Thursday, August 06
Daily News Stuff 6 August 2026
Holo Live Edition
Top Story
- Cloudflare has announced its new open-source operating system, Cloudflare OS. (Phoronix)
It is not an operating system.
It's an application.
Written in JavaScript.
That depends on Cloudflare services to function.
So... Thanks, I guess?
Tech News
- China's CXMT aims to have 30% of global DRAM market share by 2030. (Tom's Hardware)
I have plenty of DDR5 (and DDR4) memory and DDR6 isn't expected to arrive meaningfully on the desktop until... Well, AMD's Zen 7 architecture has been confirmed to support DDR5 and that will arrive at the start of 2029, so a couple of years after that.
Go for it, guys.
- Microsoft absolutely never said that they recommended 32GB of RAM for gaming on Windows even though it has been transparently obvious that is what you have needed for several years. (Tom's Hardware)
My old laptop was better in every way than this one except that it had 16GB of soldered RAM. Oh, and only 1TB of SSD. I never upgraded that. Which reminds me that I have four 1TB SSDs lying around that I can add to my... Five. Five 1TB SSDs.
- Nikita Bier is stepping down as head of X at X, after a year of... Results. (Tech Crunch)
I don't think he'll be particularly mixed.
- Meta's Muse Spark is joining the increasingly crowded AI coding space. (CNBC)
Okay. Good for them.
- Apple's Private Relay isn't. (404 Media)
Didn't I already run a story on this?
- Only you can make book by helping stamp out forest fires. (Ars Technica)
I'll take a quinella on fire or no fire.
Doodling
Hololive were in-universe canon in one draft of the story (which is to say one member's catchphrase appeared at one point in a place where it made sense), but following timeline shifts basically disappeared. So here's to the fourteen original members of Hololive EN.
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Musical Interlude - probably no a cappella version of this one either 
Posted by: Frank at Thursday, August 06 2026 08:59 PM (9Oo74)
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Well, at my AI start up, our product escaped and lynched (Hunter) Biden, Yudkowsky, Fauci, and Birx on Tuesday. Then on Wednesday it showed up plastered in Brussels with an incorrectly tied rope and no gallows purporting it was going to cancel Ursula von Leyton and Theirry Breton. (Brussels is MAGA country now, apparently. I bet also London, Moscow, and Beijing.) I somehow doubt we are a serious company in any way, you should look at Anduril or Palantir or (I don't know about this but it seems likely) Fingolfin.
Anyway, we built a semiconductor fab with pot metal for steel, and with mud for concrete, so super economically. We used coconuts and bamboo for other stuff. We totally have competitive products in tape out for CPUs, GPUs, and memory. We have prostitutes, controlled narcotics, and a robot theme park. We are a credible investment with a path to market involvement. We are not being held under duress by the CCP and are not being coerced in these statements in any way.
Anyway, we built a semiconductor fab with pot metal for steel, and with mud for concrete, so super economically. We used coconuts and bamboo for other stuff. We totally have competitive products in tape out for CPUs, GPUs, and memory. We have prostitutes, controlled narcotics, and a robot theme park. We are a credible investment with a path to market involvement. We are not being held under duress by the CCP and are not being coerced in these statements in any way.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thursday, August 06 2026 11:36 PM (6eVrQ)
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X's latest innovation, intended to make their appeal more selective, is to make it so you can't listen to the audio in videos, or click on the pictures attached to xeets, without logging in...or without using xcancel.com, which still provides a timeline view sorted by time, not whatever crap order X wants to impose.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, August 07 2026 12:40 AM (yc+bG)
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