Brian

🇩🇴 | 🇺🇸 Struggle. Endure. Contend.

[Benjamin De Kraker @BenjaminDEKR]

"oh, THOSE kind of Chinese models."

[Turnup2ez @Turnup2ez]

New Windows 11 updates are MASSIVE

- 25% less RAM usage on boot up

- 30% less RAM usage on heavy stress tasks

We’re reaching the optimization era 🤩

[Brian @hyperlethl]

ELECTRON IS TRASH
ELECTRON IS TRASH
ELECTRON IS TRASH

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️ Discord is dumping Electron and rebuilding its app in Rust. An early build in a screenshot from its CTO runs at 290MB of RAM.

Last year Discord tested auto-restarting its current Windows app whenever it passed 4GB.

Testing with users comes "soon™", he says.

[0x45 @0x45o]

do you realize how insane this is?

- we can solve crimes
- we can locate people who need rescuing
- we can expose fake location claims

and the gov can spy on us even more :)

[GameGPU @GameGPU_com]

https://t.co/0z0n82vDaf

Moore's Law Is Dead published an interview with an anonymous Micro Center manager. According to the employee, organized groups are buying NVIDIA Blackwell graphics cards in bulk. They initially targeted GeForce RTX 5090, RTX 5080 and RTX PRO 6000 Blackwell cards priced at $16,000, but now also buy RTX 5070 Ti, RTX 5070 and 16 GB RTX 5060 Ti models.

The buyers arrive in groups of five to eight, enter stores 15–20 minutes apart and pay in cash. The manager claims that cash turnover at a single store reaches $500,000 per week, requiring armored cash collections several times.

Sales limits have not stopped the purchases. Groups visit up to five branches within a 300-mile radius to bypass restrictions. This reduces graphics card availability for ordinary customers. The account is based on anonymous testimony.

#NVIDIA #GeForceRTX #Blackwell #MicroCenter #GraphicsCards #GPUShortage #GameGPU

[20 Years Ago XBOX @20YearsAgoXBOX]

FINALLY: the Xbox 360 Fall Dashboard Update officially releases tomorrow!

What’s new:

📺 1080p support
💻 Stream WMV files from PC
🕹️ Auto-download new Arcade trials
🏆 New Achievement view for XBLA

Some nice improvements in preparation for the launch of the PlayStation 3.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Neuralink’s first product is called Telepathy.

It enables high-speed communication with computers or humans simply by thinking. Output bandwidth will vastly exceed the fastest human speech or typing in a few years. Read that sentence again.

[Matthew Cone 🇺🇸 @Matthewtcone]

Two days riding @robotaxi around Houston since the zone expanded, and I'm sold.

A car with nobody in the driver's seat picks you up, drops you at the door, and drives off. No parking, and no coming back to a smashed window in a Houston parking lot.

Memorial City Mall. AT&T. Saltgrass. Zero issues, and it handles traffic like a pro.

Best part? Grok rides along, and my boys have been playing trivia with it the whole way. Watching people at red lights look over, see nobody driving, and do a double take never gets old. 😂

The future is already driving around Houston. 🚘 @Tesla @Tesla_AI

[Anthropic @AnthropicAI]

Anthropic has filed an S-1 registration statement with the SEC related to its proposed IPO.

Read more: https://t.co/ofhv0DK3Zp

Legal disclaimer: A registration statement relating to these securities has been filed with the SEC but has not yet become effective. These securities may not be sold, nor may offers to buy be accepted, prior to the time the registration statement becomes effective. This post does not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy these securities, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any state or jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful prior to registration or qualification under the securities laws of any such state or jurisdiction.

[Robotaxi @robotaxi]

Houston, we have liftoff

Bigger service area now live

[Adam Rankin @rankintweets]

*taps sign*

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Modders have unlocked hidden AI compute performance on NVIDIA’s RTX 20, 30 and 40-series GPUs.

The modifications remove software-level limits on certain Tensor Core operations, without changing the hardware or flashing a new VBIOS.

- RTX 4090: 165.6 → 331.6 TFLOPS FP16 Tensor Core throughput

-RTX 3090 Ti: 87.5 → 157.4 TFLOPS BF16 performance

- RTX 2080 Ti: 59.9 → 111 TFLOPS FP16→FP32 performance

- RTX 3090: 73.0 → 122.8 TFLOPS in a PyTorch GEMM test

The gains are mainly relevant to AI and compute workloads, not gaming.

[7 @zithekyd]

its lowkey a war on people with the light still in their eyes

[Alexander Hoff ❍ @axhoff]

please listen to dessa.

i have never heard anything artificial that sounded so… human.

if you ever doubted that human-ai-relationships were going to be a thing. well. this snippet will convince you otherwise.

[‏ً @omgsidewalks]

This might sound crazy.

But one of the skills you NEED to learn is how to deal with a more and more illiterate society full of emotionally dysregulated people.

If you keep getting frustrated every day over how "ďumb" everything/everyone seems, the stress of it is going to wreck your mind.

[⁵⁄₉ @fiveoutofnine]

So basically, today PHP got two critical bugs that let anyone run code on your server without even logging in, which is bad, and then the details leaked before the patch was even out, which is worse, and it works on WordPress and MediaWiki and Magento and Joomla and Laravel, and Censys says like 1.5 million servers are running a version with no fix, so the NSA was like "take your system offline," and the FBI was like "take your system offline," and CISA and the UK and CERT-EU were all like "take your system offline," and then the Prime Minister of Japan, the actual Prime Minister, posted at 5:55 in the morning telling 48.8 million people to take their system offline, so everyone took their system offline, like the Dutch cybersecurity agency took its own website offline, and the Dutch parliament went offline, and the Port of Rotterdam went offline, and Finland and France and Denmark started pulling government sites, and Wikipedia went down, and https://t.co/QlOXb3COq3 went down, and Asana and GOG and Something Awful went down, and the University of Vienna's webmail went down for some reason, and that's just PHP. Because GitLab also dropped a CVSS 10.0, which is the highest score they give out, for a bug that's been there since 2014, so that's every self-hosted GitLab for twelve years, and then LiteLLM 1.107.0 got hijacked and shipped a credential stealer and a remote access trojan in every single wheel and the Docker images, including latest, and you didn't even have to import it, just installing it was enough, and it's the second time this year, and then Railway paused every deployment on the entire platform because someone got into the environment variables, so now everyone has to rotate every secret they've ever stored there, and TiDB Cloud said someone was walking around inside with stolen credentials for basically a month and an extortion group says they took 10.6 terabytes, and Zeabur got breached for the second time in two months and is just shutting down, like the whole company, and Node.js patched remote code execution and a TLS bypass, and CISA says Plex is being actively exploited, and someone took over 300 Tor exit relays to steal SSH passwords, and SafePay ransomware has hit over 600 critical infrastructure orgs, and India's biggest bank filed a data loss incident, and Japan has been in an official state of emergency in cyberspace since October 9, which honestly explains the 5:55 AM post. Oh, and eMudhra, a certificate authority that's issued over 60 million certificates, whose entire job is proving websites are who they say they are, was supposed to be using private keys that are random numbers over a hundred digits long, and one of them was 4. Just 4. And the others were like 66 and 237. Anyway, it's Wednesday.

[Dire @golfingguy250]

@NSACyber NSA pissed their back door was made public

[ASHA @asha_shar]

Blades on web. Do we like this experiment?

[Justin Mitchell @jmitch]

Big opportunity for a 1 click service that does this for non vibe coders