Mike

The future was yesterday. Between singularization and singularity.

[Amiga @AmigaCorp]

Following positive developments concerning Hyperion Entertainment, progress has been made in narrowing a number of issues.

Going forward, Amiga Corporation is Hyperion Entertainment CVBA's licensor under the existing 2009 Settlement Agreement. The chapter involving Cloanto, ITEC, Amino and KMOS has been closed. On that basis, Amiga and Hyperion Entertainment are engaged in renewed settlement discussions.

It is also agreed that Retro Games may release certain Amiga-branded products, and that Hyperion Entertainment may offer "AmigaOS 3.2" digital upgrades under a temporary arrangement intended to preserve continuity for the community while those discussions continue.

Since 1985, Amiga has held an enduring place in computing history. Amiga Corporation remains committed to the preservation, stewardship and continued development of that legacy.

[Mike @mikelabatt]

I've heard concerns about the future of OS3/OS4 if Amiga prevails in the case brought by a licensee in 2018.

Why? Amiga would have both the resources and the will to ensure legal and operational continuity.

It's unfortunate to be limited in what can be said while a case is ongoing, but at every Amiga event I attended, I made a point of emphasizing reconciliation and healing.

Please, let's stop the scaremongering.

[Mike @mikelabatt]

Good recap of the current state of AI/agents (Google, MCP in general, etc.)

[Alberto Romero @Alber_RomGar]

Breaking news: Google is winning on every AI front.

This is not just about Gemini 2.5 but about a reality that OpenAI and Anthropic fans have ignored for too long. Here's a non-exhaustive list:

- Gemini 2.5 Pro is the best model in the world according to benchmarks, vibe checks, high-taste testers, and firsthand testimonies. It's also fast and cheap compared to similar models (Google offers it for free on the Gemini app!)

- Gemini 2.5 Flash (to be announced soon) is much faster and much cheaper, so it captures perfectly the Pareto frontier of cost-performance of cost-efficient models.

- Gemma 3 is a highly competitive open-source model, as good or better than Llama 4 and DeepSeek models.

- That's just LLMs. Google is world-class in image (Imagen 3), video (Veo 2), voice (Chirp 3), and music (Lyria). They're integrating them all in Vertex AI.

- Deep Research with Gemini 2.5 Pro is *twice as good* as OpenAI's Deep Research, according to human testers. Other agents? Yes: Project Astra (assistant) and Project Mariner (computer interaction)

- They just launched Agent2Agent, compatible and complementary to Anthropic's MCP, which they will build in-house as well.

- And they keep publishing papers in top journals (Nature) and going to the top conferences (ICLR, NeurIPS), whereas others jealously keep their most important stuff for themselves.

- That's just the AI stuff, but Google is also a consumer software company with seven 2+ billion monthly users: Search, YouTube, Gmail, Android, Chrome, Maps, and Play Store

- A hyperscaler (Google Cloud)

- A hardware company (TPUs, Ironwood)

- And a phone company (Pixel).

How can OpenAI or Anthropic or even Meta fight such a beast?

Let’s wait for their responses to this. I’ll be here to cover any newsworthy release—even if I’ve already made my bet on who’s most likely to win.

(Read the full post in the link below.)

[Mike @mikelabatt]

@LuVWagn This research redefined "unique", but AFAIK not with this conclusion. It's more like "the different fingers of your hand are not independent of each other". It's as if the same gene pool resulted in previously unseen correlations, looking at novel minutiae like ridge orientation.

[Mike @mikelabatt]

A new goldmine of evidence for cold cases? "Seeing" a novel dimension of fingerprint features, AI finds unexpected correlations between fingerprints from different fingers of the same person. What about identical twins? Relatives? I am curious..

https://t.co/Qjj7phUV3b

[Mike @mikelabatt]

Dear @WindowsUpdate, for the second time since last year, a Windows update broke ReFS. Could someone @Microsoft perhaps look into this? @heiseonline @monohoshi_blog

https://t.co/jGjaWtS5BR
https://t.co/DIarXlFVUY

[Mike @mikelabatt]

@monohoshi_blog Similar case here, ReFS no longer accessible after upgrade from Windows 10 to Windows 11: https://t.co/jGjaWtS5BR

[Mike @mikelabatt]

@eldeestephens Trying to remember how excited I was when I turned 5. Can you remember your 5th 🎂? And the anticipation, the evening before? 🥱🥳

[Mike @mikelabatt]

Five is the new Eighteen.

[Mike @mikelabatt]

@shanselman I too use CyberPower where APC gets too expensive. As you and others noted, their metrics are a bit different, as CyberPower tends to give more power over less time. But maybe that's exactly the "burst" you want? You can add extra batteries to many models.

[Mike @mikelabatt]

@paulg That's a pen too... 😀

(three colors and a pencil)

[Mike @mikelabatt]

@AmigaBoing @andycarslaw @CheekyC64Gamer @AmigaCorp An "Amiga" computer that comes with AmigaOS (other than for running games) is not possible under the terms of the 2009 Settlement Agreement. This doesn't mean that @AmigaCorp is restricted to keyboards, mice and cases though. Here is more information:

https://t.co/bSYs0IN5JR

[Mike @mikelabatt]

@iamaubey @wendyWongSW I too am interested in an update, as the same happened to a kit I sent them. Nothing matched (Y and mt haplotypes, mutations, blood type estimate), yet they insist that they sent the correct data. Had to run a professional mtDNA test on same person (switched baby anxiety...)

[Mike @mikelabatt]

A partner that could not yet be mentioned last month: Amiga games coming soon to Samsung Gaming Hub/Samsung Smart TVs (via Antstream). There is more to come.

https://t.co/CGgRFUrHeE

[Mike @mikelabatt]

The recent Amiga 37 Germany talk is now live (24', with subtitles):

https://t.co/bSYs0IN5JR

[Mike @mikelabatt]

Any of the big players wants to be the first? @Netflix @ch_doig @PrimeVideo @JSalke @DisneyPlus 3/3

[Mike @mikelabatt]

Modern streaming TV can be a powerful language learning tool for children. The content is already there, but we are missing parental controls to block by audio language (or to only allow some languages). 1/3

[Mike @mikelabatt]

This should hide all content that does not match the criteria. Without such a setting, it just doesn't work well: finding titles with the desired audio language can be a most frustrating experience, and there are frequent fallbacks to the local/non-learning language. 2/3

[Mike @mikelabatt]

@matcarbonn If you follow me you know I've been a supporter of a more open branch. The legal case makes it tough to discuss/comment right now. I hope it's over soon.

Ditto for architecture. We have to love what we have, and leave the debate on PPC/x86/ARM/RISC-V for when the time is right.

[Mike @mikelabatt]

Efficiturque id, quod Pythagoras vult in amicitia ut unus fiat ex pluribus.

[Mike @mikelabatt]

@redstone021 @AmigaCorp @Stranger_Things @Microsoft PC-Task emulator on a 68060 CPU (A1000 motherboard upgrade) running Internet Explorer 2 on Windows 95 v. 4.00.950a?