Daily Tech News 3 September 2025

• Do AI systems need world models to augment their knowledge with facts rather than just stories? Yes. Duh. (Quanta)
  
  Although the answer is painfully obvious and we have covered it here many times, the article is worth reading. Worth reading because it covers SHRDLU, a classic AI system from the 1960s that notably included a world model with impressive results, and also because it goes into the difficulty of scaling this to modern AI systems, such as nobody having the faintest bloody idea how to do it.

• The judge in the Google antitrust trial has issued a ruling which not only doesn't break up Google but doesn't seem to do much of anything. (Tech Crunch)
  
  I'd have to read the ruling but the penalties really seem to be minimal.
  
  
  
• I want to be left alone. (CTMS)
  
  I feel you. And yes, there's always an exception for cats.
  
  
  
• CPU utilisation is a lie. (Brendan Long)
  
  I've noted for years that a system reporting a 50% CPU load was typically somewhere closer to 65% thanks to variable clock speeds and multi-threaded cores, and here are charts to demonstrate it. And it gets much worse with certain workloads - a processor running matrix math is typically at 100% load when it is reporting 50% load.
  
  
  
• If you need to biggest fastest drive that will fit in a single M.2 slot, the 8TB Samsung 9100 is that. (Serve the Home)
  
  At $1000 MSRP it is not cheap, but it is big and fast.
  
  
  
• I have now lost twenty pounds in five days. The rate has slowed sharply but it was a pretty wild ride.
  
  This was the swelling I mentioned a couple of times - all water weight - and when the underlying health issue was addressed it just went away.
  
  Into the toilet. Hourly. All night.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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