Bring your own brain? Why local LLMs are taking off Running AIs on your own machine lets you stick it to the man and save some cash in the process Feature  After a decade or two of the cloud, we're used to paying for our computing capability by the megabyte. As AI takes off, the whole cycle promises to repeat itself again, and while AI might seem relatively cheap now, it might not always b… #theregister #IT

Bring your own brain? Why local LLMs are taking off

Feature: Running AIs on your own machine lets you stick it to the man and save some cash in the process

Programmers: you have to watch your weight, too We are drowning in code, but at least some folks are swimming opinion  To fight the enshittification of software, the first step is to pinpoint why and how it happens. Some observers are trying to do that.… #theregister #IT

Programmers: you have to watch your weight, too

opinion: We are drowning in code, but at least some folks are swimming

Kilopixel creator kills livestream switch before woodblock display hits Crysis point All good things must come to an end All good things must come to an end, and so too must the blocky glory of the Kilopixel. As the wood and robotic marvel crested the 200,000-pixel mark, its creator pulled the metaphorical plug.… #theregister #IT

Kilopixel creator flips off the livestream switch

: All good things must come to an end

Uncle Sam doesn't want Samsung, SK Hynix making memories in China End of verified end user status means South Korean memory vendors will need licenses to bring restricted chipmaking tech into Chinese fabs The US government already has a lot to say about what products chipmakers can and can't sell in China. This week the Commerce Department moved to make it harder for South Korean memo… #theregister #IT

US doesn

: End of verified end user status means South Korean memory vendors will need licenses to bring restricted chipmaking tech into Chinese fabs

Researcher who found McDonald's free-food hack turns her attention to Chinese restaurant robots The admin controls were left wide open on Pudu's robots A researcher caught the world’s leading supplier of commercial service robots using shoddy admin security that let attackers redirect the delivery machines to anywhere and make them follow any command.… #theregister #IT

Chinese Pudu robots found open to hijacking

Updated: The controls were left wide open on Pudu's robots

Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference Chinese cloud provider reportedly joins the homegrown silicon party Alibaba has reportedly developed an AI accelerator amid growing pressure from Beijing to curb the nation's reliance on Nvidia GPUs. … #theregister #IT

Alibaba looks to end reliance on Nvidia for AI inference

: Chinese cloud provider reportedly joins the homegrown silicon party

xAI's Grok has no place in US federal government, say advocacy groups Bias, a lack of safety reporting, and the whole 'MechaHitler' thing are all the evidence needed, say authors Public advocacy groups are demanding the US government cease any use of xAI's Grok in the federal government, calling the AI unsafe, untested, and ideologically biased.… #theregister #IT

Advocacy groups demand feds ditch xAI

: Bias, a lack of safety reporting, and the whole 'MechaHitler' thing are all the evidence needed, say authors

AMD Ryzen CPUs fry twice in the face of heavy math load, GMP says GMP library test meltdown has AMD looking for answers Chipmaker AMD is looking into a report from the GMP project about two Ryzen processors that failed during testing. Could too much math be to blame?… #theregister #IT

AMD Ryzen CPUs fry twice in the face of heavy math load: GMP

: GMP library test meltdown has AMD looking for answers

AI web crawlers are destroying websites in their never-ending hunger for any and all content But the cure may ruin the web.... With AI's rise, AI web crawlers are strip-mining the web in their perpetual hunt for ever more content to feed into their Large Language Model (LLM) mills. How much traffic do they account for? According to Cloudflare, a major content delivery network (CDN) f… #theregister #IT

AI crawlers destroying websites in hunger for content

Opinion: But the cure may ruin the web....

AWS catches Russia's Cozy Bear clawing at Microsoft credentials Look who's visiting the watering hole these days Amazon today said it disrupted an intel-gathering attempt by Russia's APT29 to trick Microsoft users into unwittingly granting the Kremlin-backed cyberspies access to their accounts and data.… #theregister #IT

AWS nails Russia

: Look who's visiting the watering hole these days