If i write a bad email because i'm frustrated to some company or whatever and want them to change their behavour, i think a llm can write an email, which triggers these people a lot more than my 'polite' way of convincing others.
I think Opus 4.6 and Mythos overall/marketing wise are key points because it told the world that LLMs are now a critical / usefull tool for security audits.
Its aligns with the significant jump in helpfulness in CTF.
But i think its good to hear that its not that crazy good. Everything slowing it down is good.
"the hardware was basically dying, choking on the all the heavy backup traffic that wasn't built to handle gracefully"
Its cleary hardware degeneration nothing to be philosophical about. Its a silicon which routes traffic. It shouldn't 'choke on any type of traffic and it shouldn't die because of it.
Otherwise i'm still not switching to 10g due to energy consumption. Its the switches which need more (if you use copper) and the client ports too.
But i only have one big machine which I do backups to and not even regularly enough that it matters too much.
Fancy hardware isn't more fun if you don't use the features. Spanning tree didn't work properly in my setup. At the end I only use vlan and the whole chain needs to support it. And the only reason for that is dataprotection: Not trusting random shitty IoT devices and i do not want to give them access to my local network.
I do like ubiquity. The switch and Acess Points have great price point and work very well and in comparision to other manufacturres an actual usable good UI.
Its nvidia attempt to gain additional market share and expected as well. If the whole ecosystem is around nvidia and its the easiest way of running stuff, Nvidia offering more enterprise infrastrcuture allows companies to just buy directly nvidia.
Nvidia is also very very rich and pushes the boundaries of stuff. They stoped waiting for industry standards. You can see this in there network stuff. All nvidia.
Next logical step (at least now, not something i thought about) was there CPU for their GPU racks/clusters/systems.
Now they have everything anyway, RTX Spark is just logical.
I don't think its specificly targeted at Apple at all.
Apple has like 10-15% market share and just because some IT nerds buy themselves a mac mini doesn't mean much.
Plenty of them actually just run openclaw without local models. Something which surprised me quite a lot.
But i have two 4090 at home. They consume a lot of power and i had to research the proper Mainboardmodel and had to mod one 4090 to use water cooling because they run too hot.
There Spark setup was at 3k, way to expensive for normal people. If they can get this down and sell more, great for their ecosystem (strengthening it) and getting more money from people.
It does surprise me though that they have enough capacity for this chip and not just putting everyting in Rubin but perhaps the build out has slowed down a little or they start to diverse already for economic savety
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