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The Superbowl has sort of grown to become a traition where big companies fight to pay exorbitant amounts to play ads that are generally mildly more entertaining than the usual garbage. Its pretty specific to only the Superbowl, as its the most televised event in total viewership (at over 100 million). It is a lot of ads, but since football has a lot of ads anyway (more than normal TV) it isnt too abnormal. Football has a lot of ads because there is a lot of stopping during the game for time outs and such.

I would much prefer that the license and information from apple explicitly stated that this chinese firm will only be able store and access data from chinese accounts and there is a very secure barrier between the two. However, given this paragraph

They include a clause that both Apple and the Chinese firm will have access to all data stored on iCloud.

It makes me really worried about apples commitment to privacy.

I am running a razer blade 2017 with ubuntu 16.04 and so far all of the PoCs have worked. I currently have my kaslr offset and I am now testing the reliability. So far it doesn't seem very good with a 0.00% success rate at 60 reads. It did take a while to find my kaslr offset with multiple passes through the entire randomization space so I need to stress my CPU more in order to improve the success rate of having successful branch speculations.

Honestly given all the weird stuff that happened with this satellite this doesn’t seem too far fetched. The fact that it got way too close to the iss, and that zuma aligned with its orbit not just once but both scheduled launch attempts seems way too fishy for me.

Given all this incredibly unusual activity, especially given how big and separated everything in space usually is, this is honestly the most reasonable theory I have seen so far. The more I think about it the more it makes sense.

The thing is batteries don’t need to have even close to the energy density of gasoline in order to be competitive. As long as cars keep being terrible at actually making use of the energy density of gasoline, batteries won’t need to keep up.

However, energy density is a legitimate complain about batteries, but it’s unreasonable to compare to gasoline.

You would think that but at least with the 8tb version they are often standard red drives that look the exact same as any other. It could be just that since they are their own drives, they can afford to price the hard drives much closer to their manufacturing costs.

If you look in the document there is a section about a hard-coded backdoor admin account that cannot be changed. So secret hard-coded backdoor does make sense to me.

I always wondered they were able to sell these devices so cheaply. I recently bought 2 4tb ones to take the hard drives out as they were each $30 cheaper than buying a regular 4tb hardrive.

I think its more about the flexibility of having access to more resources than you can ever need. If you buy a 1080 then you are limited by its performance and say you wanted to train to models at the same time, you are even more limited. Whereas with something like this you could train 10 models right when you need them trained, and you aren't stuck with 10 gpus that you bought so you could do that.

This is very similar in style to my favorite presentation and paper of all time, titled On The Turing Completeness of PowerPoint [0]. The research, presentation and paper were all created inside of powerpoint and it is probably the greatest thing ever made. If you enjoyed the above video you will definitely enjoy this.

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uNjxe8ShM-8

Wow so intel comes and says what is all the panic about there is nothing wrong (despite knowing this) and then amazon drops the we are updating everything right now bomb and then google drops the mother of all cpu bugs. In a previous thread someone was asking if it really is all that bad and at this point I think it’s safe to say that yea, it is.

There are at least tens of thousands, possibly hundreds of thousands of Intel CPUs in just datacenters around the globe. Most of which are controlled by companies that make a lot of money and paid a lot of money to intel for their CPUs. And I doubt that they will just take this kind of hit to their performance sitting down. And thats just datacenters, not to mention all the personal computers (mine included) that will suffer. At this point, if this is real, its not a question of if it will cost them, its how much. And considering the sheer numbers of the products affected, I can't imagine it will be cheap. I am not saying that I think they are going to go bankrupt, and I would be surprised if they did, but a 30% percent performance hit is multiple generations of fallback, and considering the importance of computing today (and the number of different entities that are affected by this) I find it hard to imagine that it will be just taken sitting down.

What started as speculation about recent kernel developments has really turned into a shitshow for Intel. I can't imagine they thought that these massive changes would get through without anyone finding out. However, there really isn't any other better option for Intel, so it seems they are in a lose lose situation with no way out. Or at least a way out that doesn't involve them going bankrupt trying to repair the damage.

Usually I go into these things with a fair amount of skepticism but given the linux kernels usual pace of development and the nature of undisclosed bugs we have seen in the past this seems like a large hypervisor bug could be the reality. It must be pretty bad if its the kind of bug that they can't really fix easily, and have to push through an entire new feature into something as old and important as the paging code.

When I saw the work being done with adding web assembly support to rust I though it was cool but I never really put much thought into how far it could be taken. Seeing projects like this is really great and makes me realize just how much room there is for using rust for web front ends. Given all the consideration for performance that the web has needed recently, I am excited to see what is possible with wasm and rust in the future.

Also, its amazing how fast this has popped up. Wasm was added to the compiler literally a month ago and already there is a standard library from dom manipulation and front-end frameworks. 2018 is definitely going to be interesting

Normally I can read through grammar and spelling mistakes but this is genuinely difficult to read

According to this [0] with the current mining rates of lithium it was last us 365 years. However, given the exponential rate that technology has grown at, we will hopefully have figured a solution to this, either with different battery technology or some other way of getting lithium.

[0] https://www.greentechmedia.com/articles/read/is-there-enough...

I would understand if it was a small small startup like his that was in trouble, but even if Uber got in trouble for violating the patents, its still just research for developing self-driving cars that isn't critical to their day to day business. I am not asking why bother helping a company in a similar situation, but why bother helping a company that didn't really need helping?

I don't really understand why this guy would feel like he needed to use a lot of his own time and $6000 to try and help Uber. In the article it says that he felt like it was a larger competitor attacking a larger competitor, but its not like Uber is some small plucky startup. With revenue in the billions, its not like they couldn't even afford millions in legal fees easily. Or is it that its not helping Uber, but fighting against what he feels are predatory practices from Alphabet?

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I get the exact same thing, I might be wrong but I don't think that the windows version does anything different. According to the website it seems that the vendor needs to provide software to patch the firmware.

AMD has had their own version of this for quite some time. Its called the Platform Security Processor (PSP), it has been in anything AMD since around 2013 [0]. I am not sure if Ryzen / Threadripper has it, but I would be surprised if it didn't.

[0] https://libreboot.org/faq.html#amd-platform-security-process...

It seems that ME, SPS and TXE are all vulnerable

Wow all 6th, 7th and 8th gen are all vulnerable along with a bunch of Xeon processors. Even the laptop I am typing this on is vulnerable, this is going to be messy. Plus all the fun vulnerabilities like arbitrary code execution, unauthorized access to privileged content. These must be related to the blackhat talk coming up in December about hacking a turned-off computer and running unsigned code on ME [0]. Yep and the two researches doing the talk are the two people credited in this announcement, Mark Ermolov and Maxim Goryachy. Great work by them finding these vulnerabilities and disclosing them, these are the kind of vulnerabilities that the NSA would salivate over.

I wonder if this will at all dissuade either Intel or AMD into continuing to make these super privileged processors whose functions are completely hidden. The cynic in me thinks that this will change absolutely nothing.

There is a great website called The Bad Thing [1] that has compiled the known information about Intel ME.

I just ran the detection tool on my laptop and I am running a vulnerable version of Intel ME, but I can't even do anything about it until my system manufacturer provides a patch for it. I feel like this is going to be one of those situations that ends up leaving millions of devices unpatched and vulnerable a few years down the road.

[0]: https://www.blackhat.com/eu-17/briefings/schedule/#how-to-ha... [1]: https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~davide/bad_thing.html

I understood that statement as saying they were halving the power usage compared to a traditionally designed chip interconnect that uses ordinary traces rather than the EMIB silicon chip talked about in the article. Not halving the power usage of the entire chip, just the power required for the chip connection.

Wow not just a semi truck but a new super car? I always wondered what they could do if there weren't trying to make the cars affordable to most of the population, I guess this is it.

620 mile range is disgustingly insane, I wonder how they were able to pull it off. I can't imagine cramming more batteries would help weight and speed, maybe it uses some kind of different battery technology to get that kind of power storage.

I remember having seen this a while ago and having been unable to find it since. Thanks for posting this, its always really cool to see what can be done in such a little amount of space.

I changed my comment to neural network since a set of neurons is somewhat wrong, but I don't really agree that there isn't much of a connection between this and biology. While there might not be much of a connection between how they currently work and how our brains work, the whole point of machine learning and neural networks is to improve computers performance on the things we are good at. And while originally it was loosely modeled on it, and might be different know, it doesn't make it so people can't compare it to the brain. It would be wrong to say it is exactly like the brain, but I don't think there is anything wrong with comparing and contrasting the two. If our goal is to improve performance and we are the benchmark, then why shouldn't we compare them.

What I found interesting was mainly that it was us who nudged the parameter space you talked about into the "wrong" one manifold, especially given how old and complicated Go is. The sheer amount of human brain power that has been put into getting good at a game wasn't able to find certain aspects of it, and in 60 hours of training a neural network was able to.

Yes, it turns out you can find meaningful information. etiam provided this https://arxiv.org/pdf/1312.6034.pdf The main issue is making sure what you are looking for is actually what the network is doing. You have to correctly interpret and visualize a jumble of numbers, which usually requires a hypothesis about how it worked in the first place. But assuming both go well you can gain meaningful information.

That is really interesting. Given a neural network that solely exist to play Go, one that is influenced by the human mind is limited compared to the exact same set of neurons that doesn't have that influence.

EDIT: changed a set of neurons to neural network per andbbergers comments