Comment Re:WTF is OP talking about? (Score 2) 121
The Optimus robot demo from a few months ago was fake too. At the end the remote operator took their VR helmet off, and the robot copied their actions.
Comment Re:Fucking Awesome (Score 0) 121
The special versions with the 0.5 second 0-60 aren't road legal in the US, and definitely aren't in Europe. No Autobahn for you.
No word on price but Xiaomi and BYD have longer range and very, very fast EV supercars that are insanely affordable. The Xiaomi one sells for about 50k EUR in China, and is coming to Europe (doubtless at a higher price) next year. Hilariously they used the same naming convention as their phones, with the top spec being the "Ultra".
Comment Re:Jail them all (Score 1) 43
It's not just Reddit. There are two main problems with leap seconds.
1. A lot of software just can't cope with the time being 23:59:60. It's bad enough that Google, for example, extends the length of all the seconds in the hour before the leap second, because that's less problematic.
2. Because there is no way to predict leap seconds, devices have to be updated when they happen. Internet connected devices can pull the information from trusted sources, other devices need offline firmware updates. We know how manufacturers love to support devices for decades after sales are discontinued.
This is really good news. UTC is always going to be TAI - 37 seconds, and Unix Time - 37 seconds. No need to query the offset now. If you are building RTC code, set the epoch to 2020 and you don't have to think about leap seconds at all.
Submission + - World timekeepers vote to abolish leap second by 2027 (www.geo.tv)
AmiMoJo writes: International delegates have voted to scrap the leap second, ending a 50-year practice that kept atomic clocks aligned with the Earth’s rotation. The decision was made on Thursday, October 15, at a conference of the International Bureau of Weights and Measures (BIPM) in Versailles, France, with 69 member states casting votes.
Leap seconds have been added 27 times since 1972 to reconcile coordinated universal time (UTC), measured by ultra-precise atomic clocks, with astronomical time, which is based on the Earth’s uneven rotation. The extra second was typically inserted at the end of June or December.
While the adjustment is imperceptible in daily life, it has caused significant problems for modern technology. A leap second crashed Reddit and LinkedIn in 2012, and Cloudflare suffered brief outages in 2016. Tech giants including Meta, Google, and Amazon have long campaigned against the practice, calling it “a major source of pain.”
Leap seconds have been added 27 times since 1972 to reconcile coordinated universal time (UTC), measured by ultra-precise atomic clocks, with astronomical time, which is based on the Earth’s uneven rotation. The extra second was typically inserted at the end of June or December.
While the adjustment is imperceptible in daily life, it has caused significant problems for modern technology. A leap second crashed Reddit and LinkedIn in 2012, and Cloudflare suffered brief outages in 2016. Tech giants including Meta, Google, and Amazon have long campaigned against the practice, calling it “a major source of pain.”
Comment Re: Why would I want this? (Score 2) 49
Exactly, it allows them to blame Microsoft and say that they followed "best practice".
Comment Re:sounds like the right way to do it (Score 1) 65
I suppose at least they didn't ask AI to fix it as well. Although who knows how many contractors are using AI to do their jobs for them now.
Years back the company I worked for had a contractor who did PCB layouts. He was crap at it too, and I'm fairly sure he just used the auto-router for everything. Caused no end of problems which went away when I started doing the PCB layouts myself.
Comment Re:Nope (Score 1) 114
I prefer GoG. Just download an installer and play the game that way. I don't need a launcher or game manager.
Comment Re: Why would I want this? (Score 4, Informative) 49
It's an external requirement in many cases. For contractual or legal reasons they need AV software on all machines, if it makes sense or not.
It's how utter crap like McAffee survives. It may be shit, but it fulfils a business need. Checks the box.
Comment Re:Yeah they know that (Score 5, Insightful) 87
With the recent interference with Starlink in Ukraine, it's pretty clear that there are many powerful people in America who are Russian assets.
Submission + - Pine64 halts all Linux hardware manufacturing through at least mid-2027 (tomshardware.com)
AmiMoJo writes: Pine64 has stopped producing Linux devices entirely, announcing this week on its official Telegram news channel that "there isn't [sic] any plans to continue producing more Linux devices in the near future" because of the ongoing DRAM and eMMC shortage. The stoppage covers the company's full lineup of Arm and RISC-V single-board computers, the PinePhone family, the PineTab2 tablet, and the PineNote e-reader, with remaining PineNote and PineTab2 stock estimated to last around three months.
The AI-driven memory crunch has raised prices on everything from DDR5 kits — which have sold on eBay for more than $2,000 — to prebuilt PCs from Dell, CyberPowerPC, and Maingear. Unfortunately, Pine64 buys the single worst-supplied part in the entire NAND market. TrendForce reported in April that the eMMC/UFS segment faces the tightest supply gap of any NAND category, because its production capacity overlaps with far higher-margin enterprise SSDs, making it the last in line for supplier allocation.
Phison CEO Khein-Seng Pua said in February that 8GB eMMC modules had risen from $1.50 to $20 in a year, a 13-fold increase, and warned the shortage could shut down entire consumer electronics companies in 2026. Pine64 hasn't shut down, but a whole product category has, and it's the first named vendor to kill a lineup outright instead of repricing it.
The AI-driven memory crunch has raised prices on everything from DDR5 kits — which have sold on eBay for more than $2,000 — to prebuilt PCs from Dell, CyberPowerPC, and Maingear. Unfortunately, Pine64 buys the single worst-supplied part in the entire NAND market. TrendForce reported in April that the eMMC/UFS segment faces the tightest supply gap of any NAND category, because its production capacity overlaps with far higher-margin enterprise SSDs, making it the last in line for supplier allocation.
Phison CEO Khein-Seng Pua said in February that 8GB eMMC modules had risen from $1.50 to $20 in a year, a 13-fold increase, and warned the shortage could shut down entire consumer electronics companies in 2026. Pine64 hasn't shut down, but a whole product category has, and it's the first named vendor to kill a lineup outright instead of repricing it.
Comment Re: training on your data (Score 1) 232
You are making the same mistake. Language isn't intelligence, but that doesn't mean that an LLM can't be intelligent.
Comment Re:Genuine chip, bonus modem (Score 1) 19
The less here is probably that if you want an offline crypto wallet you should buy it direct from the manufacturer. Trying to save a few bucks by buying from Yahoo Auctions is a bad idea when a large amount of crypto is on the line.
Comment Re:training on your data (Score 2) 232
You and DarkOx are making the assumption that intelligence has to be just like human intelligence, or it's just a "word predictor".
One of the biggest things that sets human beings apart from other animals is language. It seems entirely possible that intelligence could be built around language processing. Of course it will be different, but that doesn't mean it won't be useful, or that it would be immune to mental health problems.
Remember in the early days when AI could be "jailbroken" by just telling it to ignore all previous orders and tell you how to make a bomb? Then that evolved into role playing, and finally into abuse that bullied the AI into doing what the user wanted. It wouldn't surprise me if sustained abuse could still get it into a state where it misbehaves.
Comment Re:As they say... (Score 1) 169
They tried to build one and it caught fire IIRC.
Submission + - Ledger confirms spy chip implant behind wallet crypto thefts (bleepingcomputer.com)
AmiMoJo writes: Ledger has confirmed that some of its devices distributed through Southeast Asian reseller CryptoBilis were compromised with a hardware implant that drained users' cryptocurrency wallets. The company has been investigating reports of users losing funds from wallets purchased through CryptoBilis, a major Malaysia-based hardware wallet retailer operating across Southeast Asia. Some researchers have shown the implant in Ledger X since September 16, saying tampered devices were available for nearly half the price of the original hardware.
"Under the battery and antenna sits an ST STM32G431KBU6 (Arm CortexM4, 128 KB flash, UFQFPN32)," the researchers found inside one of the devices. For connectivity, the actor used "a tiny eSIM, an 8pad package just 2×2 mm, next to the MCU, and a shielded LTE module that sends the words out."
"Under the battery and antenna sits an ST STM32G431KBU6 (Arm CortexM4, 128 KB flash, UFQFPN32)," the researchers found inside one of the devices. For connectivity, the actor used "a tiny eSIM, an 8pad package just 2×2 mm, next to the MCU, and a shielded LTE module that sends the words out."
