Wednesday, March 19
Daily News Stuff 19 March 2025
Death By Potato Edition
Death By Potato Edition
Top Story
- Google has signed a $32 billion deal to buy security firm Wiz (who?) even while it is in the midst of a life-or-death struggle with the DOJ to avoid being divided into the first seven letters of the alphabet. (Ars Technica)
It's a bold strategy.
Tech News
- SpaceX carried out a picture-perfect rescue mission to return the stranded Butch and Sundance from the ISS and Ars Technica is incandescent with rage. (Ars Technica)
The space coverage was one of the few (only?) areas of the site that hadn't succumbed to the mindless liberal fascism that has overtaken the site in recent years, but now they too have lost their minds.
The coverage of the mission at The Verge in comparison is straightforward, factual, and almost celebratory.
And The Verge is insane.
- Nvidia showed off some new things that will be available at some point and will cost some amount of money. (Liliputing)
They were not more specific.
- The new HP ZBook 8 has (up to) a 2560x1600 120Hz display, a twelve-core Ryzen 370 CPU, 64GB of user-upgradeable RAM, and very nearly the Four Essential Keys. (Notebook Check)
The Home key doubles up as the F12, but I only use that for opening Chrome Dev Tools and I don't do that all that often, so close enough.
The RAM is almost certainly upgradeable to 128GB with the new kits from Micron/Crucial, since they've already been shown to work with the Ryzen 370.
And two Thunderbolt 4 / USB4 ports (same thing, really), HDMI, wired Ethernet of an unspecified speed, a regular USB port, and an audio jack.
It ticks all the boxes I want for a new laptop... Only right now I don't want a new laptop.
- The DC Circuit Court of Appeals ruled unanimously - and for once, correctly - that AI generated art cannot be copyrighted. (Yahoo)
This upholds the district court's decision and the opinion of the Copyright Office, and reflects previous rulings that art produced by animals cannot be copyrighted either.
- In an unexpected gift, the March Windows updates have been mistakenly removing Copilot from some systems. (Bleeping Computer)
Sadly, Microsoft plans to fix this.
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Clippilot . . . yeesh.
Posted by: normal at Wednesday, March 19 2025 05:52 PM (bg2DR)
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I have a bold new vision for the future of OS UI and UX. We're gonna have marketing hype the cloud as the quantum cloud, and the PC is gonna be like Microsoft Bob and Clippy.
But, your local network, and shared resources, will be like a neighborhood, and troubleshooting your network is going to be an annoying, everchanging, and poorly documented adventure game. Internet stuff will be an entirely obnoxious and super annoying driving minigame. (We are rewriting the top layers of the OSI layer to be incredibly worse. and IP8 will also suck.)
Anyway, you will have Clippy, as well as Navi from that one Zelda game. Plus two other AI assistants. New one for stuff you are doing is going to guess your workflow wrong, and suggest installing software that is entirely unrelated. Clippy is going to offer inappropriate suggestions for what it thinks you're doing. Na'vi is going to be an annoying 'tutorial' on stuff you already know, and are not trying to do, and is going to use AI to be actively worse. We will have a new AI assistant that will offer higher level incredibly annoying, intrusive, and useless suggestions.
There will be an AI assistant to move and rearrange your files. There will be a bunch of different ways to find your files that fail to work in inconsistent ways, and are fully documented in unique and contradictory language.
"WhY aRen'T You uPGradInG to 11 fOr iMProVeD PrODuctIVity!"
In other new, apparently I want a military tribunal to hang me for crimes against humanity.
But, your local network, and shared resources, will be like a neighborhood, and troubleshooting your network is going to be an annoying, everchanging, and poorly documented adventure game. Internet stuff will be an entirely obnoxious and super annoying driving minigame. (We are rewriting the top layers of the OSI layer to be incredibly worse. and IP8 will also suck.)
Anyway, you will have Clippy, as well as Navi from that one Zelda game. Plus two other AI assistants. New one for stuff you are doing is going to guess your workflow wrong, and suggest installing software that is entirely unrelated. Clippy is going to offer inappropriate suggestions for what it thinks you're doing. Na'vi is going to be an annoying 'tutorial' on stuff you already know, and are not trying to do, and is going to use AI to be actively worse. We will have a new AI assistant that will offer higher level incredibly annoying, intrusive, and useless suggestions.
There will be an AI assistant to move and rearrange your files. There will be a bunch of different ways to find your files that fail to work in inconsistent ways, and are fully documented in unique and contradictory language.
"WhY aRen'T You uPGradInG to 11 fOr iMProVeD PrODuctIVity!"
In other new, apparently I want a military tribunal to hang me for crimes against humanity.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, March 19 2025 11:43 PM (rcPLc)
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I need an AI agent that hides among the other agents in the house and squeals to the warden when they're up to no good. an Agentic Stool Pigeon, as it were.
-j
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Thursday, March 20 2025 03:47 AM (oJgNG)
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Wow, Eric Berger has snapped and gone full-blown TDS. He was literally the last sane writer there.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, March 20 2025 08:59 AM (NEIix)
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, March 20 2025 09:05 AM (NEIix)
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Probably me.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, March 20 2025 10:53 AM (PiXy!)
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