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    Will NPUs soon become useless silicon? — Windows 11’s Local AI is getting GPU support

    Most have significantly less than 30 tops… it’s only the 2024 CPU’s and up that break 30 everything older is either non existent or around 15.
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    Will NPUs soon become useless silicon? — Windows 11’s Local AI is getting GPU support

    NPU’s don’t make sense from a support standpoint, they are a major PITA. Intel and AMD both do it differently at a CPU level and they both do it differently from Broadcom and Qualcomm. Granted that is supposed to be handled by the drivers but that only goes so far, and because the performance...
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    Microsoft is cracking down on Windows 11 bloatware ads, forces LG to pull McAfee popup

    I would like to say this is Microsoft trying to do the right thing; this is Microsoft covering its ass. The Military and Government organizations are getting tired of the extra crap, and with the current costs of memory, you sure as hell know that IT has been talking to accounting, and they are...
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    A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID

    I wish that were enough, you also need a good security gateway. ISPs have a fun pair of protocols for the modem’s TR-069 and TR-181 and those give them a lot of information about what is connecting to the device and in the vicinity of the device and they sell that data too.
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    A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID

    Alphabet actively monitors entry and exit nodes independently of other ISPs and in conjunction with others as part of its anti-bot infrastructure, threat intelligence, and user-tracking networks. Google brags about how their user database is so large that if a user lands on a site that has...
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    A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID

    You gravely underestimate the amount of data collected. Where you visit, when you visit, browsing habits, spending habits, grocery shopping lists, political affiliations, friends, associates, and workplaces. Everything is collected and those Unique Identifiers are tied to them wherever...
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    Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now

    Guaranteed Microsoft knew, but there isn't anything sinister about it, it's apathy 1000%. Their engineering and certificate service department knew it existed and that it was a problem, but they likely have partners who have products in the wild still using those expired certificates. So those...
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    A Hacker's Arrest Reveals Microsoft Can Track Users Via a Windows Device ID

    VPN's don't do squat. Alphabet and Meta both have tools that actively monitor the VPN entry and exit nodes and can match the traffic with alarming accuracy, and since Alphabet has active monitoring on over 80% of the internet as a whole, it knows your landing location and can work it backwards...
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    XBOX lays off 1,600 - Resetting XBOX

    I’d argue they only need a few dozen people to maintain the engine and develop it going forward. It’s Microsoft they likely had bloat within bloat creating folds of fat even Nurgle would find excessive. Epic manages and maintains Unreal with around ~200, and that includes tools, assets, and...
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    Microsoft’s Secure Boot has been broken for a decade and no one noticed until now

    Well at least they patched it in June.. So there’s that at least. But I’m not surprised, revoking signatures and certificates is a PITA. Especially if they are being used, internally or by a partner. Still it’s not like Microsoft is some Mom & Pop garage operation, they have the resources...
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    AMD confirms Zen 6 CPU launch plans

    Amazon doesn’t share cores, ARM is bad at it and it’s a terrible security practice. Graviton has an absurd amount of resources for networking and parallel communication to networked storage, pcie lane communication, and isolation for everything. Other platforms don’t have that, so when Amazon...
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    AMD confirms Zen 6 CPU launch plans

    Amazon doesn’t build its servers as a single workload object, they build them to farm. Any one of those Graviton CPU’s is running 4-12 other customers work and god only knows how many websites and databases. Amazons mandate for most of its builds is “how many customers can I fit in the...
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    AMD’s “PEPS” Research Pushes Neural Texture Compression Further, Cutting Model Parameters By 25% At Comparable Quality

    Nah not gonna come to the PS5 or any of the other platforms any time soon.... maybe the Switch 2.... AMD claims that the algorithms aren't matrix multiplication-based, which would make you think they could maybe be backported to RDNA 2, but later on describes how the algorithm does make...
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    12 states sue to block Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery

    Yeah... But Paramount bought that 450,000-sq.-ft. lot in Fort Worth to facilitate its move to Texas in 2024. So the Hollywood Reporter can say that today they are "considering" moving... But Paramount has already spent upwards of $1.5 billion; I think that is a little bit past the consideration...
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    12 states sue to block Paramount's acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery

    Nah, they started the process long before the lawsuit. Hollywood has been moving to Texas since 2023. The taxes are much lower, and there is a lot less work involved in filming in Texas. Not to mention the sound stages are bigger, newer, and better equipped, as are the campus facilities. Between...
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