"Microsoft and OpenAI are reportedly working on a massive datacenter to house an AI-focused supercomputer featuring millions of GPUs. The Information reports that the project could cost "in excess of $115 billion" and that the supercomputer, currently dubbed "Stargate" inside OpenAI, would be U.S.-based."
So much could be done with that amount of money... such a huge waste.
Oh wow... This is something special! I found an early pre-release version of "Castle of the Winds" .. v0.5.4. This was apparently released exclusively for Microsoft employees back in the day.
I think it's an awesome collector's piece! My gratitude goes to "iamxray" for his generous upload.
This #Microsoft closing game studios shit is part of a bigger problem with art in general... Executives and money bros started calling it all "content." Then they forgot that artists are the ones who create the art... then they started thinking that they were actually smart when it comes to art. They are not.
Their job is to enable artists, fund artists, and let them create new pieces of culture... They forgot about this, so we get cancelled games, closed studios that were awesome, sequels forever and fear of new IPs, cancelled shows that were good, shelved movies that were completely finished, etc.
Fuck every single rich asshole who thinks they know anything about art. They need to learn their place in society, because the cultural implications of having them behind the artistic decisions is bleak.
“Game Pass has justified its slow degrading of the value of games by promising that it makes room for little guys to survive. We all know now, finally, that this was a lie. Is it a great value for consumers still? Probably. Has Phil Spencer’s multi-billion dollar project destroyed the gaming industry? I am comfortable calling it a contributing factor to its slow decay.”
#POTUS Biden will champion a new Microsoft #Artificial Intelligence investment in #Wisconsin on Wedn — showcasing the failed #economic commitments of his political rival Trump, whose promises for a #job-rich Foxconn plant in the battleground state never materialized.
Nun ja, überraschend ist es nun nicht und es könnte sogar sein, dass die dazu verpflichtet sind aber muss es dann KI sein und nützt diese auch?!
»Microsoft startet Spezial-KI-Services für die Spione von #CIA & Co. #Microsoft bietet seit einiger Zeit #KI-Services für Privat-, Geschäfts- und Bildungskunden an. Jetzt allerdings hat der Konzern eine spezielle weitere Klasse gestartet: Die Redmonder bieten nun auch Services für #Geheimdienst'e und ähnliche #Behörde'n an.«
Does #Microsoft#Word no longer allows people to open .ODT files? Have, a few times, had to safe .ODT files as .DOCX via LibreOffice so that Word users could open it.
.ODT is an open source file format, so its a deliberate choice for Word to not be compatible.
Why do people pay for a shitty product that lacks such basic functionality?
Learning #Azure would be a lot easier if the documentation was up to date and things on the portal didn’t just hang or stop working at random intervals. Ffffuu
The new iPads are once again mind-blowingly amazing hardware showcases, hamstrung by software and an extractive App Store gatekeeper that limits what users can effectively do.
There is now such a large overlap of prices between iPad and MacBooks that we’ll probably never see a touchscreen Mac, because it would be a superior choice over iPad in most cases.
What I want, really, is macOS running on desktop, laptop, and tablet form factors, with a relatively open software environment not solely owned by the App Store.
I think Microsoft actually got it right with Windows 11 (minus the #enshittification ads). If only they pushed more strongly on the Surface lineup…
I like how there's so many products and so much money spent on endpoint defense,
malware detection, incident response, scanning of files, behavioral changes and signals
and all that shit...
but then companies end up losing millions to a simple phishing attack.
I'm doing the SC-200 by Microsoft, and I barely see things that talk about this
@boo_@andros I didn’t foresee anyone turning Google’s #Chrome browser #JavaScript engine V8 (2008) into the server (#NodeJs, 2009) and desktop (#ElectronJs, 2013) runtimes that ate the world, but here we are.
And Electron was originally developed for #GitHub’s #Atom text editor (2008) before they were acquired by #Microsoft in 2018, subsequently discontinued in favor of #VSCode in 2022.
Don’t tell me what you can’t see happening if you don’t remember what already did