• Replit, the company whose AI "Agent" deleted a user's production database, has promised that its AI "Agent" will no longer delete users' production databases in the future.  (The Register)
  
  Basically the system currently uses the same database for test and production, with no built-in rollback support.
  
  When using an entirely experimental technology, this is kind of a bad idea.

• Sixunited, the company that is making that AMD Strix Halo laptop I mentioned recently, is also planning a Strix Halo mini-ITX motherboard.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Strix Halo has a 256-bit memory bus using soldered LPDDR5 memory to drive its built-in RTX 4070-level graphics, so this board will come with up to 128GB of RAM, which you can't upgrade.
  
  And...  A VGA port?  That seems to be a configuration option.
  
  
  
• Everyone loves a four-day work week.  (The Register)
  
  As long as they still get paid for five days.
  
  This study did not measure productivity at all; it is 100% lopsided.
  
  
  
• The latest version of the Brave browser automatically blocks Microsoft Recall from screenshotting its tabs.  (Brave)
  
  Recall by design remembers everything you have ever looked at, including all the private data you have ever had visible in your web browser.
  
  This is obviously insane, but in the initial version Microsoft went one step further and put all the collected data in a single, completely unprotected database on your disk drive.
  
  

Vshojo is no more.

As far as I can tell, all the talents have left, including the brand new ones who were presumably still under contract.

News coming out now is more about indie talents like Mint Fantome and Phoebe Chan (her actual name) who were working to create a new unit within VShojo and have been left high and dry.

Also gone is merchandise that has been paid for but will likely never ship.

Also also gone are payments to artists, video editors, and music producers who worked with the talents, even though VShojo would presumably have taken the money out of the talents' accounts, which seem to be also gone.

Slightly less gone is the half a million dollars raised for charity by vtuber Ironmouse that VShojo allegedly lost.

And the only reason that isn't gone is that the fans rallied and have raised another $800k since yesterday.

Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, July 24 2025 03:54 AM (E3SRd)

Posted by: Mauser at Thursday, July 24 2025 01:42 PM (QE7eq)

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