IBM unveils z17 mainframe, z/OS 3.2
IBM today announced the IBM z17, the next generation of the company’s iconic mainframe, fully engineered with AI capabilities across hardware, software, and systems operations. Powered by the new IBM Telum II processor, IBM z17 expands the system’s capabilities beyond transactional AI capabilities to enable new workloads. ↫ IBM z17 press release Alongside this brand new behemoth of a computer, IBM also announced z/OS 3.2, the next version of its mainframe opera … ⌘ Read more
Please stop calling these silly things AI
Nvidia’s latest AI PC boxes sound great – for data scientists with $3k to spare
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Avec l’aide de Péhä, j’ai amélioré ma collection de logos #solarpunk. Merci! https://si3t.ch/misc/solarpunk/
L’argument du “yen a qui font pire tfaçon” m’insupporte aussi. ET j’ai envie de croire au systémique, à l’inspiration qu’on donne en montrant aussi un comportement positif.
FOSS infrastructure is under attack by AI companies
What do SourceHut, GNOME’s GitLab, and KDE’s GitLab have in common, other than all three of them being forges? Well, it turns out all three of them have been dealing with immense amounts of traffic from “AI” scrapers, who are effectively performing DDoS attacks with such ferocity it’s bringing down the infrastructures of these major open source projects. Being open source, and thus publicly accessible, means these scrapers have … ⌘ Read more
J’ai cette ip dans mes logs qui n’arrête pas de télécharger le même document toutes les minutes avec axios. Bizarre… 20.199.24.163
La Bonne Auberge a de super projets. J’ai hâte! https://fr.ulule.com/lba-studio17/ #jdr
China launches Manus, world’s first autonomous AI agent + 2 more stories
China unveils Manus, a fully autonomous AI agent; China imposes 15% tariffs on key U.S. farm goods; Global warming raises space debris threats. ⌘ Read more
Popular “AI” chatbots infected by Russian state propaganda, call Hitler’s Mein Kampf “insightful and intelligent”
Two for the techbro “‘AI’ cannot be biased” crowd: A Moscow-based disinformation network named “Pravda” — the Russian word for “truth” — is pursuing an ambitious strategy by deliberately infiltrating the retrieved data of artificial intelligence chatbots, publishing false claims and propaganda for the purpose of … ⌘ Read more
Google, DuckDuckGo massively expand “AI” search results
Clearly, online search isn’t bad enough yet, so Google is intensifying its efforts to continue speedrunning the downfall of Google Search. They’ve announced they’re going to show even more “AI”-generated answers in Search results, to more people. Today, we’re sharing that we’ve launched Gemini 2.0 for AI Overviews in the U.S. to help with harder questions, starting with coding, advanced math and multimodal queries, with mor … ⌘ Read more
@aelaraji@aelaraji.com Same. It actually goes for anything AI-related. It’s best kept in /dev/null.