Wednesday, March 25
Daily News Stuff 25 March 2026
Slugs Vs Skinks Edition
Slugs Vs Skinks Edition
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- OpenAI has shuttered its Sora AI-generated video app just six months after it first launched. (Hollywood Reporter)
Disney was planning to invest $1 billion in OpenAI and license some of its IP to be used in Sora. That deal is as dead as the app itself.
- OpenAI's "Instant Checkout" feature that allowed used to purchase products from within a chat session has likewise been deprioritised. (Tech Crunch)
K-i-l-l-e-d, deprioritised.
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- Arm has announced its first AGI CPU, dubbed reasonably enough the Arm AGI CPU. (Arm)
It has 136 Arm Neoverse N3 cores running at 3.7GHz, 96 lanes of PCIe Gen 6 - yes, 6, and support for DDR5-8800 memory, which is pretty fast for a server.
That's all nice, but you might be wondering where the AGI comes into it.
That's the neat part. It doesn't.
- The FCC has banned imports of new routers made in other countries, which is where imports come from. (Liliputing)
This follows an unending series of massive exploits of consumer networking equipment in recent years.
Companies can apply to a conditional approval program to continue to sell products to the United States, but that comes with certain caveats, like upgrading device security to be "not total shit".
Security experts that are usually critical of government inaction in this area appear stunlocked at seeing all their recommendations enacted in one fell swoop.
- Telling an AI that it is an expert programmer makes it worse. (The Register)
To nobody's surprise.
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I'm not sure if this is what I am supposed to be taking this away, but I am pretty sure I have a productivity sweet spot that is not at when I am told I am an expert programmer. (Telling me to pretend I am an expert $X, does not direct me if I do not understand how a skilled $X thinks. I'm a learner at programming, and many other things. I have problems when I express unclear directions to myself.)
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, March 25 2026 08:03 PM (s6adZ)
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A friend of mine told me yesterday that Hasan Piker made a crack about the Butlerian Jihad. I guess even a stopped clock...
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, March 25 2026 09:37 PM (1zWbY)
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Pixy - out of curiosity, do you ever check stuff at lowlevel TV?
Posted by: Frank at Thursday, March 26 2026 05:14 AM (zCiG7)
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Ah, Gee; the video that spread the gospel of the 9 100-pound gorillas of K-pop! I remember a picture blog called "Asian Poses" that treated this video as their holy book.
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Posted by: J Greely at Thursday, March 26 2026 07:52 AM (oJgNG)
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Frank - No, hadn't run into them before. They just covered the LiteLLM hack that I mention in today's post, so I'll check them out.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, March 26 2026 05:59 PM (PiXy!)
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Followed a link showing a lowlevel TV clip showing the initial checks on any new router when he gets on, looking for security holes. Seems to be very motivated.
Posted by: Frank at Thursday, March 26 2026 06:17 PM (zCiG7)
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