• Who is winning the war between search engines and AI chat bots?  Search engines, and it's not even close.  (WCCFTech)
  
  In fact, if you add up all the search engines and all the AI services, 90% of the activity is Google search and everything else is just noise.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile Alibaba has release new AI code that allows AI to act as a search engine without needing a search engine.  (VentureBeat)
  
  Called ZeroSearch, a 7-billion parameter version outperformed Google Search in undefined and indefensibly stupid scenarios.  It's the equivalent of claiming that you managed to condense the Encyclopaedia Britannica down to a bowl of alphabet soup.  I don't know what you actually did, but I know you're not worth talking to until you grow up.

• Zettlab's new NASes look nice but.  (Liliputing)
  
  Supporting up to eight hard drives and two M.2 SSDs, with an Intel 125H CPU, up to 96GB of RAM and two 10Gb Ethernet ports, the hardware specs are solid enough.
  
  Unfortunately it runs a custom AI-focused Linux distribution and must be cleansed from the Earth with fire.
  
  
  
• Lenovo's Legion Tab 4 actually looks nice.  (Liliputing)
  
  The CPU has been bumped from the Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 to the new Snapdragon 8 Elite, which has custom CPU cores rather than the regular Arm ones.  And pixel density for the 8.8" screen has been increased by nearly 20% to 3040x1904.  The older model already had a very fast CPU and a great screen, so these were not urgent updates, but are certainly not objectionable.
  
  The missing microSD slot on the Tab 3 also showed up, supporting up to 2TB of extra storage.
  
  Right now only available in China for around $450.
  
  
  
• What does Huawei's new HarmonyOS look like?  (Notebook Check)
  
  It's Android you idiots.
  
  
  
• Bill Gates is mad that CIA cut-out USAID got shut down.  (The Verge)
  
  Okay.
  
  
  
• China's Squeely is moving to take AV company Blookit private in a credit default swap on the Chicago Commodity Exchange.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Actually none of that is true but you didn't miss any useful information.

Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, May 10 2025 08:04 AM (1zWbY)

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