Thursday, June 04
Daily News Stuff 4 June 2026
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- Apple's MacBook Neo is selling so well the company has doubled production. (MacRumors)
At that rate they'll run out of bad chips and have to start using good ones, but economies of scale may make up for it.
Also the company is reportedly working on a 12GB model for next year. If they can hit the same price that will offer a worthwhile bump in capabilities; 8GB is a bit restrictive even on a Mac.
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- Another Arm-based computer with 8GB of RAM is Radxa's new Dragon Q8B. (Liliputing)
It's a single-board computer for embedded projects like the Raspberry Pi. With an MSRP of $209 for the 8GB model, it's 60% more expensive, but it's also 60% faster for single-threaded tasks, and 200% faster for multi-threaded workloads. You can get models up to 32GB, but it becomes distinctly uncheap at that point.
- A new DOS attack can cause most fully-patched web servers to run out of memory in under a minute. (Bleeping Computer)
Well, that's just great.
- Are AI models conscious? (The Atlantic) (archive site)
No.
Why?
Because I said so.
Well, that settles it then.
- Google has released a version of its Gemma LLM that you can run locally on any PC. (Twitter)
If you have a 16GB graphics card. 5070 owners can wail and gnash their teeth I guess.
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If I were tasked with trying to figure out if an AI were actually conscious and/or sentient the first thing I would do is re-read The Moon is a Harsh Mistress (as if one needs an excuse!)
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, June 05 2026 12:14 AM (SgxXj)
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The amount of the AI personhood conversation that is 'can they convert to Christianity' is not proportionate to the number of Christians, so I infer that the folks who think they have made people could be fringe lunatics. Anyway, I made something in a spreadsheet, and obviously each call of the RNG is its own person, so obviously a clear majority of Americans wants to throw the Democrats from rotary aircraft. Democracy has spoken, and anyone who says otherwise must be racist.
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