Interesting article.

Data center buildouts take about three to six years to complete, and the largest hyperscale facilities can easily cost several billion dollars, meaning that these moves are extremely forward-looking. You don’t build a data center for the demand you have now, but for the demand you expect further down the line. This suggests that Microsoft believes its current infrastructure (and its likely scaled-back plans for expansion) will be sufficient for a movement that CEO Satya Nadella called a “golden age for systems” less than a year ago.

To explain here, TD Cowen is effectively saying that Microsoft is responding to a “major demand signal” and said “major demand signal” is saying “you do not need more data centers.” Said demand signal that Microsoft was responding to, in TD Cowen’s words, is its “appetite for capacity” to provide servers to OpenAI, and it seems that said appetite is waning, and Microsoft no longer wants to build out data centers for OpenAI.

I believe the reason Microsoft is cutting back is that it does not have the appetite to provide further data center expansion for OpenAI, and it’s having doubts about the future of generative AI as a whole. If Microsoft believed there was a massive opportunity in supporting OpenAI’s further growth, or that it had “massive demand” for generative AI services, there would be no reason to cancel capacity, let alone cancel such a significant amount.

Vivaldi, no adblocker, it seems it has one integrated… maybe?

Fucker!!

XDA is asking for disabling my adblocker? WTF? I guess i won’t be reading the article.

Can confirm. Have been using AMD since the HD5000 series day, always on Windows, never had an issue with the drivers.

Google says that SafetyCore “provides on-device infrastructure for securely and privately performing classification to help users detect unwanted content. Users control SafetyCore, and SafetyCore only classifies specific content when an app requests it through an optionally enabled feature.”

GrapheneOS — an Android security developer — provides some comfort, that SafetyCore “doesn’t provide client-side scanning used to report things to Google or anyone else. It provides on-device machine learning models usable by applications to classify content as being spam, scams, malware, etc. This allows apps to check content locally without sharing it with a service and mark it with warnings for users.”

But GrapheneOS also points out that “it’s unfortunate that it’s not open source and released as part of the Android Open Source Project and the models also aren’t open let alone open source… We’d have no problem with having local neural network features for users, but they’d have to be open source.” Which gets to transparency again.

This is great news. It’s unfortunate that the 8 years of updates is limited to qualcomm flagship chip, anyway it’s still a step in the right direction. My phone will be 8 years this year and it survived this long because of custom ROMs that don’t support this device anymore, so i’m all in for this types of policies.

Underrated comment, right here!!

How do they control the narrative around here?

I still install Office 2007 in older machines. It may not have the newest features but still does the job and it’s enough for most people.

Also, laughs harder-er in Google Workspace 😂😂😂

Lol, Trump is a clown. If netflix or other big tech is charging me for using their service in my country, and they have legal presence and activity in my country, they should be charged taxes in my country because they are generating econimic activity.

So i won’t be able to download my ebooks from amazon.com to my PC, right?