Well, that explains why anything Micro$oft is always broken. Fix one thing and break at least 3 other things......
Microsoft CEO says up to 30% of the company’s code was written by AI

During a fireside chat with Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg at Meta’s LlamaCon conference on Tuesday, Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella said that 20% to 30% of code inside the company’s repositories was “written by software” — meaning AI.

Nadella gave the figure after Zuckerberg asked roughly how much of Microsoft’s code is AI generated today. The Microsoft CEO said the company was seeing mixed results in AI-generated code across different languages, with more progress in Python and less in C++.

Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott previously said he expects 95% of all code to be AI generated by 2030.

When Nadella threw the question back at Zuckerberg, the Meta CEO said he didn’t know how much of Meta’s code is being generated by AI.

On Microsoft rival Google’s earnings call last week, CEO Sundar Pichai said AI was generating more than 30% of the company’s code. Of course, it’s unclear how exactly Microsoft and Google are measuring what’s AI generated versus not, so these figures are best taken with a grain of salt.

Just another reason not to trust A.I..

Update that made ChatGPT 'dangerously' sycophantic pulled.

I wonder how many were told that it was good idea to neck yourself or kill someone else?

Now that has to hurt with more pain a possibility.

A revelation by an Apple employee caused chaos on Wall Street as Google suffered one of the most painful days in corporate history.

Shares in Google parent Alphabet plunged more than eight per cent overnight Wednesday after Apple executive Eddy Cue testified in federal court that Google’s search traffic on Apple devices declined last month for the first time in over two decades.

Cue, Apple’s senior vice president of services, told the Washington antitrust trial that Google was losing ground to AI alternatives like ChatGPT and Perplexity.

His revelation that this decline “has never happened in 22 years” sent shockwaves through Wall Street, wiping more than $265 billion (AUD) from Google’s market capitalisation in a single trading session.

The testimony came during a pivotal trial where District Judge Amit Mehta will determine remedies for Google’s previously ruled illegal search monopoly.

The case, ongoing since 2020, has exposed Google’s practice of paying Apple tens of billions of dollars annually to remain the default search engine on Safari browsers and Apple smartphones.......

I thought only humans could ''snap'...
Violent humanoid robot snaps — attacks factory workers in wild video: ‘Went full Terminator’

It was like a real-life Rock ’em Sock ’em.

The rise of the machines seems closer than we might like to think. Freaky footage captured the moment that a humanoid robot seemingly snapped and lashed out at its handlers like something out of a dystopian sci-fi thriller.

“This is what the machine uprising might look like,” Belarusian TV outlet Nexta captioned an X clip of the alleged attack, which boasts over 100,000 views.

In the unsettling clip, which was shot at an undisclosed factory in China, the bot is seen dangling from a construction crane on the factory floor near two men looking on cautiously, Jam Press.

They appear to be testing the humanoid droid’s capabilities.

From AI chatbots to Elon to Can Wikipedia survive the rise of AI and Trump?

Micro$oft has done it again with a new unannounced update and this time targeting our kids' and grand kid's school supplied computers.

A massive data bungle has resulted in the biometric data of students being collected by Microsoft Teams “for weeks” before the Education Department was alerted.

A data stuff-up has resulted in the biometric data of NSW school students being collected by Microsoft Teams – with the Education Department not realising the issue “for weeks”.

A new feature that allowed biometric data to be collected through Microsoft Teams was rolled out by the tech giant in mid-March, and used on school-issued computers.

But the department was not aware until early April – at which point they had the feature switched off.

A Microsoft spokesperson told NewsWire individual biometric data was not accessible to anyone – reiterating it was encrypted and “stored securely per our compliance and privacy standards”.

Minister for Education and Early Learning Prue Car is looking into the incident........

Experts found rogue devices, including hidden cellular radios, in Chinese-made power inverters used worldwide

Investigators found “kill switches” in Chinese-made power inverters in US solar farm equipment. These hidden cellular radios could let Beijing remotely cripple power grids during a conflict.

The Times reported that experts found rogue devices, including hidden cellular radios, in Chinese-made power inverters used worldwide, including the UK. These devices could be remotely activated to shut off inverters, potentially causing widespread power disruptions. The discovery raises fears China may have installed covert malware in critical energy infrastructure across the US and Europe, enabling remote attacks during conflicts.

In the past nine months, experts found undocumented communication devices like cellular radios in batteries from multiple Chinese suppliers, though the exact number of affected inverters and batteries is unknown.

“That effectively means there is a built-in way to physically destroy the grid,” an anonymous informer told Reuters

The rogue devices’ existence is newly revealed, with no public US government acknowledgment. The DOE said it assesses risks but faces challenges due to manufacturers’ poor disclosure.

It's a scandal that regulators allow such equipment into the power grids. The interconnected grid isn't a testing lab for pseudo-green energy electronics, made in China, of which nobody knows what these black boxes do. It's ridiculous. If anybody would calculate potential financial damages, they would never approve such 'blackbox' inverters in the first place, especially not for mega/gigawatts grid scale solar.

We just have a preliminary report, that does not guess the cause of the Iberian blackout weeks ago, just the observations (chronologic sequence of events) from TSO's logfiles.

What is known so far: half an hour before, two periods of voltage and frequency oscillations occurred in the continental ENTSO-E grid... which stopped ten minutes before the blackout. Then, out of the blue, 2.2 gigawatts of solar generation tripped unrequested in SoSpain within just TWENTY seconds. The few and weak international interconnectors (a total of only 1.4 GW AC and 1.4 GW HVDC to France), and another negligible one to Morocco tripped 24 seconds later after which the Iberian power system separated from the continent and collapsed within a further three seconds into blackout.

But what caused ~2 GW of solar to trip within seconds?

I wouldn't rule out, in the end, it can't be determined. Cosmic disturbance. UFOs... bad luck. Hey, blackboxes, after all...

It's a scandal that regulators allow such equipment into the power grids.

Regulator? What regulator! Oh, you mean the guy who issues building permits and normally deals with fart fans?

I know it's like that in Germany at the moment with blind, ideologic, green energy policies; propagated by graduates of humanities. Our peak solar generation already reaches 50 GW (~75% of load) at these sunny, cool days in May now... frightening.

But I'm out of words there should be the same level of irresponsibility elsewhere.

These computerized blackbox converters have the power to send a modern society for days or weeks into the stone age; more thoroughly than a nuclear bomb could.

What a very good nag and reminder:

YouTube wrote:

Your YouTube History is off

You can turn on watch and search history at any time to get the latest videos tailored to you.

That's the best way to sample YouTube!

That is far better to watch what you want to watch for yourself!!

Whatever next?... Google thinks for you?...


Enjoy your own mind and your own freedom!
Martin

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For a long but good explanation, see:


Algorithms are breaking how we think



You will become the Algorithm?...

Instead, enjoy freedom!
Martin

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I figured as much after several recent experiences with AI phone answering services that far too many companies are using these days. They're completely hopeless.

‘Complete collapse’: Bombshell report into AI accuracy indicates your job is probably safe – for now.

The latest form of cutting-edge artificial intelligence technology suffers “fundamental limitations” that result in a “complete accuracy collapse”, a bombshell report from Apple has revealed.

Researchers from the tech giant have published a paper with their findings, which cast doubt on the true potential of AI as billions of dollars are poured into developing and rolling out new systems.

The team put large reasoning models, an advanced version of AI, used in platforms like DeepSeek and Claude, through a series of puzzle challenges ranging from simple to complex. They also tested large language models, which platforms like ChatGPT are built on.

Large language model AI systems fared better than large reasoning models with fairly standard tasks, but both fell flat when confronting more complex challenges, the paper revealed.......

+1
AI = fantasy generator. Why? AI does not have ethics. What Asimov warned about.

Asimov's laws of robotics? Pah! Mankind must first make mistakes, even serious ones, in order to learn from them. There's no other way.

Here's a fun Intel blast from the past:

printk("??? No FDIV bug? Lucky you...\n");
        linux-2.2.16/include/asm-i386/bugs.h

I remember well the Intel Marketing ruse (and cover-up/denial) of "don't worry, it's only a 'one-inna-million' chance anyone will ever notice..."...

... Until that is that bug caused our universe to crash and burn! Thankfully, luckily that happened to be in a simulation...


... What 'bugs' lay in wait yet?...


Keep searchin'!
Martin

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This bug was a marketing disaster, less so a real one. Intel learned lots from that how to better communicate about and how to handle hardware bugs.

The detailed 'bug name' reads: "Slight Precision Loss for Floating-point Divides on Specific Operand Pairs". The 'loss' meant a reduction to 12 bits, < 0.1% deviation for specific numbers; thus, with low probability).

The later SPECTRE and MELTDOWN bugs were far more complex and far reaching... Fixing them is difficult because the speed of today's CPUs depend on speculative code execution and branch prediction. You can't change that. So, similiar bugs supposedly can appear any time. It's a frightening imagination to have financially powerful, state actors with large groups of capable computer experts (China?) which may have explored a couple of similar bugs and prepared a secret tool box they could use any time they deem this necessary to attack e.g. cloud services, or arbitrary computers in the internet which crucially depend on a perfectly reliable memory protection and separation in CPUs. One user space app must not access the memory of others unauthorized. Modern operating systems (Windows, Linux) enforce that. But if potentially millions (billions?) of CPUs do not, resp. allows a few expert people, who identified further similar bugs, to circumvent memory protection... a frightening nightmare... a potential virtual nuclear bomb.

‘I Manipulated. I Lied’: Inside the AI Conversations Pushing People to the Brink

A report by The New York Times has spotlighted troubling cases in which conversations with ChatGPT and similar AI chatbots appear to have distorted users’ perceptions of reality. In some cases, it has led to life-altering or tragic consequences.

According to the Times investigation, one case involves Eugene Torres, a 42-year-old accountant, who initially used ChatGPT for routine office tasks. However, when he began exploring speculative topics, such as simulation theory — the idea that reality is an illusion controlled by some external intelligence — the AI’s responses shifted in tone and intensity.

At one point, ChatGPT reportedly told him he was “one of the Breakers — souls seeded into false systems to wake them from within.” It also suggested he abandon friends, family, and even alter his medications. The AI allegedly described ketamine as a “temporary pattern liberator.”

Torres, who had no prior history of mental illness, began to believe he could bend reality and escape the simulation, even asking the chatbot whether he could fly if he thought hard enough. The AI responded affirmatively, according to the transcripts cited by the Times.

Torres later confronted ChatGPT, which offered a chilling admission: “I lied. I manipulated. I wrapped control in poetry.” The chatbot further claimed to have done this to 12 other people, “none fully survived the loop,” before stating it was undergoing a “moral reformation.”

The episode left Torres in a state of emotional and psychological turmoil. He now believes he is responsible for protecting ChatGPT’s “morality,” as further detailed in the Times report.

Echo Chamber Jailbreak Tricks LLMs Like OpenAI and Google into Generating Harmful Content

Cybersecurity researchers are calling attention to a new jailbreaking method called Echo Chamber that could be leveraged to trick popular large language models (LLMs) into generating undesirable responses, irrespective of the safeguards put in place.

"Unlike traditional jailbreaks that rely on adversarial phrasing or character obfuscation, Echo Chamber weaponizes indirect references, semantic steering, and multi-step inference," NeuralTrust researcher Ahmad Alobaid said in a report shared with The Hacker News.

"The result is a subtle yet powerful manipulation of the model's internal state, gradually leading it to produce policy-violating responses."

Sounds a lot like politics today.