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Musk’s DOGE ship gets ‘full’ access to Treasury payment system, sinks USAID

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FAIL

If you aim a shotgun at your left foot and pull the trigger, and then aim it at your right foot and pull the trigger, it is true that you have just had a great deal of success in shooting off both of your feet. But you have also shot off both of your feet.

Microsoft vet laments a world where even toothbrushes need reboots

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Well... Functionally, an electric toothbrush is very closely related to certain toys of an adult persuasion.

Intel has officially missed the boat for AI in the datacenter

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Re: Jaguar

Jaguar was one of AMD's best-selling microarchitectures, on account of being found in both the Playstation 4 and Xbox One.

Didn't make AMD as much money as you'd think, though...

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Re: Granite Shores, Lunar Lake, Gaudi3, Jaguar Shores

And the "Jaguar" codename was used by AMD for low power/8th gen gaming console APUs, about ten years ago.

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Re: "Intel has officially missed the boat for AI in the datacenter"

Either they've recognised that they're too late to the party, or they're floundering

Windows 11 stages a comeback – still miles behind older sibling

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Re: "difficult to buy a PC without AI silicon"

What a waste of all that silicon

Tesla's numbers disappoint again ... and the crowd goes wild ... again

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It's not far away from ten years since we were first told to expect fleets of autonomous taxis. Once upon a time, Ford was targeting 2017.

It'd been interesting tracking my own sentiment towards self-driving car tech. Back in those days I was incredibly optimistic but now I couldn't care less. I think it's obvious at this point that it will probably never make it.

White House asks millions of govt workers if they would be so kind as to fork right off

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The country is going to grind to a halt without a properly resourced public service. But I suppose that was always the plan.

Windows 10's demise nears, but Linux is forever

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Re: Couple of things that need to be set straight

No I mean that playing them on Linux is literally against the TOS and will get you banned.

Yeah, there are still AAA publishers doing that...

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Re: Couple of things that need to be set straight

If you're forced to use a cloudy version of Office, you have my condolences.

Unfortunately a few of the games I play don't support Linux, but maybe this just means it's time to ditch them.

US AI shares battered, bruised, and holding after yesterday's DeepSeek beating

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Re: Moving the wall...

Last year, the talk was of LLM development hitting a plateau of diminishing returns, or a wall.
They've already absorbed all of the available un-polluted training data, whether with or without permission, so they've already reached a maximum. Or in the very best case a local one.

DeepSeek isn't done yet with OpenAI – image-maker Janus Pro is gunning for DALL-E 3

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Re: Scepticism

If America wants to stay ahead of the game it's got a lot of work to do now.
What's the game though, apart from generating nonsense?

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Scepticism

Amy Castor and David Gerard have a few interesting things to say about DeepSeek's claims.

Most interesting to me were the suggestions that DeepSeek is using just as much computing power as anyone else, they just can't admit to it because that would imply they've breached export controls on Nvidia GPUs, and the suggestion that OpenAI is pushing the DeepSeek hype as a scare tactic to attract more funding (because they're rapidly running out).

Perhaps a little bit conspiratorial, sure, but at least they list their sources.

US freezes foreign aid, halting cybersecurity defense and policy funds for allies

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Re: Everything is lies now

It's like the entire executive is now run by people with little more than a child's understanding of the world

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Everything is lies now

"President Trump stated clearly that the United States is no longer going to blindly dole out money with no return for the American people,"

This statement is, of course, lies built entirely on lies. Foreign aid is not just an aimless firehose of cash and is not offered without some expected benefit.

It's going to be a long four years.

Silk Road's Dread Pirate Roberts walks free as Trump pardons dark web kingpin

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Re: Insanity

We are truly living in the dumbest timeline

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Re: The party of

Unfortunately there's a problem; they already tried that over the last year or so, but nobody was listening...

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Another commenter mentioned this judgement that suggests accepting a pardon at least doesn't magically make you innocent.

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Double standards

So today we learned that Chinese fentanyl is evil if the "evil Chinese" are sending it, but absolutely fine if a white libertarian is sending it.

Likewise all that cocaine, evil if the "evil Mexicans" are sending it, but absolutely fine if a white libertarian is sending it.

Illegal guns? Fine. Poisons that if you have a legitimate need for, you can obtain without going through the darkweb? Fine. Illegal pornography? Fine too! As long as it was sent by a white libertarian.

But woe betide you if you were locked up for possession of a few milligrams of methamphetamine or crack cocaine and you're not a white libertarian.

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Re: This is a tricky one.

Is the fact that he documented everything he did, including his thought processes when he decided and then attempted to have those people killed, not at all important to you? He wasn't tried and found not liable for those offences; he simply wasn't tried, because it was unnecessary at the time.

His sentence was as stiff as it was only partly because of the attempted murder for hire. He was found guilty of multiple very serious crimes and exhibited absolutely no remorse or even understanding that what he did was wrong.

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Re: Why Now?

It's funny* how blatant it is. It's quite obviously a kickback but they simply don't care any more.

*Well it isn't funny, but you have to laugh anyway...

Microsoft to force Windows 11 24H2 on Home and Pro users

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Re: Time to tell MS

Unfortunately they will just tell you to re-read the EULA that says you already agreed to this.

Although at some point the idea that they can bork or brick your device(s) remotely (whether deliberate or accidental) with impunity needs to be tested. There's probably a lot in the EULA that isn't technically lawful, but hasn't been tested by someone with deep enough pockets.

Blue Origin reaches orbit with New Glenn, fumbles first-stage recovery

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If I remember correctly ULA halved its launch costs twice in the face of competition from Falcon 9

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Until all the people with actual skills that he needs to keep him alive and his post-apocalyptic bunker operating decide they're better off without him...

That subdued CES has us wondering what 2025 will look like, tech-wise

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Cheers. When the time comes I'm definitely going to be doing a lot of research and, I expect, using a lot of third party tools...

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I have just been migrated from 10 to 11 at work and... the further dumbing down of everything is incredibly frustrating. Really not looking forward to making the "choice" at home either.

However 11 has been less visually glitchy and laggy than 10 so far, so at least that's something? (but then so was 7...)

Tesla, Musk double down on $56B payday appeal

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Headmaster

"Judge Kathaleen McCormick failed to reverse her original decision..."

Is that some legalese? "Failed" implies, well, failure. She declined to reverse it, surely?

Japan's wooden satellite exits International Space Station

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Re: Outgassing?

Unless of course they have found some way to reduce/prevent the outgassing
That comes next; this mission is intended to inform an understanding of the behaviour of the materials.

3Blue1Brown copyright takedown blunder by AI biz blamed on human error

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Re: There are more and more of shit like this

You don't even need that scamware, just use ad and script blockers with your favourite normal browser.

CAPTCHAs now run Doom – on nightmare mode

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Re: Done it

I still re-map "use" from E to Space and fire using Ctrl in modern FPSes. Sometimes other people have a problem with this, but they should simply understand the history of PC gaming better. Hell, Ctrl was the fire button for PC platformers for years before FPSes became popular.

And invert the mouse Y-axis thanks to flight sims. That's always a fun one.

I think RMB for "move forward" also began with Doom.

Apple called on to ditch AI headline summaries after BBC debacle

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Stop

"This accident highlights the inability of AI systems..."

It's not an accident. They didn't accidentally roll out a headline summary bot. They didn't accidentally fail to verify that an LLM was the right tool for the job. They didn't accidentally fail to check the bullshit output before publishing it.

Doctor Who theme added to national sound archive to honor innovation, longevity

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Re: "once hit on the head by a grand piano lid"

I think he wrote a book about that, didn't he? Something about a beach.

Google thinks the grid can't support AI, so it's spending on solar for future datacenters

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Re: Large areas

A solar panel producing 100 W/m² is only 7% conversion efficiency. Where did you get that number?

Cruise shutdown blastzone increases – Microsoft takes $800M charge

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Re: Who will pay?

Musk must be very pleased. All he needs to do is sink Waymo and the market is his and his alone.
He can have it...

Police arrest suspect in murder of UnitedHealthcare CEO, with grainy pics the only tech involved

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Sure, but it's just the system working as it's been designed to. Even if it's not strictly by design, it has been allowed to continue operating this way.

You could probably reasonably make the argument that the government that sets the system's rules is captive to the system's interests, but ultimately the Americans keep voting for the people who made the system what it is, and only recently voted for someone who will almost certainly make it even worse...

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Okay but UnitedHealthcare and its late CEO aren't really the problem here; they're just another, currently very public, symptom of a totally broken system.

I am so glad I live in a country that actually looks after its citizens (and permanent residents). And, also, enforces minimum standards on health insurance.

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Unhappy

That's what worries me. I'm as much of an "every billionaire is a policy failure" type guy as the next but if "the court of public opinion" considers murder to be acceptable then can we stop this train? I want to get off.

Microsoft rolls out Recall for Intel, AMD-based Copilot+ PCs

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Yeah nah

I'm all good thanks

Digital Isle of Man: For all your connected tax haven needs?

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Re: And also...

I should have guessed Clive was popular around here. My first thought was also "go directly to comments, talk about Clive (and his brother Ralfy)"...

Cryptocurrency policy under Trump: Lots of promises, few concrete plans

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Re: Don't think it's been thought through

No, to access a bitcoin wallet you need to know its private key

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Re: The magic firewall that isn't

Molly White is no friend of the cryptocurrency industry

Web 3 is Going Just Great

[Citation Needed]

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Re: Don't think it's been thought through

Indeed, most of the first million that were mined (by Nakamoto and other insiders) haven't moved since and are presumed to be inaccessible.

It's also possible to audit the blockchain to work out how many haven't moved in a given amount of time, or identify wallets that suddenly ceased activity at some point. It should be possible to loosely estimate how many are "lost" based on some educated assumptions.

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Google India probed after driver fatally followed Maps route over unfinished bridge

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Re: Let me get this straight ...

That would definitely be sensible!

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Re: Let me get this straight ...

It very much depends on the design of the bridge. If the deck curves away from you, the sight distance to the road level can be surprisingly short. Even if it doesn't, at night the sight distance provided by some car headlights is pretty poor.

It isn't clear what kind of warning signs the driver could or should have seen, but the real problem here is an unfinished bridge being open to the public. We don't know where google maps got its information or whether with or without google maps, anyone could have driven off it.

Why Google's Chrome monopoly won't crack anytime soon

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Re: No one else can afford to maintain Chrome

I encounter websites that work only in Chrome (i.e. not even Chromium) semi-regularly

One thing AI can't generate at the moment – compelling reasons to use it for work

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Re: "Possibly, AI is not the big bonus that everyone's thinking"

I wonder if every useful application of ML has already been found, which is why they're now trying to throw it at everything else.

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Re: "Possibly, AI is not the big bonus that everyone's thinking"

Putting my cynical hat on for this one...

The problem is almost as old as time itself. Most mainstream media outlets are not technically equipped to challenge the assertions of the proponents behind any Great New Technology™, and anyway the audience usually isn't equipped (or interested enough) to understand in-depth journalism of a highly technical nature so why bother? It's why outlets like The Register thrive. So, they essentially regurgitate press releases, while sceptics are, ironically, themselves treated with scepticism because "why would investors shovel billions into this if there was nothing in it?"

Well, because that's how VC works. They're all gambling, and the payoff often comes when they exit by dumping on retail investors, but that's rarely discussed or even hinted at until after it's happened.

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

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WTF?

Why nuclear?

Nuclear is again the flavour of the month in Australia because of our mining industry, both because we have tremendous reserves of uranium (and, incidentally, thorium) and because talking big about nuclear power is a convenient way for the coal mining industry to trick us into reducing/delaying investment in renewables.

So why is Japan buying into this nonsense. Is it anything more than simple regulatory capture?