Thursday, May 08
Daily News Stuff 8 May 2025
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- Apple vice president Eddy Cue says you may not need an iPhone ten years from now. (The Verge)
Not a huge stretch of the imagination, since I don't need an iPhone now and didn't need an iPhone ten years ago.
On the other hand, possibly not the best message to send about a product that represents half your company's revenue.
I did buy an iMac ten years ago. Great hardware. Solid operating system. UI sucked.
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- Europe has announced plans to spend $500 million over three years to make the continent a "magnet for scientists". (The Register)
Scientists are not ferromagnetic.
- The Beeling GTR9 Pro is another AMD Strix Halo mini-PC designed like a Mac Studio. (Liliputing)
16 CPU cores, 40 GPU cores, and up to 128GB of RAM on a 256-bit bus. Mostly designed for running AI tasks locally because it can dedicate up to 96GB of RAM to the GPU, but makes a very nice computer for anything that needs a fast processor and solid graphics.
- Meanwhile if you need a 192-core Arm CPU with 12-channel memory you can now get one. (Serve the Home)
You probably don't need one, but it's nice that it exists.
- Stripe has unveiled an "AI foundation model" for payments. (Tech Crunch)
Not a model for payments for AI services, but a model for payments using AI services.
Cash or gold only. No cards. No cheques. No credit.
- AI chatbots are juicing engagement instead of being useful, warns... Instagram? (Tech Crunch)
Isn't that the entire point of Instagram?
- JetBrains CLion is now free for non-commercial use. (JetBrains)
CLion supports C and C++ (and also Python), and joins WebStorm (HTML, CSS, and JavaScript) and RustRover (Rust) in its lineup of free IDEs for hobbyists.
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Europe - because scientists just love having bureaucrats telling them what to think, do, and say. To mix metaphors, the US has already gone too far down that road - hope they can turn the Titanic around.
Posted by: Frank at Thursday, May 08 2025 06:37 PM (+i6Xr)
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In fairness, a lot of US academics are government propagandists, not scientists. I think this is a drastically stupid idea, but there are so many unclear aspects to what might be going on that I probably should not expect that to be very clear to others.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thursday, May 08 2025 11:58 PM (rcPLc)
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"Not a huge stretch of the imagination, since I don't need an iPhone now and didn't need an iPhone ten years ago."
"Scientists are not ferromagnetic."
Pixy, I don't want to sound sycophantic, but I love your turns of phrase.
"Scientists are not ferromagnetic."
Pixy, I don't want to sound sycophantic, but I love your turns of phrase.
Posted by: Tim Turner at Friday, May 09 2025 09:56 AM (As8gg)
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