Friday, August 01
Daily News Stuff 1 August 2025
Rainy Weekend Edition
Disclaimer: I rolled a 1.
Rainy Weekend Edition
Top Story
- Epic just won its lawsuit against Google. Again. (The Verge)
Google plans to appeal - again - to either an en banc sitting of the 9th Circuit or the Supreme Court.
But Google no longer has a stay on the lower court's ruling, and Epic plans to put its own app store inside the Google Play store as soon as tomorrow.
Tech News
- Vibe code is legacy code. (Val.Town)
And everyone hates legacy code.
- Seagate has started selling 28TB HAMR external drives. (Serve the Home)
The bare drive costs around $570.
The external drive in a USB case with a power adaptor costs $330.
Why? Because.
Does it work the same? Yes.
- Intel has rolled out the Core 5 120 which looks just like the Core i5 12400 including the support for DDR4 memory. (Tom's Hardware)
Looks just like it because that's what it is.
- How did they create the Universal Pictures animated logo in 1936. (Stack Exchange)
Today it looks like a simple bit of 3D CGI, but that was a little less common 90 years ago.
So how did they do it?
They built it. It really existed.
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Regardless of the merits of Epic's position, it's nice to see the boot being put to Google.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, August 01 2025 11:08 PM (1zWbY)
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I gotta say, the more I hear "agentic" and "agentically" the more I hate those words.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, August 01 2025 11:16 PM (1zWbY)
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I was under the impression that the adjective form of "agent" is "agent".
Posted by: normal at Saturday, August 02 2025 04:04 AM (XUcVo)
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