computing

My HP laptop's keyboard died, the keys 1, q, a, z and Tab all not working. This was VERY annoying. It was getting a little old, so I bought myself a new laptop and will get the old one repaired eventually to pass to my daughter. I looked at a bunch of laptops and it was a tossup between Apple...

Skynet anyone? https://www.axios.com/2024/12/04/openai-anduril-ai-drone-defense-pentagon

https://apnews.com/article/new-york-semiconductor-nanotech-lab-albany-42ee39316c32718c729e526354254724

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-23/arm-to-cancel-qualcomm-chip-design-license-in-escalation-of-feud Actual nuclear bomb. Probably wouldn't actually happen, since it sounds more like a big bargaining chip, but potentially a huge turning point for the chip industry, and especially...

I liked the mention of "Skynet scenarios." https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/sam-altman-openai-1236023979/

https://apps.dtic.mil/sti/pdfs/AD1024203.pdf

The company Lumen Orbit want to put Data servers, to use the abundant solar energy, cooling, and the ability to freely scale up in space. launch of Prototype hardware is set for may 2025 launch of first micro data center in 2026 once Starship goes into commercial service they build the 5GW Data...

https://apnews.com/article/sagaftra-video-game-performers-ai-strike-4f4c7d846040c24553dbc2604e5b6034

So, our new security manager was talking about bringing in Crowdstrike where I work. Hopefully this idea will now be kiboshed after Crowdstrike deployed an update which 1) made Windows servers and desktops crash 2) rendered Windows servers and desktops unable to boot The only fix is to boot...

https://phys.org/news/2024-05-marriage-synthetic-biology-3d-programmable.html?utm_source=nwletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-nwletter#google_vignette

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ8vywX9asU This bit is very interesting: View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TJ8vywX9asU&t=925s

Researchers have created the world's first graphene semiconductor. The joke goes that graphene can do everything but leave the lab, but in the last few years, this is no longer true. In this episode we'll see how scientists turned the best conductor known to man into a semiconductor, opening the...

View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_j544ELauus

https://global.canon/en/technology/nil-2023.html https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/canons-nanoimprint-litho-tool-could-disrupt-wafer-fab-equipment-market I don't think NIL can enter logic chip foundary market any soon, though it seems like for flash and RAM, there's a real chance that...

https://www.edweek.org/policy-politics/41-states-sue-meta-over-the-social-media-giants-impact-on-kids/2023/10

View: https://twitter.com/AirPowerNEW1/status/1681485959710519296?s=20

Been trying to find out more on this subject, but there seems to be frustratingly little. I'm interested in finding out data on 1970s-1980s soviet and american radar processors to form an idea about the oft-mentioned gap between the two in this domain. i'm not a computer man so anything detailed...

New superbug-killing antibiotic discovered using AI https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-65709834

I'm taking my dog off my account immediately. https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65126056

Via Slashdot: https://www.quantamagazine.org/crucial-computer-program-for-particle-physics-at-risk-of-obsolescence-20221201/