Thursday, August 20
Daily News Stuff 20 August 2026
Triple-Baked Balaclava Edition
Triple-Baked Balaclava Edition
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- Microsoft GitHub says the 8-hour outage of its systems was caused by a combination of Microsoft Azure and Microsoft VS Code. (The Register)
Have you tried turning it off and just leaving it like that?
Tech News
- AI was supposed to win people over by now. It hasn't. (Tech Crunch)
I'm finding it much improved over even a year ago. If it weren't for that small detail of collapsing the entire tech economy into concentric black holes I'd feel a lot more generously inclined.
- China landed a rocket. (WCCFTech)
Yes, SpaceX has been doing that a couple of times a week for years, and the Space Shuttle kinda sorta did it back in the 80s, but still, good job, China.
- Anthropic and Suno have been hit by yet another billion-dollar copyright lawsuit, this time by music company Round Hill. (Hollywood Reporter)
Git 'em.
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yeah. I really am not impressed with the 'we have to do it for national prestige' and national scale stuff. I'm a nationalist, but machine changes have to make sense individually. If bad marketing means I don't use soemthing, or if I don't have the ability to use the new machine efficiently, as well or better than the old machine, it does not matter what valuation we officially assign the new machine.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Friday, August 21 2026 12:49 AM (6eVrQ)
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It's inspiring to see that AI coding assistants have become so sophisticated that they can emulate Overly Attached Girlfriend, to the point of taking down the server with their obsessive need to connect.
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