May 2005

May 7, 2005 by yorksranter 0 comments

What Is, In Fact, Going On in the Yemen

Back in January, I asked What’s Up in the Yemen? after noticing regular flights by Irbis Air Co., a Kazakh-registered airline owned by Viktor Bout and now placed on the US Treasury seizure list, from Sharjah to Riyan-Mukalla airport in the eastern Yemen. Since then, we’ve seen confirmation of this with the crash there of…

May 5, 2005 by yorksranter 0 comments

Admin notice

Right. I’ve been a split-brain blogger for the last month, putting all my election stuff over at General Election ’05. After tonight, there will be more TYR. There is some interesting news to come on what, exactly, is going on in the Yemen. On that theme, you will probably be pleased to know that our…

May 5, 2005 by yorksranter 0 comments

It’s Time

(With apologies to Gough Whitlam) It’s time to do a final election post. If you haven’t voted yet, kindly take a moment to read through the archives. We’ve had masses of Iraq and secret detention, mass surveillance, any amount of stupidity, cash-burning PFIs, schools controlled by anyone who will stump up one-tenth of their cost,…

May 1, 2005 by yorksranter 0 comments

Blair’s Cover Blown

It’s all over the press that various killer documents have been leaked: including the Foreign Office’s legal advice on the admissibility or otherwise of a war with Iraq, and the detail that contrary to his repeated denials, Tony Blair read it, and even further that Sir Richard Dearlove, the head of MI6, told the government…

What happened with margins on 8 January? | National Energy System Operator
To ensure a strong reserve, we also worked with the Viking Interconnector and Energinet in Denmark, resulting in the full Viking Interconnector capability of 1,400MW being made available from around 14:00hrs.
Air Force Predicts Enemy Anti-Air Missiles With 1,000-Mile Range By 2050
that's a lorra lorra spacebirds and even more, a lorra lorra bandwidth. future character of electronic conflict anyone?
Ernest Marples - Wikipedia
A British politician who could be French, spin direction alpha. Politically uncontroversial, technocratically highly effective, completely corrupt, huge pervert. Spin direction gamma is of course Johnson; obsessed with provocative posturing, literary/intellectual pretensions, scion of Brussels or diplomatic family, mistresses.
Reginald Ridgway - Telegraph
After reading Engineering at Imperial College, London, Ridgway worked for Charles Brand, and was soon agent on many London Underground projects, including the Cockfosters-Turnpike section of the Piccadilly Line, and St Paul's station booking hall and escalators on the Central Line. With Balfour Beatty he was in charge of the Green Park Underground station, and […]
Is High Productivity Growth Returning?
The latest update of our productivity model provides some support for the view that productivity may have shifted to a higher trend growth rate. The most recent estimate puts the probability of being in that regime at about 40 percent, which is a substantial increase compared with pre-pandemic estimates but still less than even odds. […]
US AI chip ban drives up prices for Nvidia RTX 5090 before its launch
Overseas personnel facilitate shipments, smuggle, and set up shell corporations in unregulated nations such as the Middle East, Singapore, and Malaysia. These companies buy AI servers in bulk from Nvidia or other server providers and then resell them at premium prices in China...Rumors have been circulating that Supermicro may be involved...Due to strong demand from […]
Press release: Review of the Responsibilities and Actions Related to the Secretary of Defense’s Hospitalizations and the DoD’s Policies and Procedures for Notification and Transfer of Functions and Duties (Report No. DODIG-2025-058) > Department of De
Nevertheless, Secretary Austin did not transfer his authorities and the OIG found no evidence that a transfer was considered or that Secretary Austin informed the Deputy Secretary or his Chief of Staff of the procedures....There were conflicting accounts as to whether Secretary Austin directed his Personal Security Officer, who responded to his residence on January […]
US AI chip export control looms over China cloud computing giants
Alibaba's Damo Academy has developed the Hanguang 800 AI chip, which is tailored for AI inference applications. Despite this innovation, Alibaba Cloud continues to rely on Nvidia GPUs as the primary hardware for advanced deep learning and big data processing...Baidu continues to depend on Nvidia GPUs, particularly the A100 and V100 models
China's semiconductor sector reels from 10,000 bankruptcies as hiring frenzy collapses
Employees from leading IDMs reported that process engineers in wafer manufacturing were enticed by high salaries to transition into chip design roles at startups. Zeku [Oppo ASIC division] aggressively expanded its workforce during the 2021–2022 boom. Tianyancha data shows that Zeku Technology (Shanghai) and Zeku Technology (Beijing) enrolled over 1,700 employees in social insurance in […]
Getting an all-optical AI to handle non-linear math - Ars Technica
Once matrix multiplication is done in the first layer, the information goes to another layer through a unit that is responsible for nonlinear thresholding. “We did this by co-integrating electronics and optics,” Bandyopadhyay says. This process works by sending a tiny bit of the optical signal to a photodiode that measures how much optical power […]