• High King Mustafa, Lord of Microsoft's AI division, is angered by your insufficient displays of appreciation for his bountiful distribution of AI slop.  (PC Magazine)
  
  "Remember the days," he asked, "when all you had to eat was bread and cheese, and meat, and vegetables, and fruit in season, and pasta, and rice, and beans, and fish, and eggs, and chocolate cake?  Why aren't you properly grateful for the disgusting slop we are forcing down your miserable gullets?  Don't you know how lucky you are to live in an age where slop like this is available?"
  
  He then reportedly threw a chair at an intern.

• Nvidia posted record revenues of $57 billion for the quarter, up 62% from the same period last year.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Nvidia predicts an even better result next quarter.  Since the company already charges $100 per GB for memory on its high-end graphics cards, it is not going to feel the same pinch as regular users as memory prices soar across the board.  It might cut margins from 90% to 85%.
  
  
  
• Intel has reduced the price of its flagship Ultra 9 285K CPU to $429.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Not only is this a dead-end platform set to be replaced next year, but the upcoming - though still dead-end - Ultra 7 270K will provide the same performance for less money.  The 270K is a refresh of the current 265K, which is selling for $300.
  
  
  
• What happens when even college students can't do math anymore?  (The Atlantic)  (archive site)
  
  This has been the case for a very long time, but it suddenly got a lot worse.

Posted by: normal at Saturday, November 22 2025 04:05 AM (LADmw)

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