side is basically a laptop 5070 where the Strix Halo performs like a laptop 4070.
  
  
  But it has problems with things like, oh, displaying video, suggesting it needs a couple more months of software updates.
  
  
  Price not announced but expected to be about 50% more than equivalent Strix Halo models, so around $3000.
  
  
  
  
• Intel has announced a new datacenter GPU with 160GB of RAM.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  
  It's for AI, not for you.  But interestingly it uses LPDDR5X memory - just like the Strix Halo and the Nvidia DGX Spark above - to allow huge amounts of fairly fast memory rather than demanding modest amounts of extremely fast memory that uses a ton of power.
  
  
  There are signs that AMD will be releasing similar - but much cheaper - cards in the consumer space next year.
  
  
  
  
• The Orange Pi 4 Pro is another of those Raspberry Pi like single board computers.  (Liliputing)
  
  This one has two A76 cores and six A55 cores, putting it fairly close to the Raspberry Pi 5 in performance, and up to 16GB of RAM.  Plus an M.2 2280 slot built-in.  And a 200MHz RISC-V core in the CPU.  And a Pi-compatible IO header.
  
  Price for the 4GB model is rumoured to be around $30.  The 4GB Radxa Cubie A7A which has the same CPU, sells for around $35, though it's out of stock right now.
  
  
  
• Windows 10 support ends today.  Here's who's affected.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Well, Gigi Murin, the gremlin from Hololive Advent for a start.

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