Friday, August 28
Daily News Stuff 28 August 2026
Claudy With A Chance Of Meatballs Edition
Claudy With A Chance Of Meatballs Edition
Top Story
- Hugging Face has announced a new robot duck. (The Register)
$13 billion for this?
Tech News
- Intel's 270K CPU - an honestly pretty good processor that you definitely shouldn't buy - is now down to $200, putting it at the launch price of its slower sibling the 250K. (WCCFTech)
The 270K and its entire platform will be replaced by the end of the year, and its bargain price is dwarfed by the cost of memory right now.
- AI coding tools like Anthropic's Claude and OpenAI's Codex installed unowned code inside corporate networks. (Ars Technica)
Text files. These fuckers are talking about text files. Not programs of any kind.
Now there is a real problem in that the text files tell other AI agents to do dumb shit, and the AI agents promptly do it, because they are being run by dumb people.
Also the first comment on that article calls it out as AI slop itself, which I agree with. Ars Technica has been caught with their pants down and on fire that way before.
- A new Twitter has launched, claiming that X abandoned the trademark. (Ars Technica)
Betting you can outlast a trillion-dollar company in court is certainly a choice.
Noodling
Albeit a different kind of noodling. First project I've been working on was building out a practical version of the database I created a proof-of-concept for in Python years ago. LMDB, MessagePack, LuaJIT, and ZeroMQ did the heavy lifting, and it was actually fast - 1GB per second of reads on a small VM - until I started on the indexes and then it all caved in.
Now I'm working on replacing LuaJIT in there with a capability-based language that is simpler and more secure, again using a model I tinkered with years ago.
It's AI... Antislop? What I'm doing is the exact opposite of Node.js at every level, and using AI assistance to pull it together.
Now I'm working on replacing LuaJIT in there with a capability-based language that is simpler and more secure, again using a model I tinkered with years ago.
It's AI... Antislop? What I'm doing is the exact opposite of Node.js at every level, and using AI assistance to pull it together.
Musical Interlude
Disclaimer: Database is did.
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I suppose if you were in the unlikely position of having DDR5 memory, and all the other components you needed, but were in urgent need of a new CPU, this might be a decent deal. But that's pretty niche. Like, I'm still rocking my replaced 14700K, and I'm holding out probably for Nova Lake, and that only if it's a big jump in performance and at a reasonable cost, and even then probably only if this CPU starts to degrade like my original, although I run it at stock except for the BIOS multicore enhancements, so that seems fairly unlikely. I guess "12th gen CPU needing replacement and I don't want to wait another year" is about the only sensible use case. But then again, people will buy a 5090 so they can game at maxed out settings at 4K, so....
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, August 28 2026 10:47 PM (1zWbY)
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If they were keeping the same socket for Nova Lake it would be a great deal. But they're not, so it isn't.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Friday, August 28 2026 11:15 PM (PiXy!)
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Y'know, it's getting really easy to spot AI companies that have no path to profitability: they announce they're making a physical product.
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