Comment Cohesive eh? (Score 1) 119
will feel "much more cohesive
You misspelled "intrusive".
Comment I don't buy it (Score 1) 86
He had WiFi or 4G on the aircraft carrier? I don't think so.
And if the Strava app uploaded the logged run later when it got connectivity at port or something, by then the ship was long gone.
Comment Re:What about F-droid and the like (Score 2) 68
Similar concerns here, both for F-droid apps and DJI's - which require installing from an APK downloaded directly from DJI to get the latest version. I only have a handful of apps I sideload, and when I'm not updating those I tend to have the ability to sideload turned off for the modicum of additional security afforded against inadvertant user error. If I either need to go through this 24-hour process every time I update the apps, or leave sideloading permanantly enabled (which I'd be more likely to do, I think), then this is yet another user-unfriendly move by Google that is almost certainly more about being self-serving than anything else.
If I wanted a walled garden, I'd have bought an iPhone.
If I wanted a walled garden, I'd have bought an iPhone.
Comment Re:pfft (Score 1) 85
> "The cloud" just means "Somebody elses C: drive"
Nah. Nobody is dumb enough to run a cloud service on Windows.
Comment Hey Canada, here's a hint (Score 4, Funny) 108
Keep your energy to provide it to Canadians for cheaper. The US has plenty of oil and coal I've been told.
Comment May Meta choke on its AI savings bet (Score 4, Insightful) 49
and all the disgusting corporations putting profits above people's livelihoods along with it.
That is all.
Apple MacBook Neo Beats Every Single x86 PC CPU For Single-Core Performance (notebookcheck.net) 329
Early benchmarks show the A18 Pro-powered MacBook Neo beating every current x86 CPU in single-core Cinebench performance, including chips from Intel and AMD. Notebookcheck reports: We have performed a couple of benchmarks and were particularly impressed by the single-core performance. Not in the short Geekbench test, but in Cinebench 2024, where a single-core test takes about 10 minutes. The A18 Pro consumes between 3.5-4 Watts in this scenario and scores 147 points. This means it is faster than every other x86 processor in our database, including the two desktop processors Intel Core Ultra 9 285K & AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D. This also means the MacBook Neo beats every modern mobile processor from AMD, Intel and also Qualcomm, even though the upcoming Snapdragon X2 chips should be a bit faster. The A18 Pro is also slightly faster than Apple's own M3 generation in this scenario. Further reading: ASUS Executive Says MacBook Neo is 'Shock' to PC Industry
Comment My laptop is ARM64 (Score 4, Insightful) 35
I run Debian 13 and Chromium has been available as a package for a long time.
So I'm not sure why you would want to wait for Google to release Chrome on ARM, since it's essentially Chromium with Google's nastyware added to it. Just use Chromium.
OpenAI Is Walking Away From Expanding Its Stargate Data Center With Oracle (cnbc.com) 41
OpenAI is reportedly backing away from expanding its AI data center partnership with Oracle because newer generations of Nvidia GPUs may arrive before the facility is even operational. CNBC reports: Artificial intelligence chips are getting upgraded more quickly than data centers can be built, a market reality that exposes a key risk to the AI trade and Oracle's debt-fueled expansion. OpenAI is no longer planning to expand its partnership with Oracle in Abilene, Texas, home to the Stargate data center, because it wants clusters with newer generations of Nvidia graphics processing units, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The current Abilene site is expected to use Nvidia's Blackwell processors, and the power isn't projected to come online for a year. By then, OpenAI is hoping to have expanded access to Nvidia's next-generation chips in bigger clusters elsewhere, said the person, who asked not to be named due to confidentiality. In a post on X, Oracle called the reports "false and incorrect." However, it only said existing projects are on track and didn't address expansion plans.
CNBC notes: "Oracle secured the site, ordered the hardware, and spent billions of dollars on construction and staff, with the expectation of going bigger."
The current Abilene site is expected to use Nvidia's Blackwell processors, and the power isn't projected to come online for a year. By then, OpenAI is hoping to have expanded access to Nvidia's next-generation chips in bigger clusters elsewhere, said the person, who asked not to be named due to confidentiality. In a post on X, Oracle called the reports "false and incorrect." However, it only said existing projects are on track and didn't address expansion plans.
CNBC notes: "Oracle secured the site, ordered the hardware, and spent billions of dollars on construction and staff, with the expectation of going bigger."
Comment Thanks for the heads-up (Score 1) 34
Now I definitely know I don't want a Galaxy phone as my next phone.
Comment Translation (Score 1) 62
Big Tech will buy the latest and greatest in power generation / suppliers, and the general population will be left with the legacy power infrastructure that will keep on aging and becoming more and more obsolete, because domestic power isn't where the big money is.
Comment "It" can fuck right off (Score 4, Interesting) 107
It knows everything about me
You can shove your dystopian future where the sun don't shine, is what I think.
Comment Tl;DR (Score 1) 107
Big Tech is rolling out high-speed mobile data so the dead internet can flow easier.
Comment Collaborator (Score 5, Insightful) 42
We said [that] to the Department of War
It's Department of Defense, you fucking fascist collaborator.
Comment Re:They're right (Score 3, Interesting) 28
> "Good enough" is exactly the reason that AI is upending the world of white collar work. It might not replace a skilled and experienced employee, but it's good enough.
I don't necessarily have a problem with that. The problem is, skilled workers only become skilled after being inexperienced for a while and gaining experience. If you cut junior, unskilled workers from the job market, you won't have skilled workers in a few years.
In other words, company that adopt AI to avoid paying unskilled labor are shooting themselves in the foot.
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