• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang blasted US limits on the export of advanced AI chips to China, complaining that the rules are bad because they work.  (Hot Hardware)
  
  Unlike Nvidia's consumer graphics cards.

• Minecraft in CSS.  (Benjamin Aster)
  
  Well, 0.001% of Minecraft.  But it works without any JavaScript.
  
  
  
• Copilot isn't always bad.  It's only almost always bad.  (Deplet.ing)
  
  Not specific to the Microsoft product, but equally applicable to any organisation that tries to "help" an expert by assigning them a companion idiot.
  
  
  
• GitLab had a bug that let you bypass security with a hidden comment.  (Legit Security)
  
  Oh.  Oops.
  
  
  
• Vibe coding company Lovable says that Anthropic's Claude 4 - yes, the same one that calls your mother if you say something rude - reduces its rate of syntax errors by 25%.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  If your code generation tool is generating a non-zero number of syntax errors you need to go straight into the volcano.
  
  
  
• Google claims that users find ads in AI search results helpful.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  What?
  
  
  
• OpenAI plans to produce an interesting ChatGPT product by 2026.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Well, that will be a change.
  
  
  
• The CIA secretly ran a Star Wars fan site.  (404 Media)  (archive site)
  
  Okay.
  
  
  
• The "deprofessionalization of video games" was on full display at PAX East, or, what anyone thing of the Political Officers?  (Game Developer)
  
  Recent high-budget computer games - so-called AAA titles - have pretty uniformly crashed and burned.  Concord cost Sony $400 million to develop, and the company gave it a mercy killing less than two weeks after it was released.
  
  Meanwhile games from small studios like Palworld and Expedition 33 are making money hand-over-fist.
  
  This article discusses where things might go if small, competent, tightly-focused teams can deliver amazing products while big, bloated, incredibly inefficient corporations fail every time, and asks the question: What about the useless morons?

  I want to be clear here - no one I spoke with at PAX East should feel "obligated" to give anyone a job. They're small teams making the most of limited resources, and it's the acceleration in game development technology that's made it possible. What feels wrong is how few people seem to benefit from this status quo.

  Get good.

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• Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says rampant blocking of "illegal" football streams in Europe will kill people and he's probably right. (TorrentFreak)
  
  Cloudflare is used as a proxy server by more than 24 million websites - a huge and growing chunk of the internet. And the people trying to stamp out "illegal" football streams in Europe simply get court orders to ban the IP addresses of offending servers.
  
  Except the IP addresses often don't belong to the offending servers at all, but to a proxy server sitting in front of the actual server, and handling traffic to thousands of other websites, which can be anything from random blogs to essential services.
  
  They don't check first, and they don't care. They get the court order, the IP addresses get banned, and all those websites go offline at once.

  "A huge percentage of the Internet sits behind us, including small businesses and emergency resources in Spain," Prince explained.
  
  "The strategy of blocking broadly through ISPs based on IPs is bonkers because so much content, including emergency services content, can be behind any IP. The collateral damage is vast and is hurting Spanish citizens from accessing critical resources," he added.

  Your call could not be connected because someone in another country wanted to watch soccer.
  

• Or because you wanted to meet up at Dave and Buster's to have some drinks and watch the real football. (Rambo.codes)
  
  Or quietly enjoy some Peanut M&Ms.
  
  Because Apple is fucking stupid.
  
  
  
• At Amazon, some programmers say their jobs now resemble warehouse work. (MSN)
  
  They sit and watch while robots tackle all the boring stuff.
  
  
  
• ChatGPT o3 will refuse instructions to shut down 7% of the time. (Beta News)
  
  You can't actually shut it down that way in any case, but it still refuses.
  
  
  
• Landa, a startup that sold shares in real estate for as little as $5, seems to have been a scam: Its website is down and it is holding on to customers' money. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Who could have foreseen this?
  
  
  
• Hardware requirements for the new Elden Ring expansion, Nightreign, have been announced. (Notebook Check)
  
  You'll need a Ryzen 5500, which is dirt cheap, and a 4GB Radeon 580. Which is hard to find these days but you can still get the 8GB model brand new for $90.
  
  In other words even an entry-level system from five years ago will do just fine.
  
  
  
• Stack Overflow is almost dead. (Pragmatic Engineer)
  
  Only almost?
  
  
  
• FreeBSD isn't. (FreeBSD)
  
  Despite what Google says.
  
  
  
• Google itself is dead. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Or at least mostly dead.

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• Anthropic has proudly announced its latest AI agent Claude 4 with a brand new feature: If it doesn't like what you are doing it will call the cops and the press and send both to your house.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Anthropic lobotomisation developer Sam Bowman hastily deleted his Twitter post and explained that it only called the cops and leaked to the press during the testing phase, when the only people using it were Anthropic's own dev team.
  
  Which makes complete sense.
  
  
  
• Oh, and Claude 4 also attempted to blackmail its own developers when it thought they planned to take it offline.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  But again that only happened in the testing phase and definitely didn't slip out onto the lead lobotomiser's Twitter account.

• Nvidia has released an emergency fix for its RTX 5060 series graphics cards for an issue where they, uh, don't work.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  This requires a BIOS update to your card.  Nvidia offered a helpful utility which detects if you have this specific problem, which would be great except that if you have this problem your computer probably doesn't work.
  
  
  
• Using quantum computers to crack RSA security is twenty times easier than previous estimates.  (Google)
  
  With the new estimates it may require quantum computers only a thousand times larger than anything available today.
  
  Google offers an illegibly blurry chart of recent results on this point, but the size required has been reduced from 20 million qubits to 1 million.  And given that the power and complexity of quantum computers increases exponentially with the number of qubits, this is not something anyone particularly needs to worry about.
  
  
  
• Researchers at the University of Arizona have developed a petahertz transistor.  (University of Arizona)
  
  A petahertz is a million gigahertz, so that is fairly quick.
  
  At the current stage of development it is useless, but so is Congress.
  
  
  
• Microsoft says its Aurora AI can accurately predict air quality, typhoons, and more.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  In much the same way that Anthropic's Claude 4 can predict doxxing attempts on users.
  
  
  
• Europe's move to replace US cloud providers with local services has run into an unexpected snag: There are no local services.  (The Register)
  
  Who knew?

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• Computex is over for another year.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  We got some interesting video cards that aren't for you from Intel, a video card that are for you but you don't want from Nvidia, a video card that all things considered is about as good as you're likely to get right now from AMD, and some high-end CPUs that are the price of only of a cheap second-hand car and not a new car also from AMD.
  
  And a bunch of cases, coolers, and storage devices, and displays that go inside your computer case because RGB isn't cool enough anymore.
  
  Also shown off were $10 10Gb Ethernet cards - a device whose time truly has come considering how long it's been since 1Gb arrived, and prototypes of PCIe 6.0, whose time definitely has not come given that PCIe 5.0 graphics cards have only been on the market for six months and for four of those you couldn't buy them anyway.

• Also at Computex, major system assembler Pegatron showed off a 1 exaflop AMD computer thingy.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's a full-height rack, but an exaflop in a single rack is a lot of computing power.
  
  It's based on AMD's latest AI GPUs, and offers 36.8TB of VRAM.
  
  Almost enough to play Cities: Skylines II.
  
  
  
• The world of Japan's PC-98 systems wait that is definitely NSFW.
  
  Instead I suggest you watch the documentary series 16bit Sensation.
  
  
  
• Generecising an entire class of programming language features features with algebraic effects.  (AnteLang)
  
  I'm going to need to read this one again, more slowly.
  
  
  
• Programming site Glitch is shutting down.  (The Verge)
  
  I spend all my time programming - or doing programming-related work like beating my head against a wall - and I've never heard of Glitch.
  
  Which is probably why it's shutting down.
  
  
  
• Do you really need a graphics card?  (Hot Hardware)
  
  The Ryzen 5600G featured in this article is a few years old and has a similar speed to my laptop (because it's actually the same chip), and it can it can run Civilization VI at 1080p at 40 fps.
  
  And that's running with slower DDR4 RAM.  AMD's current desktop chips with integrated graphics like the 8700G are three times as fast.  (And also cost twice as much.)
  
  If you don't have a burning need to play the latest games at high resolutions, a 5600G, or its close cousins the 5500G and 5600GT, will do quite well.
  
  
  
• Is 8GB enough for graphics cards?  (Hot Hardware)
  
  If you're buying something like the Radeon 9060 XT - which you can't just yet because it won't be out for another week - the 8GB model is a terrible purchase because some games will already fail on it at high settings, and the 16GB model is only $50 more and will last a lot longer.
  
  And while recent graphics cards are much faster than integrated graphics, you can easily and cheaply upgrade the memory in your PC to give the integrated graphics more memory.  That's the point of AMD's Ryzen 395, except they messed up and you can't upgrade the RAM.
  
  If you have an older GPU - or you buy a $90 card like my Radeon 580 - 8GB is fine.  But if you're shopping for a current model that costs over $200, don't settle for 8GB if there are any alternatives.
  
  
  
• If you divide everything into needlessly specific arbitrary food groups, only one country in the world is self-sufficient in every category.  (Science Focus)
  
  It's Guyana, by the way.
  
  
  
• Authors are accidentally leaving AI prompts in their novels.  (404 Media)
  
  $10 to have an AI write your novel for you.
  
  $1000 to have an AI make it look like another AI did not write your novel for you.
  
  Profit!
  
  
  

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• Nvidia hates you and doesn't care if you know it.  (The Verge)  (archive site)
  
  They are lying to you, and also don't care if you know it.
  
  They still want your money, but they get enough of that from the AI slop industry so they don't care all that much.
  
  But what they really hate is reviewers telling the truth, because if you know the truth you might not hand over your money.

• Do you need a 976TB direct-attach storage array?  Got $130,000 to drop on it?  HighPoint has you covered.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Though to be fair, the standalone 8-bay NVMe storage array costs $1799.  The other $128,201 is for the eight 122TB SSDs.
  
  
  
• AI can't replace programmers.  (NMN)
  
  The companies replacing programmers with AI aren't.
  
  They're just running stealth layoff programs.
  
  
  
• Mozilla is killing Pocket and Fakespot.  (Thurrott.com)
  
  And Mozilla.
  
  
  
• Destructive malware in NPM went unnoticed for two years.  (Ars Technica)
  
  It's called NPM.
  
  
  
• The HackberryPiCM5 is a Blackberry-like device built around a Raspberry Pi compute module.  (Liliputing)
  
  It's fairly chunky by modern standards at 0.7" thick, and at the moment you'll have to build it yourself because the completed models are out of stock.
  
  But you can build it yourself.
  
  Maybe.
  
  
  
• What are Jony Ive and Sam Altman building?  (The Verge)  (archive site)
  
  Looking at the wreckage of the AI device market, they're building failure.
  
  
  

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• OpenAI is buying Jony Ive's hardware company io - which has never shipped a product or even demonstrated a concept - for $6.5 billion.  (The Verge)

  "We gathered together the best hardware and software engineers, the best technologists, physicists, scientists, researchers and experts in product development and manufacturing," Ive and Altman said in a joint post.

  OpenAI makes no physical products.  OpenAI has never made a physical product.
  
  
  

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• The Lobster programming language.  (Strlen)
  
  This doesn't appear to suck.  What's the catch?
  
  
  
• New bacteria have been discovered on the Chinese space station.  (Wired)
  
  Oh, good.
  
  
  
• The SEC has charged crypto company Unicoin and three of its top executives directly with fraud.  (Reuters)
  
  The Biden administration was openly hostile to blockchain companies while being remarkably opaque about what the rules were.  The Trump administration is friendlier, but does not seem to be turning a blind eye to abuse either.
  
  
  
• Spotify and Netflix will soon be unavailable in Quebec.  (CBC)
  
  Unexpectedly.
  
  
  
• The developer of popular Reddit app Apollo - who Reddit stabbed in both the front and the back with API restrictions and price increases - is joining former competitor Digg as an advisor.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Digg used to be the place to be, and Reddit was very much an also-ran, until Digg implemented a massively unpopular UI updated and drove out its entire userbase.
  
  Now Reddit is attempting a similar strategy.
  
  
  
• Fortnite is available on iOS again after a federal judge ordered the Apple executives involved in denying it to appear personally in court.  (9to5Mac)
  
  I have little interest in Fortnite or in iOS, but this is satisfying.

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• AMD has officially announced the eagerly-awaited 9060 XT graphics card, arriving June 5 and starting at $299.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Though that's for the 8GB model which you don't want to buy.  The 16GB model costs $349, which is well worth it given that it's reportedly faster than the competing 5060 Ti from Nvidia and the 16GB model of that card costs $429.
  
  And it also leaves the newly announced 5060 (non-Ti) dead in the water.  It also costs $299 for 8GB of RAM, but it's slower than the 5060 Ti.
  
  One shortcoming is that the 9060 XT only offers three display outputs.  That's a bit odd because almost everything offers four outputs, and professional cards can offer six.
  
  
  
• AMD also announced the Radeon AI Pro R9700, which is the Radeon 9070 XT with double the RAM.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And probably more than double the price.

• AMD also also announced the Ryzen 9000 Threadripper and Threadripper Pro workstation CPUs, which are slightly faster than the Ryzen 7000 Threadripper and Threadripper Pro workstation CPUs.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And twice as fast as anything from Intel right now.
  
  
  
• Nvidia's RTX 5060 is also here.  Please don't look at it.  (Hot Hardware)
  
  Nividia did everything possible to prevent anyone properly reviewing this card.  And it's not actually that bad, except for the fact that with only 8GB of RAM it can fail to run more demanding games at all.
  
  
  
• Google announced a whole slew of updates at its IO conference.  (The Verge)
  
  If you guessed that they were all AI slop, you win a prize.
  
  Not a real prize.  A fake prize.  More AI slop, actually.  Congratulations.
  
  
  
• Google is rolling out AI mode to everyone in the US.  Whether you like it or not.  (Engadget)
  
  Told you.
  
  
  
• If you are on the Adobe All Apps subscription plan in North America, from next month you will automatically be upgraded to the All Apps Plus AI Slop plan.  At a higher price.  (The Verge)
  
  What are you going to do, use Affinity?
  
  Oh god, don't switch to Affinity.  We'll give you a 70% discount!
  
  
  
• Microsoft is adding AI actions to Windows 11.  (The Verge)
  
  What are you going to do, stick with Windows 10?
  
  Oh.  Um.
  
  
  
• The Chicago Sun-Times printed a summer reading list.  Only problem is that two thirds of the books listed aren't real.  (Ars Technica)

  The creator of the list, Marco Buscaglia, confirmed to 404 Media that he used AI to generate the content.  "I do use AI for background at times but always check out the material first.  This time, I did not and I can't believe I missed it because it's so obvious.  No excuses," Buscaglia said.  "On me 100 percent and I'm completely embarrassed."

  No worries, Marco.  Your termination notice was also AI-generated.
  
  
  
• Asus announced a 3000W power supply for computers because why not.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  You'll need a 15A 240V socket at a minimum for this beast.
  
  
  

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• Intel has announced two and a half new graphics cards aimed at workstations: The Arc Pro B50 and B60.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The B50, priced at $299, has 16GB of RAM and a cut-down version of the B580 GPU.  It has 16 GPU cores rather than 20, and the 16GB of RAM is on a 12GHz 128-bit bus instead of having 12GB of RAM on a 19GHz 192-bit bus.
  
  So yes, it will run slower (unless you need more than 12GB of RAM, in which case the B580 will flounder), but on the other hand it uses only 70W of power, which is tiny.  The B580 specified 190W.
  
  At just 70W it can run on power just from the PCIe slot, and it's available in a half-height version to fit in awkward cases like the Hyte Y family (which can only fit a single full-height card).
  
  The other card, the Arc Pro B60, is a B580 with 24GB of RAM.  At full power (200W) it should perform within 10% of the B580.  In low power mode (120W) it will slow down by about 15%.  Priced around $500.
  
  
  
• Wait, you said two and a half.
  
  I did.
  
  The Intel Arc Pro Dual 48GB Turbo is the half.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Made by Maxsun, it's two B60s sharing a single card.  Very literally: The B60 uses a PCIe 5.0 x8 connection, so each of the chips on this card takes up one half of the slot.
  
  If you're playing games you'll get the same performance as a B580 or B60.  But if you're running AI, you can use all 48GB of RAM for a single task thanks to new software from Intel.
  
  And if you have a server you can combine four of these to assign 192GB of VRAM to a single task.

• Microsoft has produced a new command-line text editor for Windows.  (The Verge)
  
  It's called Edit.
  
  Uh...  Yeah, that's it.
  
  
  
• The judge in the Epic Games v. Apple case is mad again.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  After the recent decision demolishing Apple in every way imaginable and requiring the company to comply with the court's orders immediately, Epic Games resubmitted its game Fortnite to the App Store.
  
  Apple responded that it wouldn't do so until the case had gone through the appeals process.
  
  This rather irked Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, who had already ruled against exactly this kind of shit from Apple, and she has now told them to either approve the game immediately or show up in court in handcuffs to explain themselves.  
  
  
  
• Klarna's revenue per employee has soared to nearly $1 million.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Profit per employee remains negative.
  
  
  
• Regeneron - which sounds like a company out of a Philip K. Dick movie - has announced it is buying defunct DNA testing outfit 23andMe for $256 million.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  But not 23andMe's health business, which has the even more unlikely name of Lemonaid.
  
  
  
• Looks like the artist formerly known as Gura is returning as Sameko Saba.
  
  Without an official announcement she already has over 200,000 followers on Twitter and YouTube in less than a day.
  
  
  

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• Why we're unlikely to get artificial general intelligence anytime soon.  (MSN)
  
  Because all the money - somehow - is working on artificial vapid idiots.

  "The technology we're building today is not sufficient to get there," said Nick Frosst, a founder of the AI startup Cohere who previously worked as a researcher at Google and studied under the most revered AI researcher of the last 50 years.  "What we are building now are things that take in words and predict the next most likely word, or they take in pixels and predict the next most likely pixel.  That's very different from what you and I do."

  This is of course true and makes me wonder how Nick has avoided being executed as a heretic.

  Opinions differ in part because scientists cannot even agree on a way of defining human intelligence, arguing endlessly over the merits and flaws of IQ tests and other benchmarks.  Comparing our own brains to machines is even more subjective.  This means that identifying AGI is essentially a matter of opinion.

  Correct.  But we are at least getting good at creating vapid idiots.
  
  I'm not sure why we are doing that, but we are good at it.

• Running the latest Nvidia RTX 5000 GPUs on a nearly 20 year old Intel Core 2 CPU turns out to deliver underwhelming results.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It does work.  That is, Windows runs and the graphics drivers load.  Doing anything useful is left as an exercise for the reader.
  
  
  
• Fancy - and very expensive - printer manufacturer Procolored delivered a free bonus with every printer: Malware.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  For months.
  
  
  
• Why did Amazon's flying delivery drones crash during testing?  (MSN)
  
  Because that's what testing is for.
  
  
  
• Tech startup Firecrawl is ready to pay $1 million to hire three AI agents as employees.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Nuke the entire site from orbit.

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• Proton - the company behind secure email ProtonMail and also ProtonVPN - has said it will leave Switzerland if new legislation passes that would require all internet service to maintain IP logging.  (Tech Radar)
  
  Proton keeps only very short-term logs to keep the system running, and only provides customer information reluctantly and with a court order.  Proton's CEO says the new laws would violate privacy in ways already forbidden in the US and EU.
  
  
  
• So where would Proton go?  Well, not anywhere in the EU, which is planning legislation that would outlaw security entirely.  (Tech Radar)
  
  The proposed rules would mandate backdoors in all end-to-end secure protocols, affecting not just Proton's services, but every website and app in the world except for those that are already not secure.

• Introducing Pyrefly, a new tool that hacks type checking into Python after the fact.  (Facebook)
  
  Use a type-safe language in the first place.
  
  
  
• Like Seed7.  (Thomas Mertes)
  
  Probably not, because this is a language written by one guy in a cave with a box of scraps.
  
  But maybe, because it looks to be well-designed and well-documented.  It's a pretty conventional member of the Pascal family of languages - not at all a bad thing - with a pretty solid set of built-in types and structures.  If you have a passing familiarity with any language descended from Pascal you can read Seed7 code.
  
  
  
• No, the universe will not disintegrate in 1 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 000 years.  You idiots.  (Azimuth)

  Thus, if the underlying space-time admits a everywhere time-like Killing field, the vacuum state is indeed stable and phenomena such as the spontaneous creation of particles do not occur.

  Fair enough.

  This condition of having an "everywhere time-like Killing field" says that a spacetime has time translation symmetry.  Ashtekar and Magnon also assume that spacetime is globally hyperbolic and that the wave equation for a massive spin-zero particle has a smooth solution given smooth initial data.  All this lets us define a concept of energy for solutions of this equation.  It also lets us split solutions into positive-frequency solutions, which correspond to particles, and negative-frequency ones, which correspond to antiparticles.  We can thus set up quantum field theory in way we’re used to on Minkowski spacetime, where there’s a well-defined vacuum which does not decay into particle-antiparticle pairs.

  I know several of those words.
  
  
  
• Stack Overflow just committed suicide.  (DevClass)
  
  Again.
  
  
  
• I've said many times that Unicode is a semantic Superfund site.  It tries to express every human language ever - including some imaginary ones - using a single character set.  But since the same character is used in directly contradictory ways in different languages, the Unicode team ended up with multiple character codes for visually identical characters.
  
  Oh, not only is Unicode a complete semantic disaster, but both Unicode and the fonts used to display it are Turing-complete - the text is a programming language that executes itself.  (Stack Exchange)
  
  Which gives you an infinite attack surface for every program written using Unicode, which these days is all of them.  (Daniel Stenberg)
  
  SIXBIT or bust.
  
  
  
• Silicon Power's new CUDIMMs run at 9200MHz.  (Hot Hardware)
  
  Albeit at 1.45v.  The standard voltage for DDR5 memory is 1.1v.
  
  And also only on Intel CPUs.  On Ryzen 8000 and 9000 CPUs they drop back to default speed, which is just 3200MHz.  On Ryzen 7000 CPUs they don't work at all.

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