CR 580: Error Lake¶
- Air Date: 2024-07-24
- Duration: 65 mins 26 secs
About this episode¶
Our thoughts on the CrowdStrike outage and why Intel is in the hot seat with developers.
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- Andrew Curran on X — Will OpenAI commit to making its next foundation model available to U.S. Government agencies for pre-deployment testing, review, analysis, and assessment?
- Senators demand OpenAI release data showing it keeps its AI safe — Following a Washington Post report, five lawmakers ask the artificial intelligence start-up to describe how it will ensure its tools don’t cause harm.
- Lior⚡ on X — This might be the biggest moment for Open-Source AI.
- Mark Zuckerberg on Llama 3.1, Open Source, AI Agents, Safety, and more - YouTube
- Open Source AI Is the Path Forward | Meta — Today, Linux is the industry standard foundation for both cloud computing and the operating systems that run most mobile devices – and we all benefit from superior products because of it. I believe that AI will develop in a similar way.
- Taiwan makes tough decisions as it faces its worst drought in nearly a century : NPR — This is the third year in a row that rice farmers in southern Taiwan have not been allowed to plant their crops. Instead, the government is paying them subsidies not to grow rice this season. The rice uses scarce water that semiconductor factories nearby need.
- Technical Details: Falcon Update for Windows Hosts | CrowdStrike — Customers running Falcon sensor for Windows version 7.11 and above, that were online between Friday, July 19, 2024 04:09 UTC and Friday, July 19, 2024 05:27 UTC, may be impacted.
- Overview of Early Launch AntiMalware - Windows drivers
- Microsoft Blames European Commission for Major Worldwide Outage
- Intel is “selling defective CPUs” says game dev in brutal smackdown — Gamers have been reporting crashes on Intel CPUs for a number of months now, with the problem appearing to particularly affect games based on the Unreal engine.
- Warframe devs report 80% of game crashes happen on Intel's overclockable Core i9 chips — Core i7 K-series CPUs also have high crash rates | Tom's Hardware — Warframe developers provide some crash statistics and describe diagnosing the issue
- Intel finally announces a solution for CPU crashing and instability problems — claims elevated voltages are the root cause; patch coming by mid-August — Intel's advisory says an erroneous CPU microcode is the root cause of the incessant instability issues. The microcode caused the CPU to request elevated voltage levels, resulting in the processor operating outside its safe boundaries.
Tags¶
ai safety, amd, bsod, chip manufacturing, coder radio, cpu crashes, crowdstrike, developers, development podcast, driver error, employee agreements, european commission, government regulation, instability, intel, kernel panic, llama, meta, microcode error, microsoft, nondisclosure agreements, open-source ai, openai, security software, water scarcity, whistleblowers