What Getty Images is doing is worse. They take a public domain image, add it to their portfolio, and then fraudulently claim ownership (complete with sending DMCA takedowns and legal threats to anyone who happens to be using that public domain images). At least LLM companies don't send DMCA takedowns and lawyers when their models ingest someone's work.

Exactly. Getty images has a habit of adding public domain images to their portfolio and then fraudulently claiming ownership and issuing DMCA takedowns to random people who happen to use those public domain images and threatening those people with legal action.

I will be happy to see them gone and let other stock image companies take their place, but unfortunately, it seems like they will emerge from bankruptcy.

It's as if having to service a massive debt load that adds nothing to the product is a bad thing (which is what LBO debt is). Anyway, the good news is that EA now has less financial dry powder to buy studios to destroy.

EA is not going down in flames anytime soon, they are printing money by milking the guns and balls crowd with microtransactions.

The good news is that them focusing on their guns-and-balls big hitters (Sports FC/FIFA, Madden NFL, and Battlefield) means they probably won't buy any more studios to destroy (not to mention they have less financial dry powder for that anyway now that they have a massive LBO debt load to service).

Asking people to wait for a device society has normalized slamming shut and tossing in a bag the millisecond a clock reads you're done for the day

Yeah, if it wasn't clear from my previous comments, putting liquid metal on laptops is a crazy thing to do, but if it gives a boost on benchmarks or a slightly thinner laptop or both, manufacturers of gaming laptops will go for it.

is like developing a new car tire that requires drivers to slow down to 10MPH for the last mile of driving to keep the tires from exploding in the garage.

The Dodge Demon was such a product. It comes with "cheater slicks" from the factory, which are basically slicks that have just the minimum amount of tread pattern mandated by law (which isn't much) and with a compound that's unsafe for driving on the wet, with warnings from the manufacturer not to drive the car on the wet unless you absolutely have to, and if so, only at the lowest possible speeds, 10mph or less. So yes, if rain happens during the last mile drive to your garage and you are rich enough to own such a car, you have to slow down to 10MPH for the last mile. Impractical designs exist in the automotive world too. The problem with gaming laptops is that liquid metal is appearing on mainstream models because it's cheap and gives a massive performance boost, and laptop manufacturers don't care about how risky it is for daily use because, well, they don't care about longevity.

Most people would just run Windows Update troubleshooter to "reset" Windows Update if it took hours during every update, instead of throwing an entire system away...

Yeah obviously performance is gonna be capped in battery mode. Also, 99Wh batteries exist.

As an aside, the battery won't explode even if there is liquid metal leakage in laptops that have liquid metal as their thermal interface material, lithium batteries have overcurrent protectors that protect from short-circuits happening outside the battery enclosure (which is plastic and doesn't amagalmate with liquid metal), what happens is that the liquid metal ends up all over the board and makes the board almost unrepairable: https://www.youtube.com/watch?...

This is like watching McDonalds advertise their fresh hot coffee by showing a copy of the lawsuit they settled after burning the shit out of a customer.

If this happens, you were holding it wrong.

or is the term "melt down" about to get really explosive being near all that lithium ion

If this happens, you were holding it wrong.

Ok, jokes aside, liquid metal is a popular thermal interface in high-performance yet thin laptops, and it comes with warnings to let the laptop cool down before you put it in a vertical orientation (for example, in a backpack or briefcase/laptop bag) so the liquid metal has a chance to cool down and become less viscous and to not flex the chassis because that may cause the liquid metal to leak out of the seal covering the heatsink.

But again, we don't know whether the Surface Laptop Ultra uses liquid metal thermal interface material. With the 80W an RTX Spark N1X pulls, it's possible to have sustained full power on a thin laptop with just a well-designed cooling solution and somewhat aggressive fan curves.

Knowing 21st Century marketing, they did achieve 1 petaflop. Measured for approximately 0.18 seconds. Right before the entire laptop exploded, with performance experts standing on the other side of 6" of bulletproof plexiglass. Not that they expected that result or anything. We're told the Guinness adjudicator was just there for show.

Again, 80W is not that much even for a thin laptop. There are thin gaming laptops pulling twice as much. Depending on the choices made in the cooling system, you can easily run an 80W SoC at full speed sustained.

The TDP of an RTX Spark N1X SoC is 80W, so that's 0.00000008 gigawatts. Plus a bit more if you use the screen and play music on the speakers.

Again, it's an RTX Spark N1X SoC, the TDP is 80W. There are gaming laptops consuming two or even three times that, and they last 2 hours under full load.

It's an RTX Spark N1X, the TDP is 80W.

FYI their x86-64 Surface offerings are standard PCs, there is nothing "magical" about them: https://www.makeuseof.com/put-... So, if you like their hardware, you aren't stuck with Windows. Their ARM offerings should be assumed to be stuck with Windows on ARM, much like ARM boards intended to run Linux should be assumed to be stuck with the Linux images the manufacturer provided. Ahh... I can feel all that ARM openness hitting me in the face...

Wait? 80W is a lot for you guys?

/hides away 400W Area-51m that came with two power supplies that must be used simultaneously

All I want is excellent compatibility with my existing x86-32 and x86-64 software, aka in-hardware backward compatibility (when it comes to CPU instruction set architecture), which is something you don't get from ARM CPUs and the various OS-provided emulators and recompilers. If a developer goes as far as to recompile their software to take advantage of the new instructions in Nova Lake or whatever, so much the better, but it's not a necessity. It's been that way since the first Pentium introduced some nifty new instructions not found in the 486.

That said, the RTX Spark SoC is heavily tailored towards users running local LLMs (don't ask what they do with them, not a clue), compatibility with existing Windows software isn't a priority here.