Consumers have a long wait ahead of them before they can bring that kind of performance home

It's time for a new generation of faster flash storage, but not on your laptop or desktop. Micron's first PCIe 6.0 SSDs have entered mass production and promise eye-watering transfer rates of up to 28 GB/s. However, unless you're building flash storage arrays for AI, you won't have a use for them.…

Why AI Writing Is So Generic, Boring, and Dangerous: Semantic Ablation. “The AI identifies high-entropy clusters — the precise points where unique insights…reside — and systematically replaces them with the most probable, generic token sequences.”

An anonymous reader shares a report: A moderator on diyAudio set up an experiment to determine whether listeners could differentiate between audio run through pro audio copper wire, a banana, and wet mud. Spoiler alert: the results indicated that users were unable to accurately distinguish between these different 'interfaces.'

Pano, the moderator who built the experiment, invited other members on the forum to listen to various sound clips with four different versions: one taken from the original CD file, with the three others recorded through 180cm of pro audio copper wire, via 20cm of wet mud, through 120cm of old microphone cable soldered to US pennies, and via a 13cm banana, and 120cm of the same setup as earlier.

Initial test results showed that it's extremely difficult for listeners to correctly pick out which audio track used which wiring setup. "The amazing thing is how much alike these files sound. The mud should sound perfectly awful, but it doesn't," Pano said. "All of the re-recordings should be obvious, but they aren't."

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De Zwitserse televisieomroep RTS heeft dinsdag het geluid weggefilterd uit een video van de bobsleewedstrijd van de mannen, vanwege opmerkingen van de commentator over vermeende…

Secretary of state spoke of ‘golden age’ of US-Hungary relations at time of tense transatlantic relations with traditional allies

Even before he in effect endorsed Hungary’s Viktor Orbán before of a crucial parliamentary election, Marco Rubio’s itinerary for Europe promised to be provocative. After meeting with US allies at the Munich Security Conference during a particularly tense moment in transatlantic relations, the US secretary of state departed for Slovakia and Hungary – the two EU states most dependent on Russian energy and sceptical of the bloc’s support for Ukraine.

In what bordered on an explicit political endorsement, Rubio told Orbán that relations between Hungary and the US had entered a “golden age” – and would stay like that for as long as Orban remains in power.

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National Crime Agency says rise in child sexual abuse being driven by technology and online forums

Child sexual abuse in the UK is soaring, police have said, with 1,000 paedophile suspects being arrested each month and the number of children being rescued from harm rising by 50% in the last five years.

The National Crime Agency said the growth in offending across the UK was driven by technology and linked to the radicalisation of offenders in online forums, encouraging people to view images of child sexual abuse by reassuring them it was normal.

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Skiing began here as a human impulse to move through snow with speed and joy. The miners who raced down these hills were chasing more than gold; they were chasing the feeling of winter. The Washoe, who traveled these slopes many generations before these settlers and whose land was stolen from them, established relationships with this place across all seasons. To stand beside the slope in Johnsville, to hear the thrum of wooden skis on snow and the laughter rising from the crowd, is to step into that same historical relationship with the landscape. from California's 165-Year-Old Longboard Skiing Tradition [Alta; ungated]

MILAAN (ANP) - Nederland is dinsdag bij de Olympische Spelen in het medailleklassement op de vierde plaats blijven staan. De langebaanschaatssters Joy Beune, Marijke Groenewoud en Antoinette Rijpma-de Jong eindigden op de ploegenachtervolging als tweede en bezorgden Nederland zo de zesde zilveren medaille in Milaan.

TeamNL won ook zes keer goud en een keer brons. Nummer 3 de Verenigde Staten staat ook op zes keer goud, maar heeft al negen keer zilver behaald.

Noorwegen blijft het klassement aanvoeren en verzekerde zich dinsdag van de dertiende olympische titel op deze Spelen. Gastland Italië won de ploegenachtervolging bij het langebaanschaatsen en heeft nu negen gouden plakken.

Bij de Winterspelen zijn nu 78 van de 116 onderdelen afgewerkt. Later op dinsdag worden nog op twee onderdelen medailles uitgereikt.