Comment That's news for Putin (Score 1) 39
Hopefully he reads Slashdot.
Comment Another good reason (Score 1) 151
https://www.youtube.com/watch?...
VLC users began reporting massive loading slowdowns (taking up to 30+ seconds to open audio files) following a recent Windows update.
Cause: Investigations from VLC devs revealed the issue wasn't a VLC bug, but Windows Defender scanning/quarantining the application's plugin cache.
Cause: Investigations from VLC devs revealed the issue wasn't a VLC bug, but Windows Defender scanning/quarantining the application's plugin cache.
Comment Re:Disgusting summary (Score 1) 52
NO this has nothing to do with that
What about random information?
Comment Re:Yeah... (Score 2) 110
I'm not sure many lizards could survive in the desert, without water, with 30% CO in the air, and, on top of that, given the current geopolitical situation, after a few thousand H-bombs have exploded all over the place...
Comment Re:Flat Earth Society indoctrination (Score 1) 35
Well, you cannot say for sure that the Universe is spherical.
Comment Re:High price. (Score 1) 35
Pointing to an even more expensive product to somehow justify this expensive product
"justify"? Where did you get that from?
Comment Re:NOAA is to be dismantled: do not trust (Score 1) 116
one to Make America Cool Again.
in every sense of the word.
Comment Re:High price. (Score 0) 35
Have you checked the iPhone prices recently?
Comment Re:NOAA will be defunded (Score 1) 116
In some other countries, this kind of behavior from the head of state would spark a wave of revolutionary sentiment.
In the U.S., everything goes through without much of a hitch. That's also alarming.
In the U.S., everything goes through without much of a hitch. That's also alarming.
Comment Re:The World Laughs (Score 1) 280
And the world laughs even harder at the craven stupidity of the current American government
Rather, the world is lamenting the consequences of this stupid government.
Comment NPT (Score 2) 27
Japan building its own nuclear weapons would be a much bigger step than people often assume. It would likely require withdrawing from the NPT and would trigger major diplomatic and economic consequences.
The more realistic discussion is about strengthening deterrence through the US alliance, including the possible return of US nuclear assets to Japan (yes, return: because Japan has hosted US nuclear weapons in the past, particularly during the cold war).
The more realistic discussion is about strengthening deterrence through the US alliance, including the possible return of US nuclear assets to Japan (yes, return: because Japan has hosted US nuclear weapons in the past, particularly during the cold war).
Comment Elon said (Score 4, Funny) 90
Elon said SpaceX would leave a mark on the Moon. Mission accomplished.
Comment Not that far (Score 2) 24
Comment The previous big disaster was 27 m years ago (Score 4, Funny) 87
The last one was on November 5, 2024.
Submission + - WSJ: Corporate America Has Suddenly Decided to Stop Blowing Money on AI
theodp writes: "Companies across the country are coming around to a radical idea with the potential to upend the industry powering the global economy," reports the WSJ. "They don’t have to blow their budgets on AI. Fed up with ballooning costs, companies big and small are starting to use lower-priced models, including some built in China. In many cases, they are adding the new, cheaper models alongside OpenAI and Anthropic’s products, shopping a la carte for their artificial intelligence."
"Being economical—or tokenomical—is a dramatic reversal in mindset. Just a few months ago, it was a badge of honor to be using AI so much that you spent a lot on tokens. Companies rewarded employees for tokenmaxxing, flashing leaderboards that showed who had spent the most. Now they are thrift-maxxing."
"Strategies to lower AI costs include limiting access to top models for new hires and using the most advanced AI systems to plan how tasks will be completed before turning to cheaper models for the execution, Cursor’s [Mike] Saeks says. Cursor recently ran an experiment to evaluate the cost of building a web browser from scratch. Doing the entire task on OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 cost a little more than $10,000. Using Cursor’s Composer coding model in combination with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8, cost $1,339."
Correction: The costs cited by the WSJ were evidently to recreate SQLite functionality, not to build a web browser from scratch, an earlier experiment that Cursor explained involved running coding agents autonomously for weeks and burning trillions of tokens to build software that Cursor's CEO boasted "*kind of* works", prompting The Register to credit Cursor for "proving AI can write shoddy code at scale".
"Being economical—or tokenomical—is a dramatic reversal in mindset. Just a few months ago, it was a badge of honor to be using AI so much that you spent a lot on tokens. Companies rewarded employees for tokenmaxxing, flashing leaderboards that showed who had spent the most. Now they are thrift-maxxing."
"Strategies to lower AI costs include limiting access to top models for new hires and using the most advanced AI systems to plan how tasks will be completed before turning to cheaper models for the execution, Cursor’s [Mike] Saeks says. Cursor recently ran an experiment to evaluate the cost of building a web browser from scratch. Doing the entire task on OpenAI’s GPT-5.5 cost a little more than $10,000. Using Cursor’s Composer coding model in combination with Anthropic’s Opus 4.8, cost $1,339."
Correction: The costs cited by the WSJ were evidently to recreate SQLite functionality, not to build a web browser from scratch, an earlier experiment that Cursor explained involved running coding agents autonomously for weeks and burning trillions of tokens to build software that Cursor's CEO boasted "*kind of* works", prompting The Register to credit Cursor for "proving AI can write shoddy code at scale".
