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Thursday, October 31

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Daily News Stuff 31 October 2024

Precious Edition

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Disclaimer: Imagine if you will the new speakeasy, a place where AI is forbidden and everything you hear is the drunken ramblings of a genuine idiot.

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Wednesday, October 30

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Daily News Stuff 30 October 2024

Vast And Hideous Edition

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Gotta Catch 'Em All





Disclaimer: Or at least half vast.

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Tuesday, October 29

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Daily News Stuff 29 October 2024

Inordinate Fondnesses Edition

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Disclaimer: Life is hard.  It's even harder if you sign your name on the ransom demand.

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Monday, October 28

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Daily News Stuff 28 October 2024

Silence Shall Fall Edition

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  • Nature abhors a vacuum, and OpenAI's Whisper abhors a momentary silence.  (The Verge)

    If it encounters such a thing, it will happily fill the void with something it just made up, often creating strange or offensive sentences out of nothing at all.

    Which wouldn't be a huge problem since we've come to expect that of chatbots.

    Except that Whisper is used for medical transcriptions.

    Lawyers everywhere are salivating like dogs hearing the dinner bell.


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Disclaimer: Thingy.

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Sunday, October 27

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Daily News Stuff 27 October 2024

Training Edition

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  • Are Boeing's problems beyond fixable?  (Financial Times / Ars Technica)

    Probably not.

    They do need to ditch their space division, though.  Find a buyer or just shut it down.  Unless the government starts handing out cost plus contracts like candy again, it's a money pit for them.


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Disclaimer: Reminder - Orion is an anagram of "OpenAI is bleeding cash".

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Saturday, October 26

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Daily Tech News 26 October 2024

Doobut Edition

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  • Siri now has an integration with ChatGPT.  (The Verge)

    Asked a simple question, it can return answers for things you didn't ask, just vague enough to be completely useless when they are not entirely wrong in the first place.


  • Delta Air Lines has filed its long-awaited suit against Crowdstrike.  (Reuters)  (archive site)

    Delta wants damages of $500 million to cover its direct costs over CrowdStrike's colossal screwup, plus additional unspecified amounts for lost profits, reputational damage, and lawyers' fees.

    CrowdStrike says this is Delta's own fault for being stupid enough to use CrowdStrike.


  • This page does not exist.  (Wikipedia)  (archive site)

    The judge in a defamation case in India has ordered Wikipedia to take down the page about the case - globally.

    Be a shame if this got Streisanded into the stratosphere.


  • Cheaper Zen 5 laptops are on their way.  (Tom's Hardware)

    The current Zen 5 laptop chips are Strix Point, with twelve cores (four Zen 5 and eight Zen 5c).  The new Krackan Point chips trim that down to eight cores (four of each) and likely also trims down the GPU side to eight cores.

    Still waiting in the wings is Strix Point Halo, with sixteen Zen 5 cores and forty graphics cores.


Voices from the Distant Past Video of the Today


I was wondering how long she's been doing this, and that she started at 17 makes sense of things.

Dooby had about 50,000 people show up for her debut across Twitch and YouTube.


Voices from the Distant Past Video of the Tomorrow


If you know who this is, you won't want to miss it, even though she'll just be playing a game and chatting.



Same goes for this one.

It's a heck of a weekend for fans of...  A certain Japanese entertainment company.


And Rica is having her Live2d debut on the 31st, so it's a heck of a week too.



Disclaimer: Do not the Korsche.

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Friday, October 25

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Daily News Stuff 25 October 2024

Eurobleat Edition

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  • Intel's Arrow Lake desktop CPUs - effectively the 15th generation Core chips though they don't call them that - are finally here.  Are they good?  Should you buy one?  No.  (Tom's Hardware)

    They do post very good results in a couple of AI benchmarks, and generally solid results in multi-threaded productivity tasks, but on games they average 5% slower than the previous (and cheaper) generation, and are even further behind AMD's previous generation gaming-oriented chips like the 7800X3D.

    In fact, for games they are often behind the two-generation-old 5800X3D, sometimes behind the budget-oriented 5700X3D, running roughly even with Intel's three-generation-old 12600K.  But costing four times as much.

    And while these new chips do use significantly less power than the 14900K blast furnace, they still use significantly more power than AMD's offerings.

    Intel managed to one-up AMD's Zen 5, which has been nicknamed Zen 5% for its mediocre performance gains on consumer applications, but actually going backwards.

    To complicate matters further, new BIOS features to improve performance that should be on by default, aren't, and when they are turned on manually they sometimes make things worse.

    The same goes for Windows, with the latest 24H2 update causing some games to run noticeably slower on Arrow Lake, when the same release improves performance on AMD's Zen 4 and Zen 5 chips.

    It's a mess.


  • And AMD's 9800X3D is due out in two weeks.  (WCCFTech)

    That looks like the way to go for people who play a lot of recent computer games...  Whoever they are, given how poorly received recent titles have been.

    If you just need something that works for everyday tasks, something like the 8700G or even the previous generation's 5600GT should do the job nicely.

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You Had One Job Videos of the Day


That bad, huh.  You don't even have to watch these, just look at their expressions.


You Have One Job Video of the Day



She's back!  I mean, not back, I've never seen this strange-looking rat before.



Disclaimer: I was writing a paper on my PC, and it went bleep-bleep-bleep-bleep...

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Thursday, October 24

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Daily News Stuff 24 October 2024

Disarmed Edition

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  • Arm has given notice to Qualcomm that it - Arm - plans to cancel it's - Qualcomm's - Arm architecture license.  (Tom's Hardware)

    CPU startup Nuvia paid for an Arm architecture license, which allowed that company to design custom Arm processor cores.  Nuvia was then acquired by Qualcomm, which also had an Arm architecture license, and its - Nuvia's - designs became what is now the Qualcomm X series which has made its way into Windows laptops that for the first time ever provide adequate performance for Windows on Arm.

    Arm is upset about this because its - Arm's - own cores don't provide adequate performance in Windows laptops so nobody uses them, and cores produced on an architecture license provide Arm less revenue than its - Arm's - own designs.

    So Arm is suing Qualcomm for squillions of dollars and wants to prevent it - Qualcomm - from selling processors designed with its - Qualcomm's - own cores, despite it - Qualcomm and Nuvia both - having paid it - Arm - for a license to do so.

    It - the entire situation - is a mess and I don't know how things will turn out.


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Not At All Tech News

Victoria Brightshield marks the latest in a long series of talents to flee the sinking yacht that is Nijisanji English.  

Which means she will likely return soon as her own account Mogu and finally have a chance to collab with Dokibird and Maid Mint who are definitely just independent vtubers and never had any relationship with Nijisanji themselves.



Disclaimer: And Sayu Sincronisity and Michi Mochievee and Matara Kan and...

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Wednesday, October 23

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Daily News Stuff 23 October 2024

Floppy Edition

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  • The San Francisco MTA is spending $212 million to move its train control system off floppy disks.  (GovTech)

    The system was installed in 1998, which is rather late to be using floppy disks that were (assuming it uses 3.5" disks) introduced in 1982.  But Compact Flash, the only real alternative at the time that is still supported today, was only introduced in 1994 and was likely not readily available when the project started.

    And given that it's been working for 26 years so far, we can't really blame the designers for being short-sighted.


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Disclaimer: Chicken wings are trash.  The only reason to eat them is if some bastard stole the rest of the chicken.

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Tuesday, October 22

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Daily News Stuff 22 October 2024

I Am Not Making This Up Edition

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  • The Wall Street Journal and the New York Post are suing AI startup Perplexity over copyright infringement.  (Variety)

    To be fair, that seems to be Perplexity's entire business model: Index copyrighted content, summarise it, file off the serial numbers, and then provide it to users to answer their questions.
    News Corp CEO Robert Thomson, in a statement about the lawsuit, said: "Perplexity perpetrates an abuse of intellectual property that harms journalists, writers, publishers and News Corp. The perplexing Perplexity has willfully copied copious amounts of copyrighted material without compensation, and shamelessly presents repurposed material as a direct substitute for the original source. Perplexity proudly states that users can 'skip the links'  - apparently, Perplexity wants to skip the check."
    From my understanding of Perplexity, this is actually pretty accurate.

    This bit less so:
    We applaud principled companies like OpenAI, which understands that integrity and creativity are essential if we are to realize the potential of artificial intelligence
    OpenAI is as unprincipled as any company in the industry, but with billions of dollars of investors money to burn, they can pay off at least some of their victims.


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Disclaimer: Do not click on the thing.

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