Daily Tech News 5 December 2024

• Had to renew the other server's SSL certificate. It was actually easier than usual, except for the part where I forgot to do it until after it expired, which wasn't so good.
  
  
  
• Sam Altman has done the 100% expected and redefined AGI (artificial general intelligence) into uselessness. (The Verge)
  
  Sam Altman recently said that AGI was coming within "thousands of days".
  
  He now says it will likely arrive next year, but they'll be simulating the typical leftist who already responds like a low-grade LLM in any case, so you won't notice any difference.
  
  Well, he didn't say that part out loud. He said this:

  "My guess is we will hit AGI sooner than most people in the world think and it matter much less," he said during an interview with Andrew Ross Sorkin at The New York Times DealBook Summit on Wednesday. "And a lot of the safety concerns that we and others expressed actually don't come at the AGI moment. AGI can get built, the world mostly goes on in mostly the same way, things grow faster, but then there is a long continuation from what we call AGI to what we call super intelligence."

  Translation: AI is useless, and your job is safe unless you are useless, like the quote design team unquote working at Jaguar in which case you are totally fucked.

• If you have an older computer without a TPM 2.0 module, you can't use Windows 11, says Microsoft. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  The TPM 2.0 module is absolutely essential to Windows 11's functioning even though it does exactly nothing and was not needed at all by Windows 10.
  
  Also, support for Windows 10 will end next week year. Next year. Sorry about that.
  
  Joy.
  
  
  
• Solana's web3 library for JavaScript - which is downloaded 50,000 times per day - got hacked. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  It gets downloaded 50,000 times per day because JavaScript has no place on the server and everyone who works with it either started out or ended up insane.
  
  Anyway, if you have versions 1.95.6 or 1.95.7 your private keys are gone and your security is toast. Since this is the blockchain your private keys can never be changed or revoked either.
  
  
  
• How can Enron be real if our birds aren't real? (CNN)
  
  It's a joke.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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