Wednesday, August 25
Daily News Stuff 25 August 2021
Get Those Damn Users Off My Beautiful Clean Network Edition
Disclaimer: Did you know that if you nurture your nuts, they can grow splendidly? (Squirrel giggles recede into middle distance.)
Get Those Damn Users Off My Beautiful Clean Network Edition
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- The increasingly aptly named Hot Chips conference is on again, and though I haven't had time to do more than scan the headlines, a couple of talks stood out.
The Cerebras CS-2 is the largest - and probably the most expensive - computer chip in the world. (Tom's Hardware)
Clocking in at 70 square inches - where one square inch is already very large - it features 850,000 cores and 40GB of cache built with 2.6 trillion transistors.
Its TDP is a very modest 15kW, as much as an entire rack full of regular servers.
- Meanwhile the Esperanto ET-SoC-1 has a mere 1092 cores and measures slightly less than one square inch. (Tom's Hardware)
That's 1088 minions and 4 maxions in their terminology, all sharing the open-source RISC-V architecture. The entire chip uses around 20W in its default configuration.
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- If you control language, you control thought. (Zyppy)
Google employees think antitrust issues are absurd because Google forbids any meaningful discussion of antitrust issues.
This is spectacularly unhealthy.
- Google has said staff have no right to protest the company's choice of clients. (Bloomberg)
Which as a matter of employment law is not entirely correct given Google's base of operations.
- A hacker stole over 600,000 private photos and videos from iCloud without Apple noticing. (LA Times)
By the highly sophisticated trick of pretending to be from Apple tech support.
- And fake OpenSea support staff are stealing NFTs. (Bleeping Computer)
Never trust anyone with anything.
- If you need to break into a Windows 10 computer and don't have a Razer gaming mouse a SteelSeries keyboard will do the trick nicely. (Bleeping Computer)
I actually have one of these. It's the size of a '54 Caddy Coupe DeVille and has literally dozens of programmable keys. Unfortunately it's kind of mushy to type on and I'm using a Dell Bluetooth model instead.
- If you unlock the bootloader on the incredibly expensive Samsung Galaxy Z Fold 3, all the cameras stop working. (XDA Developers)
Right to repair? Never heard of it.
- Another day, another generation: Hololive Indonesia has opened auditions for a third generation of talents. (Twitter)
Something I didn't know early on is that all of the Indonesian girls are mutli-lingual, speaking at a minimum Indonesian, English, and Japanese. Iofi from Gen 1 also speaks Korean and German, and Risu of course speaks fluent Squirrel.
Meanwhile YouTube is still unsubscribing tens of thousands of people daily from HoloEN Gen 2, thanks to their infallible fucking algorithm. Might as well just send up the puffs of smoke and make it Pope.
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I'm kind of torn on that Google firing employees thing, because my default position is they should be forced to lose huge amounts of money until it's painful enough for them to change their behavior (although on the gripping hand, I'd rather it not go to the Federal government.)
If they're forced to rehire those employees, though, they should do what the Japanese used to do and say "your new job--at the same salary--is to plan the company party, and nothing else" or "your new job--at the same salary--is janitor." I guess some people would be OK with that, though.
Is there a way everyone involved can lose?
If they're forced to rehire those employees, though, they should do what the Japanese used to do and say "your new job--at the same salary--is to plan the company party, and nothing else" or "your new job--at the same salary--is janitor." I guess some people would be OK with that, though.
Is there a way everyone involved can lose?
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, August 26 2021 12:36 AM (eqaFC)
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Apparently the stolen-nudes-as-a-service guy didn't even mask his IP address, so when he picked the wrong target and got the FBI involved, they just had to ask his ISP for a home address. You'd think Apple would have noticed that many customers all connecting from the same house.
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Posted by: J Greely at Thursday, August 26 2021 01:51 AM (ZlYZd)
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"You'd think Apple would have noticed that many customers all connecting from the same house."
You'd have to assume they cared, though. Weren't they the vector through which the guy who had the "n" account on Twitter got it stolen?
You'd have to assume they cared, though. Weren't they the vector through which the guy who had the "n" account on Twitter got it stolen?
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, August 26 2021 02:06 AM (eqaFC)
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The Googlespeak article was an interesting read, but I laughed at the assertion that the Bide Administration has the most anti-trust savy team to go after Big Tech. Leaving aside the issues everyone else has mentioned, the Biden Administration includes former senior executives from Google who came into the transition team/administration straight from the tech giant. That alone is going to insure nothing happens to Google.
Posted by: cxt217 at Thursday, August 26 2021 11:38 AM (MuaLM)
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In fairness, the author does link the "anti-trust savvy" line to a NYT article, so you know without clicking that the assertion was made in jest.
Posted by: normal at Friday, August 27 2021 04:13 AM (obo9H)
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