This weekend a Chinese company announced an AI model that, they say (no evidence) cost $5 million to train vs. the $500 billion that the president is trying to put together for US companies to develop their models. The Chinese model, R1, is on par with the best we have to offer. The DeepSeek app […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Great AI Tool With a Large Dose of Chinese Propaganda and Censorship If you want a very high performing and very low cost AI model, likely subsidized by the Chinese Communist Party, that meets or beats OpenAI and are willing to tolerate Chinese propaganda and censorship, have I got a piece of software for you. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Here is the short version. AMD partner Asus disclosed a microcode bug before AMD has a patch developed. They posted a beta BIOS update that has since been removed. Remember that the BIOS gets loaded before the operating system, so any OS security tools are likely useless in blocking this. The good news is that […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Is TikTok for Sale? Maybe! Mark Cuban says the number being floated around is more than $300 billion. It is unclear if this is for TikTok US or TikTok worldwide. And maybe Musk might buy it. Given how well he did with his purchase of Twitter, if he does buy it for $300 billion, Cuban […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]New Orleans Truck Terrorist Used Meta Ray-Bans to Surveil French Quarter An advertising executive once said all publicity was good. I don’t think he understands terrorism. The FBI has revealed footage from the attacker’s Meta glasses that he took while going through the French Quarter on a bicycle. Not exactly the “use case” Meta wants […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Feds Arrest US Solider in AT&T, Verizon+ Hacks This is NOT the Salt Typhoon hack, but rather the Snowflake hack, as best I can tell. The details are very sparse, but in some cases, the targets are the same. Cameron John Wagenius was arrested in Fort Hood, TX. after he was indicted recently. He, apparently, […]
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