Month: April 2025

Anzeige: So geht Terraform

Terraform automatisiert Cloudumgebungen durch deklarative Konfiguration. Wie Openstack-Ressourcen strukturiert erstellt, verwaltet und versioniert werden, zeigt dieser Workshop. (Golem Karrierewelt, Cloud Computing)

Terraform automatisiert Cloudumgebungen durch deklarative Konfiguration. Wie Openstack-Ressourcen strukturiert erstellt, verwaltet und versioniert werden, zeigt dieser Workshop. (Golem Karrierewelt, Cloud Computing)

Intel says it’s rolling out laptop GPU drivers with 10% to 25% better performance

Laptops with Core Ultra 200V chips CPUs Arc 130V or 140V GPUs should benefit.

Intel's oddball Core Ultra 200V laptop chips—codenamed Lunar Lake—will apparently be a one-off experiment, not to be replicated in future Intel laptop chips. They're Intel's only processors with memory integrated onto the CPU package; the only ones with a neural processing unit that meets Microsoft's Copilot+ performance requirements; and the only ones with Intel's best-performing integrated GPUs, the Intel Arc 130V and 140V.

Today, Intel announced some updates to its graphics driver that specifically benefit those integrated GPUs, welcome news for anyone who bought one and is trying to get by with it as an entry-level gaming system. Intel says that version 32.0.101.6734 of its graphics driver can speed up average frame rates in some games by around 10 percent, and can speed up "1 percent low FPS" (that is, for any given frames per second measurement, whatever your frame rate is the slowest 1 percent of the time) by as much as 25 percent. This should, in theory, make games run better in general and ease some of the stuttering you notice when your game's performance dips down to that 1 percent level.

Intel's performance numbers for its new GPU drivers on a laptop running at the "common default power level" of 17 W. Credit: Intel

Intel's performance comparisons were made using an MSI Claw 7 AI+ using an Arc 140V GPU, and they compare the performance of driver version 32.0.101.6732 (released April 2) to version 32.0.101.6734 (released April 8). The two additional driver packages Intel has released since then will contain the improvements, too.

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Lilbits: A cyberdeck with a 2 inch CRT display, a 25.3 inch E Ink monitor, and the final nail in the coffin for LG’s smartphones

Cyberdecks are portable computers that often have a retro-futuristic design. Often that’s achieved by hobbyists who combine modern hardware (like a Raspberry Pi or a similar single-board computer) with vintage tech. But one of the coolest… …

Cyberdecks are portable computers that often have a retro-futuristic design. Often that’s achieved by hobbyists who combine modern hardware (like a Raspberry Pi or a similar single-board computer) with vintage tech. But one of the coolest… and possibly most useless cyberdeck’s I’ve seen so far takes things to another level by fusing a 2 inch […]

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OpenAI rolls back update that made ChatGPT a sycophantic mess

OpenAI CEO Sam Altman says the super-positive update to GPT-4o is being pulled.

ChatGPT users have become frustrated with the AI model's tone, and OpenAI is taking action. After widespread mockery of the robot's relentlessly positive and complimentary output recently, OpenAI CEO Sam Altman confirms the company will roll back the latest update to GPT-4o. So get ready for a more reserved and less sycophantic chatbot, at least for now.

GPT-4o is not a new model—OpenAI released it almost a year ago, and it remains the default when you access ChatGPT, but the company occasionally releases revised versions of existing models. As people interact with the chatbot, OpenAI gathers data on the responses people like more. Then, engineers revise the production model using a technique called reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF).

Recently, however, that reinforcement learning went off the rails. The AI went from generally positive to the world's biggest suck-up. Users could present ChatGPT with completely terrible ideas or misguided claims, and it might respond, "Wow, you're a genius," and "This is on a whole different level."

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Google search’s made-up AI explanations for sayings no one ever said, explained

A partial defense of (some of) AI Overview’s fanciful idiomatic explanations.

Last week, the phrase "You can't lick a badger twice" unexpectedly went viral on social media. The nonsense sentence—which was likely never uttered by a human before last week—had become the poster child for the newly discovered way Google search's AI Overviews makes up plausible-sounding explanations for made-up idioms.

Google users quickly discovered that typing any concocted phrase into the search bar with the word "meaning" attached at the end would generate an AI Overview with a purported explanation of its idiomatic meaning. Even the most nonsensical attempts at new proverbs resulted in a confident explanation from Google's AI Overview, created right there on the spot.

In the wake of the "lick a badger" post, countless users flocked to social media to share Google's AI interpretations of their own made-up idioms, often expressing horror or disbelief at Google's take on their nonsense. Those posts often highlight the overconfident way the AI Overview frames its idiomatic explanations and occasional problems with the model confabulating sources that don't exist.

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Dell 14 Plus laptops now start at $800 with new AMD Ryzen AI “Krackan Point” processor options

The Dell 14 Plus is a relatively compact notebook with a relatively compact design, support for up to a 14 inch, 2.5K touchscreen display, and a choice of clamshell or 2-in-1 convertible designs with 360 degree hinges, and a choice of Intel or AMD proc…

The Dell 14 Plus is a relatively compact notebook with a relatively compact design, support for up to a 14 inch, 2.5K touchscreen display, and a choice of clamshell or 2-in-1 convertible designs with 360 degree hinges, and a choice of Intel or AMD processors. When Dell first introduced the new Dell 14 Plus and Dell 14 […]

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FCC urges courts to ignore 5th Circuit ruling that agency can’t issue fines

One court said FCC violated right to trial, but other courts haven’t ruled yet.

The Federal Communications Commission is urging two federal appeals courts to disregard a 5th Circuit ruling that guts the agency's ability to issue financial penalties.

On April 17, the US Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit granted an AT&T request to wipe out a $57 million fine for selling customer location data without consent. The conservative 5th Circuit court said the FCC "acted as prosecutor, jury, and judge," violating AT&T's Seventh Amendment right to a jury trial.

The ruling wasn't a major surprise. The 5th Circuit said it was guided by the Supreme Court's June 2024 ruling in Securities and Exchange Commission v. Jarkesy, which held that "when the SEC seeks civil penalties against a defendant for securities fraud, the Seventh Amendment entitles the defendant to a jury trial." After the Supreme Court's Jarkesy ruling, FCC Republican Nathan Simington vowed to vote against any fine imposed by the commission until its legal powers are clear.

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