Archive for the 'Rise of the Machines' Category
Sam Altman: “It’s Quite Terrible” That People Have DRAM In Their Own Computers for Local Inference
November 2nd, 2026Eventually, Sam Altman schadenfreude will be the best schadenfreude. Sam Altman says its bad that everyone’s personal computers are using the world’s limited supply of memory chips. "It’s quite terrible to have everybody have a bunch of the world’s limited supply of DRAMs sitting in their own computer, and being used 5% of the time. […]
“Asking My AI Teacher How to Spell Seventeen”
November 1st, 2026Asking my AI teacher how to spell seventeen https://t.co/CL306DMdaI — Husk (@huskirl) November 1, 2026
Ghost Shark Uncrewed Submarine Shown Launching Aerial Drones For The First Time
October 29th, 2026"Ghost Shark has teeth now." – @PatConroy1, Australia’s Minister for Defence Industry. The @ausgov and @Australian_Navy confirmed the payloads that our Ghost Shark extra-large autonomous submarine carries: sea mines, logistics caches, and air-launched effects for ISR and strike. Ghost Sharks are rolling off the production line. Payload testing is active. — Anduril Industries (@anduriltech) October […]
Continuity of Government: Pentagon Revamping Doomsday Scenario Plans
October 29th, 2026I’m tired, boss. Via: Fox:
Robot-Dog Walkers Wanted, $20 an Hour
October 27th, 2026Via: Digital Trends: San Francisco startup Dimensional advertised for people to walk robot dogs through city streets. The New York Times reported that the job could include carrying a roughly 33-pound robot back to the office if it overheated. A lift home is an awkward requirement for a labor-saving machine. … The now-deleted ad described […]
Hundreds of Billions of Dollars Worth of AI Data Center Hardware Sitting in Warehouses… Depreciating…
October 22nd, 2026Via: The Tech Report: More: Jays Two Cents: Related: Where’re All The AI Chips? “The artificial intelligence (AI) boom represents one of the largest speculative frenzies in history.”
Scientists Built a Computer Using Living Human Brain Cells—Now It Can Decode Braille
October 20th, 2026Via: The Debrief: Biohybrid computers made of organoids—tiny human brain models using real cells—have reached an important new benchmark by reading braille for the first time, even under challenging conditions. … Although biohybrid computers could eventually offer advantages in energy efficiency, demonstrating that they can reliably process and transmit meaningful information remains a work in […]
“How to Deal with Shipping AI-Written Code You Don’t Understand?”
October 20th, 2026Via: Hacker News: I’m an engineer at Meta and I never felt this uncomfortable doing my job. I’m writing code these days and it all feels like a black box. This new standard of shipping with AI is moving so fast that if we’re going to spend our time checking each line of code, it’s […]
Ukraine Claims First Battlefield Evacuation of Wounded Soldier by Drone
October 19th, 2026I assumed this was fake the first few times I came across it. Maybe it’s real. I don’t know. Via: The War Zone: The Ukrainian Armed Forces say they have carried out the world’s first frontline evacuation of a wounded soldier by aerial drone. The soldier, from the 30th Mechanized Brigade, is said to have […]
Russia’s New Jet Drone Contains Over 75% U.S.-Made Components
October 18th, 2026Via: Militarnyi: More than three-quarters of the Geran-4’s onboard computer consists of electronic components manufactured by American companies. Products from Texas Instruments account for the largest share, along with components from its acquired subsidiary National Semiconductor — together accounting for more than half of all identified components. This information was revealed in a report analyzing […]
