General AI News

Air pollution exposure in never-smokers is linked to increased DNA mutations in lung tumors, similar to smoking-related damage.

Higher pollution levels correlate with more driver mutations and accelerated cellular aging in lung cancer cells.

Secondhand smoke shows only minor mutational effects and significant telomere shortening in never-smokers.

Before creating, we imagine a flawless version that exists only in our minds, causing attachment to unbuilt ideas.

Humans experience a taste-skill discrepancy where our standards outpace our abilities, leading to creative paralysis.

Planning and research can feel productive but often serve as avoidance of actual imperfect creation.

Google Tag Manager hides invasive and unethical scripts to enable extensive user surveillance.

Google is shifting Tag Manager and Analytics to first-party domains to evade content blockers.

The GTM and Google Analytics 4 combination records detailed user interactions and builds individual profiles.

AI chatbots like GPT-4.1 only provided correct company website URLs 66% of the time.

29% of the suggested URLs pointed to inactive or suspended sites and 5% to unrelated but valid sites.

Cybercriminals could exploit these wrong or unregistered URLs by registering them and setting up phishing sites.

Scalper bots and intentionally limited stock have driven GPU prices far above MSRP.

Production anomalies led to missing ROP units in a fraction of GPUs, reducing performance.

The 12VHPWR power connector design flaw causes overheating and melting without proper safeguards.

Experiences with LLMs vary widely because reports rarely include context such as project type, codebase maturity, or user expertise.

Non-determinism of LLMs means results can change unpredictably, making consistent evaluation difficult.

Hype and magical thinking around AI often ignore critical details and quantitative measures.

EverQuest emerged in the late 1990s as a commercially successful MMORPG following the proof of concept established by Ultima Online.

The game began as a skunk-works project at Sony Interactive Studios America under producer John Smedley, who championed an online Dungeons & Dragons–style experience.

Designers Brad McQuaid and Steve Clover focused on creating a streamlined, fun game, avoiding the complex player-driven simulation ideals of Ultima Online.

CGI provided simple dynamic web content by running a separate process per request and using environment variables for communication.

Early 2000s servers had limited CPU and memory, making websites vulnerable to overload and hug-of-death situations.

Modern multi-core servers and faster memory enable CGI processes to scale effectively across many threads.

Modern technology often trades fundamental understanding for frequent updates, cloud services, and subscription models.

Many so-called innovations are repackaged older concepts, relabeled with new buzzwords like edge computing or serverless.

Contemporary hardware is designed for efficiency and planned obsolescence, reducing longevity and repairability.

Rebuilding a homelab NAS to 6 TB with NVMe SSDs can reduce size and cost.

All three mini NAS models use an Intel N100/N150 chip, offer multiple M.2 NVMe slots, and 2.5 Gbps networking.

GMKtec G9 is the most affordable but had overheating issues in its first revision.