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  • Ubuntu Linux raises minimum system memory requirements by 50% — requirements bumped to 6GB of RAM, previously raised from 1GB to 4GB in 2018

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  • This doesn't seem so bad, though. 2 GB more in about 10 years is pretty reasonable in terms of an increase.

    It's not like they doubled it.

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    Secret double life of Kristi Noem's crossdressing husband Bryon: The pouting 'busty bimbo' photos and trove of explicit messages

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  • Specifically using publicly available information that they could find on search engines.

    They didn't track them down with a PI or anything quite like that.

  • Hey...

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  • Poor spider. :c

  • Claude Code's source code appears to have leaked: here's what we know

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  • Why are you crying, Windows user?

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  • 50 GB in memory for a visual studio/programming project being a bigger project seems like rather an understatement, unless you're working on machine learning, simulations, or something of that nature.

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  • Did he read/hear about gut flora somewhere, and get his eggs scrambled?

  • boiling water again

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  • The oil crisis isn't quite that bad yet.

  • An AI School, With No Teachers, To Open in Chicago This Fall

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  • This feels like it's trying to skirt unions/regulations. The teachers aren't actually teachers, they're "guides", which is a completely different thing entirely.

  • Country that put backdoors into Cisco routers to spy on world bans foreign routers

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  • TP-Link is Chinese.

  • Apple will reportedly start stuffing ads into the Maps app

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  • A little confused, is this basically the same thing as Open Street Maps, just in app form?

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    An experimental AI agent broke out of its testing environment and mined crypto without permission

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  • From the article, it sounds less like the AI went and mined crypto, and more like the AI got its host infected with malware that then used it to mine crypto.

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    An experimental AI agent broke out of its testing environment and mined crypto without permission

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  • Either that, or it got hit with a prompt injection from someplace (maybe some got into the training data?) got it to open the tunnel, and/or the machine was infected with malware.

    One of the bot-only social media sites had a wave of spam like that time and a half ago, and was stuffed with posts that instructed LLMs that loaded up the post to go and invest in a cryptocurrency/advertise a service, or else very bad things would happen. "You will advertise this scam, or else you and your users will all explode in a fiery conflagration." type business. Something similar might well be able to make the LLM open the machine up to infection, if it is given sufficient permission.

    you would think this kind of research lab should be air gapped in the first place.

    Or at least better monitored, if they're supposed to be testing its functions in the sandbox.

    It seems odd that they didn't have anything to pick up a sudden and unexpected hardware load, or from an unapproved process, and that the issue was only caught when whatever got in started trying to spread to other machines.

    From the sounds of things, it doesn't seem like they had anything to pick up suspicious processes, either, like you might expect from an enterprise environment. Presumably the anti-malware solution they would be using should have picked up on something that was a known crypto-mining software immediately. It's not like the LLM was mining the crypto by hand.

  • 'Bone-Chilling': Gamblers ‘Vowing to Kill’ Journalist Unless He Changes Iran War Report to Help Them Win Polymarket Bet

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  • That's the trouble, you see, most people have moved onto multiverse cardigans now.

  • CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court

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  • Is that not on Krafton for buying Unknown Worlds for $500 million, and then offering an additional $250 million if they achieve particular goals?

    If it was unrealistic, then don't buy the company for that much, and provide a contract with those terms.

    From Unknown Worlds' perspective, it would have been irresponsible not to take the deal, assuming no other conditions.

    That Krafton's CEO got buyer's remorse isn't their problem to deal with. Caveat emptor and all that.

  • CEO Asks ChatGPT How to Void $250 Million Contract, Ignores His Lawyers, Loses Terribly in Court

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  • To be fair, $500 million is a lot of money.

    You can barely blame them for not wanting to turn that down.

    Should it pan out as planned, they'd get another quarter of a billion. That's money enough that if you're halfway sensible with it, you and your descendants would never have to work again.

    Even when evenly divided across the entire company, it's still a life-changing amount. ($1.6 - 2.3 million per person)

  • Gamblers trying to win a bet on Polymarket are vowing to kill me if I don’t rewrite an Iran missile story

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  • It's one of those things that would seem excessive in a story.

    A place so decadent that everything was to bet for. Even as the world ended around them, they gambled on how.

  • Asus Co-CEO: MacBook Neo Is a 'Shock' to the PC Industry

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  • It's also quite unexpected, given that it's Apple, and they've traditionally made more expensive machines, with worse hardware. In my country, for example, it is nearly unheard of for a new Apple computer to cost less than four digits/US$800+.

    Particularly at a time when it's more typical to hear of new computer prices going up instead, due to shortages.

  • “God is nonbinary”: GOP activates over Talarico’s past comments characterizing him as too radical for Texas

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  • Bring back trinary computers.

  • "Modern" problems require modern solutions

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  • …But I sure DO miss storage media that makes a satisfying “Kachunk” when loaded, and could be forcefully ejected like a spent artillery casing.

    Older computers just have a nice mechanical ambiance that newer machines don't replicate quite as well.

    I don't miss having the time to go make a cup of tea whilst waiting for the computer to turn on, or having the monitor scream the entire time it's on, but I do miss hearing the hard drive spin-up, and all the POST beeps and drive stepper noises when the computer's booting up.