Monday, October 12
Daily News Stuff 12 October 2026
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- Xbox sales have fallen 33% to the lowest level since the platform launched 75 years ago. (MSN)
PlayStation sales are also down by 25%, their lowest level since 1813.
- And yet somehow the Xbox is selling in some places for as much as $1600 due to shortages. (Notebook Check)
Nobody is buying it, but there are shortages?
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- Analyst firm New Constructs estimates that Anthropic is worth around $150 billion. (CNBC)
That's a lot of money.
Only problem is the company is seeking $2 trillion in its upcoming IPO.
- Aaron Sorkin's new film, The Social Reckoning, focusing on the explosive allegations of whistleblower Frances Haugen that people are idiots, is a failure. (IndieWire)
I am surprise.
- Here's a pretty good SSD at a pretty bad price. (Tom's Hardware)
I'm not sure how bad the pricing is compared with other SSDs right now; the curve between the worst and the best models has flattened out a lot.
- One of the original test data packets for RFC1149 is up for auction, offering you a chance to own a piece of internet history. (BSDly)
You might wonder how something ephemeral like a data packed could be auctioned.
Well, RFC1149 is TCP/IP over carrier pigeon.
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