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Monday, April 28

Daily News Stuff 28 April 2025

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Google's DeepMind team in the UK is reportedly seeking to unionise, upset by Google dropping the "don't be evil" motto about seventeen years ago. (Tech Crunch)

We regret to inform you that Google's DeepMind team in the UK has been replaced by DeepMind.
Meanwhile Microsoft's massive AI efforts have come to a screeching halt. (XDA Developers)

People are willing to dabble with AI, but far fewer are willing to have it infect their own devices. Copilot has one twentieth the userbase of ChatGPT and is only falling further behind.

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The Lenovo Legion Tab 3 is pretty good if you're looking for a small, fast Android tablet with a high resolution screen. (Notebook Check)

Which is a good thing since it is the only small Android tablet with a high resolution screen, apart from Aliexpress deals.

Also good because I just bought one.

However, the Lenovo Legion Tab 4 has already been leaked, so you might not want to buy this one unless you see it on sale. Which I did.

It's comparable to Apple's latest iPad Mini - in fact, the review scores of the two devices were only 0.1% apart.
Minisforum has a new mini-PC that is not quite so mini. (Liliputing)

It has a 16 core Ryzen 9 9955HX laptop CPU, up to 96GB of RAM (or 128GB if you can find the modules), three M.2 slots, a PCIe slot (for very small PCIe cards), two 2.5Gb Ethernet ports, and two 10Gb Ethernet ports, which is a bit unusual in this class of device. They're SFP rather than RJ45, though, so you'll need transceivers or fancy cables.

Prices start at $839.

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1 It may be worth pointing out in that first story that what the Google team specifically against is AI in weapon systems.

Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, April 29 2025 05:11 AM (LBTSR)

2 Sorry: first story also links to an older one about the removal of the pledge, and pointing out these employees don't like the use of AI in US weapon systems. I suspect there are certain groups they'd be fine with it being used with, though.

Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, April 29 2025 05:13 AM (LBTSR)

3 I want a decent Android tablet I can run Linux on, sort of like how I can with Chromebooks, although I'd prefer access to the underlying system, not a VM with a second copy. Although it's easy to figure out why it's the way it is.
Also, more tools with ARM versions, please!

Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, April 29 2025 05:15 AM (LBTSR)

4 To be fair, there are AI applications in US weapons systems that /I/ do not like. IE, ones that might malfunction in undesired ways. But, I may be too stupid to know what those are, and the older tech has problems as well.

Posted by: PatBuckman at Tuesday, April 29 2025 12:17 PM (rcPLc)

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