Wednesday, May 27
Daily News Stuff 27 May 2026
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- California is considering an exemption from its sweeping age verification requirements for open-source operating systems such as Linux. (Tom's Hardware)
Which is nice because the law is stupid, totalitarian, and completely unenforceable anyway.
Interesting point: Android, ChromeOS, MacOS, and iOS are all based on open-source code. The only popular operating system that isn't is Windows.
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- Now it's TSMC's turn to face angry workers. (Tom's Hardware)
A bit of an own goal this time around. TSMC staff have traditionally been paid a bonus based on corporate profits, but the company has been planning to cut the percentage paid to staff in order to fund capital expansion. I don't think anyone is hurting - like many other chipmakers the company is making record profits, so we're talking a reduced share of a much larger pie - but Taiwanese workers will be looking at the huge bonuses won by their counterparts in South Korea. And judging.
- The CTO of Uber pointed out the obvious: There is no link between AI token spend and shipping working software. (Tom's Hardware)
Except maybe an inverse one.
- Every silver lining has a cloud: Search engine DuckDuckGo reports install rates are up 30% from users fleeing Google. (Tech Crunch)
Quack.
- Nvidia's Vera server CPU has been benchmarked and it's not Earth-shaking but it's perfectly decent. (Phoronix)
I'm a bit confused about the high bandwidth numbers, because the tests seem to exceed the theoretical bandwidth of the system, but I'm not going to worry too much since nobody's going to be able to buy one anyway.
- That weird new Ferrari Luce electric vehicle? Designed with the involvement of the company of former Apple design head Jony Ive. (The Verge) (archive site)
You're driving it wrong.
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There are Pixies, tech women, all these tech writers.
And irony.
And jerks.
And then anime.
I'm not really sure which is more important any more.
I kinda just want to crawl under the covers and hide.
And irony.
And jerks.
And then anime.
I'm not really sure which is more important any more.
I kinda just want to crawl under the covers and hide.
Posted by: furball321 at Wednesday, May 27 2026 08:44 PM (As8gg)
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Jony Ive: That seems unlikely, given his Stephen-King-like obsession with making things thinner. Regardless, a former Ferrari exec said "well, at least they've come up with something the Chinese won't copy." Another wag noted you can get more or less the same thing for 1/6 the price by buying a Cybertruck.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, May 27 2026 11:24 PM (4J5S1)
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Wow, that Verge writer feels impressively idiotic to me. It's like like he never had a copybook page that was force equal mass times acceleration, and never had to apply the formula. re: cybertruck, then the sharp lines don't get you a verge writer sperging about the aerodynamicist skills of someone who is not actually an aerodynamicist as far as I know.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, May 27 2026 11:44 PM (s6adZ)
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Delaying the Apple Car until now makes a ton of sense. Or maybe one and a half tons.
If they had come out with something earlier, it might have been politically necessary to insist that this was the future of the company.
So hire someone not actually ready to deal with the mechanical complexity of a real automobile, and let them take forever. Then when the design for manufacturing sucks it is just a loss leader that you can write off.
If they had come out with something earlier, it might have been politically necessary to insist that this was the future of the company.
So hire someone not actually ready to deal with the mechanical complexity of a real automobile, and let them take forever. Then when the design for manufacturing sucks it is just a loss leader that you can write off.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, May 27 2026 11:51 PM (s6adZ)
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Re. the Ferrari Luce: Apparently the charging port is on the bottom. You have to flip it over to charge it.
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