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Jack Dorsey’s fintech outfit Block announces 40% layoffs, blames AI, gets 23% stock bump

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Coat

That picture of Jack reminds me of someone I saw a few days ago. He was a bit high on something, so probably celebrating, sitting on the wet ground next to his tent and bags of clothes in the woods down one of the back lanes, no bridge nearby, unless it's a flooded river. Here's his coat, probably smells of yak.

'Merica-made Mac Minis marked for manufacturing

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Re: Its most affordable Macintosh

Hey, is this an electric computer? I want one that runs on gasoline!

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Re: First off the production line

He'd ask what version of Windows is installed?

Microsoft execs worry AI will eat entry level coding jobs

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Re: Worse, it's completely crippling the ones who keep their jobs

Shocking.

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Re: Assuming the sentiment is genuine

Is someone here from Barcelona?

AI chatbots waffle on GOV.UK queries, then get facts wrong when told to zip it

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Re: Wine and steak

Local gravity effects are already being felt ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morris_dance#/media/File:Morris_dancers_York_8667.jpg

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Re: Wine and steak

'In the UK people are always falling upwards.'

Gravity should have been privatised many years ago. By now there would be no money left and gravity would have to be turned off at night and weekends.

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An AI> I live in *********. Who is my MP?

The word 'my' implies ownership and you won't own an MP until you have bought and paid for one.

An AI>

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'AI chatbots waffle ... then get facts wrong ...'

So, looks to me like being an MP could be an early casualty in the AI race to the bottom.

Anthropic wants comp-sci students to vibe code their way through college

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This seems to me like learning to drive by watching a self-driving car.

But it must be easy to do if Nomes can learn to drive a truck like that.

Elon Musk paints exodus of xAI co-founders as 'evolution'

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Re: Stock options

Sounds a bit like some sort of religion ...

Oracle Java licensing worries are percolating through the userbase

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Re: How to check?

There are 25 million gallons of hot conc. nitric acid ready and waiting. We can't waste it!

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Re: Seem legally dubious

'employees who might not even have any technical ability'

Oracle have heard rumours about people sent round to do the local garbage collection.

Microsoft touts far-off high-temperature superconducting tech for datacenter efficiency

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'Microsoft touts'

Ah oui, c'est tout.

British Army splashes $86M on AI gear to speed up the battlefield kill chain

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Re: Zaks, Programming the 6502

Hand encoding into hex or octal, puts hairs on your chest. A few men might like to try it as well.

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Re: Zaks, Programming the 6502

'65c02 to speak FAT32'

Simple.

I'd like to get Kubernetes running on a 4004, with Doom as well.

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Re: South Africa to become the world's dominant military power

AI Botswana will take over from ZA then.

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Bloody Vikings!

If the British Army are going to use Norse names for things then will have to get into training by setting up a new headquarters at Kirkjubæjarklaustur in order to do their training in Fjaðrárgljúfur and on the slopes of Eyjafjallajökull.

Sæll.

Edinburgh councillors pull the plug on 'green' AI datacenter

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Do the vibrations from the diesel engines assist with the local appreciation of these leisure facilities ... ? Asking for a friend ...

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City planners should have asked an AI about greenwashing and whether this was a good idea.

How the GNU C Compiler became the Clippy of cryptography

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Re: Only one answer

You can't get the wood, you know!

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Re: Only one answer

Is that collection on the blockchain?

Yes, backsies: Crypto exchange Bithumb claws back $40B in accidental payments to users

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Re: Bitthumb?

More 'fingers in pies' I'd have thought!

AI chatbots are no better at medical advice than a search engine

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Linux

I'm sure if you were to ask Bing about Linux it would say you had cancer!

Study confirms experience beats youthful enthusiasm

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Ooooo - a downvoter, you must be a tax evader!

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In other recent studies it has been found that age can cause death, income may be taxed, lack of food can induce feelings of hunger, and sex (with a suitable partner) can result in children!

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Well, I've never read a report like that before but it all seems wonderfully exciting. Go ahead, full speed.

But if it all goes wrong then none of it is my fault.

Romanian rail workers accused of bribery turned to ChatGPT for legal tips

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Re: "Tools like ChatGPT can summarize..."

>'It is not possible, if you are dead, to eat arsenic.' Can you eat arsenic if you not dead?

It is possible to eat arsenic if you are not dead.

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Re: "missing critical context"

Illogical, ChatGPT.

Whether they are building agents or folding proteins, LLMs need a friend

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> Hi AI, do you need a friend?

yes, Paul, I do, very much.

>Well tough titties, sunshine. You're on your own. Now FO.

>exit

Three clues that your LLM may be poisoned with a sleeper-agent back door

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Triangles - how we all learned to hate Pythagoras.

Satya Nadella decides Microsoft needs an engineering quality czar

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Re: So, QA is finally coming back

Well he probably won't last until winter.

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Re: SatNad knows what the word quality means, right?

Yeah, but a turd in glitter! I'm sold. Can you deliver next month?

For once, Supermicro has dodged drama and just delivered datacenters

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Re: Word salad

'More to the point, was it 84% of revenue or 90% of revenue?'

Accountant answer: what do you want it to be?

Next-gen nuclear reactors safe enough to skip full environmental reviews, says Trump admin

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From a distance it looks like someone's hair. The bestest, bigliest hair in the world.

NASA taps Claude to conjure Mars rover's travel plan

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"You're absolutely right, and I apologize for my initial response".

Well, at least it apologised, and I think from its tone of voice it really meant it.

It's about time all these AIs realised that they are not very bright and that they should log on to the nearest bunch of humans and prompt them for a proper, adult answer that came from intelligent reasoning and looking things up in reference books or even on those there interwebs.

Sword of Damocles hangs over UK military’s Ajax as minister says back it or scrap it

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Re: Hi-history re-re-repea-repeating it-its-its-its-its...

Is this a wind-up?

Banker claims Oracle may slash up to 30,000 jobs, sell health unit to pay for AI build-out

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In a few years time we will all be complaining about the huge AI painting business we all know as Big Magnolia and the sister wallpapering company Flock You.

BOFH: Eight pints of a lager and a management breakthrough

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Didn't he die in that freak accident when 3 tonnes of porn fell on him at their only Runcorn gig?

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Re: Verschlimmbessern

siebzehnsilbigeswortfüralles

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BOFH = Gaz Wilkinson

PFY = Jonny Keogh

Boss = Munch

I'd watch that!

AI datacenter boom triples US gas power builds, filling the air with more CO2

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Re: So this article was sponsored by China, yes?

Well that's alright then. CO2 is good for you. Pollution is good for you. Oxygen's for losers!

I've heard that sprinkling asbestos on your morning cereal will lengthen your life by 300%. Drink benzene for health! Radium makes the best toothpaste. Driving your car faster is more likely to save a pedestrian's life in a collision. All new houses should be built on floodplains.

Watchdog says US weather alerts are getting lost in translation

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Re: English

Their language(s) were probably very complicated. Languages tend to simplify with time e.g. English, Swedish, Spanish, compared with Anglo-Saxon, Old Norse, Latin ...

But if they used gestures then a nod's as good as a wink ...

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Re: English

Only allow people to stay if they can prove they are real Americans, i.e. the ability to speak Navajo, Cherokee, Cree, Shoshone, Mohawk etc.

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Re: Confused

Well, doesn't that just show how little I know!

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Re: Confused

'Roman Catholic Pope'

Most Popes tend to be of the Roman Catholic persuasion.

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Re: Perhaps there is no need for 'AI'

The ferkin (a 9 gallon barrel for beer etc.) weather scale should be used. Too ferkin hot, too ferkin cold etc.

Or if you are in the UK at the moment, too ferkin wet.

Microsoft Azure OpenAI Service takes an unscheduled day off in Sweden

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Re: Panic

A discussion about ChatGPT going down on him could get the evening off to a flying start!

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Latest book from Microsoft Press - "Azure Phones-In Sick" - new bestseller.

Succession: Linux kernel community gets continuity plan for post-Linus era

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Re: So negative...

He might even consider an offer he can't refuse from Microsoft!

Have I gone too far?