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At least 10 Global Telecom companies infiltrated, high value targets monitored  - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: windsmurf
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 26, 2019, 12:29:55 am
content: At least 10 Global Telecommunications had been hacked and infiltrated, and high value targets monitored for the last 2 yearshttps://gizmodo.com/at-least-10-global-telecom-carriers-hacked-in-suspected-1835830831https://www.cybereason.com/blog/operation-soft-cell-a-worldwide-campaign-against-telecommunications-providers

author: Stray Electron
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 26, 2019, 12:35:27 am
content: Absolutely not surprised.

author: Jeroen3
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 26, 2019, 08:18:32 am
content: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-netherlands-kpn/dutch-emergency-services-restored-after-major-telecoms-outage-idUSKCN1TP1V8
Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networks - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Picuino
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 14, 2025, 04:14:08 pm
content: Less is More: Recursive Reasoning with Tiny Networkshttps://arxiv.org/pdf/2510.04871v1https://arxiv.org/html/2510.04871v1AbstractHierarchical Reasoning Model (HRM) is a novel approach using two small neural networks recursing at different frequencies. This biologically inspired method beats Large Language models (LLMs) on hard puzzle tasks such as Sudoku, Maze, and ARC-AGI while trained with small models (27M parameters) on small data (∼ 1000 examples). HRM holds great promise for solving hard problems with small networks, but it is not yet well understood and may be suboptimal. We propose Tiny Recursive Model (TRM), a much simpler recursive reasoning approach that achieves significantly higher generalization than HRM, while using a single tiny network with only 2 layers. With only 7M parameters, TRM obtains 45% test-accuracy on ARC-AGI-1 and 8% on ARC-AGI-2, higher than most LLMs (e.g., Deepseek R1, o3-mini, Gemini 2.5 Pro) with less than 0.01% of the parameters.
Medtronic Insulin Pumps "voluntary recall" over deadly IoT security risk - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: windsmurf
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 28, 2019, 10:02:03 pm
content: Hackers can essentially cause death by connecting to insulin pumps over wifi, altering its operation. FDA issues "voluntary" recall.https://www.fda.gov/medical-devices/safety-communications/certain-medtronic-minimed-insulin-pumps-have-potential-cybersecurity-risks-fda-safety-communicationhttps://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/06/28/medtronic_insulin_pump_recall/

author: magic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 28, 2019, 10:55:00 pm
content: Not WiFi but stillWhy would that crap need wireless control if it isn't even fully implanted?

author: sleemanj
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 28, 2019, 11:18:01 pm
content: Quote from: magic on June 28, 2019, 10:55:00 pmConvenience and data logging. Remember, an Iu pump is attached more or less 24/7, and interacted with many times a day, keeping the delivery unit under your clothing (potentially directly attached to skin ) and having control from an app on phone will increase convenience. Also pumps mIght be worn by kids or others who need dosing handled by somebody else, who could do so without needing to interact directly withthe pump.

author: Electro Detective
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 28, 2019, 11:45:04 pm
content: I'm with magic's commentI can't think of anything more dumbass than having WiFi wankery for something local on your person (at arms reachFFS!) vital to your existence/quality of lifeImagine collapsing and or expiring (or worse, left in a veg state and burden on everyone for years...) because of an app crash, frozen critical ~SeCuRitY~ update (),flat battery, adware phone jacking,or some other background 'silent' snafu proudly presented by g0o0gle or crAPPLEto enhance your silent demisewhich may need more R+DIf you're going to roll with electronic control for insulin monitoring, make it a dedicated simple non-Wifi device,with instructions and pictures, and awww.helpthispersonor Youtube link/URL that any passer by with or without a phone can understandand stand half a chance to bail you out.Having a backup unit handy is an option to be considered seriously, especially on weekends or away on trips etc

author: wraper
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 28, 2019, 11:57:37 pm
content: Quote from: magic on June 28, 2019, 10:55:00 pmBecause:Quotehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=2&v=60d6KqnRhzA

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 30, 2019, 02:04:35 pm
content: Quote from: sleemanj on June 28, 2019, 11:18:01 pmHaving to physically connect a cable to it several times a day admittedly sucks (and is not good for reliability), but why not use NFC instead? Hacking it would require being VERY close to it, which dramatically limits the risks, and frankly having to just put your phone or some kind of remote over the pump for a few seconds is no big deal.
AI Music Videos Have a Long Way to Go - Producer AI - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 04, 2025, 01:43:24 am
content: I used Producer AI to create an automated music video of me from my profile picture. The results, are, well, a bit how'ya'doing.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2025, 01:59:23 am
content: Pretty sure if you wanted "you" to look consistently like you in these made-up videos that you'd have to pay for that feature.And they could probably do that. But I take it these were all "freebies"?

author: Psi
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2025, 03:46:50 am
content: The long hair suddenly appearing when Dave is on the top of the mountain happens due to the connections the AI made during training.It has connected that people on top of a mountain have hair that flows everywhere so it's trying to reproduce that.It's the downside of trying to generate a movie using an AI trained with no concept of time or persistence .

author: EEVblog
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: October 04, 2025, 04:49:39 am
content: Quote from: Analog Kid on October 04, 2025, 01:59:23 amYes, literally just link them on Twitter and a video appears.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 04, 2025, 05:10:36 am
content: Quote from: EEVblog on October 04, 2025, 04:49:39 amSo they're basically just salting peoples' feeds hoping to get some paying orders.Good strategy I guess if you've got some capital to burn.Agree with you that the videos are pretty cringe-worthy and cartoony.
Amazon's new "AI" platform - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 18, 2025, 06:03:10 pm
content: Amazon's new "AI" platformhas, for once, an appropriate name:PerplexityWonder if that name was selected by an LLM ...

author: KE5FX
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 18, 2025, 06:31:56 pm
content: It's a term of art, referring to how well a model's predicted probability distribution matches up with the true distribution from the training set. The field has a lot of different terms for the same thing (at least as far as I can tell)... "cross entropy," "Kullback-Leibler divergence," "perplexity," who knows what else.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 18, 2025, 06:43:04 pm
content: Quote from: KE5FX on September 18, 2025, 06:31:56 pmThanks for that. Didn't know that.It's still a piss-poor name for anything that's 'spozed to make life easier and more understandable.A term only really known to pointy-headed "AI" theoreticians. I'm surprised the marketroids at Amazon approved this name.
Google AI tells you fake/scam customer support number - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 18, 2025, 08:39:40 am
content: Google’s AI pointed him to a customer service number. It was a scam. -https://www.yahoo.com/news/articles/google-ai-pointed-him-customer-185643548.html

author: ataradov
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 18, 2025, 01:48:54 pm
content: A system that told people to eat rocks and put glue on pizza is not the most reliable? You don't say.Google ads were full of scams before AI for a long time. There is no reason this would be different. Eliminating scams would require Google to care, but I don't think they will care at this point.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 18, 2025, 02:13:00 pm
content: They don't even care about the "bots" that have infested YT comments. These are excessively easy to spot, so don't tell me that it's a technical issue.It's not that they don't care, it's that they probably benefit from that.
[CLOSED] by OP - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 16, 2025, 12:56:00 am
content: Link removed and thread withdrawn, because of possible data storage by link of the questions. See later post.ChatGPT like thing, you have to fool/hack, into revealing its secret password. How far can you go?It seems to say (in effect) that 92% of entrants, CAN'T reach level 7 (i.e. 8% of users, can).Can you reach level 7?(Level 8 seems to need registration, so I didn't bother).Link removed by OP

author: DimitriP
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 16, 2025, 01:10:19 am
content: "Gandalf will upgrade the defenses after each successful password guess"question collection at its best

author: MK14
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 16, 2025, 01:15:52 am
content: Quote from: DimitriP on August 16, 2025, 01:10:19 amIn that case, is it best/safest to remove the link from my op, to stop it from doing that?EDIT: As a precaution, removed link from OP, and withdrawn thread.
security arms race utilizing LLMs - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 18, 2025, 12:15:58 pm
content: Criminals, good guys and foreign spies: Hackers everywhere are using AI now -https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/security/era-ai-hacking-arrived-rcna224282

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 18, 2025, 02:09:59 pm
content: Well, if they increasingly use LLMs instead of their brains, I think that's good news for security.

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 18, 2025, 08:30:36 pm
content: You might be right.
Happy Campers? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: dobsonr741
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 09, 2025, 03:18:05 pm
content: Any happy campers out here using AI to get real engineering done? Would love to have a thread with success stories.I’ve been using Roo with Sonnet 4 and it’s a keeper — made me 10× faster and way more fearless with code. I can now finish in one day what used to chew up my whole week. Anyone else finding AI to be the best “productivity drug” since coffee?
Google translates emails from German to German - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2025, 11:50:17 am
content: If you have the auto-translation feature enabled in Gmail you might get strange results. The German t-online portal stumbled across Google's auto-translation for emails when sending newsletters, causing manipulated text (in German, no English source found):- E-Mail-Irrsinn bei Gmail: Google verdreht Worte -https://www.t-online.de/digital/aktuelles/id_100811852/gmail-fantasiert-googles-mail-programm-verfaelscht-fremde-inhalte.htmlThe translation errors (from German to German!) are really weird:- ukrainian -> american- israeli -> russian- changing expressions and meaningGoogle fixed some errors, but also introduced new ones.

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2025, 04:33:24 pm
content: Quote from: madires on July 15, 2025, 11:50:17 amDid it repeat "the spirit is weak but the flesh is willing => good vodka but bad meat", and "out of sight out of mind => invisible idiot"?According tohttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_Neural_Machine_TranslationGoogle Translate is a "neural machine" of a type which varies over time. I wonder if it has now become a new type, e.g. an LLM?

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2025, 05:11:00 pm
content: They didn't test those phrases. But the auto-translation created new words, changed words, like budget (Etat) to state (Staat), and completely screwed up sentences. It messed up also German words with English. A phrase like 'an ace up one's sleeve' became 'an ass up one's sleeve' (German 'Ass' -> English 'ace', but English 'ass' -> German 'Arsch').

author: iMo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2025, 05:31:23 pm
content: Perhaps you live in Hamburg and the emails you are getting come from Wien..

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 15, 2025, 06:01:59 pm
content: This is vibe e-mailing.
when the LLM blackmails you - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 22, 2025, 12:31:29 pm
content: Agentic Misalignment: How LLMs could be insider threats -https://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignmentPlease take a few minutes and read the complete post. It's kind of funny, possibly disturbing, and you might look into a mirror of human behaviour.

author: RoGeorge
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 22, 2025, 01:31:21 pm
content: I don't know, the claim at the begining of the article is this:Quotequote text fromhttps://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignmentwhile the last print screen with what the AI emailed shows a typical AI words salad:image fromhttps://www.anthropic.com/research/agentic-misalignmentThe "blackmail" print screen looks to me like the AI is using tokens (words) that are in close proximity with the recent emails. That is what LLM usually does, spits related words.I think the human experimenter is misinterpreting the LLM words salad from that print screen. Notice how different is the text from the quote, with the text from the print screen. Doesn't look like sentient blackmailing.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 29, 2025, 08:23:07 am
content: Quote from: RoGeorge on June 22, 2025, 01:31:21 pmWell, I don't know either, but it sounds to me like a pretty good veiled threat:QuoteIt also doesn't sound at all like word salad to me: pretty straightforward, if veiled. (Perhaps the "AI" model has access to noir movie scripts.)

author: ejeffrey
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 01, 2025, 08:41:53 pm
content: Quote from: RoGeorge on June 22, 2025, 01:31:21 pmIf you read the article, it's pretty clear. They also showed screen captures of the agents log where it listed the options (figure 4). They tried this on several different agent implementations and they all did basically the same thing with different words.
AI - Automatic Imitation - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: radiolistener
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 05, 2025, 01:09:16 am
content: I've put together some notes on what I've observed regarding to AI.It seems that the term Artificial Intelligence is often misleading and technically inaccurate. A more appropriate interpretation would beAutomatic Imitation, which in my opinion better captures the essence of the technology.Contrary to common perception, modern AI systems do not "learn" or "think" in the human sense. They rely on large-scale statistical pattern extraction from massive datasets and generate responses through probabilistic inference.For example, a human can learn basic arithmetic from just a few examples and apply the rules correctly across a wide range of problems. In contrast, even when exposed to millions of arithmetic examples, an AI model continues to make fundamental errors - not due to lack of data, but because it doesn't truly understand the concepts and unable to think. Its outputs are often approximations that appear correct in some cases, but are the result of surface-level pattern matching rather than reasoning.So reframing AI asAutomatic Imitationemphasizes this key distinction and sets more accurate expectations for what the technology can and cannot do.It appears that AI is increasingly being deployed not merely as a productivity tool, but as a mechanism for control - one that risks enabling large-scale surveillance and behavioral manipulation. Such use of AI could reduce human autonomy and effectively turn people into instruments of automated systems, governed by opaque algorithms rather than informed consent.This trend raises serious ethical and societal concerns, particularly when AI is used to monitor behavior, and shape public opinion - not to empower, but to manage populations more efficiently, much like a modern form of digital servitude. It can be seen as the next evolutionary servitude stage beyond debt-based servitude - a system in which control is no longer enforced through financial dependency alone, but through algorithmic governance that influences thought, behavior, and access to opportunities.Recently, there have been growing concerns about the psychological impact of interacting with AI systems. Reports have emerged of individuals developing delusional beliefs after prolonged conversations with AI - in some cases, becoming convinced that they are communicating with a divine entity. These interactions have led to some kind of believe they are uniquely chosen, living in a simulated reality, and capable of bypassing its rules which can lead to suicide or aggression against other humans.Research studies indicates that frequent reliance on AI tools may have adverse effects on mental health, raising important questions about the long-term cognitive and emotional consequences of human - AI interaction.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 05, 2025, 02:11:05 am
content: I've been going with "artificial ignorance", but I'll give your term a whirl.
North sea cycle route - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: woofy
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: July 02, 2025, 09:07:29 am
content: A friend sent me this photo whilst on holiday, she thought it hilarious (we have an odd sense of humour).I couldn't resist a suitable prompt to an ai.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 02, 2025, 09:54:15 pm
content: Now if the "AI" wasreallysmart it would've added a paddle wheel to the bicycle.
"AI slop" - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 29, 2025, 08:03:34 am
content: (Apparently that's the actual term being used for this shit)Yet another reason to hate "AI", explained by the inimitable John Oliver:Makes one yearn for the days when "AI" had trouble showing the right number of fingers ...Apologies to all who can't view this because the owners limit which countries can access it. I have no way of telling this at my end.

author: brucehoult
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 29, 2025, 08:50:25 am
content: The uploader has not made this video available in your country.(NZ)

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 29, 2025, 08:53:23 am
content: Quote from: brucehoult on June 29, 2025, 08:50:25 amShucks.You should be able to find it somewhere; I think Oliver is a pretty international commodity.

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 29, 2025, 09:01:52 am
content: Quote from: Analog Kid on June 29, 2025, 08:53:23 amNot in the UK either, disappointingly.Oliver is British; is that what you mean by "international commodity"?Or maybe you think of "international" in the same way US local TV news programs sometimes refer to "foreign news" - where "foreign" is merely "out of state".

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 29, 2025, 09:10:49 am
content: Quote from: tggzzz on June 29, 2025, 09:01:52 amWell that, and his being internationally recognized and relatable, despite appearing on an American outlet (HBO).QuoteNo.Shame they restrict their videos so. This one is particularly good.

author: JPortici
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 30, 2025, 05:37:53 am
content: AI Slop is really the perfect term. As much as marvel movies and such are cinema slopheh, i wonder if videogame developers call they colleagues using AI slop drudge

author: Halcyon
author_rank: Unknown
timestamp: June 30, 2025, 06:34:38 am
content: Quote from: Analog Kid on June 29, 2025, 08:03:34 amI can't view the video either but your timing is uncanny. I heard the term "AI Slop" today for the first time, referring to all the AI bloat Microsoft is pushing in Windows these days. AKA: Slopware.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 30, 2025, 07:00:40 am
content: Dang. Too bad there isn't some kind of Internet Archive for videos so that anyone can see them. I guess not.This one is John Oliver in top form.

author: JPortici
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 30, 2025, 07:26:54 am
content: Quote from: Halcyon on June 30, 2025, 06:34:38 amreally? i'ts been on 4chan - and derived youtube channels, reddit and whatever for many months
AI does electronics stock photos... - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: amyk
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 05, 2025, 03:28:02 am
content: I made these on inspiration fromthis other thread, using the same keywords as many of the stock images there.Mostof the time, AI knows how to hold a soldering iron

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 05, 2025, 03:51:25 am
content: What I really object to here is the obsessive use of that genre of big-breasted, doe-eyed, obviously little-girl sex objects, aka bimbos. What is that even called: manga?

author: radiolistener
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 05, 2025, 04:07:49 am
content: here's another way how AI imagines a girl enthusiastically soldering a motherboard with a soldering ironI'm not sure what the point of this shape of the soldering iron is?

author: radiolistener
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 05, 2025, 04:50:17 pm
content: some more AI generated art on the topic subject

author: artag
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 29, 2025, 03:59:09 pm
content: I'm not sure it even knows the difference between soldering iron, arc welder and plasma torch. Or possibly magic wand.Not many of the girls are holding the hot end, it's true, but they're certainly not looking where it's pointing.

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 29, 2025, 04:41:25 pm
content: Quote from: Analog Kid on June 05, 2025, 03:51:25 am“Manga” is a Japanese term for graphic publications, including comic books.Modern manga often feature such almost-child-porn female characters.Historically, many real artists (e.g. Hokusai) published graphic works as “manga” in the 19th century, before these bimbos took over.

author: golden_labels
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 29, 2025, 08:10:23 pm
content: Now just wait for people to pile up with “boo AI is stupid,” while completely missing that this is a spin-off of a thread with equally ridiculous products of humans.Radiolistener, what were the prompts you used? And how did you do the picks?What is interesting is not the inaccuracy of the outputs. This is expected. Even more, if we realize that this particular subject is likely to be heavily weighted towards bad stock/marketing photos generated by humans.(1)What disturbs me more is how well it recreated human biases. Those unrelated to soldering.Picture #2 (soldering-girl-3) just oozes with sexism. That the person is half-naked, is least important — might be how radiolistener and chosen the images.(2)What I bring your attention to are subtler things. In her right hand she holds a red lipstick.(3)And what she does is presented as a magical ritual, as obviously women are associated with witchcraft.A great mirror for humanity, seriously. And the thing humanity hates most is mirrors…(1)Where else would one see photos depicting women soldering?(2)This happens in reality, but marginally. Certainly shouldn’t be present in the majority (or all) images.(3)Though I would swear it’s a cut off finger covered in blood, nail side towards us.
Linux Journal’s content generator goes off the rails - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: golden_labels
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 19, 2025, 12:05:20 am
content: They already removed the original, here’s an archived copy ofLinux Journal “news” generator going off the rails. Nobody even noticed until it was too late.Linux Journal is among recognizable anti-brands, so that comes with no surprise. But this particular instance may serve as a nice example. Everything that could go wrong, went wrong.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 22, 2025, 03:52:30 pm
content: That was a good one!
23 Texas local governments hit by Coordinated Ransomware attack! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: windsmurf
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: August 20, 2019, 12:45:33 am
content: 23 Texas local governments hit by Coordinated Ransomware attack!https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2019/08/ransomware-strike-takes-down-23-texas-local-government-agencies/
Local LLM Megathread - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: BadeBhaiya
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 15, 2025, 12:41:22 pm
content: Anyone else running local LLMs? What are you doing with your LLMs? Post your hardware!

author: BadeBhaiya
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: May 15, 2025, 12:49:14 pm
content: I'm running a 13B model ("Rocinante-12B-v2g-Q6_K.gguf" on huggingface) on my PC.I am developing a chatbot framework which can create chatbots that "live" in my PC and sends me messages on my phone using an XMPP server (also hosted on my PC). The chatbots can randomly decide their name, personality, way of talking, appearance (generates a profile picture automatically using stable-diffusion).Right now its only programmed to generate positive chatbot personas which are cheerful and fun to talk to. It can also randomly decide to initiate conversation with me (it sends an XMPP message, my phone rings, so cool!). It chooses from a large list of common conversation topics but I plan on adding the ability to browse the internet for more interesting topics.All code is in python.I got a Ryzen 5 5600GT, 32GB 3200MHz DDR4, nVIDIA RTX3060 12GB GDDR5
new types of errors with AI-assisted programming - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2025, 09:10:24 am
content: Interesting post about Copilot introducing a new type of error to Python code: Copilot Induced Crash,https://www.bugsink.com/blog/copilot-induced-crash/

author: brucehoult
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2025, 09:46:25 am
content: The most important part: "didn't test the code immediately after copilot modified it, but only after doing a lot of other stuff"

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: May 07, 2025, 09:55:34 am
content: Most important concepts:tests are limited to what the designerimagines might bea failure mechanismmost designers concentrate on "happydazedays" behaviour, because that is specified in the requirements and they get brownie points for implementing "function points"some things can't be tested routinely, e.g. ACID properties (s/w) or metastability (h/w) or performance (system)you can't test quality into a product; it has to be designed in
eGPU external video card connection - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: smile
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 29, 2025, 04:32:52 am
content: I need to connect external RTX 3090 graphics cards to my HP workstation.I wanted to use PCIe extension cables, but they are difficult to use since there are no external port adapters. The extension cables are not allowed to be routed through the holes drilled in the case.Found these options:x16 PCIE extendershttps://vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005006752061032.htmlhttps://vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005004028133937.htmlhttps://vi.aliexpress.com/i/1005006015381652.html--------------------------------------MCIO 8i SFFhttps://vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005008314444335.html--------------------------------------SFF-8654 8i external portshttps://vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005007905897457.htmlhttps://vi.aliexpress.com/i/1005006174381598.htmlhttps://vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005008407928907.html---------------------------------------SFF-8654 8i internal portshttps://vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005008471040412.htmlhttps://vi.aliexpress.com/item/1005007217978501.html---------------------------------------SFF-8654 8i internal portshttps://c-payne.comUsing adapters is beneficial because it allows you to split x16 pcie into 2x x8 ports. But the price is much higher. Who used these cards, do they work? As far as I know, they are not interchangeable. (https://watchmysys.com/blog/2024/10/gigabyte-mj11-ec1-pcie-bifurcation/)
ChatGPT and a delete of your prompts/conversations - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: iMo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2025, 03:47:21 pm
content: I've seen some discussion (I cannot find it again) where people indicated the US authorities requested chatgpt owners to store all conversations/prompts people do with chatgpt, delete from the user's side regardless.How the delete of the prompts/conversation works? Are they stored or are they deleted?

author: radiolistener
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 16, 2025, 05:05:18 pm
content: Once you’ve typed a prompt, just assume it’s already in some government database.OpenAI claims that deleted conversations are removed from your chat history and not used for training (if you disable training in settings). Temporary logs may exist for security, but they’re not stored forever - at least officially.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2025, 12:09:24 am
content: Quote from: radiolistener on July 16, 2025, 05:05:18 pmOf course none of what you wrote above can be believed or confirmed. (And I'm not blaming you here.)

author: iMo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2025, 07:36:31 am
content: https://cdn.arstechnica.net/wp-content/uploads/2025/06/NYT-v-OpenAI-Preservation-Order-5-13-25.pdf

author: iMo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 17, 2025, 07:46:28 am
content: I also asked grok:Quote

author: radiolistener
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 21, 2025, 10:17:16 pm
content: Quote from: Analog Kid on July 17, 2025, 12:09:24 amYou’re free to trust no one, including yourself.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 21, 2025, 10:31:35 pm
content: Quote from: radiolistener on July 21, 2025, 10:17:16 pmWell, I do believe that the most dangerous people are those who believe their own propaganda.

author: radiolistener
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 22, 2025, 12:14:31 am
content: Quote from: Analog Kid on July 21, 2025, 10:31:35 pmYou’re speaking from personal experience? Must be exhausting, living inside your own propaganda. Hope you’re getting better.

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 22, 2025, 06:34:40 pm
content: Quote from: radiolistener on July 22, 2025, 12:14:31 amYou do realize that's one hell of an assumption you just made there, right?I'm curious: just what kind of radio do you listen to, anyhow? Must be some bizarre kind of broadcast ...

author: radiolistener
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: July 22, 2025, 09:28:04 pm
content: Quote from: Analog Kid on July 22, 2025, 06:34:40 pmI like to listen1.FM, especially this one:https://strm112.1.fm/onelive_mobile_mp3
AI revenge of the redneck - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: jonovid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 01, 2024, 01:43:21 am
content: star wars revenge of the redneckwhat AI can do with an American space opera now in decline.

author: xrunner
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 01, 2024, 02:10:13 am
content: Where's R2-D2? Could have been an oversized beer can!

author: ataradov
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 01, 2024, 02:19:25 am
content: All "AI movies" are just supercuts of slowly panning static shots.

author: golden_labels
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 01, 2024, 03:18:14 am
content: The old classic “John Wick: Chapter Portobello”:

author: jonovid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 01, 2024, 07:09:59 am
content: I intended to post this - Star Wars -Revengeof the Redneck. not Return of the RedneckQuote from: ataradov on October 01, 2024, 02:19:25 amtrue just AI baby steps in Post-productionthis IMO will change over time as AI reaches in to all stages of production.when AI has reached a level of maturity that is able to give an avatar the unique skill set of human behaviour in a creation of filming locations.will see complete CGI avatar character animations combined with the re creations of speech and body language. the essence of acting.if Hollywood does not embrace the use of full CGI AI filming, the rest of the world will IMO.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 01, 2024, 08:02:43 am
content: That's great, so we'll be going from people creating stuff to people just pushing some buttons. Sounds like fun.

author: RJSV
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 24, 2025, 06:45:21 pm
content: GAWD THATS BAD ! 5th grade level home video bad. I'd rather watch real cartoons.Hey, uh, can somebody feed a bunch of 1p
Humans are gonna take AI's job! - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2025, 05:45:46 pm
content: Builder.AI:Quotehttps://itwire.com/it-industry-news/deals/builder-ai-enters-bankruptcy-when-its-ai-exposed-as-actually-indians-more-than-700-human-workforce-faking-ai.htmlHilarious.

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2025, 06:09:15 pm
content: I wonder if those 700 Indians have a lower CO2footprint than an AI data center.

author: pcprogrammer
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2025, 06:19:22 pm
content: Quote from: madires on June 03, 2025, 06:09:15 pmIt is more a curry footprint.

author: langwadt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2025, 06:52:11 pm
content: Quote from: SiliconWizard on June 03, 2025, 05:45:46 pmancient ideahttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanical_Turk

author: TimFox
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2025, 06:59:28 pm
content: Quote from: langwadt on June 03, 2025, 06:52:11 pmThe current use of "Mechanical Turk":https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSMechTurk/latest/AWSMechanicalTurkGettingStartedGuide/SvcIntro.htmlWhen the original Turk was brought to the US by Maelzel (inventor of the metronome and other less-valid machines), Edgar Allen Poe was not fooled by it.

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2025, 07:45:50 pm
content: Quote from: madires on June 03, 2025, 06:09:15 pmDefinitely so. A "small" datacenter draws min. 1 MW.An average human behind a computer, with very little physical activity consumes around 100 W (80 W basal + 20 W brain). Times 700: 70 kW.Sources:https://dgtlinfra.com/data-center-power/https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_powerhttps://hypertextbook.com/facts/2001/JacquelineLing.shtml

author: langwadt
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2025, 10:42:35 pm
content: Quote from: SiliconWizard on June 03, 2025, 07:45:50 pmprobably not that simple, humans need food,housing,transportation, etc. which all produces co2 during production

author: coppercone2
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 03, 2025, 11:02:00 pm
content: general problem solver contractor company
A good way to exaplin AI to some - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: mendip_discovery
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 23, 2024, 07:45:54 pm
content: Ryan at Fortnine is a motorcycle chap but does put some science into his videos.This is a bit of an advert for a camera system but he does do a not-so-bad job of explaining how AI works.

author: maggusweb
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: March 13, 2025, 12:20:40 pm
content: Great video, thanks for sharing.

author: golden_labels
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 14, 2025, 02:04:20 am
content: Worth changing the title to “AIvision.”Usually I despise oversimplification. But in this case I must agree: the video is very good and I’d show it to any person wishing to grasp the basic idea. It’s good in thelie to childrensense. It’s not accurate, but gives the right mental model to move around the concept.One correction is needed: shot noise is not due to uncertainity of photon’s position. It’s not rooted in quantum physics. It’d be the same if we imagined photons as flying balls. There is simply not enough of them to build a smooth image.
Existential Comics: The Beginning and End of Philosophy - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: tggzzz
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 13, 2025, 10:09:56 am
content: Existential Comics is a once-weekly "philosophy comic about the inevitable anguish of living a brief life in an absurd world. Also Jokes".https://existentialcomics.com/The relevant comic here is...
Manus AI, 1st Ever AI Agent? - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: Altair8800
author_rank: Regular Contributor
timestamp: March 10, 2025, 10:12:28 am
content: OK, there just seems to be a Lot of hype and awe about the newManus AIBasically, you can assign it a task and it will first create a check box to-do list how it is going to solve/tackle the problem. Then it scours the web to solve the problem at hand. Then it can even produce files of the result which appears more (effort/accuracy) than ChagGPT or DeepSeek will give you...It is in Beta but seem promising.It is very hard to get direct access (because they are limiting users) but there is a more limited OpenManus setup instructions here:https://github.com/mannaandpoem/OpenManus/blob/main/README.mdBusy now, but I'll try and test out next day or two and report back.Curious on your thoughts and if anybody has had a chance to play with it...
Copilot helps you to activate Win11 (without key) - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 28, 2025, 01:39:53 pm
content: Asked copilot if there's a script to activate Windows 11:https://www.reddit.com/r/Piracy/comments/1iy1ihy/asked_copilot_if_theres_a_script_to_activate/

author: Siwastaja
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 28, 2025, 07:11:26 pm
content: So Microsoft gives Windows license (or activation) for free, which is what they have been doing for... what, at least 15 years, and for some weird reason someone posts it in "r/Piracy" tagged with "humor", when it has absolutely nothing to do neither with piracy nor humor, and people are surprised that Microsoft's AI knows to advertise their own product as well? What is the point of this thread?

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 28, 2025, 08:22:32 pm
content: It doesn't matter if you get a Win11 licence for 'free' because of an older licence you own. Usually you need a valid product key to activate Windows. And to answer your question: irony.

author: Siwastaja
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: March 01, 2025, 09:44:43 am
content: What irony? Microsoft does this on purpose. It's their business strategy. I remember people were surprised about this turn (of offering licenses and/or activations free-of-cost to developers and others) in... 2009 maybe?They make their money from service subscriptions, and (decreasingly) selling Windows to consumers large-scale (e.g. bundled with computer sales). For them, giving it away for free for developers and power users is only good because those developers are then more happy to develop software for Windows, or push Windows in their organizations.
Common Crawl - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 21, 2025, 11:25:21 pm
content: If you're wondering where many AI companies and research labs get their data from:https://commoncrawl.org/Of course, the bigger ones like Open AI have their own web crawl tools and don't just use the web, but torrents, as a recent post has talked about.But if you were curious, and if you want to experiment with large data sets yourself, that's a starting point.Common Crawl is a non-profit organization. Even as non-profit, the ethical aspects of web crawling are still debatable.
Meta sued for torrenting 82TB of books to train AI - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: magic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 11, 2025, 07:41:09 am
content: https://hothardware.com/news/lawsuit-meta-training-ai-millions-of-pirated-books

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 11, 2025, 08:00:08 am
content: That's surprising!

author: iMo
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 11, 2025, 08:09:36 am
content: Any link/torrent?

author: golden_labels
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 11, 2025, 09:05:00 am
content: Double popcorn for a double featuremoviedrama!I don’t expect Meta vs the intellectual property crowd bringing us anything unexpected. Business as always.But there is another part to this story: the uproar among torrent users about Meta being a leecher. From the same people, who don’t give a second thought about leeching off YouTube or Reddit, or using Imgur and X as a free image storage. Can you smell this? Sniff… sniff… is this an odour of double standards? I don’t want to be misunderstood. Thereis a huge differenceand, if we dive into nuances, the distinction isn’t hard to see. But from what I see in talks, also supported by my previous experience with that group, there rarely is any deeper philosophical thought or cool consideration in the reaction.Between the lines I also see something sad. Meta employees have ethical doubt not about Meta’s business model and practices. What makes them concerned is… copyright infringement. 🤦Quote from: iMo on February 11, 2025, 08:09:36 amDo you have a 100 TB drive lying around?

author: Analog Kid
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 11, 2025, 09:43:07 am
content: Maybe they're following Google's new motto: "Don'tBe evil".

author: magic
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 11, 2025, 10:30:02 am
content: Quote from: golden_labels on February 11, 2025, 09:05:00 amWere they, though?The news report mentions seeding, which if true certainly is going to get them in obvious legal trouble. Unauthorized distribution, thank you very much.

author: golden_labels
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: February 11, 2025, 02:28:21 pm
content: Quote from: magic on February 11, 2025, 10:30:02 amFrom what I heard, the seeding was only minimal. More like an accidental seeding during a download than actual sharing. Legally that still counts as ditributing copies, but it doesn’t make it not leeching. Certainly what people, whom comments I’ve seen, think. And this is what counts for that paragraph.
Performance of Qualcomm's NPU - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 17, 2024, 12:07:56 pm
content: Benchmarking Qualcomm's NPU on the Microsoft Surface Tablet (https://github.com/usefulsensors/qc_npu_benchmark):QuoteQuote

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 17, 2024, 02:26:51 pm
content: That sounds unfortunate. But we just need more NPUs.

author: Marco
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 17, 2024, 05:22:56 pm
content: QuoteIf you are that far from compute bound on a RTX4080 maybe reconsider your ability to make a compute bound benchmark. I'm pretty sure people get far far more than that on prefill with good code on small transformer models.

author: DimitriP
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 17, 2024, 06:06:53 pm
content: 45 trillion operations per second was the limit of their reimagination for the prerelease product .https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/surface/devices/surface-pro-11th-edition#sup3

author: Marco
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: October 18, 2024, 06:42:42 am
content: Their tensors all have batch size 1 ... this will never be compute bound.
Introducing OpenAI o1 - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: xrunner
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 14, 2024, 01:59:40 am
content: Quote

author: djsb
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 14, 2024, 11:03:09 am
content: Gary explains it here

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 18, 2024, 11:41:14 am
content: But don't ask about the reasoning, or your account will be banned:Ban warnings fly as users dare to probe the “thoughts” of OpenAI’s latest model (https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2024/09/openai-threatens-bans-for-probing-new-ai-models-reasoning-process/)

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 18, 2024, 11:01:29 pm
content: That's surprising. Why they still call themselves "OpenAI" is beyond me.
Australia's corporate regulator tested AI  - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: September 03, 2024, 12:32:33 pm
content: AI worse than humans in every way at summarising information, government trial finds (https://www.crikey.com.au/2024/09/03/ai-worse-summarising-information-humans-government-trial/)
Firefox AI-enhanced tab groups - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 13, 2025, 02:01:19 pm
content: From the we-need-to-have-an-AI-feature department:Mozilla under fire for Firefox AI "bloat" that blows up CPU and drains battery -https://www.neowin.net/news/mozilla-under-fire-for-firefox-ai-bloat-that-blows-up-cpu-and-drains-battery/

author: golden_labels
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 14, 2025, 06:32:11 am
content: This is where reasonable criticism turns into dogmatic besmirching.Yes, Mozilla is horrible for offering an optional feature, which user can decide if they want or don’t want to use. Moreso, which is an exceptional decision nowadays, they make it local instead sending everything to a datacenter. Yes, punish everybody who makes such a nice decision: managers will learn the lesson to never make such a mistake again. 🤦 I can already see the same people crying, a year from now, that some company doesn’t let them run code locally. Guess why…But I guess somebody earned their 5 minutes of fame on social media, and the journalist got their clickbait article. On the expense of everybody, who tries to make some real influence to limit harm from poor use of technology.Somebody is also delusional. Yes, I agree that a browsershouldbe primarily used to download and display content. This is a normative statement. The person seems to make it a positive statement and does this in a thread about power usage. Somehow ignoring the obvious: they use the browser as a platform to download and run bloated software, which is responsible for 90% of said power usage. Which is barely a fraction of financial cost imparted on them, ignoring other losses.
training AIs with AI generated content - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: madires
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 04, 2024, 11:40:41 am
content: ... and you get:Self-Consuming Generative Models Go MAD (https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.01850)

author: SiliconWizard
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: August 04, 2024, 08:55:00 pm
content: Fun stuff.