• Meta faces a $1.4 trillion fine in a case brought by multiple US stats over (checks notes) creating a product that people wanted to use. (Engadget)
  
  May be time to pull some strings and drop space rocks on statehouses.
  
  
  
• Speaking of space rocks, power operator PJM has proposed a plan to kick its largest customers off the grid whenever it runs out of electricity. (Reuters)
  
  That will make them popular.

• OpenAI has announced it is building an 8GW AI datacenter in Ohio, with a $105 billion guarantee from Nvidia. (Axios)
  
  Uh, guys, you might want to look at a map first.
  
  
  
• Mini-PCs are cheap and convenient... Were cheap and are still convenient, with configurations to suit almost any need unless you want to play (insert resource-intensive recent computer game here). Just wipe the drive and reinstall Windows first. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Today's contestant in the malware race: Geekom.
  
  
  
• Can't afford an AI graphics card? Nobody else can either, so why not upgrade your 2080 Ti to 22GB? (Tom's Hardware)
  
  As the article notes you can push it all the way to 44GB, though that becomes expensive. More expensive.
  
  
  
• GitHub went. (The Register)
  
  I am responsible for the corporate GitLab server, which means that any such problems are my responsibility to fix, but also means that I can fix them.
  
  
  
• Cursor, the AI coding company just acquired by SpaceX, announced its own Git-compatible code hosting platform on the same day that GitHub fell over. (Cursor)
  
  Totally not space rocks.

Posted by: J Greely at Tuesday, August 18 2026 08:25 PM (oJgNG)

Posted by: Rick C at Tuesday, August 18 2026 11:02 PM (0xQ95)

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