Telling an AI model that it's an expert makes it worse : Researchers say persona-based prompting can improve works for safety but not for facts

Dunning-Kruger in full effect for “expert” language models :-o

#AI #LLM #experts #dunningkruger #tech
www.theregister.com/2026/03/24/a...

Arm rolls its own 136-core AGI CPU to chase AI hype train : Turns out artificial general intelligence was a CPU this whole time

ARM unveils first in‑house CPU with 136 cores.... starting with Meta.
Over 8,000 cores in an air-cooled rack... and over 45,000 in a liquid-cooled rack!

#ARM #CPU #GPU #microprocessor #AI #electronics #meta #AGI

www.theregister.com/2026/03/24/a...

Data Centers Are Military Targets Now With militaries increasingly relying on artificial intelligence, data centers have emerged as new targets for strikes.

Data centres in the firing line... literally. The legal ramifications of military targets.
#cloud #datacentres #datacenters #legal #warfare #ai #military

theintercept.com/2026/03/20/a...

CERN hails delicate test on transporting antimatter as a scientific success Scientists in Geneva took some antiprotons out for a spin—a very delicate one—in a truck, in a never-tried-before test drive that has been deemed a success.

Successfully taking some antimatter for a spin round the block. Is this paving the way for home deliveries of antimatter? ;-)

#cern #physics #science #antimatter #technology #antiprotons

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£45 million for UK’s first AI supercomputer to accelerate fusion energy | UKAEA Fusion Energy 1.4MW mission-focused supercomputer named ‘Sunrise’, primed to be the world's most powerful AI supercomputer dedicated to fusion energy.

New supercomputer in the search for nuclear fusion. But will it run Doom! ;-)

#HPC #AI #UKAEA #science #supercomputer #energy #sunrise

www.ukaea.org/news/45-mill...

I ran a speed test on my VPN's "Eritrea" server and found out most providers fake their locations Your VPN might not be telling the truth about where you're connected from.

Does your VPN go where it says on the tin?

Many VPN providers are deploying virtual locations as an alternative to providing connectivity via hard-to-host geographies.

#VPN #geolocation #Internet #telecoms #network

www.xda-developers.com/ran-speed-te...

Attended “In the Cloud” how the Met Office are using the Cloud and AI to transform weather and climate intelligence.
Hosted by the Royal Society.

Fascinating talks and demos. Obviously the best was the LLM to Shipping Forecast generator.

#metoffice #cloud #data #ai #hpc #science #royalsociety

Surge in GPS interference around Strait of Hormuz increases shipping risks More than 1,100 vessels have been hit by GPS interference across the Middle East Gulf since the start of the conflict, according to maritime firm Windward. Experts warn these attacks pose severe risks...

As well as the obvious implications to navigation both at sea and in the air, this is a timely reminder not to rely only on satellite-based signals for network time synchronisation.

#GPS #GNSS #jamming #NTP #PTP #time

www.france24.com/en/middle-ea...

Good to see demand management being tested to adjust the power needs of AI workloads without impacting latency, and to curtail energy usage to maintain grid stability temporarily.

#energy #power #electricity #grid #datacentre #datacenter #demandmanagement

www.nationalgrid.com/uk-first-tri...

The world’s first transatlantic fiber-optic cable is being ripped up after 37 years on the sea floor — TAT-8 to be removed after entering service in 1988, broke in 2002 Launched in 1988, it provided the blueprint model for every undersea internet cable that followed.

Good to see an old cable being recycled and clearing the route for newer cables.

#telecoms #subsea #tat8 #atlantic #internet

www.tomshardware.com/tech-industr...

Lovely little local museum, The Rural Life Centre near Farnham, Surrey. Including the Old Kiln Light Railway.
#rurallifecentre #oldkilnlightrailway #daysout #museum

Rural Life Centre An open-air museum showing a collection of buildings, tools, and other objects of the past.

Lovely afternoon at the Rural Life Centre… a handy tip from #NerdyDayTrips
#History #Museums
nerdydaytrips.org/daytrip/eu/g...

ooo... nice. Handy for places without a OSM node.

FTL crashing after upgrade to v6.2 · Issue #2473 · pi-hole/FTL Versions Pi-hole: v6.1 Web: v6.2 FTL: v6.2 Platform OS and version: Armbian Linux 6.12.23-current-sunxi64 Platform: Orange Pi Zero 3 Expected behavior FTL and DNS running Actual behavior / bug FTL ...

If your Pi-hole install is broken since the recent update, there is a 'hotfix' here:
github.com/pi-hole/FTL/...

#pihole #patches #fixes #DNS #ItWasDNS

AWS Cloud WAN looks interesting… although “AWS Obi” or “AWS Magrathea” would have been a better name.
#AWS #AWSSummit

At AWS Summit… nice day out in London….this Cloud thing looks promising ;-)

Ping me if you are about for a catch up…

#AWS #AWSSummit #Excel #Cloud

..must be a coded message in the houseplant placement! ;-)

Moon and Venus

Venus, Moon and Gigabit broadband earlier this evening. You can work out which. ;-)

Xen hypervisors updated. Not a sheep insight. :-o

Could go hideously wrong… counting servers and patching sheep :-o

If that fails, will start patching home lab servers.

Same. Counting sheep. :-o

…how many laps of the Piccadilly Line this time? ;-)

Ooo… tea :-)

Here’s something scary for Halloween.

BT/Openreach and AltNet providers building out new fibre networks using the Victorian “wires-on-dead-trees” approach!!

#fibre #tech #internet #cloud #openreach #toob #fwnetworks #halloween

Ubuntu 24.10: The Best New Features Ubuntu 24.10 'Oracular Oriole' will be released on October 13th, and as you'd expect from a new version of Ubuntu, it's packed with new features. As a

Upgraded daily driver to Ubuntu 24.10 prerelease today.
Easy upgrade. All okay so far -)

www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2024/09/ubun...

#Ubuntu #TestinProd #Linux #Tech #Canonical #Testing #Prerelease