Comment Re:How GENEROUS to allow (Score 1) 74
Forget legal power
Comment Vote Republican folks! (Score 1, Troll) 40
Trump is doing all in his power to fight for the little guy including stopping foreign H1B1 Visa holders.
The democrats care about the foreignors. Not us!
Comment On the contrary (Score 2) 29
On the contrary, evidence seems to suggest that AI has long been very good at generating zero-day vulnerabilities. It has a little more trouble with identifying and avoiding them.
Comment Re: All according to plan. (Score 0) 212
So, you make your EV buying decision based on what connector it has? Why do you care so much about a connector?
Comment Re:Fraction inflation? (Score 4, Informative) 70
I looked it up. Asus's fiscal year is January through December (same as the calendar year).
Comment Re:Not loving it (Score 1) 46
Jet Engines are as efficient as the steam turbine generators used at power plants.
Comment Is 250MM punitive at all for Apple? (Score 1) 37
That's something like 47 minutes of profit for the company. Is it really going to dissuade bad behavior in the future? I think not.
Comment Re:Yeah, no shit. (Score 1) 55
I remember when virtualization was the new hot thing roughly 20 years back and VM ware was aquired by some big corp, instantly turned to shit and the FOSS crowd started pushing out VM solutions to counter the problem.
They got bought by EMC, which at the time was a Dell company. Then they got acquired by Dell directly. Then they got spun off as their own company, which lasted a year or two before Broadcom snapped them up. Through the whole ordeal, they were sustained mainly by a combination of legit vendor lock-in and people just drinking the Kool-Aid.
Comment Re:Or... (Score 1) 55
COO: "I'm fed up with Broadcom's ridiculous price hikes! We need to get off VMware like yesterday!"
CTO: "But where will I get my headaches, proprietary tools, and vendor lock-in? Hmmmmmm...."
Comment Re:Gartner: Advertising Posing as Research (Score 1) 55
Actually, mainframes give you a level of reliability and other things you basically get nowhere else. But the cost is high. Even big banks only use them for critical things.
Sure, but we're talking about organizations that have already successfully deployed on VMware. If they didn't need all this massive transactional integrity and twelve-nines uptime back then, they don't now.
Comment If the asset tax passes, he'll owe 1.5B (Score 1) 167
Or 300M plus interest per year over 5 years.
Not including Federal capital gains taxes on sale of any company shares that he liquidates, or California income taxes, likely at the 14.4% tax bracket.
Or he could try and find a bank to lend him 300M in cash every year, secured against his equity stake. Anyone?
Comment Re:Software EULAs (Score 2) 166
But knowing the industry-standard tools might make the education pay off a little better.
Comment Re:Forest for the trees (Score 2) 166
It's not trivial to get credit cards in the UK. Say you were bankrupted even a long time ago. Or, I heard, say you never borrowed money or you never once paid late fees, surcharges, etc.
On the other hand, suppose you just stole somebody's wallet. Bet you could get that $1 charge through before they canceled it, and they wouldn't notice.
Submission + - AI finds signs of pancreatic cancer before tumors develop (nbcnews.com)
fjo3 writes: An AI model developed at the Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, detected abnormalities on patients’ CT scans up to three years before they were diagnosed with pancreatic cancer, according to research published this week in the journal Gut.
The scientists behind the model, which is now being evaluated in a clinical trial, trained it by feeding it CT scans from patients who had been screened for other medical conditions then were later diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The team then had radiologists review the scans and compared their ability to find early signs of cancer to that of the AI model. The model was found to be three times better at identifying the early signs.
The scientists behind the model, which is now being evaluated in a clinical trial, trained it by feeding it CT scans from patients who had been screened for other medical conditions then were later diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. The team then had radiologists review the scans and compared their ability to find early signs of cancer to that of the AI model. The model was found to be three times better at identifying the early signs.
Submission + - The Audio Industry Is Grappling with the Rise of 'Podslop' (bloomberg.com)
An anonymous reader writes: Welcome to the modern era of podcasting in which thousands of new shows are released into the world every day with a sizable portion likely being AI-generated. Figuring out exactly which ones fall into that growing category is becoming more difficult just as the industry is starting to take this issue seriously. In only the past month or so, Amazon launched a feature that explains a product by generating a quasi-podcast, complete with co-hosts talking to each other and taking questions from users. Shout out to Business Insider reporter Katie Notopoulos for spotting this (and, naturally, demoing it with an adult diaper rash-cream). Not long ago, Nicholas Thompson, chief executive officer of the Atlantic, noted “podslop” dominated his Spotify search results when he typed in the word “Sora.” This was around the time that OpenAI shut down its user-generated, AI-content-only app.
[...] All of which raises some big, difficult questions. For one, what should the listening platforms do about this incursion? As of right now, Apple Podcasts requires creators who generated a “material portion” of their show using AI to disclose it. The platform also bans misleading or deceptive content. Spotify hasn’t published any specific guidelines around AI, though it maintains general rules around dangerous and misleading content. Where this conversation gets even trickier is when it comes to money. Many of these podcasts are hosted on at least one free service that allows programs to opt into their ad marketplace with zero barrier to entry, meaning these shows (and the hosting service) profit off every listen or download. Spreaker, a company owned by iHeartMedia, is the primary one to watch here. Though it tells users to disclose when they rely on AI, it still allows those shows to opt into its programmatic ad marketplace, which pays creators 60% of the revenue generated by the ads placed in their shows. It stands to reason that most of these thousands of shows don’t reach many people. But in the aggregate, the ears and dollars could add up. Are the advertisers on board with being next to AI-generated content, some of which might be deemed “slop?”
[...] All of which raises some big, difficult questions. For one, what should the listening platforms do about this incursion? As of right now, Apple Podcasts requires creators who generated a “material portion” of their show using AI to disclose it. The platform also bans misleading or deceptive content. Spotify hasn’t published any specific guidelines around AI, though it maintains general rules around dangerous and misleading content. Where this conversation gets even trickier is when it comes to money. Many of these podcasts are hosted on at least one free service that allows programs to opt into their ad marketplace with zero barrier to entry, meaning these shows (and the hosting service) profit off every listen or download. Spreaker, a company owned by iHeartMedia, is the primary one to watch here. Though it tells users to disclose when they rely on AI, it still allows those shows to opt into its programmatic ad marketplace, which pays creators 60% of the revenue generated by the ads placed in their shows. It stands to reason that most of these thousands of shows don’t reach many people. But in the aggregate, the ears and dollars could add up. Are the advertisers on board with being next to AI-generated content, some of which might be deemed “slop?”
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