Friday, August 14
Daily News Stuff 14 August 2026
Two Ventlemen Of Genoa Edition
Disclaimer: Get your dirty hands off my Buckminsterfullerine-replicating cosmological megastructure!
Two Ventlemen Of Genoa Edition
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- You get a letter of marque and reprisal! And you get a letter of marque and reprisal! Everybody gets a letter of marque and reprisal! (White House) (Yes, the White House)
In Minecraft.
Tech News
- Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash inhabits an interesting space near the Pareto Frontier of AI solutions. (Google)
Near the frontier. Not on it. It is outclassed by ChatGPT's low-cost Luna model, which while weaker than the best models is also much cheaper.
- Stop shooting yourself in the foot. (The Register)
Didn't even need to sum that one up; The Register did it for me.
- The company that wants to sell you expensive support contracts for your network equipment says that advanced AI spells doom for unsupported network equipment. (The Register)
They're totally not running a cobra farm though.
- In an orthogonal move to guarantee the safety of unsupported network equipment, Amazon will be training its AI on Twitch streams. (Tech Crunch)
No, your other left.
- Meanwhile the University of Michigan is busy churning out the next generation of Amazon AI training fodder. (Axios)
And not in a good way.
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"Our story today comes courtesy of Siim Kostabi, co-founder of Pageloot, a company that provides QR codes businesses can use for marketing."
WAT.
WAT.
Posted by: Rick C at Friday, August 14 2026 11:03 PM (1zWbY)
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So I need to fill my twitch stream with unhinged rants, and examples of how to do basic paperwork items like checklists, business correspondence, and pro se litigation against everyone who supported Biden? Got it, thanks, asking for a friend.
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