Leftovers

• Science

  • Science Alert ☛ Common Drugs Can Rewire Your Gut For Several Years, Study Finds

    "The effect of drug usage has been underestimated."

  • Science Alert ☛ A Giant Magnetic Anomaly Over 500 Million Years Ago Can Finally Be Explained

    A pattern glimpsed in the chaos.

  • Science Alert ☛ A Huge Number of Young Athletes Are Taking Creatine. Should They?

    One of the most widely used sports supplements across the world.

  • Science Alert ☛ Elite Athletes Are Only Human, And Scientists Have Found Their Limit

    Our bodies can't take much more.

  • Science Alert ☛ Men Need to Exercise More Than Women to Lower Heart Disease. Here's Why.

    Get your weekly dose.

  • Science Alert ☛ Interstellar Comet 3I/ATLAS's Blue Shine Is Surprising Astronomers

    Not your typical comet.

  • Science Alert ☛ 'Junk' DNA Could Be Recruited to Destroy Cancer Cells From Within

    Who's 'junk' now?

  • Science Alert ☛ Our Universe Was Twice as Hot 7 Billion Years Ago, Study Reveals

    This was before middle-age spread hit.

  • Science Alert ☛ Tesla in Australia Struck by Mystery Object And It Could Be a World First

    And you thought your commute was a horrorshow.

• Hardware

  • Russell Coker ☛ Russell Coker: PCIe Problems

    HP z840 Dead Slot

    I just had an issue with the HP z840 system I’m using as a build server [1]. I had to take it to a site that was about 20 minutes drive away and after getting there it didn’t work and just gave 6 beeps and the red LED on the power button flashed. The beeps indicate a video issue, which refers to the Intel Arc B580 card (which is annoyingly large) [2]. I swapped the card with another video card I had lying around (which I knew to be reliable) and got the same result.

    It turned out that the PCIe*16 slot that I was using for it had broken, maybe bumps during transport with the big heavy GPU had broken it. I plugged it into the next slot along which is a PCIe*8 slot that’s open ended so it takes larger cards. The upside of this is that the system is still working well, the downside is that the issues I already had with the GPU being unreasonably large are exacerbated by losing one of the *16 slots. Having it in a PCIe 3.0*8 slot is not a problem for me as I only plan to use it for 8K display and for ML stuff and I think that *8 speed (7.8GB/s) is sufficient for both those tasks. In that slot the card could display 8K video at 60Hz with 32bpp and no compression (something that I don’t anticipate ever doing). It could also transfer the maximum size LLM in under 2 seconds which isn’t an unreasonable delay for starting a LLM.

    The question now is, should I remove PCIe cards before transport in future?

• Proprietary

  • Artificial Intelligence (AI) / LLM Slop / Plagiarism

    • Tom's Hardware ☛ MElon alleges Scam Altman 'stole a non-profit' as Hey Hi (AI) bros spat over cancelled Tesla Roadster order

      Scam Altman, the CEO of OpenAI, recently posted his Tesla Roadster order being mishandled on X — both of those latter companies are owned by MElon, who replied with a casual "you stole a non-profit" statement. Altman was instrumental in the recent recapitalization of Proprietary Chaffbot Company into a public benefit corporation, which cemented the for-profit model the firm has adopted.

    • Futurism ☛ Jerome Powell Deeply Concerned About AI’s Effects on Job Market [Ed: "Job creation is pretty close to zero" not because of slop; it's a dead economy floated by a bubble of nothing.

      "Job creation is pretty close to zero."

• Security

  • Krebs On Security ☛ Alleged Jabber Zeus Coder ‘MrICQ’ in U.S. Custody

    A Ukrainian man indicted in 2012 for conspiring with a prolific hacking group to steal tens of millions of dollars from U.S. businesses was arrested in Italy and is now in custody in the United States, KrebsOnSecurity has learned.

• Defence/Aggression

  • France24 ☛ Israel warns of intensifying attacks in Lebanon against Hezbollah

    Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu warned Beirut on Sunday to disarm Iran-backed Hezbollah, signalling that Israel could intensify operations in Lebanon against the militant group. Despite a November 2024 ceasefire with Hezbollah, Israel maintains troops in five areas in southern Lebanon and has kept up regular strikes.

  • France24 ☛ At least seven killed as magnitude-6.3 earthquake strikes Afghanistan

    A magnitude 6.3 earthquake struck northern Afghanistan overnight Sunday into Monday, killing at least seven people and injuring about 150, provincial officials said. The quake, at a depth of 28 km (17 miles) near Mazar-i-Sharif, hit two months after a tremor in the east killed more than 2,200.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ US seeks to reboot military channels with China after Convicted Felon-Xi meet

    US Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth said on Saturday that during talks with his Chinese counterpart, the two sides had agreed to reboot military-to-military links to “deconflict and deescalate”.

  • Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Canada prime minister says Pooh-tin talks ‘turning point,’ apologises to Convicted Felon

    Canadian premier Mark Carney on Saturday called his talks with China’s leader Pooh-tin Jinping a “turning point” in restoring their battered ties, adding he raised tricky topics with Beijing like foreign interference.

• Internet Policy/Net Neutrality

  • Tom's Hardware ☛ The internet was born this week in 1969, and immediately glitched — only two of the five letters in the first computer-to-computer message were received

    The foundations of internet communications were set 56 years ago, when 'LO' was transmitted from UCLA to SRI on the ARPANET.

Monopolies/Monopsonies