• Intel's rumoured next-next generation Nova Lake processors have been rumoured again.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Albeit with more details this time.
  
  The top of the line Core 9 model will reportedly include 16 performance cores, 32 efficiency cores, and 4 low-power efficiency cores.
  
  Which would be a lot.
  
  The next models down would be the Core 7, with 14 P-cores, 24 E-cores, and 4 LPE-cores.
  
  However, both would use a base power of 150W, meaning - this being Intel - in reality they would run at more like 300W.
  
  Which is also a lot.
  
  They would also - according to a separate rumour - provide 32 PCIe 5.0 lanes and 16 PCIe 4.0 lanes.
  
  Not counting the PCIe 5.0 connection from the CPU to the chipset.
  
  The CPU provides the same number of I/O lanes - at the same speed - as AMD's current chips.  But the chipset does a lot better than AMD, providing 24 total PCIe 5.0 and 4.0 lanes, against AMD's 870E which uses two chips to provide just 12 PCIe 4.0 lanes.
  
  Oh, and DDR5-8000 memory.

• Why AI is not helpful for coders.  (Miguel Gringberg)
  
  Except for simple things like type-ahead, which has gotten a lot better.

  An AI tool can only resemble an intern with anterograde amnesia, which would be a bad kind of intern to have.  For every new task this "AI intern" resets back to square one without having learned a thing!

  Until you throw it out the window.
  
  
  
• Facebook's Threads app has a new feature: Spoiler tags.  (The Verge)
  
  Straight out of 1996.
  
  
  
• TSMC reports yields of 60% on its new 2nm process node.  (WCCFTech)
  
  That's good, by the way.  Means 60% of chips fabricated are good enough to use, before harvesting half-good dies for lower-end parts.  AMD's 8 core and 6 core parts are identical, but the cheaper 6 core chips allow them to re-use 8 core chips with one or two production flaws.
  

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• Why Johnny (class of '27) can't read.  (Substack)
  
  Only 5% of college English majors were able to understand the first seven paragraphs of Dickens' Bleak House.
  
  Now it's understandable that someone might not fully grasp the specifics of social roles in 19th century England - at least not if they haven't read Dickens or Austen or other great authors of the period before - but it is worse than that.
  
  Much worse.
  
  Paragraph from Bleak House:

  As much mud in the streets, as if the waters had but newly retired from the face of the earth, and it would not be wonderful to meet a Megalosaurus, forty feet long or so, waddling like an elephantine lizard up Holborn Hill.

  And here's the response.  Note that this is from a college English major:

  [Pause.] [Laughs.] So it’s like, um, [Pause.] the mud was all in the streets, and we were, no . . . [Pause.] so everything’s been like kind of washed around and we might find Megalosaurus bones but he’s says they’re waddling, um, all up the hill

  And this is when the students had access to freely look up anything with which they were unfamiliar.
  
  Kowalski, analysis:

  Like this subject, most of the problematic readers were not concerned if their literal translations of Bleak House were not coherent, so obvious logical errors never seemed to affect them.  In fact, none of the readers in this category ever questioned their own interpretations of figures of speech, no matter how irrational the results.  Worse, their inability to understand figurative language was constant, even though most of the subjects had spent at least two years in literature classes that discussed figures of speech.

  Full depressing article here.

• By why male models?  (arXiv)
  
  Using AI for writing essays fries your brain.
  
  But the above study is a year old and the students had all been in college for two years or more at the time, so that's probably not the full answer.
  
  Edit: Turns out the above study (the first article, not this one) was originally conducted in 2015. So no, AI is not the answer. Their brains were already fried.
  
  Their brains were already fried.
  
  
  
• Don't buy an RTX 4090; it's probably fake.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And expensive.  Not a good combination.
  
  
  
• Could this city (Vienna) be the model for how to tackle the housing crisis and climate change?  No.  (NPR)
  
  Apart from anything else - Vienna has a pretty mild climate most of the time, rarely getting very cold and never getting extremely hot - there's something more important hidden away in a footnote:

  About half of Vienna's 2 million residents live in social housing.  Here, at Biotope City, the social housing has solar panels.  Vienna is using social housing to cut greenhouse gases and help adapt to climate change.

  It's a nice pod, but it's still a pod.
  
  
  
• Facebook's Llama 31 can recall 42% of the text of the Harry Potter novels if you prompt it with the text of the Harry Potter novels.  (Understanding AI)
  
  Yeah.  How about that.
  
  I think the author has been using too much AI and has progressed from the second article to the first.

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• The root cause of the huge Google Cloud / Clouflare outage a couple of days ago.  (Google)
  
  A null pointer set a Google service into a boot loop when a change was applied without an appropriate policy set.  The missing policy should have been caught and the update rejected, but wasn't, because everything is nightmarishly complicated.
  
  
  

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• PCIe 6.0 SSDs aren't likely to show up in desktop PCs for years.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Servers, yes.  Laptops, maybe.  Desktops, no.
  
  PCIe 5.0 SSDs are twice the price of PCIe 4.0 models anyway, and PCIe 6.0 is sure to be unreasonably costly for small drives, so if you're building a desktop just go for four PCIe 4.0 drives in RAID-0.
  
  
  
• Korean researchers have outlined the next four generations of HBM (high-bandwidth memory) following the upcoming HBM4.  (WCCFTech)
  
  HBM8 will - eventually - deliver five times the capacity and 32 times the bandwidth of next-gen HBM4, with up to 240GB of RAM per device and 64TB per second of bandwidth.
  
  And use 180W of power for a single HMB8 stack.  HBM1 was slower, true, but it only used 4W of power.
  
  
  
• How scammers are using AI to steal student aid.  (AP News)
  
  The answer is they're using it a lot.

  An Associated Press analysis of fraud reports obtained through a public records request shows California colleges in 2024 reported 1.2 million fraudulent applications, which resulted in 223,000 suspected fake enrollments.

  Because until last Friday you don't need to provide any ID to apply for student aid.
  
  
  
• The Browser Company - that's what it's called - unveiled Dia, its new AI-focused web browser.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  No thanks.
  
  
  
• Stolen iPhones are screaming at the looters who stole them.  (The Economic Times)  (archive site)
  
  Oh no.
  
  Anyway...
  
  
  
• They've found the second Stargate.  (Phys.org)
  
  Good news.  Now they just need to find the Ancient city.
  
  
  
• New legislation in New York makes it illegal for AI to murder more than 100 people.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Less than 100, no problem, but over 100 is right out.
  
  Only the government is allowed to do that.

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• How Palm died for a second time.  (Substack)
  
  Written by Phil McKinney, who was the CTO of Hewlett Packard at the time HP bought and then promptly murdered Palm.
  
  The CEO at the time of the acquisition was fired by the board before HP's new PalmOS products could launch, and the new CEO wanted nothing to do with hardware, and killed the entire lineup seven weeks after launch.
  
  While the CTO was out recovering from emergency surgery.
  
  And the new CEO was in turn fired by the board just months later, after spending $10 billion on British software company Autonomy and then being forced to write down its value by 80%.

  My first day back at HP will be burned into my memory forever. I was simply trying to grab lunch in the cafeteria at HP Labs when I found myself surrounded by what felt like the entire technical staff. They weren't there to welcome me back - they were there to hold me accountable.

  The scene was intense and unambiguous. Engineers and researchers who had watched the WebOS disaster unfold were pointing fingers and raising voices. Their message was crystal clear and brutal: "You can never take leave again - EVER!"

  Their exact words still echo in my mind: "The CEO and board need adult supervision."

  Indeed they did.  Those were dark days at Hewlett Packard.

• AMD just announced its cheapest and slowest X3D CPU yet - the Ryzen 5500X3D.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Expected to retail for around $150, it might be a decent option if you have an older AM4 system you want to upgrade.
  
  
  
• AIs are designed to tell us what we want to hear.  Let's fix that by designing them to tell us what we don't want to hear.  (Substack)
  
  Oh, yeah, that'll definitely work.
  
  
  
• Corporate adoption of AI is slowing as it turns out that it's expensive and kind of useless.  (The Register)

  Gartner warned last year that end user organizations adopting AI could discover "500 to 1,000 percent errors of AI cost estimates are possible," because of vendor price hikes, not paying attention to the cost, or simply inappropriate use of AI.

  Yeah, beancounters love it when bills are unexpectedly ten times higher than you told them.
  
  
  

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• Google in the wiring closet with a lead pipe: The internet went down.  It was Google's fault.  (Tech Crunch)

  Google Cloud said it started investigating service issues affecting its customers at 11:46 a.m. PT. As of 2:23 p..m PT, the company said it had implemented mitigations, and expects to have its services back up and running within the hour.

  You started investigating issues 44 minutes after I was woken up by the outage?  Good work, guys.

  At 11:19 a.m. PT, Cloudflare also said it was investigating service disruptions affecting its customers, according to its status page.  At 12:12 p.m. PT, Cloudflare said it was starting to see its services recover after investigating the issue.

  Cloudflare KV was affected by the Google outage, and it in turn took down the rest of Cloudflare.
  
  And that took down everyone else, since Cloudflare handles about 20% of web traffic worldwide, so it's a rare site - like this one - that doesn't depend on it.
  
  Also, yes, they did post that note at 12:12 PM, but the "starting to see" does a lot of heavy lifting there.  An hour later and our sites at work that are routed through Cloudflare were still completely dead.

  "This is a Google Cloud outage," said Cloudflare spokesperson Ripley Park in an email to TechCrunch. "A limited number of services at Cloudflare use Google Cloud and were impacted. We expect them to come back shortly. The core Cloudflare services were not impacted."

  The core Cloudflare services were not impacted, it was just that you couldn't reach them because everything else was on fire.

• AMD pre-announced its upcoming Zen 6 "Venice" server CPUs, and a little reading between the lines shows some significant changes.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  These will lift the maximum core count from 192 to 256, increase performance by 70%, double I/O bandwidth, and increase memory bandwidth from 614GB per second (per CPU) to 1.6TB per second.
  
  More and faster cores is pretty normal, but doubling I/O bandwidth sounds like PCIe 6.0, which is exactly twice as fast as PCIe 5.0.
  
  That memory speed sounds like magic, though.  Gen 3 MRDIMMs would achieve that - with an effective transfer rate of 17.6GHz, by running multiplexing two or more chips per module at the same time - but MRDIMMs announced so far only deliver half that speed.
  
  
  
• AMD also announced its MI350X and MI355X AI GPUs, which have stuff.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  288GB of RAM and 256 CUs - compared with 16GB of RAM and 64 CUs on the latest 9070 XT consumer cards.  And 8TB per second of memory bandwidth compared with "only" 640GB per second.
  
  These are a slightly different design though, optimised for AI, called CDNA as opposed to RDNA used in AMD's laptop chips and consumer graphics cards.
  
  The next generation promises to provide "UDNA" which will unify the two designs.
  
  
  
• Anker is recalling over a million power banks because they catch fire.  (The Verge)
  
  A good reason I suppose.
  
  
  
• Meta has bought a 49% stake in Scale AI for $14.9 billion.  (Yahoo)
  
  Scale AI is not an AI company.  It's a people company that uses actual intelligence to weed out bullshit before it is fed into new AI systems to drive them mad.
  
  
  
• Evergreen headline: Free VPN apps you've never heard of on Apple and Google's app stores are run by China and watch everything you do online.  (Tech Transparency Project)
  
  These include the fourth-ranked VPN on Apple's App Store and the eleventh-ranked VPN on Google Play.  Many of them offer in-app purchases, so they charge you and steal your data.
  
  
  
• The Bluesky backlash misses the point.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  No it doesn't.

  Without a more direct push to showcase the wider network of apps built on the open protocol that Bluesky’s team spearheaded, it was only a matter of time before the Bluesky brand became pigeon-holed as the liberal and leftist alternative to X.

  There is no wider network of apps.  Yes, the protocol is nominally open, but has no significant use.  Bluesky is it right now.
  
  So the backlash against Bluesky's totalitarian censorship - welcomed and enforced by Bluesky's own users - is exactly the point.

  Already, people are using the protocol that powers Bluesky to build social experiences for specific groups — like Blacksky is doing for the Black online community or like Gander Social is doing for social media users in Canada.

  Canada is not a real place.
  
  Though to be fair neither is Bluesky.

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• PCI SIG has released the final specification for PCIe 7.0, and is busy working on PCIe 8.0.  (Liliputing)
  
  PCIe 7.0 runs is twice as fast as PCIe 6.0, which is twice as fast as PCIe 5.0, and so on.  Even a single lane of PCIe 7.0 will keep your RTX 4090 happy.
  
  PCIe 6.0 isn't shipping in devices yet, though test rigs are showing up, and PCIe 5.0 graphics cards only appeared six months ago.  So don't expect the new slots soon - although PCIe 5.0 motherboards did reach the market surprisingly quickly.

• Speaking of PCIe 5.0 don't buy an 8GB graphics card.  (YouTube)
  
  Unless it's very cheap.  The Radeon 9060 XT and Geforce 5060 Ti both come in 8GB versions, but this has already become the bottleneck for game performance.  With the 9060 XT you have 16 lanes of PCIe 5.0 so it at least tries to keep up, but if you're on a budget you might not have a PCIe 5.0 motherboard in the first place, which would cut that bandwidth in half.
  
  And if you only have x8 available on the main slot because you have something else plugged in, by half again.
  
  Which is bad.
  
  And if you don't care about game performance, buy something cheap like the trusty RX 580.
  
  
  
• If you have enough memory, though, this isn't a problem at all.  (TechPowerUp)
  
  These guys tested the RTX 4090, and PCIe 3.0 x16 or PCIe 4.0 x8 don't bottleneck this card at all.
  
  If you drop all the way back to PCIe 2.0 for some weird reason, you're still losing only 8% of performance even with this high-end card.  The slowdown only become significant when you slow the interface even further.
  
  It's all about the memories.
  
  
  
• Canva now expects you to cheat on your job interview.  (The Register)
  
  Half of its staff cheat on a daily basis, so this is now the baseline requirement.
  
  
  
• Meta is offering $2 million salaries to AI developers and still losing staff to other companies.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Uh.
  
  
  
• The recipients of the CHIPS grants are now mired in state and local approval processes.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Your government at work.

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• The Bluesky bubble hurts liberals and their causes. Here's why that's a good thing. (Washington Post) (archive site)
  
  Bluesky was an interesting attempt at redesigning the core architecture of Twitter, but had no natural userbase until Trump won the 2024 election, whereupon the craziest people on Twitter departed en masse all at once and created Bluesky accounts.
  
  That gave the site a massive boost in user numbers but at the same time a massive headache, because suddenly its users were overwhelming screamingly insane leftists with all the problems that come with them.

  For roughly a decade, Twitter hosted what is lightheartedly called the "national conversation" on issues of the day, particularly social justice and public health. Twitter never had that many users, compared with Instagram or Facebook. But it had a big group of influential users - politicians, policymakers, journalists and academics, all of whom were engaged in a 24/7 conversation about politics and current events.

  Mostly leftists, often far left, but at least, at the time, paying lip service to civility and rationality. Those days are far behind us.
  
  That's what they're trying to regain, but the more they tighten their grip, the more star systems slip through their fingers.

  That was a boon to progressives, who wielded outsize influence on the platform because they were early adopters who outnumbered the conservatives. They were also better organized and better networked, and had the sympathy of Twitter’s professional-class employees, who proved increasingly susceptible to liberals' demands for tighter moderation policies on things such as using male pronouns to refer to a transgender woman.

  Translation: Stalinists policing speech.

  It’s not surprising that progressives want to return to the good old days. But it’s not working, and I’m skeptical it ever will.

  Those were the days, my friend. Thought they would never end.

  Something similar has happened on Bluesky. The nasty fringe has become even nastier: A Bluesky technical adviser recently felt the need to clarify that "The 'let's tell anyone we don’t like to kill themselves' crowd are not welcome here" because left-wing trolls kept urging people who disagreed with them to commit suicide. And without the leavening influence of their opponents, Bluesky discourse appears even more censorious and doctrinaire than what progressives were saying on old Twitter.

  Jesse Singal, call your office.
  
  Oh yeah, the key point: Bluesky activity is down 50% since November; it's in a death spiral and there's likely no way out.
  

• Nvidia's low-end RTX 5050 will be a laptop 4050 only much faster because it's a desktop chip but still using GDDR6 RAM unless it doesn't do any of that.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Nothing announced officially yet.  But it will at least not be significantly hampered by only having 8GB of RAM because it won't be fast enough to need more than that.
  
  
  
• Micron has started shipping HBM4 memory.  (Serve the Home)
  
  This has up to 2TB per second of bandwidth per stack, with each stack providing 36GB of memory.
  
  Both of those numbers are what is currently described as "a lot".  Nvidia's RTX 5090 has 32GB of RAM and 1.8TB per second of bandwidth across sixteen GDDR7 chips, so packing more of each into a single device is quite attractive to high-end hardware designers.
  
  Just...  Expensive.
  
  
  
• News sites are getting crushed by Google's new AI tools.  (WSJ)  (archive site)
  
  I had to block a bunch of these today, not just Google but Amazon and Alibaba as well, incessantly spraying redundant and nonsensical requests at my servers.
  
  Time perhaps to take another look at Nepenthes, which is designed to derail AI web crawlers and fill them with garbage.
  
  
  
• Starbucks is rolling out a Microsoft Azure OpenAI assistant for baristas because their jobs are just so complicated.  (CNBC)
  
  Fuck.

  "It's just another example of how innovation technology is coming into service of our partners and making sure that we’re doing all we can to simplify the operations, make their jobs just a little bit easier, maybe a little bit more fun, so that they can do what they do best," Starbucks Chief Technology Officer Deb Hall Lefevre told CNBC.

  Nuke them all and let God sort them out.
  
  
  
  
• Xlibre, a fork of the X.org server without the discrimination, bigotry, and hatred.  (The Register)
  
  This has upset the Stalinists infesting - well, pretty much everything including these days The Register - because they love discrimination, bigotry, and hatred.
  
  But Xlibre works and the main competitor - Wayland - kind of doesn't.
  
  
  
• Hang on, did the iPad just become a computer?  (The Verge)
  
  Right, that's enough internet for today.

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• Ohio University says that all students will be required to learn and be fluent in AI.  (The Guardian)

  "Ohio State has an opportunity and responsibility to prepare students to not just keep up, but lead in this workforce of the future," said the university’s president, Walter "Ted" Carter Jr.
  
  He [Ted] added: "Artificial intelligence is transforming the way we live, work, teach and learn.  In the not-so-distant future, every job, in every industry, is going to be [affected] in some way by AI.  I'm Ted."

  Sigh.
  
  
  
• China shut down public AI chatbots during exam season.  (The Verge)
  
  How will esteemed offspring ever be able to enter the civil service now, short of having his knackers chopped off?
  
  And has Ohio State considered that option?

• People arguing about the tax code change affecting software development.  (Hacker News)
  
  None of whom know what they are talking about.
  
  
  
• YouTube will protect free expression by, uh, protecting free expression.  (Ars Technica)
  
  The guidelines of the level of "misinformation" required for content to be removed have been increased - making it less likely that material that triggers the lunatic left will be censored - and staff have been advised to contact their managers if they are unsure that the content crosses the line.
  
  The lunatic left - here admirably represented by Ars Technica itself - is outraged that differences in opinion are permitted at all.
  
  
  
• Apple - who have not gone all-in on AI, almost uniquely among the big tech companies - says that AI cannot think, and they can prove it.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Oh, and they're right.  At least as far as LLMs go, which are gobbling up 99% of the investment and research efforts.
  
  
  
• Speaking of which, ChatGPT was trounced in a chess match...  Against an Atari 2600 from 1732.  (Hot Hardware)
  
  It's expected to line up next month against the Antikythera Mechanism.
  
  
  
• MacOS 26 will be the last version that supports Intel hardware.  (9to5Mac)
  
  Err...  They seem to have skipped a few version numbers there.
  
  
  
• The GPD MicroPC 2 is an upgrade to the GPD MicroPC.  (Liliputing)
  
  Notably with twice the RAM (now 16GB soldered) and a full-size M.2 2280 storage device.
  
  
  
• 3GB GDDR7 modules exist.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Which we already know because they're used in Nvidia's 24GB laptop RTX 5090 and the $10,000 96GB RTX Pro 6000.
  
  These could save the RTX 5060 an 8GB RTX 5060 Ti by upgrading them to 12GB - four 3GB modules instead of four 2GB - but at $10 each they cost a lot for that extra 1GB.
  
  
  

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• I liked the computer so much, I bought the company: Vtuber and classic computer afficionado Perifractic was in talks to acquire a license to distribute old Commodore software.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The current owners of Commodore made a counter-offer.
  
  We don't know yet exactly what was offered or the outcome; the video ended in something of a cliffhanger.

• A copyright suit filed against Google by textbook publishers - the piratest pirates that ever pirated - has been forced to walk the plank.  (TorrenFreak)
  
  The claim was that by selling ad space for copies of the textbooks that were sometimes not entirely legitimate, Google was vicariously infringing.
  
  Google said this was obvious bullshit and filed to dismiss.
  
  The judge agreed.
  
  
  
• Bambu Labs has removed third-party app support for its P and A series printers.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Gradually locking all users into its own ecosystem.  It did the same thing to its X series earlier this year.
  
  You can - for now - still set your printer into developer mode and install the apps you want.
  
  
  
• What to do when AI is all artificial and zero intelligence.  (The Atlantic / MSN)
  
  Also, why the Butlerian Jihad was so named.
  
  
  
• Trees good.  (Washington Post / MSN)
  
  Thanks Washington Post.  Whatever would we do without you.

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• While the rest of us are worrying about moving on from Windows 10 and updating out hard drives to SSDs, the government is preparing to move away from Windows 95 and floppy disks.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Fortunately it's nothing important and nobody's lives are at risk.
  
  It's just the US Air Traffic Control system.

• Kioxia - formerly a division of Toshiba - is preparing to release new, faster XL Flash SSDs to compete with Intel's Optane.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And since Intel has abandoned Optane, they have the market for high-speed SSDs to themselves.  And there is a market - data bases generally, and AI-oriented databases specifically because those guys have billions of dollars.
  
  XL Flash is SLC - one bit per memory cell, compared to three or four on common consumer drives - and reduces access times from a typical 30 to 50 microseconds down to three to five microseconds.
  
  
  
• Sonoma County has converted its drone program originally proposed to track down illegal cannabis farms into a privacy-busting airborne HOA.  (SFGate)
  
  Is your grass a millimetre too long?  They will find you, and take pictures.
  
  
  
• Can AI companies train their systems strictly on public-domain documents?  No.  (MSN)
  
  Also loading publicly available data onto a computer is not copyright infringement no matter what the rent-seeking communists at Reddit would like you to believe.
  
  
  
• Apple has warned Australia not to follow the EU in opening up the App Store to allow competition, because that would be bad...  For Apple.  (NeoWin)
  
  Europe's Digital Markets Act and recent antitrust lawsuits in the US have finally loosened Apple's death grip on its own platform and its automatic 30% cut on any money that comes anywhere near an iPhone.
  
  
  
• Anthropic's AI is not writing it's own blog.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  The company has an entire team of editors revising and fact-checking what eventually makes it onto the nominally AI-generated blog, because even AI companies don't trust AI.
  
  

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