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Comment Buzzword Soup (Score 2) 61

AI is not creating value for the vast majority of users. Google and other digital marketing monopolies are creaming the big bucks, and using market power to set prices. The front door to eyeballs and wallets. Buy Buy. Small players have crumbs, so resort to misleading ads and claims for miracle products at inflated price. Microsoft has changed from an OS, then to a stack, then to roped in cloud services, to where the new bloated offering is packed with spyware and AI driven advertising, where leads from your use, can be sold to the third parties without your consent. You are the product. These bloated MS products are security risks. Rob Braxman videos explain some of the basics. TINY11 looks promising.

Comment BYD SHARK (Score 1) 180

The electric Hybrid BYD Shark, designed for tradies has a power outlet on the back of the pickup. When the drain gets a bit high it automatically starts the gas engine to power the generator or welder. Tradies love it. Also the gas engine is an old or ancient GM design with proven reliability under the KISS principle. Testing in Australia has proved its AWD is defective up 4WD hills and being corrected as we speak. Range is not so hot, but hey, good enought to grab 80% of market share.

Comment Re:Damages (Score 0) 30

Value of the Company, one months interest on that valuation, plus whatever euro stocks gained generally in the last month. That is the minimum. Plus and injunction revealing the decision makers and the evidence used, in the name of full and frank disclosure. Plus any reputational damage the brand has suffered. That is a lot of Dutch taxpayer money. But not that mch considering ASML cut the ties overnight, another spiteful, racial slur on Chia.

Comment Re:I have an idea... (Score 1) 116

The Chinese firm is a spinoff from Phillips, maker of light globes and CRT screens reborn. They do basic bread and butter - low value add stuff, made in china using obsolete litho - but bigger may be more reliable. everyone one was happy, results at a low price The stupid takeover just proved a well run Phillips could have been marginally profitable. Now you have to give it back to the Chinese - OR spend billions with more billions in recalls to maintain production. GM just did a huge engine and transmission recall. I dont expect China will supply the software fix for free, meaning another 100,000 new engines plus plus conk out on the road. Laurel and Hardy could not have planed it better.

Comment Re:Malicious or not, TP-Link devices have issues (Score 2) 89

ASUS and other brands have the same cheesy pathetic cut and paste firmware, so zero progress has been made, including the ones made in Vietnam. standards and audits matter. but like Boeing, the regulators lack core competencies when disclosed cves yell shut them down. CISCO may also face issues.

Comment Correct past management mistakes (Score 1) 26

NVIDIA can run a second set of eyeballs over Intels products, and undeclared problems, and either kill them or pay TSMC to shrink and refine designs built for low ball fabs. This is exactly what Apple did. No doubt NVIDIA will weld in some NVIDIA silicon to speed up the pair. I remember Pentium II's made possible, because at that time Intel made memory others could not.

Comment Not a high profit item for Nvidia anyway (Score 1) 52

The die size of that Nvidia chip is huge. Maybe when testing they push the lower quality ones to the for China export pile. That is real money. OTOH hand the R&D stays away from China, so that is a plus. Only some supply restrictions broke that model, and China is good at whacking extra processors and pipelines onto the same die. Memory speed may be a bit harder for them, while TSMC seems to be on top of this. Give it time, China will have a good enough alternative. The head of Nvidia said do not poke the dragon, but some politician did. As the valuation multiples on the golden seven are huge, perceptions will cost Nvidia a bucket.

Comment Youtubes sneaky broken ad blocking (Score 1) 46

Googles Ad blocking centre does not work. After writing a macro to block everything, 'you should no longer see this ad' is a lie. Minature heaters and minature heaters keep n coming. Cant or not given the choice to block ads by country. Vehicle raffles and life insurance seem to be able to buy their way back in anyways. It is time to start fining Google for showing blocked ads.

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