Daily Tech News 4 June 2023

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An experimental AI combat drone being tested by the US Air Force turned the tables when, stymied from achieving its goals by a no-go signal from its operator, it decided to take the human out of the decision loop - permanently. (Tom's Hardware)

This story came out a couple of days ago but I held off on it because it sounded more like a morality play than the kind of accident that actually happens with advanced weapon testing, which tend to be loud and messy and not relegated to a presentation at the Royal Aeronautical Society.

And in fact there were two issues with the way this story was at first reported:

1. It was a simulation rather than a live test of actual hardware.

2. None of it ever happened.

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Does the First Amendment protect the right of the people to peaceably assemble and petition the government for redress of their grievances?

It depends.

The judge also asked Biden's lawyers if the First Amendment covered Americans' right to say that Biden is responsible for high gas prices and inflation.

Their answer?

It depends.
— Attorney General Andrew Bailey (@AGAndrewBailey) June 1, 2023

Depends on what?

The feds provided only one example of a liberal being censored, and that person is a political opponent of Joe Biden.
— Attorney General Andrew Bailey (@AGAndrewBailey) June 1, 2023

Oh, yeah. Right.
Microsoft is planning to end support for its Cortana virtual assistant in Windows by the end of this year. (Thurrott)

And replace it with something much worse.
Microsoft had a ten-hour outage of its Azure platform in Brazil after a typo led to deleting a production database instead of just removing a backup of the database. (Azure)

That sounds like bad design - that the same command with very minor differences would delete your database instead of just cleaning up old backups.

But it's alarmingly common. ZFS uses the same command to remove snapshots and entire filesystems, and LXD uses the same command for removing backups and deleting virtual servers.

Both have some degree of protection in that they won't normally delete resources that are in use, but it's a good practice to have two completely independent backup mechanisms.
Or three, if you care about your data.
More details of the alleged Arrow Lake desktop chips expected from Intel late next year. (Notebook Check)

This year's Meteor Lake is expected to be a laptop-only release, with only a minor refresh for desktop users - maybe another 100MHz or so. Arrow Lake will double the number of Efficiency (E) cores from 16 to 32 but will otherwise be very similar to current chips.

In 2025 there will supposedly be a new architecture with a greatly improved Performance (P) core design, up to 40% faster, similar to leaks about AMD's Zen 5 cores.
Building a tree-walk interpreter in Julia. (Luke Merrick)

Pro Tip: Don't do this. The results are... Bad.

Julia is a fine programming language but dynamically-typed interpreters are not its métier.

How That Bottle of Cherry Soda Gets from the Farm to Your Fridge USDA Documentary Video of the Day

God bless the food scientists, because they know what goes into this stuff and they still drink it.

Disclaimer: It's paint thinner! You're drinking paint thinner! Oh, and a bottle of dry cleaning solution that's been sitting in the cupboard for sixteen years for added flavour.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at June 04, 2023 04:02 AM (xhxe8)

2 G'day Skip! Fancy a glass of refreshing cherry soda?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 04, 2023 04:03 AM (BLOW1)

3 hiya

Posted by: JT at June 04, 2023 04:06 AM (T4tVD)

4 https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/australian roadsigns
https://tinyurl.com/2x2nm7as

Posted by: Skip at June 04, 2023 04:06 AM (xhxe8)

5 I get seltzer flavors, no sugar in them and have cherry here

Posted by: Skip at June 04, 2023 04:07 AM (xhxe8)

6 Good morning morons

I love cherry soda.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 04, 2023 04:10 AM (RIvkX)

7 G'day Skip! Fancy a glass of refreshing cherry soda?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 04, 2023 04:03 AM (BLOW1)

The only place I've actually been that had cold soda for breakfast was Atlanta decades ago. Coke was a breakfast beverage option.

Posted by: RickZ at June 04, 2023 04:12 AM (emlEe)

8 4 https://dailytimewaster.blogspot.com/australian roadsigns

That would be the northern tree-dwelling funnel-web spider, h. formidabilis, at top left. Possibly the deadliest spider in the world, though it causes fewer deaths than the Sydney funnel-web because it lives in the middle of nowhere rather than in a city of five million people, probably because of the rent.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 04, 2023 04:13 AM (BLOW1)

9 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 04, 2023 04:21 AM (YwvIc)

10 Pixy,

Well, it looks friendly!

Just like everything else in Australia. Very, very bitey, and absolutely lethal.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 04, 2023 04:25 AM (VDbGO)

11 Couldn't make the link work, so I just searched images for h. formidabilis. Good freaking Lord.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 04, 2023 04:26 AM (VDbGO)

12 How That Bottle of Cherry Soda Gets from the Farm to Your Fridge USDA Documentary Video of the Day
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Cherry is only one flavor in the DOA pride rainbow lights display:

https://tinyurl.com/rma25vys

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 04, 2023 04:29 AM (YwvIc)

13 Say hello to the new director of the CDC:

https://tinyurl.com/4bjd29dt

Now spot the difference in the new CDC director's current statement versus what she claimed over 2 years ago:

https://tinyurl.com/2ckh4zm4

(Nitter)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 04, 2023 04:31 AM (YwvIc)

14 Where are they now?

https://tinyurl.com/2p83ze5x

(Nitter)

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 04, 2023 04:35 AM (YwvIc)

15 Meet the new boss. Same as the old boss.

Posted by: Sam Adams at June 04, 2023 04:36 AM (VDbGO)

16 Morning all!

If you're squeamish about how to make cherry soda, you may want to stay away from most packaged foods.

Posted by: Bruce at June 04, 2023 04:45 AM (ffgdR)

17 Been a great weekend of fun and a stay in a rental in Galena Ill.
When we got to the rental, I checked the coffee situation as it has a Keurig. When we stayed here 2 years ago there were multiple Kcups for the thing. Now there was one.
I texted the owner and asked where they might be as I can only find the one. She replied that they no longer supply the kcups. Lemmee see here, I don't own a Kuerig, so I don't carry around kcups when I travel.
If they place has a regular coffee maker (YAY!!) I'll bring filters, coffee, etc.

So....of to the store to buy kcups. Damn!! Those things are expensive.

Posted by: Bruce at June 04, 2023 04:50 AM (ffgdR)

18 An old funny skit my kid shared eith me a while ago that I just stumbled on again
Still funny
How Asian parents flex
youtube.com/shorts/iFBxUBF3NCI

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 04, 2023 04:54 AM (VdN7z)

19
Cortana has been on the way out for years.

Following the trail blazed by Mr. Clippy!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 04, 2023 04:59 AM (pNxlR)

20
A tree-walk interpreter? Like, for Ents?

It involves "tokenization", so raycyst!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 04, 2023 05:03 AM (pNxlR)

21 My kids' elementary school was about half Chinese and half white.

We went to parent orientation and they had simultaneous translation in Cantonese.

So the principal gets up and and says "Parents, do not drill your children over summer. We will teach them their colors. We will teach them their letters." And all the white parents nod in quiet agreement.

And then that is translated into Cantonese. And all the Chinese parents burst out hysterically laughing at the crazy white lady.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 04, 2023 05:03 AM (RIvkX)

22 From what i watched of the video, there's nothing that says soda of any kind is made from paint thinner, he's just seeing if it's possible to take a material and pull out one single compound that has a flavor (there was an episode of Japan's top inventions that actually showed them make a machine that you can pour something in to and it can filter out and refine single compounds from)

There's also once of those "scare factors" that you'd normally see in conspiracy theories, where he's saying "omg this compound is the same as something in paint thinner, just with two more elements" which is the same as screaming "OMG water is bad for you because it's only 1 element off from hydrogen peroxide"

Posted by: Rbastid at June 04, 2023 05:04 AM (/Y8Tm)

23 ...of to the store to buy kcups. Damn!! Those things are expensive.
Posted by: Bruce
You could buy a little refillable kcup to put ground coffee in

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 04, 2023 05:05 AM (VdN7z)

24 And all the Chinese parents burst out hysterically laughing at the crazy white lady.
Posted by: San Franpsycho

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 04, 2023 05:06 AM (VdN7z)

25 K-cups don't work for the amount of coffee we drink.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 04, 2023 05:06 AM (RIvkX)

26
"I invented parallel parking!"

LOL

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) at June 04, 2023 05:09 AM (pNxlR)

27 of to the store to buy kcups. Damn!! Those things are expensive.
Posted by: Bruce
You could buy a little refillable kcup to put ground coffee in
Posted by: vmom

I could, but I don't want to carry all the stuff for a VRBO type place every time.
It's bad enough that I carry filters for their coffee pot.
But, like the kcups, some rat bastard before hand decided that they would take those home too.

Posted by: Bruce at June 04, 2023 05:11 AM (ffgdR)

28 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 04, 2023 05:15 AM (E2/Fa)

29 True story, since I'm the only coffee drinker in the family, I sometimes bring a plastic pour over coffee maker funnel* with me when we travel, as well some filters and ground coffee.
Then I just beed hot water.
*The kind you just put on top of your mug.

Posted by: vmom stabby stabby stabby stabby stabamillion at June 04, 2023 05:17 AM (VdN7z)

30 Evening and morning to ever'body!

Up a few minutes before the alarm. Coffee and AoSHQ as an Invaders episode with Suzanne Pleshette plays on MeTV. Except for Suzanne, this is pretty much my every Sunday, come to think of it.

We watched the original 1989 Little Mermaid last night. Jeez, Ariel was hot.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 04, 2023 05:20 AM (omVj0)

31 I know I'm old, so I have no interest in Alexa or AI. I hate knowing I'm talking to a computer. As soon as I call some company and its obvious I'm talking to a happy to help you voice, I hang up. Am I a bad person.

Posted by: Colin at June 04, 2023 05:21 AM (mLPfl)

32

>>"OMG water is bad for you because it's only 1 element off from hydrogen peroxide"

Dihydrogen Monoxide is a colorless and odorless chemical compound that has been implicated in the deaths of thousands of Americans every year, mainly through accidental ingestion.

I don't think you are taking the threat seriously enough.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at June 04, 2023 05:25 AM (up/3i)

33 Been cat napping

Posted by: Skip at June 04, 2023 05:27 AM (xhxe8)

34 Surprising headline: Yuji Naka, the creator of Sonic the Hedgehog, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for insider trading.

Posted by: Epobirs at June 04, 2023 05:28 AM (jQRLH)

35 Surprising headline: Yuji Naka, the creator of Sonic the Hedgehog, has been sentenced to 30 months in prison for insider trading.
Posted by: Epobirs at June 04, 2023 05:28 AM (jQRLH)
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Now do Senators and Congressmen.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 04, 2023 05:36 AM (YwvIc)

36 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at June 04, 2023 05:44 AM (aXbab)

37 Don't get moving soon might as we just wait until tomorrow

Posted by: Skip at June 04, 2023 05:45 AM (xhxe8)

38 Don't get moving soon might as we just wait until tomorrow
Posted by: Skip

But tomorrow never comes.....

Posted by: JT at June 04, 2023 05:47 AM (T4tVD)

39 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering

Quiet....the birds are planning an attack.

Posted by: JT at June 04, 2023 05:49 AM (T4tVD)

40 I don't want to look up to see what the outside temp is. I need to go work out, and sticking a hand out of the door when I got up told me, "Warm and nasty, with a chance of serious sweat." Ugh.

When I get back I'll check the temp. I'll probably have a retroactive heat stroke.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 04, 2023 05:49 AM (omVj0)

41 Yesterday was gorgeous. We hiked about 10 miles, the sun was out all day, and there was a cool offshore breeze.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 04, 2023 05:53 AM (RIvkX)

42 Coffee is on, it's a start

Posted by: Skip at June 04, 2023 05:56 AM (xhxe8)

43 Blueberry buttermilk scones

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 04, 2023 05:58 AM (RIvkX)

44 Angel Food cake with sugared strawberries.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 04, 2023 05:59 AM (E2/Fa)

45 Nood krak

Posted by: San Franpsycho at June 04, 2023 06:09 AM (RIvkX)

46 It depends... sleepy Joe depends on depends. Our current regime are all soakers or cork.

I couldn't help myself, please forgive my turrets outburst.

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Posted by: Alyssa Woods at June 04, 2023 08:17 AM (3jpuX)

48 Poor Little Willy

For he is no more.

What he thought was H2O,

Was H2SO4.

Posted by: Fritzy at June 04, 2023 09:53 AM (YoZGp)

49 Microsoft needs to replace Cortana with the Bunny Girl AI from "Yakitori: Soldiers of Misfortune."

https://www.youtube.COM/watch?v=DvDYX8T_GNo

Posted by: MartynWW at June 04, 2023 04:08 PM (N1vqS)

50 You know, it really isn't news that molecules with only a few basic differences can behave entirely differently.

Posted by: MartynWW at June 04, 2023 04:14 PM (N1vqS)

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