That appears to block the AI results perfectly...but behind the scenes, Google still generated it with a datacenter full of Nvidia chips, before you told your browser not to display that

RISC-V says, "hold my beer".

I'll assume you're right - outside my knowledge set. Luckily, my needs (and, I'd guess those of 99% of smaller tractor purchasers) are boring and generic, and can be handled well with tractors from nearly any maker.

[Edit to add: I *know* that Deere's software locks and forced repair programs probably don't apply to the smaller (25-35hp) tractor class I'm buying in - their beleagured salescritter was really, really keen to point out that it mostly applied only to their big ag tractors, 100hp and above.

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Doesn't matter. It's about the company I'm choosing to buy from, and what their attitude towards their customers is. Seeing the people who buy from them as "valued partners" is what I'd want, not "exploitable commodities".)

I co-own what's quaintly known as a "hobby farm" (if you can call 7 days a week, 12+ hours a day a "hobby"). I really need a tractor that's capable of a myriad of tasks that I face here - primarily mowing, digging, general earth moving, and posthole augering. Will definitely be scratching that itch in the next 2-3 months (the grass isn't getting shorter here....)

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Kubota, New Holland, Kioti, TYM all seem to make fine machines. But guess, dear John Deere Corporation, what's the ONLY brand I took off my consideration list right at the start.
Bonus points: guess why.

Defnitely. Data point: I saw a couple years ago that hundreds of (mostly overseas) sellers were advertising things under titles like "Carbon Monoxide Detector Smoke Alarm". It was clear that they were all just CO detectors alone, with no smoke alarm capability at all (assuming they worked even for their designed pupose of CO detection, but that's a different story....)
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So people would clearly buy these thinking they were protected against CO and ordinary smoke, that they both kinds of alarms - but in reality had only the arguably less important one. (Regular household fires and choking smoke event are _far_ more common than CO poisoning - although both are deadly if they do happen.)
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Anyways, I tried for an hour to find a way to report this through Ebay's Trust and Safety system - and gave up. It didn't fit any of their preconceived categories of "Listing Violations" and there was no way they would allow someone to alert them about (dangerously) mislabeled products. It was clear that Ebay, in the end, really didn't seem to want to know that something's being sold on their site that shouldn't be - they just wanted the revenue.

ARM is trying to pump up its revenue in advance of its IPO later this year and someone in their Csuite had the brilliant idea of suing Qualcomm (regarding its acquisition of Nuvia) because...profit?
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But maybe not so much. Turns out suing your biggest customers makes them look around even harder for alternatives to your product - especially an open-source, royalty-free one like RISC-V. So ARM's moves here aren't looking so much "brilliant" - more like "play stupid games, win stupid prizes".

That's in addition to RISC-V being a more modern and arguable more efficient and extensible architecture, in addition to its clear legal advantages. So while the writing is on the wall, ARM just put more bullets in its own foot-gun.

This is a guy who has $5 billion-with-a-B in his Roth IRA alone..

To him a measly 50 mil is a rounding error.

It's a new level of techno-shame when you need to report to your millions of customers that your site is completely borked...
...via a post on Twitter.

Came here to ask this very thing. If it worked, that'd be a technological feat that's the stuff of....well, dreams.

Although, in fairness, the Unix epoch ends at 03:14:07 UTC, and Dan's prediction is for 03:14:07 EST, so technically not the *exact* same hour.

Can I note that the current 32-bit Unix epoch ends at 03:14:07 UTC 19 January 2038, 29 days after DAN's prediction of the end of the world....but and at the exact same hour and minute of the day? That can't be coincidence.

You sweet summer child...you have no idea how creative someone can be with that when their paycheck depends on it.

Yep, easy to see how this will play out:
1) Manager takes copy of most productive subordinate's work product(s)
2) Manager makes minor tweak to said product(s), then presents as "own contribution".
3) If subordinate complains about (2), manager gives said worker bad performance rating as not being a "team player" and puts them on a PIP.
4) Profit!

A Replika spokesperson admitted that the default user name for the chatbot - "M3GAN" - was in retrospect perhaps not the best choice, and blamed its use on an unspecified "translation issue".