Comment Re:Windows? (Score 1) 78
Apple isn't the best option though.
Technically the soc is excellent, can't deny that. Trouble is it's hobbled by the operating system. And ports.
Comment Re:Less legacy infrastructure, Easier to run local (Score 5, Insightful) 111
That's actually the area of my interest. This would seem to be a natural situation for local power grids without the need for investment in long distance high voltage transmission. There can be an advantage to skipping over the earlier technologies if you pick the right stuff. The problem is knowing what "right" means because that's largely dependent on the "maturity" of the technologies in question.
But where is the angle to go for the funny? I'm not really seeing any good ones for this story. Something about the AI advice to investors in Africa? (Maybe something about what the AI said when it found Dr Livingstone?)
Comment Re:No, this is not a good thing (Score 2) 86
You realize a large part of a journalists job is to investigate, don't you? It's not illegal to track someone down, no matter how long it's been.
Comment Re:I'll get the popcorn... (Score 1) 127
Mod parent funny. Too obvious and low-hanging for insight, if'n I ever had a mod point to give.
Comment Re: Here's how stupid this all is (Score 1) 53
You need the servers to generate the support contracts. Without Nvidia, or AMD, there's no servers.
Comment Here's how stupid this all is (Score 1) 53
Dell's stock rockets 32% because they're selling more AI-related servers than ever before. However, the only reason they are selling more AI-related servers than ever before is because of Nvidia, yet Nvidia's stock has barely inched upward in months. These two situations cannot both be correct
If Dell is selling servers out the wazoo because of Nvidia and its stock soars, then Nvidia must also be sellling GPUs out the wazoo and its stock shoulld likewise soar. Saying we're at peak AI which is why Nvidia can't go higher makes no sense. It has consistently blown past every financial analysts expectations for the past two or three years. Dell's recent server spike is proof of this. If you think we're at peak AI then Dell shouldn't be anywhere near the price it's at now.
Submission + - Researchers identify people through ordinary Wi-Fi with 99 percent-accuracy (tomshardware.com)
Baron_Yam writes: Security researchers at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT) in Germany have published a paper demonstrating that unencrypted beamforming data broadcast by Wi-Fi devices during normal operation can be used to identify individuals walking through a room with 99.5% accuracy, regardless of whether the individuals are carrying Wi-Fi devices. The tactic leverages the router's beamforming tech to identify individuals with up to 99.5% accuracy, and it works with existing routers, too.
The system, called BFId, requires no specialized hardware, no access to the target Wi-Fi network, and works even if the person being tracked isn't carrying a wireless device. The team tested the attack on 197 participants, the largest dataset ever used in Wi-Fi-based identification works, and plans to present its findings at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) in Taipei.
See GitHub — https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVi... — for your own personal implementation requiring a couple of APs and a couple of ESP32 nodes. You can get full-home per-zone motion and occupancy detection fairly reliably, with the potential for pose detection and in optimal areas even respiration rate. With the right hardware and configuration, you can theoretically get heart rate too.
The system, called BFId, requires no specialized hardware, no access to the target Wi-Fi network, and works even if the person being tracked isn't carrying a wireless device. The team tested the attack on 197 participants, the largest dataset ever used in Wi-Fi-based identification works, and plans to present its findings at the ACM Conference on Computer and Communications Security (CCS) in Taipei.
See GitHub — https://github.com/ruvnet/RuVi... — for your own personal implementation requiring a couple of APs and a couple of ESP32 nodes. You can get full-home per-zone motion and occupancy detection fairly reliably, with the potential for pose detection and in optimal areas even respiration rate. With the right hardware and configuration, you can theoretically get heart rate too.
Submission + - Teachers' Union Urges Schools to Curb AI Chatbots and Screen Time
theodp writes: The New York Times reports the $22.5 million AI partnership to 'bring AI into the classroom' struck last July between the American Federation of Teachers (AFT) union, Microsoft, and OpenAI has hit a bump in the road as the AFT urges schools to curb AI chatbots and screen time, recommending 'no screens' at all for those in second grade or younger, and no AI chatbots for students in elementary school.
The union’s effort reflects a backlash among parents and educators against heavy use of school-issued laptops and apps. Some parents and nonprofit children’s groups are also pushing back against campaigns by tech giants like Google and OpenAI to spread their AI products in schools.
This week, AFT president Randi Weingarten said that the union was negotiating safety and privacy standards for AI use in schools with 'our partners in the AI academy,' and that Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic had agreed in principle to those standards. “We’re being transparent,” Weingarten said, adding that "We’re willing to walk away from the funding that we receive here if we don’t get the safety and privacy."
The union’s effort reflects a backlash among parents and educators against heavy use of school-issued laptops and apps. Some parents and nonprofit children’s groups are also pushing back against campaigns by tech giants like Google and OpenAI to spread their AI products in schools.
This week, AFT president Randi Weingarten said that the union was negotiating safety and privacy standards for AI use in schools with 'our partners in the AI academy,' and that Microsoft, OpenAI and Anthropic had agreed in principle to those standards. “We’re being transparent,” Weingarten said, adding that "We’re willing to walk away from the funding that we receive here if we don’t get the safety and privacy."
Submission + - The oral tradition that built software may not survive AI (fastcompany.com)
smooth wombat writes: Writing software is not just about knowing what to code. Verbally passing on knowledge of why something is done one way or the other, how to diagnose an issue, or what changes took place after implementation because no one documented those changes has been part of programming since day one. However, with the advent of AI, that institutional knowledge may be under threat.
It’s tempting therefore to imagine that generative AI will step into the breach and solve this for us. After all, even if you don’t want to turn a large language model (LLM) loose on a legacy code base—and there are plenty of reasons that you shouldn’t—having it generate documentation on the codebase itself might sound like a solution to the absence of other written information. LLMs can certainly summarize code back to you.
But hold up with that idea. Beyond hallucinations, there’s a deeper problem: Writing documentation is itself part of the thinking process. Whether I’m writing history or software, putting an approach into words helps refine it before I sink hours into implementation. Documentation also captures intent. An LLM may be able to summarize what a codebase does, but it cannot reliably explain why a developer chose one approach over another, or what trade-offs shaped that decision.
Moreover, it’s a chance for somebody else to understand why you did what you did. If they plan to change what I wrote (especially in a few years), they might understand why I needed to write it that way and what might be lost if you take it out. An LLM can read code that I’ve written. It might even scan a large codebase and accurately summarize what it’s doing. But it can’t assess authorial intent.
It’s tempting therefore to imagine that generative AI will step into the breach and solve this for us. After all, even if you don’t want to turn a large language model (LLM) loose on a legacy code base—and there are plenty of reasons that you shouldn’t—having it generate documentation on the codebase itself might sound like a solution to the absence of other written information. LLMs can certainly summarize code back to you.
But hold up with that idea. Beyond hallucinations, there’s a deeper problem: Writing documentation is itself part of the thinking process. Whether I’m writing history or software, putting an approach into words helps refine it before I sink hours into implementation. Documentation also captures intent. An LLM may be able to summarize what a codebase does, but it cannot reliably explain why a developer chose one approach over another, or what trade-offs shaped that decision.
Moreover, it’s a chance for somebody else to understand why you did what you did. If they plan to change what I wrote (especially in a few years), they might understand why I needed to write it that way and what might be lost if you take it out. An LLM can read code that I’ve written. It might even scan a large codebase and accurately summarize what it’s doing. But it can’t assess authorial intent.
Comment Re:embarrassing what qualifies as a programmer (Score 1) 161
I'm even seeing tiny firmware moving to Rust.
An awful lot of firmware moved over to C++ yonks ago, too before Rust was on the cards. There have been a few hold outs where reasonable C++ compilers didn't exist, usually on platforms so small you really can write it in C or even ASM without that much penalty.
Last time I wrote C in anger was on some 8051 base bluetooth controller years ago. The compiler was IAR Embedded C/C++ 9 I think (2010 ish?). Eventually after trying to write C++ I kept bumping into so many missing things I gave up trying to figure out what passed for C++ in their minds an wrote C instead.
Still, no allocation, some basic logic and a few FIR filters. It was fine.
Comment Re: Rust Can't Even Save Linux from Vulnerabiliti (Score 1) 161
All of them? How do you know?
Comment Re:Unnecessary expense (Score 1) 140
So is this a legal marriage or one of those common law things? Maybe the expenses you avoided involved the expensive wedding and so forth?
Trying to bridge to the "state of sin" joke that I was expecting on this story. Yours was the best of the jokes on offer, but I had much higher hopes for the story.
Me? If an AI certified the system as random, then I have my doubts.
Oh yeah, I suppose I better complete my citation of the ancient joke, hadn't I?
"Anyone who considers arithmetical methods of producing random digits is, of course, in a state of sin." -- John von Neumann, 1951
Comment Re:embarrassing what qualifies as a programmer (Score 2) 161
It is very typical of an American to pick the worst instance of anything they can find in order to prove they're better than the very worst thing you can find! Good for you!
Meanwhile you have roads that are more dangerous than anything in Western Europe. I look forward to your excuses as to why this is the case.
Comment Re: Rust Can't Even Save Linux from Vulnerabiliti (Score 1) 161
Do you claim to write no bugs?
Comment Re: Rust Can't Even Save Linux from Vulnerabilitie (Score 3, Informative) 161
Unfortunately not.
All programmes write bugs, not all programmes believe they do.
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