"open criticism is needed – no matter how much it upsets some of those being criticized."
ITYM "open criticism is needed, because it upsets those being criticized so much" ... if the their concept were truly valid, they would easily rise above any such criticism.
First, the headline implication is nonsense.
This is not “silent hijacking” of hundreds of millions of devices.
I'm still amused at the Instagram handle for Volkswagen Italy.
Volkswagenitalia
So, in addition to being trained on a toxic torrent of turgid twaddle from t'internet in general, the product is now to be further enshittified by the addition of a slithering cesspool of sycophantic sponsored slime.
It's a bit like the jump from the original Clippy to the Clippy on steroids, with paedophilic tendencies, that is the AI offering and now discovering that clippy also has a severe Coke habit.
is at least getting to be built unlike your 'dear leader' who has almost killed US Offshore wind.
All because the Cheater at Golf didn't like the sight of a 'Windmill' from his crappy Scottish Golf Course.
when the whole industry is screwed.
"we believe the opportunities outweigh the obstacles" — MRDA ?
So only a couple years after the DRAM shortage is over, and no doubt well after the AI bubble has burst.
What floor are you on?
I have Windows for WIndows in my office.
Sorry, what's that statement about respecting users preference doing in there?
Since when did they start doing that?
I'm old enough to remember when anti-fascist was the default for most of humanity.
"Instead, Meta is betting on AI as bulky headsets become things of the past."
So AI is the new VR.
Thanks goodness for Gartner being around to provide statements of the bleedin' obvious, we'd never have figured it out otherwise...
Trump steaks, Trump Vodka, Trump casino, Trump university, Trump charity, Trump watches, Trump Guitars Trump presidency, it's always a grift and I'm amazed anyone still falls for it.
(Nevermind can't delete this)
Nah, just say they're made of pure 48 carat solid gold.
Much purerier than anyone elses gold, twice as biggly much in fact...
Saying that their bit barn has emission equivalent to 300 French people.
"Give me your boots, your clothes, your motorcycle and your lifetime carbon allowance!"
Never buy a device that doesn't work if the internet is down or the server is not responding.
Prototyping and code spikes absolutely are real work, as you say, and prototypes may be one of the few serious software cases for vibe coding (code spikes aren't because a critical part of that process is the developer learning how to use the tools and a developer learns nothing if they don't use the tools.)
The important thing about a prototype, and the one that is misunderstood far too frequently by managers who see them, is that they have to be discarded.
I don't know, it runs the serious risk of blackmailers threatening to reveal that you drink Carlsberg.
For added giggles, they could have asked it for the square root of 1764.
replaced by parking apps that require a degree in computer science to operate
My phone now has a separate folder just for parking apps, I'm not sure the Maths & Computing degree is that useful in operating them as most of them seem to defy logical operation.
It takes an idiot to use a random welding shop air hose to clean out computers (maybe i'd even pass it off as an honest mistake), but it takes a special kind of idiot to keep going after visibly destroying the first PC!
Not even a quick check to see if it still worked...
So no more "Please send us more moneys" messages needed ever again at the top of every page now right?
Right!
The future will continue until it's the past.
This scale of investment just doesn't look sustainable on a profits tomorrow basis.
Anybody remember "Going Postal" where Lord Vetinari, in the end, had to dedicate his entire grand hall to visualise and track the convoluted, circular routes of money and shell companies of the fraudsters who stole the Grand Trunk Company?
If he got his hands on our techbro overlords, he could get Mister Trooper to write a whole new book!
"We asked (again) how many appliances attackers have infected and did not receive any response."
They don't know.
AI vendors have such amazing stuff that purchasers really need to buy it and think up some way to use it and alter every aspect of their business to do so, and pay a load of extra cash so it functions.
Snake oil is cheaper and works better.
Did the Chinese really just try to clickbait US Govt.
officials?
That can be manipulated by an Insider.
They've uncovered the NSA's back door into VMs running on AMD hardware!
"Oracle is in the middle of a multi-trillion-dollar race among tech giants to build the datacenters required to sate the expected appetite for AI models among businesses and consumers.”
Sorry but just what appetite?
Here is an agent to help you sort your documents....but please don't connect it to folders where sensitive information may be, such as "My Documents" or "One Drive" or "Google Drive".
If you follow these guidelines you may , everso slightly, be ok.
"The deal, which will see Cerebras take on the risk of building and leasing datacenters to serve OpenAI, is valued at more than $10 billion, "
So build the DC's, fill them with hardware then pop.
It is not a nude picture of woman that is the problem.
It is a nude picture of a woman WITHOUT HER CONSENT that is the problem.
AWS should send these guys on a 2 week long "Vacation Cruise" somewhere tropical, at their (AWS's) expense.
For saving their butts BIG TIME!!!
Smells like AI is the latest face of disaster capitalism
Microsoft has managed to get 2 whole weeks into the new year before screwing up an update - is this some form of record?
Yes... you already know what's coming...
Anyone like any toast?
From a former race instructor, spend your dough on a day at a reputable high performance driving school.
It won't break your car and the training will stick with you forever, no matter what you drive.You will learn how to be smooth at any speed.
This is a very curious article, I'm trying to work out the link between the two halves of it.
Someone explain how I'm wrong but it very much seems like two different articles just mashed together.
The web versions of Office are shit compared to the installed ones, and the files need to be saved to Microsoft's cloudy storage.
It's really bizarre the way the Linux faithful seem to almost take offence that anyone might need to run MS Office, and downvote anyone pointing this out.
For as long as RPi has existed people have tried building robots with it, trying various ways to add vision, autonomy, and natural language interaction.
This is the obvious target audience for this.
That's a bit rich, considering how many malicious actors are using Microsoft's cloud platform.
To all the ACs who said this was "Technically very difficult because of how complex LLMs are".
Turns out it was a switch...turns out your dogshit LLM is just an old wizard pulling some rusty chains to make child porn come flying out.
There's a value to Office 2003 (with Compatibility Pack) and Office 2007 installs because they just work forever after a single payment, also without insisting on cloud, AI helpers etc.
Of course MS keeps updating Exchange so that earlier versions of Outlook get pooched for non-subscription O365...
If the Government orders Amazon to switch it off when it invades Greenland, what happens?
The EU and UK need to be self-hosting at this point.
Versus the tendancy of company mergers to completely disregard any previous obligations in order to dicate the "new future" defined by the Board doing the acquisition, which is also actively defining how many "acquired" personnel it can get rid of under the excuse of "redundancy".
I've always found interesting that the acquiring company has never found any of its Board members to be "redundant" . . .
No statement out of china can ever be independently verified
So your default attitude should be "whatever"
No wait...AI productivity is just around the corner....we just need $ trillions more investment, more power, more memory, more data centers...you'll see...we'll replace that $20 an hour wage white collar slave...
You had a bad experience with Adafruit... so you doubt the story?
The story may or may not hold up, but I'm afraid (afried?)
A corporation's money belongs to the members of the corporation.
The members are AKA "shareholders"..
Like Personalized Ads.
And they are shite.
I agree.
All the AI CEOs for example.
The likes of Sam Altman and the other snake oil salesmen will blame the lack of power for the downfall and how real AI was just around the corner, but its everyone else's fault it all failed, because if they just had more power.
Trump administration is blocking COVID stimulus oversight: government watchdog letter - June 2020
If the technology had existed in 2020, they wouldn't have been allowed to use it.
Europe picking on poor hard done by US companies, better raise the tarrifs?
Oh wait, the law applies to non-US companies as well?
The trouble is that jumping through the regulatory hoops for any updates on some kit can be horribly expensive & time consuming - eg hospital heart echo scanners.
The intention is good (having kit that is known to work, etc) but the practice is bad as it results in kit not being updated and so running on old/hard-to-replace hardware and running an operating system with known flaws (especially bad are networking ones as this kit will often be plugged into the hospital LAN).
Can it be true?
A bonefide use for BlockChain?
I look forward to these AI companies imploding and with any luck ceasing to exist in their current form.
I would like exactly the opposite.
A browser that does not auto-play videos under any circumstances, I cannot stand the distraction of a video moving about as im reading the surrounding text.
Looks like AI output, but it's probably close enough.
"Customers whose data may have been accessed will be informed directly.
We take the security of our customers' information seriously and regret any concern this incident may cause."
Little as I am inclined to give the government any credit, given their record so far, there have been a couple of big U-Turns in the last day or two (another one on their AI Copyright carve-outs) and I would much rather have a U-Turn on a bad policy than have the government pushing it through regardless.
We saw too much of the latter over the last decade.
Strangely, despite it being highly unlikely that it's a prospect I'll ever face personally, I happen to be quite cross about people being executed for protesting against totalitarian regimes.
Wtf are you trying to say?
Is there any (alleged) justification for that?
For DRAM prices, the putative reason is demand for, and manufacturing shift to, HBM for AI hosts.
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