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Bankrupt scooter startup left one private key to rule them all

Re: First law of IoT

There is unfortunately a near future in which this problem applies to almost all cars

OpenAI to serve up ChatGPT on Cerebras’ AI dinner plates in $10B+ deal

Re: Holy shit...

It's okay: if (or hopefully when) the bubble bursts, Cerebras won't have a product anyone wants anyway.

India’s flagship PSLV rocket fails for the second time in a row

Did you misread "than", or are you saying that a flight on a used booster costs customers more than on a new one?.

These days SpaceX sells the use of those boosters as "flight proven", but you do pay less than if you insist on a brand new one

Although, to be fair, SpaceX's life leading (i.e. most used) boosters are typically reserved for Starlink launches, rather than paying customers.

AI's $3T infrastructure binge continues despite lack of clear profits

Just think of all the coming shareholder litigation!

Good time to get into corporate law, perhaps.

Re: Core uncertainty.

Maybe a useful AI will be developed in our lifetimes, maybe it won't, but I don't think it will look like anything like what's being worked on at the moment.

And I think there are several more AI winters between now and when that happens, if it ever does. "X eventually happened" is no good reason to believe that a totally unrelated Y will also happen.

The world is one bad decision away from a silicon ice age

Re: @AC - Chicken

Then there's the West (specifically the U.S.) to consider. Their gargantuan firepower could grind the PLA into dust if they put their weight behind Taiwan's defense.

If

Also I can't help but think that China might regard US military operations within its territorial waters as a direct threat. I don't think anyone wants to find out what that escalation looks like.

It might be a bit cheap to make fun of screen names but boy, your grasp on reality certainly is basic.

Microsoft teases targeted Copilot removal for admins

This post reminded me of a piece I read recently on an AI blog: NOTICE ME.

Apple hopes to save Siri from laughingstock status with infusion of Google Gemini

Your first one or two sentences were sensible (as long as "choice of AI" means "I can choose no AI"), but then I got whiplash.

Nvidia, Eli Lilly just say yes to making drugs together, using Vera Rubin GPUs

Re: So what?

So why bother?

Hype, baby!

Also possibly desperation. Drug discovery is a difficult business and all the low hanging fruit was picked long ago.

Accenture bets AI will ring up retail sales with Profitmind investment

"Because AI is increasingly automating merchandising and pricing"

Fact check, please.

AMD threatens to go medieval on Nvidia with Epyc and Instinct: What we know so far

What has CES become?

It was once known as the Consumer Electronics Show. What the fuck do I want a multi-million dollar neural compute node rack for?

When the AI bubble pops, Nvidia becomes the most important software company overnight

Re: When the AI bubble bursts...

By oversupply of HBM I mean only that there will be an ungodly amount of ML server capacity that is no longer economic to turn on and the HBM housed within has no prospect of being diverted to secondary consumer markets to make up the shortfall there.

Re: Article: "...but you can also do other things with GPUs"

And just because they're technically "GPUs" it isn't like I can buy one from a bankruptcy sale and throw it in my gaming PC.

Re: Well ackshually

Bitcoin miners have been using ASICs for years now. The GPU era is long gone, they can't compete.

Re: Follow the money

So far, it's mostly being paid for by venture capital. No "AI" company has demonstrated a path to profitability and I don't think many of us will shed a single tear when they and their backers lose their shirts.

The risk is however that VC will somehow convince retirement funds to gamble on this toxic shit, and then we're all in trouble.

When the AI bubble bursts...

...there is going to be a monumental oversupply of datacentre GPUs, and their owners are going to beg people to take them off their hands. Nvidia might find demand for new ones from anyone but TLAs dries up overnight.

There's also going to be a monumental oversupply of RAM that can't be diverted to consumer channels, such as HBM, so that sucks.

Well ackshually

Maybe one of the other thousands of kleptocurrencies, but GPUs haven't been viable for mining bitcoins for years

AI faces closing time at the cash buffet

Re: Gold rush

Quite. The only company turning a profit from any of this LLM hype is Nvidia. Even Microsoft has stopped reporting on it directly.

Nvidia's at the point of attempting to incubate and cultivate its own customers so I assume it knows the end is nigh and is just trying to squeeze out a few more dollars in the meantime. The banks offering loans underwritten by depreciating GPUs will be left holding that bag.

Meanwhile I hope the DRAM manufacturers have a plan B for when OpenAI can't service its contracts.

Re: Pointless

especially if they can click down to source links to check it

You know nobody's going to do that so why pretend they will?

Stop the slop by disabling AI features in Chrome

Re: DuckDuckGo

Good tip. It looks like appending &noai=1 also works.

Re: Why not just ditch Chrome?

I can recommend Vivaldi and not just because it's the only one of those options I'd ever consider

AMD Strix Halo vs Nvidia DGX Spark: Which AI workstation comes out on top?

Six hundred billion floating point operations per second per second worth of memory bandwidth. Sounds impressive.

Infinite Machine e-scooter is like the offspring of a Vespa and a Cybertruck

Why does everything these days have to look like Mad Max was a documentary?

ATM jackpotting gang accused of unleashing Ploutus malware across US

"a ruthless terrorist organization"

Words really have lost all meaning, haven't they.

Hyperscalers fuel $112B server spending spree in Q3

Correction

Quadrupled

Hyperscalers are the reason RAM has more than doubled in price. Can the bubble burst, already?

AI datacenter boom could end badly, Goldman Sachs warns

Gee...

...you think?

Australia bans teens from social media, but nobody thinks it'll really work

Re: Good, bad or ugly

So stop acting as if this is some Orwellian dystopia.

If you look at some of the books banned in red states over the last few years however...

Porsche panic in Russia as pricey status symbols forget how to car

Re: More cloudybollocks

just wishing it had the 3g comms module instead of the 4g now

I was going to say that won't do you much good because 3G's being progressively turned off around the world... and then I realised that might be the reason.

Re: More cloudybollocks

The brave new world is already here

I was once very interested in EVs, however my current vehicle – which only went out of production in 2021 – has no connected features, nothing that can't be repaired by someone competent, and (if you're brave enough) even traction control that can be totally disabled by pressing a button. I think I'll have to make it last because the very near future looks like a nightmare.

Nvidia scoffs at threat from Google TPUs after rumored Meta tie-up

China's awash with Nvidia GPUs, including the "banned" ones.

HP to sack up to six thousand staff under AI adoption plan, fresh round of cost-cutting

Man vs Machine

“We have a line of sight to drive approximately $1 billion of gross run rate savings over three years across product development, customer service and support, and many of our operational processes,” he said.

This reads like the AI's already taken his job

Lifeboat docks with Tiangong after cracked capsule triggers emergency rendezvous

I'm thinking this

70-hour work weeks no longer enough for Infosys founder, who praises China’s 996 culture

Blah Blah Blah

I think whatever Rishi Sunak's father in-law is on about is what the kids call rage bait.

SpaceX loses debut V3 Super Heavy in ground test mishap

Re: Test stand

New Glenn has flown twice (landed once) and New Shepard is liquid fuelled

AI music has finally beaten hat-act humans, but sounds nothing like victory

Fake it 'til... you get the idea

David Gerard has already pointed out that it wasn't The Billboard country chart; it was the "Billboard country digital song sales chart", and all that was necessary to achieve the ranking was to spend $3k buying the song from digital music stores. Nobody even needed to listen to it once.

Generative AI doesn't need to be normalised by uncritical reporting on top of everything else.

Crims poison 150K+ npm packages with token-farming malware

And nothing of value was lost

See title

AI pilots keep crashing, mostly because firms skip the prep, survey finds

What were the expectations, and how was the increase measured?

Intel CTO and AI boss quits to join OpenAI after just six months in the job

Re: OpenAI [is] losing billions each quarter

OpenAI used to be a non-profit. It's in the process of becoming a no-profit.

Australia’s spy boss says authoritarian nations ready to commit ‘high-impact sabotage’

Re: So all the more reason...

The elephant in the room, on multiple levels

Here's one way to cut support ticket volume… send them to another company entirely

I went through a similar rigmarole once but since it was over a trivial amount of money, I dropped it after they'd admitted their mistake in writing (even though the promised refund never arrived).

Re: Purpose

I've encountered customer "support" systems that require you to respond to automated emails every few days to keep the request open when they haven't even been looked at by someone yet.

'Windows sucks,' former Microsoft engineer says, explains how to fix it

"how to fix it"

I was hoping this would be some configuration advice or third party software to beat it into line but instead the solution requires Microsoft to do something it's definitely not going to do. Little disappointing.

AI benchmarks are a bad joke – and LLM makers are the ones laughing

Meanwhile

David Gerard has a few issues with the study. Not its conclusions per se, but the fact that the authors entirely skirt around the fact that AI benchmarks are marketing rather than science, as if they're trying their hardest not to ask the question.

Microsoft apologizes for not explaining cheaper no-AI M365 plans, and all it took was a government lawsuit

Microsoft apologises for getting caught attempting to rip off its customers

There I fixed the headline

(an icon for Microsoft)

Palantir CEO celebrates one cash culture to rule them all

Re: People were wrong about us!

"Taking aim at" your critics indicates insecurity, mostly...

Tesla board wants to grant Musk $1T in stock, Norway wealth fund says nope

"...the carmaker's board says is necessary to retain him..."

What makes retaining the man responsible for the Cybertruck necessary?