* Posts by Snowy

1664 publicly visible posts • joined 29 May 2009

France, UAE to drop €50B on AI mega-datacenter. Still nowhere near America’s $500B bet

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Spend better

Rather than spend more.

Arm gives up on killing off Qualcomm's vital chip license

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Re: Way to trash your brand!

Yes once the cake is eaten it is gone!

Nvidia plots Quantum Day at GTC 2025 – for tech it called a distant dream

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Nvidia finds a way

To simutates stable qbits on a GPU?

Pornhub lockdown and fact-free Zuckbots – welcome to 2025

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Re: It's an easy go to

Yes get on with it not another inquiry!

Intel, AMD engineers rush to save Linux 6.13 after dodgy Microsoft code change

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Extra checks please!!!

On Microsoft submissions given "Microsoft is notable for dubious quality control standards regarding releases of its flagship operating system, Windows."

Tim cooking up the dough as his Apple pay rises 18% to $74.6M

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Tax efficient remuneration package!!

The total remuneration package consisted of a $3 million base salary – unchanged in recent years – as well as $58.1 million in stock awards, $12 million in non-equity incentive plan compensation, and $1.52 million in terms of all other compensation

Only the $3 million base salary is taxed as pay, the rest is tax in a different way, and I would guess at a lot lower rate too.

The ultimate Pi 5 arrives carrying 16GB ... and a price to match

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Going AI

Jumping on the AI bandwagon?

AI spending spree continues as Microsoft commits $80B for 2025

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Re: I love the coprorate (sic) fine print

If the AI is good then why would you need to be trained to use it? It should understand what you want/need and do it for you.

It's only a matter of time before LLMs jump start supply-chain attacks

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Re: Protection must improve first

How many “R”s in raspberry?

There are no R's in raspberry, pirates use R's

How to keep cheese from falling off a pizza?

Nails pr if you must tacks.

Are LLMs totally over hyped and there is a collapse coming that will make the dot com bubble burst look like a non event?

They will be replaced with VLLM and them with ELLM

Million GPU clusters, gigawatts of power – the scale of AI defies logic

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AI Scaling Hits Wall, Rumours Say. How Serious is it?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AqwSZEQkknU

More hardware is not going to fix the problem.

Jury spares Qualcomm's AI PC ambitions, but Arm eyes a retrial

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Appeal

There was always going to be an appeal regardless of who won.

Asda decided on a 'no go' for 'mass rollout' of store IT conversion

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Why

Are ERP so hard to roll out?

Humanoid robots coming soon, initially under remote control

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People controlled

Or are they just training an AI to do the job?

The sweet Raspberry taste of success masks a missed opportunity

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No

The new $90 Pi 500 complete desktop computer is what it would look like if the company was run Jobs, features removed for seemingly no reason other then them be able to be put back in later on.

Steve Woz would have produced something better.

China gorging on silicon before Uncle Sam slams the door

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What every happened...

To the idea that China was building their own chips...

OpenAI to charge $200 per month for ChatGPT Pro

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ka-ching

Loads of money!!

Altman to Musk: Don't go full supervillain – that's so un-American

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Re: Surely that's the most American.

Exactly if a businesses only objective is to maximized profit then the shortest route to that is destroy the competition.

Allowing competition is exist is nearly communist.

Who had Pat Gelsinger retires from Intel on their bingo card?

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Re: replaced ... by ... CFO

Considering how fast some big lottery winners have spent their winning 10 or even 100 million is not hard to spend and have nothing to show for it.

We can clone you wholesale: Boffins build ML agents that respond like specific people

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Re: After they sack you.

I was feeling generous :)

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After they sack you.

They can spin up an AI version of you and get all your work for free.

New York Times lawyers claim OpenAI accidentally deleted evidence in copyright case

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Accidentally deleted evidence.

Did they also the backups?

Now Online Safety Act is law, UK has 'priorities' – but still won't explain 'spy clause'

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Spy clause.

If they told you about it they would have to kill you!

Japan looks to nuclear energy to power AI-powered datacenter boom

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If only

They could use all that hot air that AI produces to create power then the energy crisis would be over.

Microsoft Flight Simulator 2024 struggles to take off

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Re: How unfortunate

May be they did and that was why the launch was so bad.

D-Link tells users to trash old VPN routers over bug too dangerous to identify

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Re: Bullshit...

"D-Link US is prohibited to provide support for these EOL/EOS products, "

Only prohibited by the cost.

China wants mobile devices to limit usage time for minors, ensure they only see nice content

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Re: FTFY

They would be seen again, just they would have had a "nice" holiday at some educational camp first.

Hardware barn denies that .004 seconds of facial recognition violated privacy

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Punishment

From what I can see their punishment was little more than do not do it again. I am somewhat puzzled why they are appealing against it given they said they would not do it again anyway.

Undergrad thought he had mastered Unix in weeks. Then he discovered rm -rf

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Re: Slap on the wrist?

It is also the last millennium :O

Former SK hynix chip engineer gets 1.5 years in prison for IP theft

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Re: So the real story is US companies stealing trade secrets from Korea

Some have moved to american companies but there is no indication they took secrets with them, or indeed that all people who moved to Chinese companies took secrets with them either.

Your air fryer might be snitching on you to China

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I think you mean BlueTooth rather than WIfI, my phone connects to my WiFi without location services turned on, but will not connect to my "smart" watch without it.

Microsoft has reached $1M giveaway levels of desperation to attract users to Bing

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Full of Ai

I'm quite sure Google is too.

Senator accuses sloppy domain registrars of aiding Russian disinfo campaigns

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Why

They have money and the register want it, they sell domains and they do not ask they can not tell they have sold them to bads.

Plus they would sell their mothers if they had one!!

Feds investigate China's Salt Typhoon amid campaign phone hacks

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Government say have some of these ---->

Drink until you forget your idea that it was the government's fault it anyway that their backdoor was compromised. /s

Perplexity AI decries News Corp's 'simply false' data scraping claims

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Re: WTF

Have some of these ---->

It may help you forget you defended them.

Bitcoin creator suspect says he is not Bitcoin creator suspect

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Re: Imagine

Which account? no reason he just has one.

Harvard duo hacks Meta Ray-Bans to dox strangers on sight in seconds

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Re: As a good American...

No Passport or Drivers license then?

TSMC preps facilities as Taiwan braces for powerful Super Typhoon Krathon

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Water water everwhere

but not a drop to make some chips.

Three, Voda promise £10-a-month or below mobile tariffs in bid to sway CMA on merger

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Under a fiver

That would have been a better price point.

Recall the Recall recall? Microsoft thinks it can make that Windows feature palatable

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Opt-in

As long as it stay opt-in then it is fine, just would not be happy if it went opt-out.

A look under the hood of the 3D-printed, Raspberry Pi powered 'suicide pod'

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https://www.raspberrypi.com/

Guess they will not be highlighting this project on their project page.

Europe's largest city council: Oracle ERP allocated £2B in transactions to wrong year

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Rolled out

Has this software ever been rolled out without problems and not over budget?

AI giants pinky swear (again) not to help make deepfake smut

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Voluntary

They do it voluntary that way there is no one checking that they are not accidentally doing all the bad things.

Google bets on carbon capture tech to clean up its mess – in the 2030s

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Carbon removal credits

Sounds like another version of Carbon credits.

Direct air capture (DAC) is promising, but then so is the promise of fusion, they need to start delivering something rather just breaking promises.

Apple owes billions in back taxes over Ireland state aid rule break

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Then they should return to share holders!

I betting most of that is being hold offshore while they wait for a tax break before they take it back to the States, so they can avoid having to pay a lot of Tax on it.

ESA prints 3D metal shape in space for first time

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Re: IMPRESSIVE

If they had a spill of the metal "dust" cleaning up the metal dust in a low G environment would be rather hard. More so if was also conductive.

Pat Gelsinger's grand plan to reinvent Intel is in jeopardy

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If Intel disappears AMD would not be able to make enough chips to cover the short fall.

GenAI spending bubble? Definitely 'maybe' says ServiceNow

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Re: GenAI is about to enter the dreaded "trough of disillusionment."

He will not be happy when generative AI goes and generates him out of a job!

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Re: GenAI is about to enter the dreaded "trough of disillusionment."

It is working out quite well for Nvidia.

WHO-backed meta-study finds no evidence that cellphone radiation causes brain cancer

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Sure

Meta studies are mostly pointless, if they are was evidence it caused harm in any of the studies pulled into the meta studies there would be no need for a meta study!!

I am not sure you can prove something is totally safe only later to have not found it to be harmful. Just think about all the things that where consider "safe" and then had to be withdrawn later on, the list is quite long!

Not finding any evidence of something causing harm is not the same as something being safe!

Amazon congratulates itself for AI code that mostly works

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Is the software...

Mostly harmless?

Nearly secure?