Comment Never gonna happen. (Score 1) 50
we're going to accidentally Andromeda Strain ourselves.
That would imply that we made it back to the moon. Not happening.
Comment Re:Could we be any more stupid? (Score 2) 50
its a pretty small jump to create something that gets rid of those pesky meatbags that are competing for compute and energy resources.
If only! The problem is that bacteriophages work on bacterium and not multicellular things because bacterium have trivial cell walls. You call it a small jump but that's like saying it's a small jump between making a rocket and starting a colony on another planet. To the layman, this is true but anyone who actually knows about the challenges in involved in interplanetary exploration will understand that such a claim is far from the truth.
Comment Wait what? (Score 5, Interesting) 112
When congress passes a law, it can only be changed by congress. It can interpreted as unconstitutional or it can be unenforced but it remains the law. Nothing about "it was made 20 years ago" changes the fact that congress set a limit.
This should be an open an shut court case to prevent any merger violating that limit and a total slam dunk at that. However, we live in strange days.
Comment Re:Not a rogue attack, unauthorized attack (Score 1) 48
Too many congress-critters have money in the company.
Comment Re:Sandbox, NOT an operating system. (Score 1) 19
Wikipedia for "Operating system"
An operating system (OS) is system software that manages computer hardware and software resources, and provides common services for computer programs.[1]
Seeing as how it doesn't even resemble an OS, it's not a nitpick, it is pointing out a misnomer. Everything beyond that point is not my concern.
Comment Not a rogue attack, unauthorized attack (Score 4, Insightful) 48
Rogue attack makes it seem as if the AI was acting of it's own volition when we know it was only executing it's instructions. What's true here is that nobody authorized the attack.
Stop carrying water for AI companies. The truth of the matter is that Anthropic inadvertently launched a highly sophisticated cyber attack on HuggingFace due to their own negligence that would land anyone who isn't a billionaire in jail.
Submission + - New Images of the Sun Show Its Surface In the Finest Detail Yet (apnews.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Scientists have captured images of the sun’s surface in the finest detail yet, revealing a strange and dynamic facade. It’s dangerous to look directly at the sun without proper eye protection. But researchers were able to peek at its scorching surface with the help of the National Science Foundation’s Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope, located on the island of Maui in Hawaii.
Scientists originally took the images for a different reason: to fine-tune and test the limits of the telescope. But when they looked at the results, they realized they’d photographed the sun’s bright outer shell at higher resolution than ever before. What’s more, they saw strange feathery patterns rippling across the surface. “That reminds me of famous paintings, like the swirling skies in Van Gogh’s Starry Night,” said solar physicist Ruizhu Chen with Stanford University, who was not involved with the new research.
Researchers saw ripples of instability on the sun’s surface caused by bits of magnetized plasma moving past each other at different speeds — similar to waves that stir when a gust of wind blows over water. It’s a well-known phenomenon that guides how fluids move. This has been glimpsed on Earth and other planets like Jupiter and Saturn, but “it has not been observed ever at that level on the solar surface,” according to study co-author Friedrich Woger with the National Solar Observatory.
Scientists originally took the images for a different reason: to fine-tune and test the limits of the telescope. But when they looked at the results, they realized they’d photographed the sun’s bright outer shell at higher resolution than ever before. What’s more, they saw strange feathery patterns rippling across the surface. “That reminds me of famous paintings, like the swirling skies in Van Gogh’s Starry Night,” said solar physicist Ruizhu Chen with Stanford University, who was not involved with the new research.
Researchers saw ripples of instability on the sun’s surface caused by bits of magnetized plasma moving past each other at different speeds — similar to waves that stir when a gust of wind blows over water. It’s a well-known phenomenon that guides how fluids move. This has been glimpsed on Earth and other planets like Jupiter and Saturn, but “it has not been observed ever at that level on the solar surface,” according to study co-author Friedrich Woger with the National Solar Observatory.
Comment Sandbox, NOT an operating system. (Score 4, Insightful) 19
This is not a traditional computer operating system. We use the term "operating system" in two senses:
* An operating system for the company to be productive with AI, in a way that is safe, so that the security team can sleep at night.
* An operating system for AI workloads, analogous to the sense in which a traditional operating system manages compute workloads.
It's an AI sandbox.
I absolutely object to their misuse of existing terminology.
Comment Who is "we"? (Score 1) 56
It's very important to recognize that what one executive says is rarely reflective of how middle-managers behave. The bottom line is that nobody should trust Microsoft, especially not it's employees. #GetTheFacts
Submission + - EA is now owned by Saudi Arabia and Donald Trump's son-in-law (gamedeveloper.com)
neoRUR writes: EA Sports FC and Battlefield publisher EA has been taken private
The move means the U.S. juggernaut is no longer a publicly-traded entity and is now majority owned by the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia through its PIF investment arm. Other investors include Silver Lake and Affinity Partners, the latter of which was established by U.S. president Donald Trump's son-in-law Jared Kushner.
The $55 billion transaction was financed via a combination of cash from PIF, Silver Lake, and Affinity Partners as well as roll-over of PIF's existing stake in EA—constituting an equity investment of approximately $36 billion. Notably, $20 billion of debt financing was provided by JPMorgan Chase Bank.
Comment Re:Presenting! (Score 1) 38
The illusion of value.
OOW! This will go nicely with my illusion of choice.
Submission + - Brain activity reveals the melodies that people imagine (medicalxpress.com)
alternative_right writes: Study participants were 10 epilepsy patients with electrodes on the surfaces of their brains for clinical monitoring. Participants quietly listened to the first bars of children's tunes, then imagined the melodies of subsequent bars before humming their imagined melodies.
Brain activity from the patients carried information about relative pitches within the imagined melodies. Combining note-level pitch predictions over time allowed the research team to recreate melodic changes that reflected the structure of the imagined songs.
Kwon elaborates, "The model we created decodes relative pitch classesâ"such as do, re, mi, fa, sol, and laâ"rather than exact, absolute pitches. This is useful because people often recognize melodies by the relationships between notes, even when the same melody is played in a different key."
Brain activity from the patients carried information about relative pitches within the imagined melodies. Combining note-level pitch predictions over time allowed the research team to recreate melodic changes that reflected the structure of the imagined songs.
Kwon elaborates, "The model we created decodes relative pitch classesâ"such as do, re, mi, fa, sol, and laâ"rather than exact, absolute pitches. This is useful because people often recognize melodies by the relationships between notes, even when the same melody is played in a different key."
Comment Just use Qt! (Score 2) 34
They could have a unified codebase if they shifted to using Qt for everything. It can do GUI, system config, accelerated graphics, joysticks/gamepads, touchscreens, et cetera. If you want to improve compatibility then Qt is the obvious way to go. It also targets smartphones so if you want to make ports for that, it's an option.
Comment Old news. (Score 1) 56
Make a silent drone I'll be more impressed.
Those are old news, friend. https://s.abcnews.com/images/P...
Comment Re:5X gravity? (Score 1) 22
Umm good luck with that. The animals on that planet would need strong muscles.
Not if they live in the water. You clearly underestimate what billions of years of evolution can produce.
