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Seagate Joins the HDD Price Hike Party, Blames AI for Spike in Demand (theregister.com)
41PM from the tough-luck dept.
Seagate has joined Western Digital<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
<span itemprop="name">Western Digital</span>
</span> in increasing the prices of hard drives, with rising demand due to the huge data requirements of AI taking the blame. AI is also behind a rapid growth in orders for Enterprise solid state drives. From a report:One of the big three makers of traditional rotating hard disk drives, Seagate informed customers it is increasing prices effective immediately for new orders, but also for any changes to orders are "over and above" previously committed volumes. This was disclosed in a letter from the company seen by analyst Trendforce, and comes just a couple of weeks after rival manufacturer Western Digital<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
<span itemprop="name">Western Digital</span>
</span> sent out a similar letter to customers informing them of price hikes.
According to Trendforce, the cause of the issue is two-fold: rising demand for high-capacity HDD products driven by the current craze for all things AI, and reduced production by hard drive manufacturers means they are unable to meet the demand, leading to soaring prices. The rising demand comes from AI training requiring huge volumes of data: OpenAI's GPT-3 model is said to have been trained using 45TB of data, which may have been surpassed for newer models. And while flash-based SSDs boast high-speed and low-latency, storing everything in flash would still be costly. Seagate launched a 30TB hard drive line last year. Hard drive production was cut by as much as 20 percent over the last two years or so because of falling orders during the pandemic, and now manufacturers are unprepared for a sudden uptick in demand.
Open Sourcing DOS 4 (hanselman.com)
01PM from the moving-forward dept.
Microsoft releases one of the most popular versions of MS-DOS as open source today. stikves shares a post:Ten years ago, Microsoft released the source for MS-DOS 1.25 and 2.0 to the Computer History Museum<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
<span itemprop="name">Computer History Museum</span>
</span>, and then later republished them for reference purposes. This code holds an important place in history and is a fascinating read of an operating system that was written entirely in 8086 assembly code nearly 45 years ago.
Today, in partnership with IBM and in the spirit of open innovation, we're releasing the source code to MS-DOS 4.00 under the MIT license. There's a somewhat complex and fascinating history behind the 4.0 versions of DOS, as Microsoft partnered with IBM for portions of the code but also created a branch of DOS called Multitasking DOS that did not see a wide release.
US Teacher Charged With Using AI To Frame Principal With Hate Speech Clip
Posted by BeauHD
Thomas Claburn<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
<span itemprop="name">Thomas Claburn</span>
</span> reports via The Register: Baltimore<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
<span itemprop="name">Baltimore</span>
</span> police have arrested Dazhon Leslie Darien<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
<span itemprop="name">Leslie Darien</span>
</span>, the former athletic director of Pikesville High School (PHS), for allegedly impersonating the school's principal using AI software to make it seem as if he made racist and antisemitic remarks. Darien, of Baltimore<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
<span itemprop="name">Baltimore</span>
</span>, Maryland, was subsequently charged with witness retaliation, stalking, theft, and disrupting school operations. He was detained late at night trying to board a flight at BWI Thurgood Marshall Airport<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
<span itemprop="name">Marshall Airport</span>
</span>. Security personnel stopped him because the declared firearm he had with him was improperly packed and an ensuing background check revealed an open warrant for his arrest.
"On January 17 , 2024, the Baltimore County Police Department became aware of a voice recording being circulated on social media,"said Robert McCullough<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
<span itemprop="name">Robert McCullough</span>
</span>, Chief of Baltimore County Police, at a streamed press conference today. "It was alleged the voice captured on the audio file belong to Mr Eric Eiswert<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
<span itemprop="name">Eric Eiswert</span>
</span>, the Principal at the Pikesville High School. We now have conclusive evidence the recording was not authentic. "The Baltimore County Police Department reached determination after conducting an extensive investigation, which included bringing in a forensic analyst contracted with the FBI<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
<span itemprop="name">FBI</span>
</span> to review the recording. The results of the analysis indicated the recording contained traces of AI-generated content."McCullough said a second opinion from a forensic analyst at the University of California, Berkeley, also determined the recording was not authentic. "Based off of those findings and further investigation, it's been determined the recording was generated through the use of artificial intelligence technology,"he said.
According to the warrant issued for Darien's arrest, the audio file was shared through social media on January 17 after being sent via email to school teachers. The recording sounded as if Principal Eric Eiswert<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
<span itemprop="name">Eric Eiswert</span>
</span> had made remarks inflammatory enough to prompt a Police<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
<span itemprop="name">Police</span>
</span> visit to advise on protective security measures for staff. ... The clip, according to the warrant, led to the temporary removal of Eiswert from his position and "a wave of hate-filled messages on social media and numerous calls to the school,"and significantly disrupted school operations. Police<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
<span itemprop="name">Police</span>
</span> say it led to threats against Eiswert and concerns about his safety. Eiswert told investigators he believes the audio clip was fake as "he never had the conversations in the recording."And he said he believed Darien was responsible due to his technical familiarity with AI and had a possible motive: Eiswert said there "had been conversations with Darien about his contract not being renewed next semester due to frequent work performance challenges.""It is clear we are also entering a new deeply concerning frontier as we continue to embrace emerging technology and its potential for innovation and social good,"said John Olszewski<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
<span itemprop="name">John Olszewski</span>
</span>, Baltimore County Executive, during a press conference. "We must also remain vigilant against those who would have used it for malicious intent. That will require us to be more aware and more discerning about the audio we hear and the images we see. We will need to be careful in our judgment."
Garry's Mod Is Taking Down Decades of Nintendo-Related Add-Ons (theverge.com)
Posted by BeauHD
30PM from the Nintendo-lawyers-strike-again dept.
Following copyright takedown requests from Nintendo, the popular physics sandbox game Garry's Mod said it would be pulling all of its Nintendo-related add-ons. "Honestly, this is fair enough. This is Nintendo's content and what they allow and don't allow is up to them,"said the developers in a post on Steam. "They don't want you playing with that stuff in Garry's Mod -- that's their decision, we have to respect that and take down as much as we can. This is an ongoing process, as we have 20 years of uploads to go through."The Verge reports: The takedown requests mean Garry's Mod will have to remove a huge swath of Nintendo-related maps and other items. Over the years, player-made content on Garry's Mod has allowed players to do things like turn Super Mario 64 into a first-person shooter or even explore Hyrule as Link. Since there is just so much Nintendo-related content on Garry's Mod, developers are asking the community to remove any infringing work they've uploaded.
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US 'Know Your Customer' Proposal Will Put an End To Anonymous Cloud Users (torrentfreak.com)
Posted by BeauHD
An anonymous reader quotes a report|SPK from TorrentFreak: Late January, the U.S. Department of Commerce<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
<span itemprop="name">U.S. Department of Commerce</span>
</span> published a notice of proposed rulemaking for establishing new requirements for Infrastructure as a Service providers (IaaS) . The proposal boils down to a 'Know Your Customer' regime for companies operating cloud services, with the goal of countering the activities of "foreign malicious actors."Yet, despite an overseas focus, Americans won't be able to avoid the proposal's requirements, which covers CDNs, virtual private servers, proxies, and domain name resolution services, among others. ... Under the proposed rule, Customer Identification Programs (CIPs) operated by IaaS providers must collect information from both existing and prospective customers, i.e. those at the application stage of opening an account. The bare minimum includes the following data: a customer's name, address, the means and source of payment for each customer's account, email addresses and telephone numbers, and IP addresses used for access or administration of the account.
What qualifies as an IaaS is surprisingly broad: "Any product or service offered to a consumer, including complimentary or "trial" offerings, that provides processing, storage, networks, or other fundamental computing resources, and with which the consumer is able to deploy and run software that is not predefined, including operating systems and applications. The consumer typically does not manage or control most of the underlying hardware but has control over the operating systems, storage, and any deployed applications. The term is inclusive of "managed" products or services, in which the provider is responsible for some aspects of system configuration or maintenance, and "unmanaged" products or services, in which the provider is only responsible for ensuring that the product is available to the consumer."
And it doesn't stop there. The term IaaS includes all 'virtualized' products and services where the computing resources of a physical machine are shared, such as Virtual Private Servers<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Organization">
<span itemprop="name">Virtual Private Servers</span>
</span> (VPS). It even covers 'baremetal' servers allocated to a single person. The definition also extends to any service where the consumer does not manage or control the underlying hardware but contracts with a third party for access. "This definition would capture services such as content delivery networks, proxy services, and domain name resolution services,"the proposal reads. The proposed rule, National Emergency with Respect to Significant Malicious Cyber-Enabled Activities, will stop accepting comments from interested parties on April 30 , 2024.
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Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 'Noble Numbat' Officially Released (9to5linux.com)
Posted by BeauHD
prisoninmate shares a report|SPK from 9to5Linux: Canonical released today Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) as the latest version of its popular Linux-based operating system featuring some of the latest GNU/Linux technologies and Open Source software. Powered by Linux kernel 6.8, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS features the latest GNOME 46 desktop environment, an all-new graphical firmware update tool called Firmware Updater, Netplan 1.0 for state-of-the-art network management, updated Ubuntu font, support for the deb822 format for software sources, increased vm.
Mozilla Thunderbird as a Snap by default.
It also comes with an updated Flutter-based graphical desktop installer that's now capable of updating itself and features a bunch of changes like support for accessibility features, guided (unencrypted) ZFS installations, a new option to import auto-install configurations for templated custom provisioning, as well as new default installation options, such as Default selection (previously Minimal) and Extended selection (previously Normal)."
Twilio Founder Buys Satire Site 'The Onion' (businessinsider.com)
Posted by BeauHD
50PM from the area-man dept.
Jeff Lawson<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
<span itemprop="name">Jeff Lawson</span>
</span>, the cofounder of cloud computing company Twilio, appears to have purchased the satirical news website The Onion from G/O Media. Business Insider reports: A trust linked to Lawson is behind a San Francisco-based company called Global Tetrahedron, which shares the name of a fictional evil megacorporation in a long-running Onion gag, business records show. G/O Media CEO Jim Spanfeller<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
<span itemprop="name">Jim Spanfeller</span>
</span> confirmed the sale of The Onion to Global Tetrahedron in an email Thursday to staff, first reported by New York Times journalist Katie Robertson<span itemscope itemtype="http://schema.org/Person">
<span itemprop="name">Katie Robertson</span>
</span>.
"This company is made up of four digital media veterans with a profound love for The Onion and comedy based content,"Spanfeller wrote. "The site's new owners have agreed to keep The Onion's entire staff intact and in Chicago, something we insisted be part of the deal."When asked about the purchase, Lawson replied: "What's The Onion" Then, "What's a Tetrahedron"
Stripe To Start Taking Crypto Payments, Starting With USDC Stablecoin (techcrunch.com)