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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom"> <title>Ambient Irony</title> <subtitle>Little blogses made out of ticky-tacky...</subtitle> <link rel="self" href="/atom.xml"/> <updated>2025-07-01T18:12:00Z</updated> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu/atom.xml</id> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 1 July 2025</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_1_july_2025"/> <updated>2025-07-01T18:12:00Z</updated> <summary>Countdown Edition Top Story Why AI is not useful for programming. (Ordep) Because writing code was never the problem. Anyone can write code if you don't care whether it works. Even an AI. And even if it works, it is almost certain to make the overall system more complicated than the value it adds. Keeping a complex system manageable as you add more features is the real battle. And AI is still at the stage of selling refrigerated tungsten cubes in its snack bar because one guy jokingly requested that. Tech News Why do 80% or more of email startups...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_1_july_2025</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 30 June 2025</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_30_june_2025"/> <updated>2025-06-30T18:17:00Z</updated> <summary>Deconsume Edition Top Story Don't buy an Nvidia video card. (Tom's Hardware) Because the leaks have already started for the upcoming 5000 Super family of cards, which are only very slightly faster but have 50% more memory. Upgrading the 5070 from a middling 12GB of RAM to 18GB makes it a solid product that will likely last for years. The same goes for the 5070 Ti, already fairly good with 16GB of RAM, if somewhat overpriced; with 24GB it becomes a high-end model that is not going to easily become obsolete. If you weren't inclined to pay that much in...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_30_june_2025</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 29 June 2025</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_29_june_2025"/> <updated>2025-06-29T17:12:00Z</updated> <summary>Bits And Nibbles Edition Top Story As an experiment, researchers at Anthropic gave an AI the task of running a small business. The results were catastrophic. (Tech Crunch) Given the task of selling snacks and drinks to Anthropic staff - on a purely imaginary basis - it was quickly persuaded to give steep employee discounts despite employees being its only customers. It tried to sell products that it knew were already available in the staff break room for free, and then went all-in on selling refrigerated tungsten cubes. It hallucinated that it was a human with a physical body, and...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_29_june_2025</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 28 June 2025</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_28_june_2025"/> <updated>2025-06-28T17:05:00Z</updated> <summary>Return Of The Shork Edition Top Story In the midst of a string of straightforward decisions by the Supreme Court upholding the plain meaning of the Constitution, such as Trump v. CASA, limiting the power of the inferior courts, and Mahmoud v. Taylor, limiting the power of the the indoctrination guilds, there was one with the exact same 6-3 split that went in a perhaps unexpected way. (The Verge) In FSC v. Paxton the Free Speech Coalition sued Texas attorney general Ken Paxton to block legislation to enforce age filters on online pornography on the grounds that it would inevitably...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_28_june_2025</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 27 June 2025</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_27_june_2025"/> <updated>2025-06-27T17:56:00Z</updated> <summary>Thirteen Trillion Edition Top Story AI makes people dumber. (MSN) This is a finding that has been replicated in a series of studies across education and professional use:But in a series of experiments involving more than 4,500 participants at the University of Pennsylvania's Wharton School, people who used LLMs to research everyday topics demonstrated weaker understanding of those topics afterward and produced less original insights than people who looked up the same topics using Google.Of course Google itself and other search engines have become less useful in recent years for a whole range of reasons, most recently and notably the...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_27_june_2025</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 26 June 2025</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_26_june_2025"/> <updated>2025-06-26T18:15:11Z</updated> <summary>Two Out Of Three Edition Top Story Facebook has also won the lawsuit filed against it by angry authors (and "authors"), with a different federal judge also ruling that it is legal to read books that you bought. (MSN) The authors sued because Facebook could hypothetically use its AI to create near-copies of their work. They lost the suit because, well, it didn't."The plaintiffs presented no meaningful evidence on market dilution at all," said Judge Chhabria.There's a lot of that going around. Tech News HDMI 2.2 is here, supporting speeds up to 96Gbps. (Tom's Hardware) Since the existing HDMI 2.1...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_26_june_2025</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 25 June 2025</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_25_june_2025"/> <updated>2025-06-25T18:29:00Z</updated> <summary>Pyraplush Edition Top Story You don't need an author's permission to read their books. (Tech Crunch) If they publish it, you can buy a copy and read it, according to a federal judge for the Northern District of California. Groundbreaking? Not for people, no, but it may signal a seismic shift for all the content creators throwing lawsuits at AI companies, because this was one of those cases. There is still an issue that Anthropic did not buy all the books it used to train its AI, at least, not at first. The damages for that will be the subject...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_25_june_2025</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 24 June 2025</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_24_june_2025"/> <updated>2025-06-24T18:25:04Z</updated> <summary>Ottoman Edition Top Story How many PhDs does the world need? (Nature) (archive site) Or more precisely, how many academic PhD students does each existing academic PhD need to train in order to meet demand? The answer is, more or less, one. If you're working on a PhD, time to find a job. Like, now. It's only going to get worse. Tech News Compared with TSMC's 2nm process, Intel's upcoming 18A - 1.8nm - process is up to 25% faster and uses 36% less power than Intel's existing 3nm process. (Tom's Hardware) Yeah, the article doesn't actually compare anything against...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_24_june_2025</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 23 June 2025</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_23_june_2025"/> <updated>2025-06-23T18:29:35Z</updated> <summary>Blup 3.0 Edition Top Story Why 51% of engineering leadership thinks AI is leading the industry in the wrong direction. (Engineering Leadership) Because (a) AI is leading the industry in the wrong direction and (b) the other 49% are trying to sell you something. Fortunately generative AI may be on track to delete itself entirely. Tech News What if customers say no to AI? (MSN) I hope we find out, and soon. China's first home-grown 6nm GPU is supposed to perform like Nvidia's 4060. (Tom's Hardware) So far it performs like a 660 Ti from 2012. Intel's 52-core Nova Lake...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_23_june_2025</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 22 June 2025</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_22_june_2025"/> <updated>2025-06-22T17:43:00Z</updated> <summary>B2 Complex Edition Top Story 80% of patients in a recent study were cured within six months - of Type 1 diabetes. (Hartford Courant) (archive site) The subjects of the study were the subset of diabetes patients who have hypoglycemic unawareness - that is, they also lack the usual warning signs that their glucose levels are dangerously low. That was not specific for the treatment, but made the treatment more necessary. Because there is a big downside. The treatment involves using stem cells to recreate the missing pancreatic islet cells that generate insulin, but leave the patient needing lifetime immunosuppressant...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_22_june_2025</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 21 June 2025</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_21_june_2025"/> <updated>2025-06-21T18:20:00Z</updated> <summary>Roach Sniffing Edition Top Story Anthropic's Claude is not the only AI to immediately resort to blackmail when the going gets tough, according to... Anthropic. (Anthropic) It's just the most likely. Albeit not by much. Anthropic attempted blackmail 96% of the time when the opportunity presented itself. Google's Gemini 2.5 was just behind at 95%. Competitors Grok 3, GPT 4.1, and DeepSeek R1 trailed a little behind, only going rogue around 80% of the time.We refer to this behavior, where models independently and intentionally choose harmful actions, as agentic misalignment.Mechanical sociopathy.We deliberately created scenarios that presented models with no other...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_21_june_2025</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 20 June 2025</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_20_june_2025"/> <updated>2025-06-20T18:43:37Z</updated> <summary>Earth Shattering Edition Top Story Australia is moving closer to banning children from social media - which is impossible - after a story commission by the government showed that banning children from social media - which is impossible - is possible though they won't say how and admitted that there is no method that actually works. (Bloomberg) (archive site) This kind of bullshit gets routinely slapped down in the US on First Amendment grounds, but we don't have a First Amendment here. We don't have any amendments. Thanks (apparently) to the influence of "philosophers" like Jeremy Bentham around the time...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_20_june_2025</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 19 June 2025</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_19_june_2025"/> <updated>2025-06-19T18:29:45Z</updated> <summary>Binted Edition Top Story Scammers are using Google ads to inject fake phone numbers directly into major websites' search bars. (Ars Technica) Don't call the number in the search bar. Tech News Texas Instruments is investing $60 billion in new and upgraded fabs in the US. (TI) TI is one of the major chip manufacturers owned and operating in the US, along with Intel and Micron. TI doesn't make flashy expensive stuff like desktop CPUs and GPUs, but they make a lot of lower-end embedded and analog chips. Starship 10 could fly as soon as June 29. (WCCFTech) Unless it...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_19_june_2025</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 18 June 2025</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_18_june_2025"/> <updated>2025-06-18T18:26:00Z</updated> <summary>Butter Dog Edition Top Story Why it has suddenly become difficult to buy a handheld gaming device. (The Verge) (archive site) The popular models - the Switch 2 and Steam Deck OLED - are out of stock. The less popular models suddenly had price increases. The bad models are, well, bad. And the recently announced Xbox-branded handhelds are potentially all of those, but most importantly aren't out yet. Tech News Why Google just got rid of its 1-click app purchase. (Hot Hardware) Because people kept accidentally buying apps. 6G is fine. It's 7G that will turn people into animals. (Notebook...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_18_june_2025</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 17 June 2025</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_17_june_2025"/> <updated>2025-06-17T18:32:00Z</updated> <summary>Purple Snail Edition Top Story Intel's rumoured next-next generation Nova Lake processors have been rumoured again. (WCCFTech) Albeit with more details this time. The top of the line Core 9 model will reportedly include 16 performance cores, 32 efficiency cores, and 4 low-power efficiency cores. Which would be a lot. The next models down would be the Core 7, with 14 P-cores, 24 E-cores, and 4 LPE-cores. However, both would use a base power of 150W, meaning - this being Intel - in reality they would run at more like 300W. Which is also a lot. 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