Sunday, October 11
Daily News Stuff 11 October 2026
Box That Goes Ping Edition
Box That Goes Ping Edition
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- AI models and agents are security risks and should be banned from your corporate network, or at a minimum, air gapped and restricted to a lead lined Faraday cage biocontainment unit to preclude Van Eck phreaking and accidental bowls of bat soup. (Twitter)
Says... Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.
Tech News
- Why did already massively inflated prices on the RTX 5090 suddenly spike recent? If you guessed that NVidia stopped making them, you're probably correct. (Tom's Hardware)
They will be replaced - allegedly - by a 5080 model upgrade to 24GB of RAM, delivering about half the performance. The current 16GB 5080 will also cease to be.
- Ukrainian drones blew up the largest datacenter in Russia, or at least unspecified parts thereof. (Tom's Hardware)
Has the volume of obnoxious spam declined at all?
- Testing Windows 7 vs. Windows 11 for gaming. (Tom's Hardware)
Interesting but not startling comparison, unless you were somehow expecting Windows 11 to take the win, in which case you may well be startled.
- My emulated fantasy 10-bit 80s home computer has two synthesizers: A wavetable synthesizer (something rare in home computers of any period but the Apple IIgs from 1986 has this), and a simpler fixed-function digital synthesizer based on a limited set of waveforms, easier to implement but needing multiple voices to work together to produce appropriate harmonics that a wavetable synth generates directly.
That second synthesizer sucked yesterday; as of today with tuning against real instrument samples it's sounding like a Yamaha synthesizer that doesn't have an insect in its power supply but in some cases needs one. Cymbals last I checked still sounded like gongs, resonating freely when struck. Gongs also sounded like gongs, which in that case is good.
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Disclaimer: Well, that explains it.
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