Alibaba Cloud claims new DB manager beats rival hyperscalers
Alibaba Cloud reveals DB cluster manager it says can beat rival hyperscalers
: ‘Eigen+’ finds instances likely to cause out of memory errors and makes sure they can’t do damageSimon Sharwood (The Register)
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Alibaba Cloud claims new DB manager beats rival hyperscalers
Alibaba Cloud reveals DB cluster manager it says can beat rival hyperscalers
: ‘Eigen+’ finds instances likely to cause out of memory errors and makes sure they can’t do damageSimon Sharwood (The Register)
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The Education Crisis: How AI Is Failing Students for the Future Job Market
How AI Is Failing Students for the Future Job Market
Kansas researchers say schools obsessed with grades are creating unemployable graduates. Their new study reveals the collaboration skills employers actually want.GazeOn Team (GazeOn)
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The Education Crisis: How AI Is Failing Students for the Future Job Market
How AI Is Failing Students for the Future Job Market
Kansas researchers say schools obsessed with grades are creating unemployable graduates. Their new study reveals the collaboration skills employers actually want.GazeOn Team (GazeOn)
The Education Crisis: How AI Is Failing Students for the Future Job Market
How AI Is Failing Students for the Future Job Market
Kansas researchers say schools obsessed with grades are creating unemployable graduates. Their new study reveals the collaboration skills employers actually want.GazeOn Team (GazeOn)
Ready-made stem cell therapies for pets could be coming
Ready-made stem cell therapies for pets could be coming | TechCrunch
Earlier this week, San Diego startup Gallant announced $18 million in funding to bring the first FDA-approved ready-to-use stem cell therapy to veterinaryConnie Loizos (TechCrunch)
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Ready-made stem cell therapies for pets could be coming
Ready-made stem cell therapies for pets could be coming | TechCrunch
Earlier this week, San Diego startup Gallant announced $18 million in funding to bring the first FDA-approved ready-to-use stem cell therapy to veterinaryConnie Loizos (TechCrunch)
Ready-made stem cell therapies for pets could be coming
Ready-made stem cell therapies for pets could be coming | TechCrunch
Earlier this week, San Diego startup Gallant announced $18 million in funding to bring the first FDA-approved ready-to-use stem cell therapy to veterinaryConnie Loizos (TechCrunch)
Microsoft finally bids farewell to PowerShell 2.0
Microsoft finally bids farewell to PowerShell 2.0
: Venerable command line tool to depart WindowsRichard Speed (The Register)
Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival
Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival, says minister
: Possibility of joining IRIS² remote as Britain grapples with fiscal squeezeLindsay Clark (The Register)
Tech support 'trained monkey’ fixed problem with two fingers
'Trained monkey' from tech support saved know-it-all manager's mistake with a single keypress
On Call: Righteous mockery entranced execs in ways slideware could notSimon Sharwood (The Register)
Microsoft finally bids farewell to PowerShell 2.0
Microsoft finally bids farewell to PowerShell 2.0
: Venerable command line tool to depart WindowsRichard Speed (The Register)
Microsoft finally bids farewell to PowerShell 2.0
Microsoft finally bids farewell to PowerShell 2.0
: Venerable command line tool to depart WindowsRichard Speed (The Register)
Microsoft finally bids farewell to PowerShell 2.0
Microsoft finally bids farewell to PowerShell 2.0
: Venerable command line tool to depart WindowsRichard Speed (The Register)
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Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival
Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival, says minister
: Possibility of joining IRIS² remote as Britain grapples with fiscal squeezeLindsay Clark (The Register)
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Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival
Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival, says minister
: Possibility of joining IRIS² remote as Britain grapples with fiscal squeezeLindsay Clark (The Register)
Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival
Financial 'stretch' for UK to join Europe's Starlink rival, says minister
: Possibility of joining IRIS² remote as Britain grapples with fiscal squeezeLindsay Clark (The Register)
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Tech support 'trained monkey’ fixed problem with two fingers
'Trained monkey' from tech support saved know-it-all manager's mistake with a single keypress
On Call: Righteous mockery entranced execs in ways slideware could notSimon Sharwood (The Register)
Tech support 'trained monkey’ fixed problem with two fingers
'Trained monkey' from tech support saved know-it-all manager's mistake with a single keypress
On Call: Righteous mockery entranced execs in ways slideware could notSimon Sharwood (The Register)
Tech support 'trained monkey’ fixed problem with two fingers
'Trained monkey' from tech support saved know-it-all manager's mistake with a single keypress
On Call: Righteous mockery entranced execs in ways slideware could notSimon Sharwood (The Register)
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Qantas attack reveals one phone call is all it takes to crack cybersecurity’s weakest link: humans
Other sectors also at risk from attacks, including healthcare, finance and telecommunications, expert warns
UK puts out tender for space robot to de-orbit satellites
Got to be a 'clean space superpower' – right, Brits?
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UK puts out tender for space robot to de-orbit satellites
: Got to be a 'clean space superpower' – right, Brits?Dan Robinson (The Register)
Nintendo Switch 2 prices might climb due to tariff changes — US hikes Vietnam tariffs to 20%, up from 10% when the console launched
You'd better get the Switch 2 console before tariffs strike.
Nvidia's first desktop PC chip lands this month — Asus leads with Ascend GX10 Grace Blackwell desktop platform
Precise availability date and pricing remains unclear.
FolderDrive USB-C flash storage drags computer folder icon into the physical world – Skeuomorphism in reverse
$40 USB-C device will initially be available in 128GB capacity.
Researchers seek to influence peer review with hidden AI prompts
Academics may be leaning on a novel strategy to influence peer review of their research papers — adding hidden prompts designed to coax AI tools to deliver positive feedback.
Schools Are Going Underground to Avoid Trump’s Immigration Dragnet
No matter the strategy, the goal is the same: avoid potential federal audits, funding cuts, and closures.
Critics Call Trump’s Proposed White House UFC Match Pure “Idiocracy”
UFC President and CEO Dana White has donated at least $1 million to Trump’s campaign coffers.
Police Arrest 27 During UK Protest Defying Ban on Pro-Palestine Group
British lawmakers voted to ban Palestine Action as a “terrorist” group after members vandalized two aircraft.
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Environmentally-friendly AI? Is there such a thing?
After avoiding AI/LLLMs like the plague, I've been asking Duck.ai some fairly detailed questions, and have been, admittedly, pretty impressed with the results (after checking its references of course). For an oldster like me, it turns the search process on its head: a regular search turns up x hits, and I try to choose what appear to be the most reputable sites among them to find an answer, and then dig through text to find it; now I'm given the answer right away, and then I just have to check and make sure that it's actually correct.
Anyway, Mrs. Erinaceus keeps reminding me that AI sucks up huge amounts of energy (and water, too, apparently), much of it not from renewable sources. So my question is, is there any "acceptable" AI that has a good reputation for not serving slop and is also easy on the environment? Should I even be using AI at all? Mainly concerned about the environment here, I like to think I've been round long enough to have relatively well-developed bullshit detectors. Obviously want to avoid Big Tech LLMs too, unless there's some way of using them without them getting any benefit from it.
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If you run it on your own hardware then you know exactly how much energy it's using. Some of the models can even run on the average computer, but the quality is not great.
The problem we have right now is where everyone is trying to use generative AI for everything, all the time, even for basic takes such as googling for a fact, simple math that could be done on a calculator, etc. They're also often using the latest and greatest AI models, which are powerful and spend a lot of processing power each time. In order to run the servers to respond to all that, companies use a large amount of power, and then use water to cool the servers. That's the water usage from what I understand.
So if you use a simpler / more efficient model, and only use it for tasks where it's better than conventional tools, you'll be doing much better power usage wise.
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BTW, are the Chinese way ahead of the US in this like they are with renewables and electric cars? They'll probably figure out a way to have AI use significantly less power before "we" can.
The real power consumption cost is from the model training. The marginal cost of running a query is small. Unless you use LLMs heavily, you probably use more power in many other ways, like if you forget to put your computer to sleep.
More training means better models, generally. If you want to minimize that, look for smaller models on HuggingFace that are more tightly focused on whatever task you have at hand.
Or, you could just do most of your queries when your local electricity mix has more renewables.
AI Leaves Digital Fingerprints in 13.5% of Scientific Papers
AI Leaves Digital Fingerprints in 13.5% of Scientific Papers
New study analyzes 15 million papers, reveals 13.5% of 2024 scientific publications show AI fingerprints through word pattern analysis.GazeOn Team (GazeOn)
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Police Arrest 27 During UK Protest Defying Ban on Pro-Palestine Group
Police Arrest 27 During UK Protest Defying Ban on Pro-Palestine Group
British lawmakers voted to ban Palestine Action as a “terrorist” group after members vandalized two aircraft.Brett Wilkins (Truthout)
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