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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>2025-01-02T18:07:00Z</updated> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu/atom.xml</id> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 2 January 2025</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_2_january_2025"/> <updated>2025-01-02T18:07:00Z</updated> <summary>Nerpy Merp Derp Edition Top Story It's Public Domain Day - or was, yesterday - meaning a slew of new content is in the public domain, unless it isn't, in which case it's not. (Duke University) Sometimes it's hard to be sure particularly when dealing with 95-year-old material where everyone directly involved is probably dead. But entering the public domain this year - yesterday - is A Farewell to Arms, The Sound and the Fury, The Maltese Falcon, Is Sex Necessary by James Thurber and E. B. White, Alfred Hitchcock's first sound film Blackmail, and The Cocoanuts, the first feature...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_2_january_2025</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 1 January 2025</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_1_january_2025"/> <updated>2025-01-01T16:20:00Z</updated> <summary>New Year Who Dis Edition Top Story It's not always the Chinese: A US soldier has been arrested for his role in hacking AT&T and Verizon and attempted extortion of the president and vice president. (Krebs on Security) This seems like a very poor choice of career paths for a soldier, but Cameron John Wagenius does not strike me as the sharpest spoon in the drawer:"In the event you do not reach out to us @ATNT all presidential government call logs will be leaked," Kiberphant0m threatened, signing their post with multiple "#FREEWAIFU" tags. "You don’t think we don't have plans...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_1_january_2025</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 31 December 2024</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_31_december_2024"/> <updated>2024-12-31T17:16:00Z</updated> <summary>New Year's Eevee Edition Top Story The US Treasury was hacked by Chinese spies. (Reuters) Fortunately it was empty at the time. Tech News Americans spend five hours a day on their phone, checking it more than 200 times. (PC Magazine) I rarely look at my phone at all. Every so often it goes off and I have to check my email for a server alert, and sometimes people call me and I ignore them. Guess I just don't have that kind of personality, I write on the laptop that has never once been turned off since I bought it....</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_31_december_2024</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 30 December 2024</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_30_december_2024"/> <updated>2024-12-30T15:55:39Z</updated> <summary>Modular Laminated Hangout Edition Top Story Canadian online accounting firm Bench has 35,000 US customers, the company announced, immediately before shutting down and leaving them all in the lurch. (Tech Crunch) Customers will be able to download their data. Soon. Tech News Huawei's first consumer SSD is cheap. (Notebook Check) $32 for 1TB of PCIe 4.0 SSD is a good price. On the other hand, it's a DRAMless QLC drive, a notoriously poor combination if you do anything remotely heavy. Melbourne (Australia, not Florida) still runs its train control system on a PDP-11. (Mastodon) On an emulator, but nevertheless. The...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_30_december_2024</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 29 December 2024</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_29_december_2024"/> <updated>2024-12-29T18:52:49Z</updated> <summary>COBOLated Soda Edition Top Story Giving people money doesn't stop them being poor. (Yahoo) Another UBI study fails without even asking the fundamental question of where the money comes from. Neither does taking their money. (Tech Crunch) Lyft is suing San Francisco for overcharging the company $100 million in taxes. Neither does charging interest on their loans. (MSN)All told, Warner borrowed a total of about $60,000 for her two advanced degrees. The amount seemed reasonable given the career trajectory that both credentials promised, but that path never materialized. Working a series of low-wage jobs, she went in and out of...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_29_december_2024</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 28 December 2024</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_28_december_2024"/> <updated>2024-12-28T17:15:54Z</updated> <summary>Topological Maps Edition Top Story A new Chinese AI called DeepSeek V3 outperforms ChatGPT on standard tests while costing a small fraction of the price to train because - apparently - the developers stole the ChatGPT training data. (Tech Crunch) The evidence for this is that the model is convinced it is ChatGPT."Obviously, the model is seeing raw responses from ChatGPT at some point, but it’s not clear where that is," Mike Cook, a research fellow at King's College London specializing in AI, told TechCrunch. "It could be 'accidental'… but unfortunately, we have seen instances of people directly training their...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_28_december_2024</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 27 December 2024</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_27_december_2024"/> <updated>2024-12-27T18:46:00Z</updated> <summary>Cold Front Edition Top Story Browser extension Honey, which promises to save you money on everything you buy online, appears to be a scam. (Lifehacker) Honey claims to find you the best available discount codes for whatever you wish to buy. It doesn't. Honey makes deals with merchants to control the discount codes it provides so that you don't get the best one. Sometimes it finds nothing at all even when valid coupons exist. It also appears to change the affiliate cookie in your browser so that if you follow a recommendation, Honey gets the cut rather than the person...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_27_december_2024</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 26 December 2024</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_26_december_2024"/> <updated>2024-12-26T17:11:00Z</updated> <summary>Postprandial Edition Top Story A record 18,000 games were published on Steam in 2024 - around fifty per day. (Tom's Hardware) Of course most of these are small indie titles, but given that most of the tentpole AAA titles in 2024 were catastrophic failures - cough Concord cough - that's not only entirely understandable but a good thing. Meanwhile in Europe new game sales dropped by 29% year-on-year. (WCCFTech) Star Wars Outlaws, one of Ubisoft's biggest failures of 2024, was the 14th best selling title in 2024 out of games released in 2024. But when you include sales of older...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_26_december_2024</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 25 December 2024</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_25_december_2024"/> <updated>2024-12-25T17:20:00Z</updated> <summary>Christmas Edition Top Story Electric aircraft startup Lilium has ceased operations and laid off 1000 workers after being unable run raise additional funds. (Tech Crunch) The German company has filed for insolvency - effectively bankrupt - after fundraising attempts fell through. It had been operating for over ten years and laid off 200 workers earlier this year. Electric aircraft startup Lilium has been bought out of insolvency by a group of American and European investors. (Tech Crunch) The deal is expected to complete early in January and the new owners plan to rehire former workers. Sometimes things mostly work out....</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_25_december_2024</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 24 December 2024</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_24_december_2024"/> <updated>2024-12-24T18:43:35Z</updated> <summary>Not Even A Moose Edition Top Story Elon Musk's xAI company has secured $6 billion in investment. (Tech Crunch) If you're paying attention, this may be old news. xAI raised $6 billion in May. If you're really paying attention, though, this is new news. This is a different $6 billion, filed with the SEC last Thursday. That's a total of $12 billion, or as ChatGPT would put it, the same as the number of Rs in "strawberry". Tech News Asus' new Zenbook - set to launch at CES - comes with a Qualcomm CPU and a 32 hour battery life....</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_24_december_2024</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 23 December 2024</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_23_december_2024"/> <updated>2024-12-23T18:00:00Z</updated> <summary>Again Dangerous Frisbees Edition Top Story OpenAI's next generation model, GPT-5, is ahead of schedule and coming in under budget. (WSJ / MSN) Sorry, just kidding. GPT-5 is not working, may never work as planned, and each training run takes six months and costs half a billion dollars.OpenAI has conducted at least two large training runs, each of which entails months of crunching huge amounts of data, with the goal of making Orion smarter. Each time, new problems arose and the software fell short of the results researchers were hoping for, people close to the project say.Also there's the tiny...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_23_december_2024</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 22 December 2024</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_22_december_2024"/> <updated>2024-12-22T15:00:00Z</updated> <summary>Game Of Rat And Dragon Edition Top Story Why AI is stupid garbage and everyone in the industry is lying frantically to cover up the truth. (Ars Technica) Okay, I may have paraphrased Tim Lee at Ars just a little there, but if you look at the promises AI leaders have made against the mathematical problems they face, that is the gist of the situation. AI - LLM-based generative AI, not the more interesting discriminative AI - uses a technology called transformers which lets it process data in a massively parallel way. This requires about the same amount of work...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_22_december_2024</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 21 December 2021</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_21_december_2021"/> <updated>2024-12-21T18:03:46Z</updated> <summary>Heat Displacement Edition Top Story Here's a list of the 49 American AI startups that have raised $100 million or more in 2024. (Tech Crunch) Top among them is OpenAI, which raised $6.6 billion this year, but close behind is Elon Musk's xAI, which raised $6 billion. Interestingly Europe didn't miss the boat with Mistral leading the table there with $1.2 billion raised. What all that money will achieve I don't know. Tech News For consumer hardware, it's not achieving much. (Tom's Hardware) AI PCs just aren't selling. That is, people are buying PCs, and some of them are labeled...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_21_december_2021</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 20 December 2024</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_20_december_2024"/> <updated>2024-12-20T18:30:36Z</updated> <summary>Gleep Gloop Edition Top Story Oh yeah, don't use SMS for two-factor authentication either. (Gizmodo) It was never ideal since your phone number could get SIM-swapped without you knowing, but now that the entire phone network has been hacked it's not very useful at all. Microsoft promises meanwhile to keep nagging you to use passkeys rather than passwords online. (The Register) A passkey lets you log in to a website without the tedious logging in part, so long as you have already logged in to your device. This is actually fairly secure because the passkey consists of two parts -...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_20_december_2024</id> </entry> <entry> <title>Daily News Stuff 19 December 2024</title> <link href="http://ai.mee.nu/daily_news_stuff_19_december_2024"/> <updated>2024-12-19T17:44:25Z</updated> <summary>Second Last Thursdayism Edition Top Story The US government has warned politicians and government officials to avoid the phone network. (Reuters) It's full of Chinese hackers and nobody can say when - or if - it will be secure again.The first recommendation: "Use only end-to-end encrypted communications."Which they have been trying to ban. Meanwhile in the world of digital license plates, the absolutely thinkable happened: They got hacked. (Wired) (archive site) Digital license plates aren't supposed to let you change your license plate number. But of course they do. There's a programming port on the license plate which is secured...</summary> <author> <name>Pixy Misa</name> </author> <id>http://ai.mee.nu//daily_news_stuff_19_december_2024</id> </entry> </feed>If you would like to create a banner that links to this page (i.e. this validation result), do the following:
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