Tuesday, October 13
Daily News Stuff 13 October 2026
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- Yes, we have no frozen bananas. Or frozen anything else. (Tom's Hardware)
Hacking attacks across Europe not only switched off waves of supermarket freezers but locked the built-in defrosting units on to hit temperatures of 50C (122F) making for a decidedly toasty environment for ice cream.
The internet. Ain't it wonderful?
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- Scientists have cracked the secret of orange cats. (Science Alert)
Apparently it's to do with what colour they are.
- GoogleBooks are what we have come to expect from Google. (The Verge)
Check back in five years. Either they'll have taken over the world or the whole project will be buried and forgotten.
- Introducing Intel's Crescent Island graphics cards, bringing a whole new meaning to the term "affordable". (WCCFTech)
As in, only one house per card, rather than two for AMD or eleven for Nvidia.
- Why is AI programming not revolutionising programming? (Ars Technica)
Because it's perfect for the problems billion-dollar companies don't want you to solve. Basically.
- Well, that's why everyone gave up on pure synthesis eventually and went to samples. I've joined in and added four voices of ADPCM sound to the secondary synthesiser chip - and the case where that is the only synthesiser chip, it supports PCM samples as well, switching on a boundary capped at half the sample rate. (Which turns out to matter for cymbals, particularly.)
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Apparently it's been years since I visited Ars Technica, because since I didn't have any of their cookies they assumed I was a bot and asked me to complete a "prove you're human" check involving identifying pictures of chairs.
Well, I'm not interested in providing free labor to help train someone's vision model for an indoor robot, so I declined, and went to archive.is instead.
https://archive.is/42Dz0 for anyone else in the same boat as me.
Well, I'm not interested in providing free labor to help train someone's vision model for an indoor robot, so I declined, and went to archive.is instead.
https://archive.is/42Dz0 for anyone else in the same boat as me.
Posted by: Robin Munn at Tuesday, October 13 2026 11:47 PM (GXp94)
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Yeah, some analysts have me suspecting the AI companies this time, for the food supply hacks. I really don't think the two purest LLM big companies in San Francisco really understand what the public expectations for airplane regulation are. If we had an aeronautical development company talking up the number of flight test engineers that they are killing, for example, they will get shut down so hard, and so fast. Highly intelligent sociopathic idiots larping for their friends just are not who I want to hire to implement and test safety critical software for any application.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, October 14 2026 12:15 AM (6eVrQ)
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What fsking IDIOTs left those controls exposed? They should be forced to pay for the wasted food out of their own pockets after they get that security hole filled. Reporting temps and status, yes.
Actual controls too? Were you born this stupid or did you get dropped on your head on a regular basis???
Actual controls too? Were you born this stupid or did you get dropped on your head on a regular basis???
Posted by: Rick T at Wednesday, October 14 2026 01:23 AM (xeXUW)
Posted by: J Greely at Wednesday, October 14 2026 01:38 AM (oJgNG)
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It has been hearsay that decades of commercial and industrial electronic installations are a similar horror show of vulnerabilities. I'm fairly sure that this is true, and that sane American workers could potentially use the LLMs to fix this in America. EU and PRC may be screwed. Who ever is having the IPO this month has one or two weeks to flatten the curve of regulation hesitancy, and may just want to cash out with the IPO /ahead/ of the police. (As opposed to people who think their organization has a future, and hence want to avoid incriminating themselves at all.)
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, October 14 2026 05:07 AM (6eVrQ)
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The only point to having temperature available on-line is if you don't have any employees in the building who could possibly glance at the refrigerated case and see if it's doing what it should, _ie_ an unmanned grocery. Also, who has no local alarms to let someone know the system isn't cooling any more? The whole system seems stupid and retarded and maybe a couple of f-words worth of demented and deranged.
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