• Never get involved in a land war in Asia: Adobe tried to promote its services to artists on Bluesky.  They promptly deleted their posts after realising that everyone on Bluesky is insane.  (PetaPixel)
  
  I could have told you that, Adobe.
  
  Also, you suck.  Just...  Less than Bluesky.  Like you're diptheria and they're anthrax.

• The Pentagon is cancelling $5.1 billion in IT contracts with the big IT contractors.  (Reuters)  (archive site)
  
  These contracts are almost always vastly overpriced and incredibly unproductive.
  
  
  
• If you're a racist, Marxist, screaming lunatic, South of Midnight might just be the game for you.  (The Verge)  (archive site)
  
  The game is doing better than Dustborn, but not a whole lot.  And it looks good and sounds good, it's just written by people who should not be permitted with 500 yards of a keyboard.
  
  And yes, Sweet Baby Inc was deeply involved in this one, with utterly predictable results.
  
  It's also apparently quite short, but I won't knock it for that.  Not every game needs to last 80 hours.  Gris is only a few hours long and it's a masterpiece.
  
  
  
• You don't need websockets if you're not doing anything that needs websockets.  (Hunter Lovell)
  
  Uh, thanks?
  
  Cool Shuba Duck though.
  
  
  
• xAI is not using illegal generators to power its datacenter.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  xAI has 420MW of generator capacity, but only 40% of it has long-term permits.  The rest of it is using a short-term rule that allows a temporary generator to operate for 364 days without that permit.
  
  I think the company will likely be able to get those permits if it needs them later this year, so the article is a nothingburger.
  
  
  
• Ubisoft cancelled online services for its game The Crew.  And removed the game from users' libraries.  And deactivated physical copies.  And issued nothing even slightly resembling refunds.
  
  And now that it's facing lawsuits the company is pointing out that customers don't own what they buy.  (TechSpot)
  
  Ubisoft seems to have violated specific laws in California in all of this.  Of course that's true of everyone on the planet and most people not on the planet, but it doesn't particularly help the company's defense.
  
  
  
• I wasn't particularly planning to spend any more money on my new PC but I accidentally bought a QNAP QM2-4P-384.
  
  The motherboard I have supports up to four M.2 slots, though two share bandwidth with the PCIe 5.0 x16 slot, reducing it to x8, and one shares bandwidth the the PCIe 4.0 x4 slot, reducing it to PCIe 4.0 xnothing.
  
  You can get cheap four-slot M.2 cards but they require a full x16 slot to work, because they are wired up logically as just four four-lane devices and rely on the CPU figuring that out.  If you have a graphics card in your x16 slot, or you have M.2 cards sharing its bandwidth, they're basically useless.
  
  You can also get more expensive four-slot (or even eight-slot) M.2 cards that will work even if you only have a single PCIe lane left over, because they have hardware onboard to split up whatever PCIe you have and divide it among the M.2 slots on the card.  But those are full-height cards and the Hyte Y40 and Y60 cases only have full-height space for the graphics card.
  
  But the QNAP QM2-4P-384 is a half-height card because it's built for smaller NAS devices - though it also works on PCs.  It's PCIe 3.0 x8 which is not something my motherboard has, but with the onboard chip it will still work just fine.
  
  So now I can have 28TB or even 32TB of internal SSD (if I use that fourth motherboard slot).
  
  And then another 16TB of SSD in my external storage array.  Oh, and four SATA SSDs in my PC.  And four 3.5" hard drives (or again SATA SSDs) in the storage array.
  
  So I'll probably run out of money before I run out of space to put drives.

• Google is challenging Anthropic's Cursor AI programming assistant with its new Firebase Studio, pushing "vibe coding" to a whole new level.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  "Vibe coding" is the modern equivalent of giving your credit card to a group of North Korean hackers and telling them to build you an app.
  
  
  
• Firebase Studio is a great example - of why AI can't replace humans.  (The Register)

  "The AI part of the app is basically useless," wrote UK-based developer Oscar Molnar, in a Hacker News post.  "After two hours of 'vibe coding' a chess clock Flutter app, I got basically nothing in the end.  It broke more and more [with] each message.  I tried fixing stuff myself but it would mess it up again.  I would not recommend anyone to use it."

  I've worked with people like that.

• Microsoft's Recall - a.k.a the Telescreen was behind the operating system - is now part of the latest "insider builds".  (The Verge)
  
  Ave atque vale, insiders.  We hardly knew ye, but pretty soon we'll know your credit card numbers and search history.
  
  
  
• The USA can't manufacture phones.  It's a fantasy.  Also, here's how the Liberty Phone is manufactured in the USA.  (404 Media)
  
  It's overpriced because nothing in it is sourced from or assembled in the third world, and pretty much everyone gave up on that idea years ago.  Including China.
  
  
  
• Speaking of which new Intel CEO Lip-Bu Tan has investments in 600 companies in China including some linked to to the Chinese army.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Yeah, good fucking call there Intel.
  
  
  
• The founder and former CEO of shopping app Nate has been indicted on fraud charges over using actual intelligence instead of the artificial kind.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  His app promised to find and buy whatever you wanted using the latest AI services.
  
  It was actually a call center in the Philippines.
  
  
  
• China is retaliating against reciprocal tariffs imposed by the US by - you're not going to believe this - reducing the number of insufferable woke communist Hollywood propaganda films it allows to screen in the country.  (The Guardian)
  
  "Oh no," President Trump is reported to have said.
  
  (Actually he said "I've heard of worse things.")

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• The cost to query advanced AI APIs has dropped 99.7% in the past 18 months.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That's a pretty dramatic shift.  What's causing it seems to simply be competition.
  
  Hardware costs have come down - a bit - and the new hardware is also more energy efficient - a bit.
  
  Training costs for creating new models have soared, on the other hand - DeepSeek's bullshit notwithstanding - but investor money keeps pouring in to cover that.
  
  
  

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• Nintendo has explained why Switch 2 hardware and software costs so much.  (Ars Technica)
  
  "Because", Nintendo said.
  
  
  
• Whistleblower-as-a-service Sarah Wynn-Williams has accused Facebook of building a Nazi base on the dark side of the Moon.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Or something.
  
  
  
• Is Nvidia's priority access program for RTX 5000 cards finished?  (Hot Hardware)
  
  Yes.
  
  
  
• Hackers spied on emails of the Office of Comptroller of the Currency - which is apparently a real thing somehow - for over a year.  (Straits Times)
  
  This is distinct from the hackers who were spying on the emails of the Treasury Department.
  
  
  
• Windows 11 has a new feature that lets Copilot watch while you work with other apps.  (Bleeping Computer)

  When you share your screen with AI, Copilot can then help analyze, offer insights, answer your questions, and speak to you in real time.

  I see you are attempting to uninstall Copilot.  This incident has been reported.
  
  
  
• Google is making some AI employees sign non-compete agreements.  (Business Insider)  (archive site)
  
  Since these have often been ruled unenforceable, Google has tried a new tack: After an employee resigns, their employment continues for another year.  They continue to be paid but they don't need to work, they are just not allowed to work for a competing company.
  
  
  
• Turns out there are still motherboards around with a good number of PCIe slots.  AMD's business-oriented B840 boards mostly have five slots, which is not bad considering that the maximum for a standard ATX system is seven.
  
  They're mostly PCIe 3.0 x1 electrically (x16 physical slots) so not great if you want a 100Gb network card but fine for most other uses.

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• Bluesky has become a home for humourless left-wing scolds, says Wired, which has long been a home for humourless left-wing scolds so they know a thing or two about it.  (Wired)  (archive site)
  
  Also it's paywalled.  Wired.  Paywalled.  Humourless left-wing scolds who are...  Never mind.

  What Brown experienced is familiar to any former Twitter/X user gathering their bearings on the young and decidedly more earnest social network Bluesky: a distinct humor-detection issue.

  Yes.
  
  Why has Bluesky become such a dumpster-fire of anauralia outpatients?

  Bluesky also got a big boost in users from mainstream television: MSNBC ran multiple segments about the social network, including bumps on Morning Joe, The Weekend, All In With Chris Hayes, and The Rachel Maddow Show.  Regular MSNBC viewers who took the plunge might not be as familiar with the tenor and style of online conversation on the smart-ass social web.

  Oh.  Well, yeah, that'll do it.

• AI mandates are driving developers to the drink.  (LeadDev)
  
  Oh, brink.  Potato, potahto.
  
  AI tools for developers are much the same as AI tools for anyone else: The make easy things easy and hard things impossible.  But when senior management sees an easy thing done easily using AI, they start demanding that hard things be done the same way.
  
  
  
• Sam Altman says that AI won't be used to replace programmers (it will) but instead will make them more productive (it won't).  (Windows Central)
  
  It's Bangalore on demand.
  
  
  
• The CEO of Shopify says that nobody can be hired without the department first proving that the task can't be done by AI.  (CNBC)

  "I've seen many of these people approach implausible tasks, ones we wouldn’t even have chosen to tackle before, with reflexive and brilliant usage of AI to get 100X the work done," Lutke wrote.

  WHY AREN'T YOU ALL SELF-SACRIFICING GENIUSES, YOU WORTHLESS SLACKERS?!
  
  
  
• Samsung has a new 32" 2560x1440 colour e-ink display.  (Notebook Check)
  
  It's battery-powered and lasts up to 200 days between charges, which is a lot.
  
  Design for in-store displays.
  
  Price not stated, assume expensive.
  
  
  

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• We got dire wolves before we got Winds of Winter.  (USA Today)
  
  (Joke stolen from approximately eleventy trillion people because I gave up after the first book.)
  
  Massive Dynamic - the company that recently gave the world woolly mice - has successfully reintroduced fluffy white dire wolf* pups, genetically modifying existing grey wolves with ancient samples of dire wolf DNA.
  
  (Shoves New Scientist back into the locker.)
  
  * Genome may settle in shipping.

• The S in MCP stands for "security".  (Elena Cross)
  
  MCP, which stands for something, is a software bus for connecting multiple LLMs together.
  
  Every single component of it is insecure in multiple different ways.
  
  
  
• NIH scientists say they have a cancer breakthrough but it is being delayed by layoffs.  They are lying.  (MSN)
  
  They have one study that showed some improvement in 25% of patients using personalised immunotherapy on colorectal cancer.
  
  
  
• The Bigme B7 is a 7" colour e-ink tablet with a pretty decent 300 dpi resolution.  (Liliputing)
  
  That's 1264x1680 in this case, which is fine.  But only applies in black-and-white; when you use colour the resolution is cut in half, which kind of sucks.
  
  Pre-order price is $229.
  
  
  
• The "abruptly former" Microsoft employee who went insane and accused Clippy of genocide is now in fact former.  (The Verge)
  
  Clippy is innocent.
  
  
  

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• Turning your spacecraft off and on again and hoping for the best: The real story of Orion.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Turns out more things failed on that test flight last year than they let on.
  
  At one point they were uncertain whether they could dock with the ISS or return to Earth.  Not which one was safer, but whether either one was possible.

• Could fusion-powered spaceships cut the trip to Mars by half?  Maybe.  (CNN)
  
  We don't have practical fusion power on Earth because it requires a hard vacuum and it leaks.
  
  But a fusion-powered spaceship is traveling through hard vacuum and the engine is supposed to leak.  That's how it would generate thrust.
  
  So all you need to solve is all the other problems.
  
  
  
• On a slightly more stable topic Gizmodo spoke to the Voyager project's mission scientist, who has been on the job for 48 years.  (Gizmodo)

  I started working on Voyager in 1977, it was my first job out of college, and I had a choice between the Viking extended mission or the Voyager mission.  I, of course, hadn’t heard of Voyager.  So I said, where’s Voyager going?  And they said, well, Jupiter and Saturn and onto Uranus and Neptune with Voyager 2 if all goes well.  And I thought, oh my goodness - I remember in third grade, I got a little telescope I used to use to look at the Moon and look at Jupiter and Saturn, and look for little moons around Jupiter and see if I could spot the rings around Saturn.  So the thought of a chance to go visit these worlds that were really only tiny dots in my little telescope, I said, "sign me up."

  It's cool and worth reading.
  
  
  
• The insanity of being a software engineer.  (0x1.pt)
  
  It's like being a bricklayer.  Except the bricks are constantly changing, and you're expected to be an electrician and a plumber should the need arise, and you're just supposed to know what the plans for the building are, and oh the client asked if you could make the bricks invisible.  By tomorrow.
  
  
  
• The Minecraft movie...  Didn't flop, probably.  (Variety)
  
  Despite a pretty bad initial trailer.  It only cost $150 million and made $300 million globally in its first weekend.  So it's not entirely out of the cubical woods yet, but doing a lot better than some recent Hollywood efforts we won't mention.
  
  
  
• The laptop version of Nvidia's RTX 5090 is only slightly faster than the desktop 5070.  (Notebook Check)
  
  I mean, the desktop 5090 draws 575W and is infamous for melting its power connector, so there's no chance of fitting it into a laptop, but still.
  
  
  

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• What's truly inside that bright red flame retardant used on bright red flames from the fires caused by California's definitely not bright but certainly Red government?  No-one would say so we drank some to find out.  (LAist)
  
  If you scroll way down in the article you'll find a table with the tiny legend:

  Measurements in micrograms per liter.

  Most of the metals mentioned are benign in the quantities found.  Zinc and manganese you will find in dietary supplements because you need them to live.
  
  But what does 591 micrograms per liter mean for arsenic, a well-known poison?
  
  Well, the LD50 for arsenic in humans is somewhere between 1 and 3 mg per kg of bodyweight for adults.  (It's better known for rats because nobody complains if you try it out on them.)
  
  Which means that if you drink twice your bodyweight in flame retardant, you'd likely die.  So don't do that.
  
  To be fair, LAist interviewed scientists who told them exactly that, and they put it in the article:

  That said, multiple health experts told LAist that the risk to members of the public exposed to the retardant when doing activities like hiking, is likely low, given the concentration of contaminants present in our samples.

  "It should not be a reason for panic, but maybe it's a reason for caution," said Dr. Ana Navas-Acien, professor and chair of Environmental Health Sciences at the Mailman School of Public Health at Columbia University, who reviewed the results.

  Also, the stuff hangs around afterwards, and residents and cleanup workers should be careful with it.  You can suffer ill effects from doses far short of lethal.
  
  Fortunately, the stuff is, as we noted, bright red.
  
  

• Reminder: Daylight savings has ended here in Oz, so from tomorrow I'll be posting at 4:30 AM, since otherwise I have 15 minutes tops from the end of my work day to the post needing to go up.

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• In a pre-emptive response to the latest reciprocal tariffs, China has banned the sale of terbium, erbium, thulium, and thallium to the United States, so-called "rare earth" elements critical to the production of advanced technology such as Nixie tubes and bubble memory.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  There are a few things to note here:
  
  First, of course, it makes little sense to make a totalitarian fascist dystopia your sole supplier of anything.
  
  Second, rare earth elements are not rare.  What they are is messy and annoying to extract and refine, a fact that China used to take over the market.  Australia, Brazil, Canada, and, yes, the United States all have significant mineral reserves available.  And studies suggest that a square mile of seafloor mud is enough to provide the entire world with these metals for a year.
  
  Third, China of course does this kind of thing all the time, and has restricted or outright banned sales of rare earth elements to other countries before.
  
  Fourth, and perhaps most interesting, China now only produces 10% of its own rare earth resources.  The same problem with them being messy and annoying to extract led it to move production to illegal mining camps operating in Burma, bypassing what passes for the government and working with local militias.
  
  
  

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• I bought three more of those Wavlink laptop docks.
  
  They're a very minimal laptop dock, offering three USB ports, HDMI, and 2.5Gb Ethernet.  I wanted them mostly for the 2.5Gbit internet, though the HDMI port is also handy.  And they cost me about $16 each a couple of months ago, so it's hard to go wrong when many docks at ten times the price still only provide gigabit Ethernet.
  
  So why did I buy three more?  Three reasons: They support Linux.  They work with the USB-C port on my Beelink SER5s, which only have gigabit Ethernet.
  
  And not only have they come down in price 25% even from the previous discount, if I bought three I got another 20% off that.
  
  Which makes them about $10 each.  Which is absurd.
  
  
  
• Building a computer that runs Linux with just three 8-pin chips.  (Dmitry.gr)
  
  An Arm Cortex M0+, 8MB of serial RAM, and a USB-to-serial adaptor, which also acts as the voltage regulator for the entire system.  It supports a microSD card for storage; the chips are so small that it looks like a full-size SD card in the photo.
  
  It can boot Debian Linux.  Specifically it boots Debian Linux for MIPS using an emulator, but that's a software issue.
  
  
  
• If that's too fancy for you you could build an 8-bit computer using a handful of 74LS chips.  (Ben Eater)
  
  With 16 whole bytes of RAM!
  
  You can even buy a complete kit for $300.  Admittedly half of that cost is the breadboards, since the whole thing is built without a drop of solder.
  
  
  
• AI could affect 40% of jobs and have a market value equivalent to Germany's GDP, a completely meaningless comparison but in any case they mean $4.8 trillion, by 2033, according to the UN.  (CNBC)
  
  I'm not sure whether the CNBC added that nonsense comparing annual productivity to market valuations or if it was in the original report, so I blame both of them.
  
  Anyway, if you look up the combined market cap of publicly-traded companies pursuing AI software or hardware right now it comes to over $12 trillion so the UN may be a little late to the game.
  
  Yes, that includes giants like Apple, Microsoft, and Google, who are very heavily invested in AI but not dedicated to it, as well as Nvidia, which makes most of its revenue from AI hardware but has a much smaller involvement with AI software or services.  But on the other hand it doesn't include OpenAI, xAI, or Anthropic, because none of those are publicly traded.
  
  
  
• An abruptly former Microsoft employee disrupted the company's 50th anniversary and accused the CTO of being a "war profiteer".  (The Verge)

  "Shame on you," said Microsoft employee Ibtihal Aboussad, speaking directly to Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman.  "You are a war profiteer.  Stop using AI for genocide.  Stop using AI for genocide in our region.  You have blood on your hands.  All of Microsoft has blood on its hands.  How dare you all celebrate when Microsoft is killing children.  Shame on you all."

  If you don't uninstall Windows today you are complicit in genocide.
  
  Apparently.
  
  
  
• Speaking of which, with just six months before support for Windows 10 ends how is Microsoft going with its plan to force everyone onto Windows 11?  Badly.  (The Register)
  
  54% of Windows users are still on Windows 10, compared to a little under 43% running Windows 11.  So the good news is that they've finally moved on from Windows 8, which has been unsupported for seven years.
  
  
  
• The EU plans to protect security and privacy by, you guessed it, completely destroying security and privacy.  (The Register)

  Of course, we want to protect the privacy and cyber security at the same time; and that's why we have said here that now we have to prepare a technical roadmap to watch for that, but it's something that we can't tolerate, that we can't take care of the security because we don't have tools to work in this digital world.

  The only reason that's not doublespeak is that it doesn't mean anything at all.
  
  
  
• AMD could be preparing a 9070 GRE which is exactly what the 9060 should will have been once it was.*  (Hot Hardware)
  
  The rumoured specs would give it 48 GPU cores (compared to 64 on the 9070 XT) and 12GB of VRAM on a 192-bit bus (compared to 16GB on a 256-bit bus).
  
  If it's three quarters of the hardware at three quarters of the price - $450 MSRP - it should sell.  Nvidia's 5070, which also has 12GB of VRAM, starts at $550.
  
  * Future-past perfect singular subjunctive.  Time travel weirds language.
  
  
  
• OpenAI's models memorised copyrighted content, new study suggest, except that it suggests nothing of the sort.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  What the study shows is that the training operation made note of memorable word choices, exactly as a human would.
  
  If it runs across the line Double, rubble, foil-wrapped Hubble it is more likely to remember that specific word sequence because that's not something it's ever likely to encounter.
  
  What the study showed was that if you ask it what the next word after Double, rubble, foil-wrapped is, it gets it right, because it's seen that once before.  And if it couldn't do that, it wouldn't work.
  
  
  
• President Trump has extended the deadline for TikTok's exsanguination by another 75 days.  (CNBC)
  
  Just hold a public auction already.
  
  
  
• I make a living on YouTube playing an anime character.  I'm very shy, and it's helped me get out of my comfort zone.  (Business Insider)  (archive site)
  
  Okay, which third-rate vtuber did Business Insider drag into oh my god Minki!
  
  Mint Fantôme a.k.a Maid Mint a.k.a Minto a.k.a Minki, formerly Pomura Inpuff, formerly Mint Fantôme a.k.a well you know that bit is one of my favourite vtubers.  She is quiet and unassuming and very entertaining, with an infectious energy and a delight in all things but mostly Metal Gear Solid.  And also Hamtaro.
  
  (Via Foxu News.  You can see the chat exclaiming "Minto!" when they realise who the article is about.  She's very much loved by the vtuber community.)

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• Oracle got hacked, twice, recently, according to Oracle staff who won't go on the record and are now in fact in hiding in an undisclosed location.  (Yahoo)
  
  Or something.

  Oracle staff informed some clients this week that the attacker gained access to usernames, passkeys and encrypted passwords, according to the people, who spoke on condition that they not be identified because they’re not authorized to discuss the matter.

  Note that this is the same company that very recently proclaimed:

  There has been no breach of Oracle Cloud. The published credentials are not for the Oracle Cloud. No Oracle Cloud customers experienced a breach or lost any data.

  Basically, the data that was stolen in the breach that Oracle so strenuously denied ever happened is real, but old, and likely useless.

• Speaking of Oracle, in MySQL 8.0.17 and later you can create multi-valued indexes on JSON arrays if - and this is important - all the indexed data is in the form of unsigned integers.
  
  This index is automatically used for comparisons like MEMBER OF and JSON_CONTAINS if...  Something.  I don't know what, because in my case it can't see the index at all and the end result is somehow slow than before I did all that.
  
  
  
• Why everything in the universe turns more complex.  (Quanta)
  
  It doesn't.
  
  
  
• Climate change is on track to destroy capitalism says a leading rent-seeker, warning of dire consequences if other people don't spend enormous amounts of money that will benefit him.  (The Guardian)
  
  Right.
  
  
  
• A climate firm supported by Microsoft and Facebook has file for bankruptcy after its co-founder was arrested on fraud charges.  (MSN)
  
  There's a surprise.
  
  
  
• Researchers at Google's DeepMind have listed all the ways AGI could destroy the world.  (Ars Technica)
  
  It can't, and in any case, nobody is working on it.
  
  (OpenAI's Sam Altman redefined AGI - which stands for artificial general intelligence - as "profitable".  Which OpenAI is definitely not.)
  
  
  
• Intel is reportedly launching a joint venture with TSMC.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Involving chips, probably.
  
  
  
• The EFF has vowed to fight site-blocking bills that are being put forward in Congress.  (TorrentFreak)
  
  By Democrats.  The article doesn't mention that.

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