Daily Tech News 24 January 2025

• Nvidia's new RTX 4090 Ti is here. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Well, they call it the RTX 5090, but compared to the previous model the chips is 25% larger and has 25% cores, and the card uses 25% more power and costs 25% more money to produce 25% better performance.
  
  Which tells us exactly how the other cards in this generation will perform - maybe 10% faster than the previous generation, entirely due to additional processing cores and faster memory. The technological advance here is zero.
  
  Though the 4000 series was already very good. We could just do without the lies.

• AI mistakes are very different from human mistakes. (Schneier on Security)
  
  Except they're not, really. AI mistakes are just like the mistakes humans make when we're tired and distracted and not paying attention. Except AI is always tired and distracted and not paying attention.
  
  If you tell Grok to draw a car with six wheels, it will quite consistently draw a car with any number of wheels except six. It's not listening to you; it just hears "draw a car" and draws a car.
  
  
  
• AI makes everything worse. (Medium)
  
  To err is human. To really fuck things up requires a computer.
  
  
  
• OpenAI has launched Operator, an AI agent that can control your computer autonomously. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Burn it with fire.
  
  
  
• QNAP. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Again. Though this one doesn't seem to be their fault, nor readily exploitable.
  
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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