• GitHub Copilot users are aghast at the exponentially higher costs they are facing starting tomorrow with the introduction of usage-based billing.  (Tech Crunch)

  "What a joke," one Redditor recently wrote, claiming that, while they currently only pay around $29 per month, the new rate will balloon their costs to nearly $750 a month.

  He posted this with a screenshot of his estimated bill...  From a visibly unactivated version of Windows.

  Another user posted "WOW, didn’t expect new pricing model to be this ridiculous," sharing a screenshot that appeared to show that their costs had shot up from around $50 to some $3,000.

  Both of them posted to Reddit, and both got dunked on for being obviously incompetent vibe-coders.
  
  I use Claude Code.  My company pays for the 5X plan, and I rarely hit the 1X mark.  The people who do hit the limit are either experimenting - fair enough - or trying to tell the AI to generate an entire application with a single prompt, which just doesn't work.
  
  
  

Tech News

• What to expect from Nvidia at Computex.  (WCCFTech)
  
  A new Arm-based laptop chip.  Which would be great if anybody could afford a new laptop.
  
  
  
• What to expect from AMD at Computex.  (WCCFTech)
  
  A new x86-based laptop chip, specifically Medusa Halo, the successor to the Ryzen AI Max 395+.  Up to 24 CPU cores and a bigger GPU upgraded from RDNA 3.5 to RDNA 5.  Which would be great if anybody could afford a new laptop.
  
  
  
• What to expect from Intel at Computex.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Updated handheld gaming things, using the new Panther Lake chips with the B390 graphics core, which is actually faster than AMD's mainstream integrated graphics.  Which would be great if anybody could afford a new handheld gaming thing.
  
  
  
• MSI's Claw 8 EX AI, for example.  (Liliputing)
  
  It has a 1920x1200 8" 120Hz display, up to 32GB of RAM, and an M.2 2280 slot for storage, along with Intel's new Arc G3 which is a low-power edition of the Panther Lake laptop chip with Arc B390 graphics.
  
  Don't expect it to be cheap though.
  
  
  
• You can now print 3D objects in colour on your colour 3D printer.  (Prusa)
  
  Well, that's novel.
  
  What they're doing here is taking an existing multi-colour 3D printer (ideally you want a 5-colour model) and then feeding it CMYKW filament spools and printing your model in halftone using a 0.1mm screen.
  
  That's not very high resolution but it helps that it's 3D so you get some colour from the obscured layers as well as from adjacent dots.
  
  Really have to wonder what it does to performance though.  3D printers are slow enough as it is.
  
  You can use it with existing filament, not just the new CMYKW spools designed specifically for the purpose, but you'll need to recalibrate the colour model.
  
  
  

Posted by: Mauser at Sunday, May 31 2026 09:57 PM (XWgGM)

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