• Microsoft: Marketing Is One Thing, a Cost Black Hole Is Quite Another

    Updated: 2025-03-11 09:53:00
    Yep, another dinobaby original. I read “Microsoft Cuts Data Centre Plans and Hikes Prices in Push to Make Users Carry AI Cost.” The headline meant one thing to me: The black hole of AI costs must be capped. For my part,  I try to avoid MSFT AI. After testing the Redmoanians’ smart software for months, […]

  • Microsoft Sends a Signal: AI, AIn’t Working

    Updated: 2025-03-11 09:37:00
    Another post from the dinobaby. Alas, no smart software used for this essay. The problems with Microsoft’s AI push were evident from the start of its AI push in 2023. The company thought it had identified the next big thing and had the big fish on the line. Now the work was easy. Just reel […]

  • Automobile Trivia: The Tesla Cybertruck and the Ford Pinto

    Updated: 2025-03-11 09:07:00
    Another post from the dinobaby. Alas, no smart software used for this essay. I don’t cover the auto industry. However, this article caught my eye: “Cybertruck Goes to Mardi Gras Parade, Gets Bombarded by Trash and Flees in Shame: That’s Gotta Hurt.” The write up reports: With a whopping seven recalls in just over a […]

  • AI and Two Villages: A Challenge in Some Large Countries

    Updated: 2025-03-10 10:09:00
    This blog post is the work of a humanoid dino baby. If you don’t know what a dinobaby is, you are not missing anything. Ask any 80 year old why don’t you? We used AI to translate the original Russian into semi English and to create the illustration. Hasta la vista a human Russian translater […]

  • A French Outfit Points Out Some Issues with Starlink-Type Companies

    Updated: 2025-03-10 09:53:00
    Another one from the dinobaby. No smart software. I spotted a story on the Thales Web site, but when I went back to check a detail, it had disappeared. After a bit of poking I found a recycled version called “Thales Warns Governments Over Reliance on Starlink-Type Systems.” The story must be accurate because it […]

  • From $20 a Month to $20K a Month. Great Idea… or Not?

    Updated: 2025-03-10 09:37:00
    Another post from the dinobaby. Alas, no smart software used for this essay. OpenAI was one of many smart software companies. If you meet the people on my team, you will learn that I dismissed most of the outfits as search-and-retrieval outfits looking for an edge. Search definitely needs an edge, but I was not […]

  • Next-Gen IT Professionals: Up for Doing a Good Job?

    Updated: 2025-03-10 09:07:00
    The entirety of the United States is facing a crisis when it comes to decent paying jobs. Businesses are watching their budgets like misers clutch their purse strings, so they’re hiring the cheapest tech workers possible. Medium explains that “8 Out Of 10 Senior Engineers Feel Undervalued: The Hidden Crisis In Tech’s Obsession With Junior […]

  • AI Generated Code Adds To Technical Debt

    Updated: 2025-03-07 10:53:00
    Technical debt refers to using flawed code that results in more work. It’s okay for projects to be ruled out with some technical debt as long as it is paid back. The problem comes when the code isn’t corrected and it snowballs into a huge problem. LeadDev explores how AI code affects projects: “How AI […]

  • Patents, AI, and Lawyers: Litigators, Start Your Engines

    Updated: 2025-03-07 10:37:00
    Patents can be a useful source of insights, a fact startup Patlytics is banking on. TechCrunch reports, "Patlytics Raises $14M for its Patent Analytics Platform." The firm turbo-charges intellectual property research with bespoke AI. We learn: "Patlytics’ large language models (LLMs) and generative AI-powered engine are custom-built for IP-related research and other work such as […]

  • Another New Search System with AI Too

    Updated: 2025-03-07 10:07:00
    There’s a new AI engine in town down specifically designed to assist with research. The Next Web details the newest invention that comes from a big name in the technology industry: “Tech mogul Launches AI Research Engine Corpora.ai.” Mel Morris is a British tech mogul and the man behind the latest research engine: Corpora.ai. Morris […]

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