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Wow unbelievable, that's a total Ratner. (Gerald Ratner was a CEO who tanked his company by making a speech that showed he didn't care about the single thing his customers cared about most).

So glad you linked to that, I had missed it. Moving away from proton is now at the top of my to-do list.

I wonder if they need to do this because of the EU Cyber Resilience Act means older designs can't be sold any more there. Apparently that's causing a lot of design refreshes.

If your building or other construction is unsafe for the public, the local authority has the right to make it safe, if necessary by demolishing it; if you are insufficiently responsive to a notice that you must make it safe. Maybe tech companies need that kind of incentive before they will care enough not to subject their customers to this kind of abuse.

Yeah this is what pick-up "artists" call a "neg" - a negative judgement made purely so the recipient feels, at some level, that their credibility is on the line. In this case, for clickbait. I always either don't read such an article or come here to read the comments instead.

There's a lot of lobbying against open models on the grounds of a) China and b) open models mean we won't be able to prevent a hard takeoff.

It's " a major element of a £237m scheme to upgrade Oxford rail station". Most likely it is more expensive than it should be, but not to that extent

This makes the assumption that crows can identify people only by the face. It's quite likely they could recognise something else.

Well, it's not my field, but pci5.0 x4 drives are the fastest I found with a quick Google. So 24 of those would top out at ~400 GB/s. That's also where HBF starts out, for one device. The higher grades are faster, but maybe NVMe will be as fast by the time they are out.

But the win here on servers is almost certainly power. High speed signals are power hungry, and the power scales with the length of the wire. HBF is designed to go in the same package as the GPU, so the distance is much shorter than with discrete drives.

"Another notable document is a letter from Hittite generals in western Anatolia appealing to the king for reinforcements in men, horses and chariots to fend off enemy forces. "

I had assumed they had to wait for clay to dry before it could be carried anywhere, which seems incompatible with using them for urgent military messages. I wonder if there was a way to transport them while soft, or if this was just the archival copy of a message sent by other means.

That's because London is on clay. The Reading guy was mostly on chalk (and was himself an engineer). It sounds like the water table was a long way down as well. Soft clay or waterlogged sand are more like digging a hole in a bowl of custard. There are a lot of things that can go wrong - in the case of clay, even if you don't collapse the hole the clay can expand for years afterwards ("heave").