Human trials have now started.

:)

Is the money printing machine broken?

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Macron set a goal to plant 1 billion trees. There’s concern that the government will give out subsidies to replant burned forest with pine tree monoculture, if that makes it easier to meet the 1 billion goal.

“If you need extra hire, a friend is looking for a job, I could get you in touch”

This made my day.

Ce qui est à priori une mauvaise idée

The Dark Side of Putting Mirrors in Space

L’activité humaine est responsable de l’aggravation du climat, pas l’activité du soleil. Alors inutile de pointer le soleil.

Interesting. Hopefully this provide resources to worthwhile research projects, not generative AI (research) projects.

Given the homepage emphasis on (generative) AI, it’s not very encouraging. But hopefully I’m wrong.

I’m all for GPUs and memory being available to research that benefit public good, within limit. And less of it being available to LLMs.

AI companies are swallowing a large part of memory and some chips production, meaning less availability and higher prices for everyone. This is part of the resources misallocation. https://www.cnbc.com/2026/01/10/micron-ai-memory-shortage-hbm-nvidia-samsung.html

Fair point, GPUs are often used too, and have other uses for HPC workloads.

There is still a major misallocations of resources for AI. This infrastructure is badly needed by big tech for their AI growth plans. No one else need this much.

There’s no good reasons to build at that scale and so fast, for any reason.

There’s a need to lower overall energy and resources usage, and improve efficiency. Building many large datacenters for LLMs go in the wrong direction.

Mostly out of the loop, I use this fork as well. Apps distributed on the F-Droid repo are OSS, built from source, and screened for malware.

If the fork is no longer maintained I expect it to be removed from the repo, that should be announced on the blog with the regular app news.

LLMs require specialized processors, ie TPUs and ASICs. Using GPUs or CPUs would be even less efficients. AI datacenters layout and cooling are specifically designed to accomodate those specialized processors.

My understanding is that repurposing such datacenter for other kind of computing would be expensive. Doing this shortly after building them would mean loosing a signifiant portion of the initial investment. ie would require replacing processors, cooming, and redisigning the overall layout to optimize for another type of processing.

This would not conflict with linux kernel policy, nor with other upstream use of AI. The article makes it clear:

Importantly, the ban would not apply to upstream projects that use AI, software related to artificial intelligence, or patches and security fixes from upstream sources. In other words, Debian could still package third-party software developed with AI assistance, but Debian contributors would be prohibited from using such tools for direct project work

Gönner said investing in new technologies, such as artificial intelligence, was vital.

Huge amount of money and resources is already (mis)allocated to LLM-style AI. With very dubious results on productivity, jobs, and clearly bad results for the environment.

It’s surprising to see people wanting to pour even more money into this pit.

He’s bullshitting so much already.

Couldn’t he sign a peace deal and then claim victory even if the outcome is a stalemate?

TL;DR, they the removed diesel generators that disturbed and scared fishes away.

Using diesel generators in remote locations (or anywhere) is a bad idea. Replacing them with solar panels is common sense, and they finally got around to it.

That’s a good move, better late than never. That company didn’t have much foresight by installing and keeping generators for so long.

It might be possible to fool it.

More important, it’s normalizing use of facial recognition in everyday situations. This is a very invasive tech and prime for abuse by increasingly totalitarian governments.

Le gouvernement et le parlement nous pondent beaucoup de loi régressives et répressives en ce moment. C’est une triste série : loi Duplomb, loi RIPOST, loi d’urgence agricole, interdiction des médias sociaux au jeunes.

J’ai plus de 15 ans et vais refuser de prouver mon identité pour utiliser des médias sociaux. Je préviendrait mes contacts, tant pis si mes comptes sont fermés. Ça sera les messageries privées à la place.

Le centre, la droite, et l’extrême droite votent le classement dit. Autrement dit : “vu et s’en tape”

Airbus is migrating its most critical applications for sensitive workloads from AWS to …

Airbus is competing with Boeing. Why would they even expose their “sensitive workloads” to USA’s federal & local governments and agencies?

heightened concern about the US Cloud Act, which allows the American government to request data held in overseas datacenters owned by US businesses

The Cloud Act was passed in 2018. And Snowden revealed various spying programs in 2013, including PRISM where NSA and partners spied on comms at various tech companies. The USA would probably see Boeing’s success as a strategic interest, so it’s reasonable to think they rely on the country’s vast spying powers to help Boeing.

So… what took them so long? Was someone blindfolded for the last 13 years, or naive enough to believe AWS was safe for sensitive european data?