Monday, August 24
Daily News Stuff 24 August 2026
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- The that guy who thought it would be a fine jape to hand Border Patrol a "duress password" making his phone wipe itself rather than unlocking is facing felony charges. (Law Commentary)
His lawyers say that the CBP were unconstitutionally using their clients past criminality as a pretext to search for his present criminality. Uh, not admitting that either of those occurred.
Tech News
- Nvidia has announced pricing on its new GB300 home AI system. (Tom's Hardware)
It's not something that you put in your home. It's something you buy instead.
- Maxell is making cassette tapes again. (Tom's Hardware)
Even I don't miss those.
- 170,000 non-profits lost all their data. Is Microsoft to blame? (Slate)
Apparently, yes. Good work, guys.
- Surveillance company Flock is talking compromise. (Tech Crunch)
It think there's a happy medium to be found between hitting them with a relativistic neutron star and dropping them into a black hole and then dropping that black hole into another black hole.
- How do AMD's AM4 X3D CPUs work on older motherboards? (WCCFTech)
Just fine, thanks for asking.
- d-Matrix has reinvented IBM's eDRAM. (WCCFTech)
Basically using DRAM rather than SRAM as the basis for last level cache, giving similar performance at four times the memory density or one quarter the cost if you're looking at it from that direction.
- Micron says that things are only going to get worse on the memory front. (WCCFTech)
Though they are talking a different kind of worse - a widening gap between processor speed and memory bandwidth.
Don't worry, everything is getting more expensive as well.
- Can parents trust OpenAI? (CTV News)
No.
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So, your story involves time travel, and one of the characters bears a striking resemblance to Clara Oswald...
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Posted by: J Greely at Monday, August 24 2026 10:58 PM (oJgNG)
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Will someone make a special edition tape eater to go along with the special edition cassette tape?
Posted by: Frank at Monday, August 24 2026 11:45 PM (HHHgi)
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Duress Password guy sound like he's gonna have a tough time with his case. If he's smart enough to know about Graphene OS he should've just bought a burner phone and not had anything on it he wouldn't want the Border Patrol to see.
As the article notes, the Constitution isn't fully in effect when you come back into the country.
As the article notes, the Constitution isn't fully in effect when you come back into the country.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, August 25 2026 01:43 AM (aDa+d)
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So Microsoft warned this guy a year ago his software was going away and he decided to just put it off until the last moment?
Not too smart on his part.
Not too smart on his part.
Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, August 25 2026 01:47 AM (aDa+d)
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I had her album, back in the day. Great song. Every now and then, I crave hearing it again and look up that video. Thanks for short-circuiting my craving.
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