Daily Tech News and Migration Thread 19 May 2024

• We are on the new server (yay) but the spam filter wants to ban everyone (not so good.
  
  I'm working on it.
• LLMs - large language models, which form the basis for all current commercial "AI" research - are as secure as the telephone network in the 1970s. (Schneier)
  
  And indeed they are secure in exactly the same way as the telephone network in the 1970s.
  
  Which is to say, it's a house of cards with the very finest locks, which are also made out of cards.
  
  
• I'll be starting on moving us to the new server as this thread is posted. I should be able to make everything Just Work (TM) except that comments posted to this thread may or may nor make it across initially. I'll need to come back and clean that up afterwards.
  
  I'll post an all clear once it's complete and back to better than normal.

• Section 230 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act protects online platforms from most civil and criminal action if all they do is faithfully present data provided by their users (and take appropriate action when informed that action needs to be taken).
  
  But that law may not provide any protection at all when the data is rewritten using AI. (MSN)
  
  Oh no.
  
  Anyway...
  
  
  
• AMD's beastly Strix Point Halo CPU could be even more of a beast than previously anticipated. (Hot Hardware)
  
  This chip - or rather, module, since it seems to consist of three smaller chiplets - will have 16 full Zen 5 CPU cores (rather than the expected Zen 5c, which is fully compatible but smaller and slower) and 40 RDNA3 graphics cores, with a 256-bit memory bus.
  
  It will also have some number of Zen 5c cores on the graphics part of the module, though we don't yet know how many.
  
  It's basically a PlayStation 5 except with three times the CPU performance.
  
  (AMD also designed the chip for the PlayStation 5. And the Xbox Series X and S.)
  
  
  
• It's not a bubble! With AI startups booming, the rest of the Silicon Valley bullshit is back too. (Tech Crunch)
  
  It's a bubble.
  
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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