Friday, November 28
Daily News Stuff 28 November 2025
Turkey Resilience Edition
Song is Golden from the movie KPop Demon Hunters, which is about a KPop (Korean pop music) group that, uh, hunts demons.
The movie is supposed to be pretty good, though when Hololive EN did a watchalong stream, Kronii rolled her eyes so hard that her motion-tracking sensor picked it up.
Turkey Resilience Edition
Top Story
- OpenAI has described its forthcoming AI device. (Tech Crunch) (archive site)
Not announced. Not previewed. Described:When people see it, they say, "that's it?… It’s so simple."
Not so much of a description as a fart.
It's expected to be a phone, but without a screen, making it useless to everyone who already has a phone, which is... Everyone.
Also, don't look at the picture.
- Why can't ChatGPT tell the time? (The Verge) (archive site)
Because it doesn't know anything.
Tech News
- AWS is adding "DNS resilience" to its notoriously unstable US-East-1 region. (The Register)
This won't make the datacenter any more reliable, it will just make it easier for customers to switch over to somewhere else the next time it goes down.
- Looking for a larger, faster hard drive for your 2013-era laptop? SSSTC may have what you need. (WCCFTech)
It's an enterprise SSD, but it's just 7mm tall, uses a standard SATA interface, and stores up to 15TB.
Price not mentioned but probably horrifying.
- Unless it doesn't: Intel's Nova Lake lineup next year will include models with dual CPU chiplets and dual cache chiplets after all. (WCCFTech)
With a total of up to 52 cores and 288MB of cache.
Which is kind of a lot.
Nominal power consumption for the high-end model is 150W, but this is Intel so expect it to post significantly higher numbers in the real world.
- Nvidia then: If you want to buy our GPU chips you have to buy the RAM from us too, at our marked-up prices.
Nvidia now: Forget it, Jake. It's Chinatown. (Tom's Hardware)
Nvidia previously forced the companies that make its graphics cards to also buy memory through them, even though Nvidia doesn't make memory chips.
Now that memory chips have become expensive and hard to find, the board makers have been cut loose to sink or... Well, just to sink really.
- As the UK tightens its grip on free speech, it has turned its steely idiot cross-eyed gaze on VPNs. (The Verge) (archive site)
Just as everyone predicted.
It won't work. There are too many VPNs, they're too easy to create, and too easy to use. The Great Firewall of China leaks like a sieve, so the UK doesn't stand a chance.
Musical Interlude
Song is Golden from the movie KPop Demon Hunters, which is about a KPop (Korean pop music) group that, uh, hunts demons.
The movie is supposed to be pretty good, though when Hololive EN did a watchalong stream, Kronii rolled her eyes so hard that her motion-tracking sensor picked it up.
Disclaimer: See for yourself!
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I'm pretty sure I could write specious and AI-centric nonsense, but not being a knee-jerk leftist boob, I suppose I can't get paid to do so. Ah! Curses.
Posted by: normal at Saturday, November 29 2025 04:25 AM (Sbqr6)
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1. print off nomogram
2. make a show of calling it an AI device that helps you think
Basically, if the nomogram in question automates a task you do frequently, or if is wildly inappropriate for anything you would ever do, then it is funny.
(Of course, one could prepare a volume with about five hundred color plates, with the nomograms being mostly selected for being hilarious. I'm afraid that I'm not smart enough make comprehensible, meaningful, but funny color charts in that volume. )
2. make a show of calling it an AI device that helps you think
Basically, if the nomogram in question automates a task you do frequently, or if is wildly inappropriate for anything you would ever do, then it is funny.
(Of course, one could prepare a volume with about five hundred color plates, with the nomograms being mostly selected for being hilarious. I'm afraid that I'm not smart enough make comprehensible, meaningful, but funny color charts in that volume. )
Posted by: PatBuckman at Saturday, November 29 2025 05:10 AM (rcPLc)
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"One user urged OpenAI to "pay attention to this" because it gives "a bad name" to the AI model "with cognitive abilities far superior than my own.""
I was going to make a snarky comment about this but I think I'll just let it stand.
I was going to make a snarky comment about this but I think I'll just let it stand.
Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, November 29 2025 08:19 AM (1zWbY)
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There's not much you can do when they just hand you the joke like that.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, November 29 2025 12:18 PM (PiXy!)
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