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Many. They did an overly generous self examination a few weeks ago. Generally, they are a trailing indicator, like someone appearing on the Forbes millionaire under 30 list (Theran…

It is amazing how war accelerates technology development. Radar and the Manhattan project are cases in point, probably squashing 20 years of normal research into 3. Drones in Ukrai…

>As soon as things get in range for motivated amateurs, progress skyrockets. So true. The reverse is also true - when greedy companies overprice their initial release so that it is…

The BBC "Secret War" series and RV Jones' books are superb. I would recommend also reading his "Reflections on Intelligence" - it was written later and is slightly more philosophic…

They should not call it "age verification" - it is actually identity verification.

Flowers had to begin building Colossus out of his own pocket. The British government eventually repaid him, but not in full.

Dolby was just pre-emphasis of the higher frequencies before they were written to the tape. It will sound the same with 8 bits. 8bit quantization will give you 48dB dynamic range (…

The original timedemo was how fast Sopwith game from 1984 crashed the plane: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sopwith_(video_game)

Benchmarks are like the SP500 index or IQ measurements: They distil multiple variables into one number. In doing so you lose details, but do get a useful measure. Yes, they are imp…

Yes, Australia destroys his whole argument. They went the Swiss way with a single provider (NBN). But then broke it badly when a major lobbyist (Rupert Murdoch) wanted to kill stre…

Yes, at the time the Commodore drive was jokingly referred to as "the Cadillac of disk drives" - long and slow.

Age verification is just one part of this crackdown. Device attestation is another - making sure you're using an unmodified government approved operating system and apps linked to …

No, not if it involves a web browser. Most web sites today will not work on a 2012 web browser. The PC stopped existing in isolation, for most useful tasks now, it needs an Interne…

In some way it is short-sited, as radio is a good backup medium for global communications in case the entire Internet ever goes down. Vacuum tubes also aren't vulnerable to nuclear…

Every PCIe 10G ethernet card I've seen has a heatsink on it, sometimes covering the entire card or even have little fans on the heatsink. Expecting it to work full time in a laptop…

Thank you for that link!

And in order to get the Windows 10 updates in the article, you need to sign up for an MS account, or pay them $30 a year not to spy on you.

The "innovation" is that everything is now attached to a watercooled block. The rest is marketing: The Cray supercomputer were fluid cooled back in the 1980's, the entire board had…

A lot of this has to do with segmenting the market into high-end and low-end products. When they were the underdog to Intel, they gave away lots of premium features to beat Intel. …

Microsoft is also doing this, Microsoft Authenticator, no longer works under GrapheneOS for corporate creds, and coming in July they will delete any Entra-related IDs from your pho…

I too, liked it. However, some apps that I need for work, like Microsoft Authenticator, no longer work under GrapheneOS. https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/03/10/microsoft-ti…

Yes, their software is terrible across CPUs and GPUs, and continues to be. So many trivial bugs just never fixed. It has literally cost them a Trillion dollars in market cap - Nvid…

Me too. Many government or banking sites only work properly on Chrome. Anything with Docusign is Chrome-only.

I wonder how fast it performs on just a CPU? If the model performs say 10x on a GPU cluster, would it also perform faster on a CPU? This could bring proper desktop AI to the averag…

This sort of thing really annoys me. Part numbers are for use of engineers, not for the marketing dept. If you change the specs, change the part number.