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Comment the payday bothers me (Score 1) 113

I get a ton of founders that try and fail. They give it they're all but come up short.
It's really the venture capitalists that people should be going after and the terms they set forth to make people rich, regardless of their successor failure. Drive clearly isn't about money anymore since the dude still worth about 3 billion. Or maybe he wants to make that double digit billions. I'd say we need more protection for investors, but they should have a sensible idea of risk.

Submission + - Honda is killing off it's EVs (techcrunch.com)

Submitted by sziring
sziring writes: The company casts blame on U.S. tariffs and Chinese competition, two easy targets. But it never really had a viable EV strategy to begin with.
Honda kicked things off on Thursday by halting development of the electric Acura RDX and the Honda 0 sedan and SUV, three models that were the companyâ(TM)s first ground-up EVs â" but about which very little was shared with outsiders. It continued on Friday, with Automotive News reporting that Honda was going to stop production of the Prologue, a vehicle that was essentially designed and entirely built by GM.
The decision could backfire in a number of different ways, but there are two that Iâ(TM)d argue are most important. By shelving EVs, Honda will fall farther behind in two of the biggest shifts sweeping the automotive industry: electric drivetrains and software-defined vehicles.

Comment Re: Glyphs are for low cost (Score 1) 76

This is a very valid point.
I don't think it honestly matters too much as Apple for years had keyboards that didn't match the images for shortcut keys in the menus. Probably some dumb logic like only the old school Mac users would be able to translate. The control key is actually this symbol is actually that symbol blah blah.

Submission + - GFiber merging with Stonepeak for larger fiber footprint (stonepeak.com)

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sziring writes: GFiber (formerly Google Fiber) and Stonepeak today announced that they have entered an agreement to combine GFiber with Astound Broadband, creating a leading independent fiber provider. The new company will be majority owned by Stonepeak, an investment firm specializing in infrastructure and real assets. Alphabet will remain a significant minority shareholder, reflecting its confidence in GFiberâ(TM)s growth opportunity and leadership.

The combined business will be led by the existing GFiber executive team, utilizing their expertise in high-speed fiber innovation to manage the combined network footprint. The combination of GFiberâ(TM)s high-growth metropolitan networks with Astoundâ(TM)s established infrastructure, team and capabilities creates a highly complementary, national network platform.

Submission + - Silicon Valley is buzzing about this new idea: AI compute as compensation (businessinsider.com) 2

Submitted by sziring
sziring writes: Silicon Valley has long competed for talent with ever-richer pay packages built around salary, bonus, and equity. Now, a fourth line item is creeping into the mix: AI inference.

As generative AI tools become embedded in software development, the cost of running the underlying models â" known as inference â" is emerging as a productivity driver and a budget line that finance chiefs can't ignore.

Software engineers and AI researchers inside tech companies have already been jousting for access to GPUs, with this AI compute capacity being carefully parceled out based on which projects are most important. Now, some tech job candidates have begun asking about what AI compute budget they will have access to if they decide to join.

"I am increasingly asked during candidate interviews how much dedicated inference compute they will have to build with Codex," Thibault Sottiaux, engineering lead at OpenAI's Codex, the startup's AI coding service, wrote on X recently.

Submission + - Claude AI Finds Bugs In Microsoft CTO's 40-Year-Old Apple II Code (theregister.com)

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An anonymous reader writes: AI can reverse engineer machine code and find vulnerabilities in ancient legacy architectures, says Microsoft Azure CTO Mark Russinovich, who used his own Apple II code from 40 years ago as an example. Russinovich wrote: "We are entering an era of automated, AI-accelerated vulnerability discovery that will be leveraged by both defenders and attackers."

In May 1986, Russinovich wrote a utility called Enhancer for the Apple II personal computer. The utility, written in 6502 machine language, added the ability to use a variable or BASIC expression for the destination of a GOTO, GOSUB, or RESTORE command, whereas without modification Applesoft BASIC would only accept a line number. Russinovich had Claude Opus 4.6, released early last month, look over the code. It decompiled the machine language and found several security issues, including a case of "silent incorrect behavior" where, if the destination line was not found, the program would set the pointer to the following line or past the end of the program, instead of reporting an error. The fix would be to check the carry flag, which is set if the line is not found, and branch to an error.

The existence of the vulnerability in Apple II type-in code has only amusement value, but the ability of AI to decompile embedded code and find vulnerabilities is a concern. "Billions of legacy microcontrollers exist globally, many likely running fragile or poorly audited firmware like this," said one comment to Russinovich's post.

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