Posts by Vikingforties

Palantir's Tom Watson lectures MP on accuracy, citing selective data

If he's meddling with a palantir, shouldn't Tom be renamed Saruman in this scenario?

F-Droid app store thumbs its nose at Google's dev crackdown

Re: Google Wants

You forgot the children. Please think of the children too!

Europe's fastest supercomputer is finally getting its domestic silicon infusion

Brace yourselves...

Hopefully now Rhea1's out SiPearl can get some decent Cadence going with the roadmap.

Geddit?

Former Labour deputy Tom Watson joins Palantir as £330M NHS deal nears break point

Maybe...

Palantir want to get into some of the cleaner industries than their usual, like gambling??

Fujitsu ready to sell its custom ‘Monaka’ Arm chip, maybe to rival server-makers

Challenging

Outside if hyperscaler's own Arm kit, Monaka is going going to succeed how, in getting more Arm into smaller clouds and enterprise?

Ampere and others before have come a cropper trying to do that same thing.

Spurs boots VMware, cites 85% licensing saving

Alternatively,

You could always not bother with all that complicated sounding tech and people could maybe do without for two hours and pay attention to the game.

Being more reasonable, just keep what's needed for emergency services.

NASA's Swift shortens orbital lifetime for the sake of science

Do not...

go gentle into that good night, Swift.

Arm in the enterprise is at least three years away, says Broadcom software boss

VMware underwhelming in the extreme. Unless something's changed they didn't even bother changing their pricing with trial customers going onto Arm releases. More but weaker cores in most Arm servers means they were asking customers to lose more money on per core licensing.

Oh wait, that's what they've been doing anyway.

SiFive pushes development server to take RISC-V into the datacenter

Hmm

Outside of hyperscalers, I'd be interested to see if there's a case for RISC V in smaller clouds and enterprise. Arm (and until recently Ampere) haven't reached orbit in those sectors yet.

Capita handed vital role in next pandemic despite civil service pension failures

Re: £31m will pay for the car park.

Generally yes, but in this case Crapita can be relied on to even fumble the production of an evil COVID follow on.

Proxmox ports itself to Arm with help from Nvidia and Supermicro

To be fair,

The Proxmox community has had itself an Arm PVE build for some years already so I don't know that this is necessarily that pioneering from Proxmox, Nvidia & Super micro. They may well have just put some spit and polish on the now shelved version on GitHub and decided to support it.

Whatever happened, the community led and the companies slowly ambled afterwards.

Dev proves LLMs will run on anything – even a $10 microcontroller

Share and Enjoy

I just looked up slvdev on LinkedIn.... He works for Sirius Cybernetics Corporation!

Qualcomm won’t be a big datacenter player anytime soon

Well

Let's see how that DC revenue turns out. As Arm launches AGI and Nvidia just turns the thumbscrews on its simps. I wish em good luck. We could do with more than two main players in Arm DC, like we've had to put up with in x86_64 for a while.

Flock cameras go up in flames as cops hunt suspected firebugs

Re: Good!

What happens if you mount a laser pointer at them continually? Asking for a friend.

Intel fortifies Foundry with an actual customer: Fortinet

I see what you did there...

"Sputtering"

Lucky 13: SpaceX aims for July 16 Starship flight test

Re: Did anyone...

Too many confounding variables to lean in with a calculation...

Rate of isostatic depression of the crust.

Future existence of the Indian Ocean given the geologic time period needed for SpaceX to get their kaboose into gear and launch that many rockets.

Willingness of the entire human population to dedicate themselves to welding and drilling for this scale of project.

Moral questions about continuing to rain down wreckage on the ecosystem that will start growing on the existing deposits.

Re: Did anyone...

You forgot isostatic depression. Add that much mass onto oceanic crust and it's going bend down under the load until it reaches a new lower equilibrium. Just for that reason we're going to need a LOT more Starships.

And then we've just distributed a small continent's worth of material half way around the globe. Now we're frigging about with the Earth's length of day.

This could be a great XKCD / Daedalus article.

Oh and I almost forgot, there will be volcanoes!

Did anyone...

.. check the depth of the Indian Ocean before SpaceX started this caper? At what point do they form a new island made of discarded Starship wreckage?

SoftBank enters the rent-a-GPU race as America looks for support for AI training

"blasphemy against AI"

Journalists and industry insiders, we'll have mo more talk of a bubble, it sorely troubles our lord and master! Now say three hail Masayoshis and be on your way.

An artificial cell with a full lifecycle has been created for the first time

I wonder..

With there being genetic transfer when peeling away from the parent, the progeny should be a chip off the old block.

There's no such thing as an agentic CPU

I'm coining the phrase...

"AI Native CPU"

You heard it here first. Now shut up and buy!*

*Minimum order quantity 5ku, lead times are what we damn well please and platform support will be light to moderate if you're not designing your own.

AIs don't like religion – particularly Jehovah's Witnesses, study claims

The next step

Research done, these faith groups should now build their own LLMs to redress the balance and then plunge them into several millennia of internecine war and crusades so we don't have to.

VMware quietly debuts Arm hypervisor tech preview

Re: Licensing

It's not being handled AFAIK. Same person core pricing unless they made a recent change. Let's see how that works.

Sometimes..

It makes you think that companies exist despite what the people inside them do, not because of it. They had a fling (beta version) of this years ago, withdrew it without explanation and now have shuffled it back. What a pointless waste of time.

They quote that their customers are only just becoming Arm curious. I doubt any of the poor sods left on Broadcom's wares display the quality of curiosity.

NHS England confirms: Palantir staff can access patient data

If only..

NHS munglement and tech leader staff were also made to take the Hippocratic Oath before signing up.

"I will abstain from all intentional wrong-doing and harm".

So maybe they "unintentionally" employed an organisation famous for supplying military targetting data, funding dodgy politicians who brief against the NHS and who's founder comes across as the kind of religious nut job you fear knocking on your front door.

Datacenter to become Arm’s biggest business ‘soon’

Sort of.

It's a tricky game. Arm's AGI will be lower margin and harder work than their IP business. They'll also have to compete against other Arm vendors who will be in the DC market. Best they think about floating in a growing market and displacing x86_64 where they can.

UK pensions dept goes shopping for spy-van tech with £2M surveillance tender

Riiiight

The article's a bit light on detail but this smacks of paying top dollar to go after small fry when looking up their FaceTube accounts might be way faster and cheaper (does self incrimination online like that count as evidence?).

Different dept. but how about paying top dollar for going after the wrong 'uns in the Panama Papers and such like?

YouTuber has DIMM idea, builds working DRAM in backyard

Hold On!

I think I have a bucket of mercury and some tubing knocking about....

Man suspected of Molotov attack on Sam Altman's home charged with attempted murder

Re: Guy doesn't like Artificial Intelligence

No kidding.

Let's suppose his deity happens to be the Christian one. Well, aren't Christians rather looking forward to their own humanity extinction event? Tribulations, antichrist, four horsemen - all that malarkey.

If you're getting your extinction soon, surely it's splitting hairs how it comes. The guy should be working for Altman if he thought a bit more about his ultimate plan.

NHS pays £46K to prep next Microsoft licensing round

Over dramatic??

Ex NHS Spine here so I used to know a little about the NHS backend, not so much front of house.

The company I work for have swallowed the MS pill. The full suite. That, mixed in with our corp protectionware, is a great waste of my productivity. I'm often hanging around waiting for this or that to happen or correcting a wrong click because of Cumulative Layout Shift / Jank. People don't kark it when I don't get something done in a timely way but they potentially do within the NHS. If it's measurable, what's the number? What is the number of people being treated by the NHS that have an adverse outcome because MS is farting around with Notepad AI improvements, crap reskins of Outlook, foisting copilot on folks who never asked for it..... the list goes on.

In fact what's the productivity / good outcome benefit of having NHS staff implement the right IT for the right situation rather than going into protracted negotiations with a behemoth that's intent on extracting the most money possible both before AND after you've paid for the product?

Virgin Galactic reopens ticket sales with out-of-this-world price hikes

Refreshing..

..to see a vaguely realistic financial outlook these days compared to the slightly stratospheric ones that we're constantly exposed to from the AI hype train.

In the name of science: Boffins build fart-tracking undies

Surely...

..this should end up in a prestigious journal such as the Anals of Improbable Research!

NASA abandons delayed SLS upper stage for ULA's Centaur V instead

Squeak squeak

Is anyone reminded of plot points from the 60's comedy Mouse on the Moon over this saga?

I think Rutland* should start a space program. they'd have a sporting chance at this rate.

*Nothing against Rutland, perfectly pleasant place but one of the lesser likely counties to start a space program from.

Britain spends £180M to work out what time it is

Re: 160 million years….

160 million years - we'll be squashed into the next supercontinent, Pangaea Proxima, by then. It's possible some other country's bus service could have come along in the meantime.

OpenAI grabs OpenClaw creator Peter Steinberger to build personal agents

Last minute Switcheroo

Interesting end result. From listening to the latest podcast from Lex Fridman, Steinberger seemed to be much closer to a deal with Meta. Maybe Open AI just had better beanbags and lattes in the office.

The pod is a useful listen though.

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Re: Sounds like a minor chuckle at best

Don't downvote this unless you checked the reference. It's at least as likely to be referring to the slightly dubious novel and Clint Eastwood film of the same name.

UK names Barnsley as first Tech Town to see whether AI can fix... well, anything

More of the same

Microsoft and Cisco, just them getting out of bed and making a visit has gone through the £500k right there.

Unless they're involved as a loss leader for getting more punters hooked.

Sony no longer home of the Bravia as it plans TV biz spin-out to China’s TCL

CERN, hold my beer.

I held onto my (Sony) CRT telly for years into the flat panel age, if only for the fact I could say that we owned a domestic particle accelerator in the corner of the room.

Microsoft CEO: AI sovereignty isn't where it runs, it's who controls it

Re: How are those investments in Trump working out for you Nadella?

Unfortunately, if you're shelling out for propping up the US economy by NVIDIA 's magic beans then European cloud income and outgoings are probably more like a rounding error.

DARPA making low-hanging satellites that use air to move

Warp factor 4 Mr Sulu!

Please tell me it has Bussard Collectors!

Struggling to heat your home? How about 500 Raspberry Pi units?

Re: It's going to have to be a slot in replacement for a boiler.

"oily Pi cemetery"

Just for the pedantry, surely it would be a Pi mausoleum, since it's above ground?

Colt gets greenlight for £2.5bn London datacenter splurge

Hot air on offer you say?

Given the fairly close locations, channel the waste hot air to the Houses or Parliament and give our hard working representatives some time off.

More widely (and seriously) I think DC heat recovery is a good idea let down by the lack of a planned economy to properly make use of it. Some downsides of planned economies, of course.

Is there any merit in DC builders becoming dual businesses? e.g. build a DC with a leisure centre next to it or a greenhouse complex.

From Intel to the infinite, Pat Gelsinger wants Christian AI to change the world

Dammit Gelsinger!

So, he wants to improve the life of everyone on Earth. Fine, but that's motherhood and apple pie.

He also wants to hasten Christ's return. Selfish bar steward! I happen to be vaguely enjoying life and the last thing I want is some guy trying to bring tribulation, judgement and an eternity of pain or boredom on me and the family.

Re: Hold your horses there, Pat

Be careful what you wish for there. The apostles were commanded to go out and be fishers of Men.

SpaceX shows off progress on its lunar Starship

Time for a song

"Vonce ze rockets go up, who cares where ze come down?

Und I'm learning Chinese, sings Wernher von Braun."

Seriously, all this faffing about and marketing renders these days makes me seriously impressed with what was put together by quite a few nations back in the early space days.

Azure's bad night fuels fresh calls for cloud diversification in Europe

Re: A good idea.

Or snake oil for that matter, if we're talking about foodstuffs.

Major AWS outage across US-East region breaks half the internet

Re: Took your time

More of a Hotpot's fan myself. C'mon Mek us a Brew!

https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=aM1jQ8cIFuU&pp=ygUWTGFuY2FzaGlyZSBob3Rwb3RzIHRlYQ%3D%3D

Mind the gap – in mobile coverage: UK train signal to stay patchy till 2030

Re: Well here's a fine pickle

OneWeb Eutelsat.

They look to have been on quite a ride the last few years.

Well here's a fine pickle

Given that the UK has a spying and national security debacle running on at the moment, should we really be tendering out to the one LEO Comms company who's owner, by the evidence of his Xeets, seems not to have the UK's national interest at heart?

Maybe by the time the meetings and lunches are had there'll be others up there. What ever happened to that British / Indian satellite GPS company that Cummings was involved with whilst he was causing trouble?

British govt agents demand action after UK mega-cyberattacks surge 50%

Re: Short version

Yes but look on the bright side, we're toasty but with a tasty smear of marmite on top.