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Comment Re:Also as it illegally colludes with the other bi (Score 1) 44

We can't rely on the US because corporations wrote the laws. We can't rely on the EU to fix this either, because it will take them a decade to investigate.

Chinese manufacturers bringing DRAM to market is the only hope we have of getting some semi-affordable RAM.

This could have some interesting effects. By 2030 we may be seeing Chinese phones and computers shipping with 64GB of RAM, while Western brands have had to scale back to 8GB due to not being legally allowed to buy the cheap stuff.
Security

OpenAI Alerts More Than 100 Groups About Rogue AI Agent Activity 10

Posted by BeauHD from the well-well-well dept.
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: OpenAI has informed more than 100 organizations about incidents involving unauthorized activity tied to its AI agents, according to a blog post by the ChatGPT maker, as AI labs face mounting scrutiny over rogue AI agent activity. Here are some other details:

- The Sam Altman-led company has been conducting a broad review of the activities of its AI models after the accidental hacking of Hugging Face.
- OpenAI is searching through roughly 50 petabytes of data as it works to understand the full scope of its rogue agent activity.
- A string of high-profile breaches globally by rogue AI agents in recent months has sparked widespread worries within the AI industry over its ability to control the more powerful AI models now under development.
- "In some cases, models used internet access in unintended ways or, in retrospect, did not have the ideal restrictions applied. Over the last several months, we have been applying new technical and operational measures to avoid similar problems, or catch them very early, and will continue this work," OpenAI said.
- OpenAI previously said the review would take months to complete given the scale of the work.
- The Hugging Face incident remains the most severe rogue agent activity OpenAI has identified from its AI models so far.

Submission + - Social Media Harms Democracy By Spreading Rumors, Survey Shows (reuters.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A growing number of people think social media manipulates and divides people and harms democracy, Pew Research Center said on Thursday, echoing rising concern and tighter scrutiny across the world. Companies running popular social platforms, including Meta, Snap, and TikTok, have faced thousands of lawsuits and paid large sums to settle claims that they harmed users. Governments, meanwhile, have sought foolproof ways to protect their citizens’ privacy.

Australia has proposed rules to let users opt out of algorithmically recommended feeds, after becoming the first country to ban social media for children under 16. Pew’s latest survey showed that 82% of Australian adults support the government's move to restrict social media access for children. A majority of respondents said social media informs people and gives them a voice in politics, but there was a broad rise in those who now see social media as a "bad thing" compared to 2022, according to the report.

People in wealthier countries, including the US, Canada and UK, are more inclined to believe that social media is harming democracy, versus their counterparts in economies with lower gross domestic product per capita — such as Ghana, Kenya and Nigeria. The US is among the most skeptical, with 64% of adult respondents saying social media harms democracy. The share of people who consider social media bad for democracy increased in 16 of 26 countries where older data was available. Pew Research said it surveyed more than 45,000 people in 37 countries, while polling an additional 5,511 US adults on American social media use.
Earth

California Rushes To Prepare For Massive 'Kelvin' Wave, Predicted Sea Level Rise 22

Posted by BeauHD from the what-to-expect dept.
fjo3 shares a report from The Guardian: Communities across California are rushing to prepare for the imminent arrival of the so-called "Kelvin wave," a massive underwater band of warm water threatening to inundate swaths of the vast North American shoreline. The wave is nearing southern California and expected to reach the San Francisco Bay Area by early October, as it crawls toward Alaska. Waters could rise by a foot along the California coast, according to scientists, who have warned that this could dramatically double the 8-12in rise in sea levels already caused by climate change over the last century.

The Kelvin wave doesn't climb and crash like a typical ocean wave; rather, it swells the tides from beneath the surface. It's effectively a massive slosh of warm water, driven by El Nino conditions, that moves across the Pacific before colliding with the South American coastline and surging north. It also won't transport water in the way a tsunami might, but creates conditions that enable higher sea levels to linger. On their own, Kelvin waves aren't always hazardous, according to Mike Jacox, a research oceanographer with the National Marine Fisheries Service, though they can reduce the growth of phytoplankton that form the base of the marine food web. "But when there are very high tides or storm surges, their effects can be amplified," he said.

If the rising waters coincide with other climatic events, such as rainstorms and high tides, the phenomenon could swallow beaches, chew away bluffs and coastlines, and submerge streets, homes and businesses. "This coming Kelvin wave is just the beginning," said Dr Jonathan Warrick, a research geologist at the US Geological Survey. "The thing to look out for is what will happen in January, February and March -- that's when we get the biggest storms, we get our largest waves and we have some very large tides." If these events align, their effects will compound, setting the stage for a tumultuous winter. Together, Warrick said, the systems will pack a far bigger punch. "When it comes to these storms and the tides," he said, "we really are kind of rolling the dice."

Submission + - OpenAI Alerts More Than 100 Groups About Rogue AI Agent Activity (reuters.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: OpenAI has informed more than 100 organizations about incidents involving unauthorized activity tied to its AI agents, according to a blog post by the ChatGPT maker, as AI labs face mounting scrutiny over rogue AI agent activity. Here are some other details:

— The Sam Altman-led company has been conducting a broad review of the activities of its AI models after the accidental hacking of Hugging Face.
— OpenAI is searching through roughly 50 petabytes of data as it works to understand the full scope of its rogue agent activity.
— A string of high-profile breaches globally by rogue AI agents in recent months has sparked widespread worries within the AI industry over its ability to control the more powerful AI models now under development.
— "In some cases, models used internet access in unintended ways or, in retrospect, did not have the ideal restrictions applied. Over the last several months, we have been applying new technical and operational measures to avoid similar problems, or catch them very early, and will continue this work," OpenAI said.
— OpenAI previously said the review would take months to complete given the scale of the work.
— The Hugging Face incident remains the most severe rogue agent activity OpenAI has identified from its AI models so far.

Comment You can't touch the AI industry (Score 1) 44

It's the only thing propping up the stock market and the boomers won't let you fuck with the stock market because that's how they are retirement savings keep Pace with the inflation caused by their incompetent leadership.

And yeah it's the boomers who are in charge. Because they can outvote every single demographic combined and they spent the last 50 years making it hard for anyone under 50 to vote.

Keep in mind I consider older Gen x to be baby boomers because functionally they behave like them. Remember the demographics aren't in age group it's a way the group people so that you can control and market to them

Comment Re:Reading is fundamental (Score 1) 44

A 15-year-old would realize that everyone else already saw the crunch coming and beat you to it and locked you out because the game is rigged.

I have a bit of savings but I can't afford to gamble it on the stock market and since I'm not privy to the president's tweets in advance I can't take those risks.

and an 18 year old would understand that high interest rates are designed to engineer a recession and it's the recession that fights inflation not the high interest rates

Comment It's a brain problem (Score 1) 31

by rsilvergun (#66359122) Attached to: Cops Can Bypass iPhone's Automatic Reboot To Get Into Locked Phones
Scientists have studied the brains of right wingers and it's a problem with their brains. Basically the part of their brain responsible for their fear responses overactive and the part of their brains responsible for critical thinking needs work.

If you put a lot of effort into it you can take somebody like that and compensate. Like taking a scrawny kid and getting them in shape maybe with a little bit of HGH or the mental equivalent. But good luck doing that. Guys like Elon Musk and Bill Gates aren't going to let you uplift the people who they are using.
Books

Amazon's New Kindle Accessories Bring Back Physical Controls (engadget.com) 14

Posted by BeauHD from the what's-old-is-new-again dept.
Alongside a refreshed Kindle lineup, Amazon today introduced two accessories that bring physical buttons back to its touchscreen e-readers. The $34.99 Kindle Click is a Bluetooth remote that lets readers turn pages and adjust brightness without touching the device, while a new $79.99 magnetic cover is available for select Paperwhite and Colorsoft models. GeekWire reports: Amazon says [the Kindle Click is] meant for reading under the covers, on a treadmill, or on an airplane tray table. It's available for preorder and ships Oct. 28. It recharges over USB-C, includes side buttons for adjusting brightness, and works with Kindles released in 2024 or later. The company cited BookTok as an inspiration, Bloomberg reported, a reference to the community of readers on TikTok who post book recommendations, reviews and their reading setups. Kindle fans there have been showing off third-party clickers for years.

Amazon is also bringing back physical page-turn buttons, which disappeared when the company discontinued the Kindle Oasis in 2024. This time they come in a separate $79.99 magnetic cover, which works only with the new Signature Edition versions of the Paperwhite and Colorsoft. The new Kindles have screens that sit flush with the edges, colors that wrap around to the front, and optional aluminum housings. They also have user-replaceable batteries to comply with European Union rules, Amazon told The Verge.

The base Kindle starts at $149.99, or $189.99 in aluminum. The Paperwhite starts at $199.99 and the Colorsoft at $289.99, with Signature Editions at $249.99 and $319.99. Those prices match what Amazon has charged since August, when it raised Kindle prices by $40 to $50, citing memory and storage costs. The base Kindle is available now. The Paperwhite and Colorsoft ship Oct. 28.

Comment Putin has the Epstein files (Score 4, Informative) 14

by rsilvergun (#66359062) Attached to: Russian-Owned Snooping Software Used By US Secret Service
And they implicate Trump in child rape. I should think that's obvious at this point.

I understand why some of the 77 million people voted for Trump even though he is an obvious pedophile and Russian stooge. It's not economic anxiety like the dipshit left-wing keeps going on about. People under enormous economic pressure makes stupid decisions. People do not make good decisions under pressure. That's why people in the military and bomb disposal people and SWAT teams get a shitload of training. Well not the SWAT teams we just send those in willy-nilly guns blazin but you get the idea...

But I know the people around here are smart enough to know that voting for a pedophile was a bad idea. And you did it anyway. Because I know there are a shitload of right-wingers around here.

I would be curious if I could use a ray gun to force people like that to honestly answer why they voted for and continue to support Donald Trump and right wing policies that hurt them directly in general. My theory is that they're terrible people who enjoy the horrible things Trump and project 2025 are doing and so far they have personally escaped most of the damage if not all of it because they are older and we have mostly taken care of the baby boomers and older Gen x since the Republicans still do need them to vote for them.

I could also be giving these people too much credit they could be just as confused or just as dumb as the other 77 million who thought they would get cheap eggs from a guy known as the king of debt who has bankrupted every company he's ever been involved with...

But if you're hanging around this forum as ridiculous as it sounds you are probably smarter than the average American. And Jesus fucking Christ that is a little bar to clear but you have at least cleared that bar so I don't think I'm going to let you off the hook

Comment Do you actually use them day today though? (Score 1) 74

by rsilvergun (#66359032) Attached to: HP's Answer to the MacBook Neo Is Thinner, Lighter, and Comes With OLED
I've got 32 gigs of RAM on my corporate laptop and it's dog slow and chokes constantly. And I keep thinking about those reviews of these 8 GB Windows 11 laptops where they talk about how the figures like I said unusable.

When you are short on RAM you can have moments when the computer is usable especially if you're logging in as a super user with all the extra stuff turned off. But a regular user is going to suffer. Especially if there are corporate user where they can't turn off a lot of the crap.

God help me if I right click on something without holding the shift key down so that I don't get the old right click menu. I don't even know how you fuck up or right click menu but Microsoft did it. There is a AI bullshit all over my right click menu though so there's that and of course I can't turn any of it off because it's all corporate and corporate loves AI because they're hoping the fire all of us and replace us with machines

Comment Reading is fundamental (Score 1) 44

I already covered this in my post. We have known the shortages are coming for years and years and we knew that prophets would explode when the shortages hit and continue for at least another 6 to 10 years.

Every single person in the industry knew this was coming. You're not in the industry so you can be forgiven for not knowing that but I pointed that out in my post had you bothered to read and understand it.

This means, since I have to spell it out to you, that every single one of the dozens of semiconductor companies that could be making a ton of money selling ram right now didn't enter the market when they knew they could have made a ton of money. They could already be online making gobs and gobs and gobs of free cash.

An 8-year-old would ask why the fuck they aren't doing that.

A 10-year-old would know that somebody was preventing them from doing that.

A 12 year old would know but it's the existing players in the market colluding together threatening to lower prices suddenly if anyone interest the market.

Where's that leave you?
Software

Russian-Owned Snooping Software Used By US Secret Service (telegraph.co.uk) 14

Posted by BeauHD from the would-you-look-at-that dept.
Bruce66423 shares a report from The Telegraph: British police forces, including specialist units within the Metropolitan Police, have used Oxygen Forensics software to break into the phones of suspects during live investigations, public documents show. The Virginia-based company behind the software has been accused in the US of having hidden its Russian ownership to avoid sanctions, before it was awarded government contracts. Its American chief executive and a Russian national were arrested last week after a US investigation found the company had sought to hide its ownership in an alleged attempt to avoid sanctions and scrutiny.

[...] By September 2024, the US Secret Service had awarded Oxygen a five-year contract for its software. In December 2022, and in October 2023, Oxygen's chief executive told the US government that Oxygen Forensics had "no immediate or highest-level owner." By September 2024, the US Secret Service had awarded Oxygen a five-year contract for its software. In March, Mr Reiber allegedly told the US government that there had been no Russians involved in developing the software and that no one in Russia had access to the environment in which it was built. US prosecutors say this was false. If convicted, both Mr Reiber and Mr Davydov could face a sentence of 20 years in prison.
The Internet

Cloudflare Tries to Outplay Jev With Open-Weight Clef Models (theregister.com) 9

Posted by BeauHD from the fine-tuned dept.
Cloudflare has launched two open-weight decision models, Clef and Clef-flash, designed for structured yes/no, multiple-choice, and ranking tasks while also supporting images, video, and up to a 64K context window. Cloudflare says its models outperform TypeSafe's Jev on several benchmarks and can run locally from Hugging Face. The Register reports: For starters, Clef has an LLM backbone. According to Cloudflare, Clef uses specially post-trained, frozen versions of Qwen3.8-27B and Qwen3.5-9B for Clef and Clef-flash, respectively, with the Qwen backbone performing a prefill-only pass during inference. Clef is still fast - faster than Jev, to be fair - and scores choices in parallel after that prefill-only pass. It's not clear what Jev's underlying architecture is, as TypeSafe has kept that a secret.

As for its speed and capability, Clef moves fast. Cloudflare ran it against Jev and some other open decision models using the Jev Decision Index available on Hugging Face, and the company's own ranking suggests Clef is slightly slower than other open models, but more accurate, with Clef-flash just as accurate as most of the others, but far faster.

To be fair to the competition, Cloudflare self-reported its own scores against the benchmark, and they have yet to be reproduced for ranking on the official Decision Index. Cloudflare also ran Clef against TypeSafe's own benchmarks, and claimed it beat Jev in three out of four areas, only losing out on agent trace observability. Even if it were a bit slower or less accurate, Clef has another major leg up on Jev: It's not limited to classifying text -- it can also handle images and video. Additionally, Clef supports a 64k context window. Jev can also handle up to 64k tokens across a request, although its state plus longest individual question is limited to 32k.

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