• Anthropic has sued the Pentagon for listing it as a supply chain risk, asserting, as far as I can tell, that treason is a constitutionally-protected right.  (Fortune)
  
  And that being labeled as a traitor is a violation of that right.
  
  
  
• Switzerland meanwhile has enshrined the right to use cash to their constitution.  (Politico)
  
  Some small shred of sanity in an increasingly insane world.

• Intel's Bartlett Lake CPUs - running on the widely available Socket 1700 platform and offering up to 12 Performance cores - are now official.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  You can't get one through normal retail channels, but they'll probably show up in abnormal channels.
  
  
  
• Lawful but awful: What AI does to so-called "copyleft" software licenses like GPL.  (Hong Minhee)
  
  It kills them, that's what.
  
  
  
• MariaDB will not be moving its Galera cluster tool from its open source range to its proprietary software.  (The Register)
  
  Maybe.  Probably.  Could it even do that with Galera licensed under the GPL?
  
  See above.
  
  
  
• Amazon is whining about SpaceX.  (The Register)
  
  Again.
  
  
  
• Anthropic has just announced an AI code review tool.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Is it AI powered or is it designed for reviewing AI-generated slop?
  
  Both.
  
  
  
• Sony's PlayStation 6 won't be delayed due to high memory prices.  (WCCFTech)
  
  It will just cost more due to high memory prices.

Posted by: stargazera5 at Wednesday, March 11 2026 11:30 AM (cfPew)

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