• Brazil's spiral into becoming the North Korea of the Southern Hemisphere continues to accelerate. (AP News)
  
  Tomas de Torquemada of the country's Supreme Federal Court has ordered all ISPs in the country - presumably somehow including Starlink - and all app stores to block access to Twitter.
  
  Torquemada also ordered app stores to remove VPN software, and ordered a fine of $8900 per day for any company or individual using a VPN to access Twitter.
  
  The justification for this is that Twitter doesn't have a legal representative in Brazil. (Nor I should note does this blog. Does Torquemada know how the internet works?)
  
  The reason Twitter doesn't have a legal representative in Brazil is that Torquemada threatened to jail her, and when she resigned, froze her bank accounts.
  
  
  
• Space rocks.
  

• A Texas judge has tossed Media Matters motion to dismiss Elon Musk's "thermonuclear" lawsuit. (WCCFTech)
  
  The case now goes to trial.
  
  Media Matters showed how ads were being placed on Twitter against unsavoury content, scaring off major advertisers.
  
  The problem is, to do this they deliberately followed those unsavoury accounts, and then spent hours refreshing the page until they got the results they wanted.
  
  And Twitter logged all of their activity.
  
  
  
• French president Emmanuel Macron has stated that France is deeply committed to freedom of expression and communication, to innovation, and to the spirit of entrepreneurship, as we established in 1793 when we suspended the constitution and murdered 16,000 people. (Twitter)
  
  Meanwhile in France Telegram CEO Pavel Durov has been charged with... Allowing crime. (MSN)
  
  Which if equitably enforced would see the French government locked away for good.
  
  
  
  
• AnandTech is shutting down. (AnandTech)
  
  It will be missed. In an industry overrun with utter bullshit it stuck to the facts.
  
  
  
• AMD has announced the Ryzen 7600X3D. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Like the 5600X3D it's Micro Center exclusive, so if you don't live in the right place you just can't get one.
  
  
  
• Ew. (Ars Technica)
  
  Just ew.
  
  
  
• A $400 million Medicaid signup form developed for the state of Tennessee by Deloitte is broken to the point that it violates the law. (Gizmodo)
  
  The article doesn't mention what form restitution will take, just the judge's decision on the lawsuit.
  
  
  
• Michael Lacey, founder of the classified ads website Backpage, has been convicted and sentenced to five years in prison. (Ars Technica)
  
  On one count of money laundering.
  
  He was acquitted on 50 other charges and the jury returned no verdict on an additional 35 charges.
  
  This comes after a previous case ended in a mistrial in 2021 over prosecutor misconduct.
  
  
  
• Intel says its laptop chips aren't affected by the instability issue affecting its desktop chips. (The Verge)
  
  The same company knew about the instability issue for most of two years before admitting it, so I'll take that with the usual Sifto-sized grain of salt.
  
  
  
• A Wells Fargo worker died at her desk and nobody noticed for four days. (Vice)
  
  I can't imagine that level of peace and tranquility.
  
  
  
• Yelp is suing Google over antitrust violations. (The Verge)
  
  Yelp has been complaining about Google's practices in the search business for years. Now that Google has been found guilty of antitrust violations generally, apparently it's open season.
  
  
  
• What that California AI bill means for Silicon Valley. (Tech Crunch)
  
  You idiots voted for this.
  
  
  
• Apple has terminated a developer account because they... Tried to work with Apple to resolve problems perceived by Apple. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Eric S Raymond responded:

  Huh? What the fuck did you think was going to happen when you tied yourself to a platform monopoly? A for effort but F for being too dumb to live.

  Harsh but fair.
  
  
  
• The FDA has issued a new ruling requiring photo ID for anyone under the age of 30 to buy tobacco. (UPI)
  
  Does the FDA have authority to pass such a law?
  
  Thought not.
  
  
  
• NASA's ACS3 mission has successfully deployed after encountering a literal snag. (Gizmodo)
  
  ACS3 stands for Advanced Composite Solar Sail System. The sail got stuck when they were trying to unfurl it, so they had to send a space monkey out to get it to open all the way.
  
  Or so I choose to believe. Don't try to tell me otherwise.
  
  
  
• SpaceX's Falcon 9 has been cleared to fly again after fall down go boom. (CNN)
  
  A landing strut appeared to fail on Booster 1062 when it was coming in for its 23rd landing on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas, causing it to tip over and undergo rapid unscheduled disassembly.
  
  This poses no risk for missions - manned or otherwise - because Falcon 9 doesn't land with passengers or cargo aboard.
  
  
  
• I have a forty dollar chicken.
  
  I did not order a forty dollar chicken. I ordered an ordinary large chicken (between 1.8 and 2.4kg) at a price of A$4 per kg. (That's $1.23/lb in Freedom Units.)
  
  Somehow in the six days between placing the order and receiving my groceries they ran out of every remotely reasonable chicken and I ended up with a 2.9kg (6lb 6oz) macro organic free range grass fed dinosaur at more than three times the price per pound.
  
  Except that they price matched, so I actually paid $9.20 for the $40 chicken.
  
  So now all I need to do is cook it and eat it.

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I was doing some reading for my planned item on the video game industry implosion happening right now, and I ran into this:

• Tomas de Torquemada, a justice on Brazil's Supreme Federal Court, stepped up his personal vendetta against Twitter by issuing an order - a secret order, because it's what he does - freezing Starlink's finances in Brazil and banning the company from conducting any kind of financial transaction in the country.  (Twitter)
  
  The aim is clearly to shut down Starlink in the country which would be awkward because it provides critical services for remote schools and hospitals and Brazil's own military.
  
  Elon Musk has responded by...  Making Starlink free for existing customers in Brazil.
  
  

• X has been "caught" warning that links to NPR could be unsafe for human consumption.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Not seeing the problem here.
  
  
  
• There's a bug in the RP2350 A0 chip affecting the internal pull-up resistors on the I/O lines (except the dedicated QSPI and USB lines).  (Liliputing)
  
  There's a software fix (resetting the I/O buffer as needed to clear the voltage on that pin), a hardware fix (adding external pull-down resistors to compensate) and a lazy bugger fix (just wait for updated A3 or B0 chips to ship).
  
  
  
• There's also a Linux distribution that runs on the Pi Pico 2 and RP2350.  (Liliputing)
  
  It's not an off-the-shelf release since the Pico 2 / RP2350 only includes 520k of RAM and supports a maximum of 16MB, and also lacks a memory management unit, but it's Linux nonetheless.
  
  
  
• Elasticsearch is open source again.  (Elastic)
  
  Pretty much.  It's AGPL, which depending on your use case may or may not be viable.
  
  
  
• A judge has rejected most of the copyright claims against GitHub in a lawsuit regarding the Copilot AI assistant.  (Developer Tech)
  
  Because, in short, the claims were bullshit.
  
  
  
• Intel's upcoming Lunar Lake laptop CPUs will also have much improved graphics performance.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Faster than AMD's previous generation, but slower than the current generation.
  
  That's still pretty good.
  
  
  
• MSI is offering a BIOS option to run AMD's 9700X at 105W.  (Hot Hardware)
  
  That's the same power as the previous generation 7700X, and gives the 9700X an additional 13% performance on multi-threaded tasks.
  
  
  
• California has declared that AI causes cancer.  (Ars Technica)
  
  The AI companies and California deserve each other.

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• OpenSea has been issued a Wells notice by the SEC.  (MSN)
  
  To unpack:
  
  OpenSea is a leading marketplace for NFTs.
  
  NFTs are in effect digital baseball cards.  They have no intrinsic value, but people put value on them largely based on their rarity.
  
  A Wells notice is issued by the SEC when they plan to sue a company for violating securities laws.
  
  So what the SEC is alleging here is that any collectible item without intrinsic value - baseball cards, Pokemon cards, MTG cards, US senators - is a security subject to the commission's regulations.
  
  Is there any law stating this?  No.
  
  Didn't overturning Chevron clamp the wheels of federal agencies trying to issue this sort of sweeping ruling on their own authority?  Yes.
  
  Aren't NFTs a scam anyway?  Only mostly.
  
  
  

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• Intel's latest Sapphire Rapids Xeon workstation CPUs are here.  (Hot Hardware)
  
  The w7-2595X with 26 cores is only three times the price of AMD's 9950X and is actually faster in some benchmarks.
  
  You also need a more expensive motherboard and more expensive memory, but on the other hand the motherboards come with workstation-class features like 8 memory slots and 5 full-length PCIe slots.
  
  And it only uses 50% more power.  That's actually...  Not that bad.
  
  But given what it delivers it's only for people who truly need the workstation features, not for people looking to spend a little more for a little more performance.
  
  
  
• Second order effects of the replication crisis.  (Nature)
  
  In which researchers search for the papers that cite papers that have been retracted.
  
  Recursively.

  He calls his tool a Feet of Clay Detector, referring to an analogy, originally from the Bible, about statues or edifices that collapse because of their weak clay foundations.

  Good.
  
  
  
• The second season of Amazon's half-billion-dollar train wreck The Rings of Power is going to be even worse than the first.  (The Verge)
  
  That's not what they say, but it's there in what they so desperately avoid saying.
  
  
  
• Star Wars Outlaws is complete disaster of a game that will end with the studio being closed and everyone who worked on it looking for employment in the fast food industry.  (The Verge)
  
  That's not what they say, but it's there in what they so desperately avoid saying.
  
  
  
• I have a longer story looking at recent successes and failures in the computer gaming world - and the desperate attempts of the press to cover for the failures and cut down the successes - but it will have to wait for the weekend.
  
  
  
• AMD will be providing a BIOS update that fixes a core-to-core communications latency problem with Zen 5.  (WCCFTech)
  
  This is unlikely to fix gaming performance, though, because the problem only happens on the 12 and 16 core models, and they benchmark pretty consistently with the 6 and 8 core models for games.
  
  It will help with heavy synchronised workloads like databases, though, so great for servers.

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• Why AI can't spell "strawberry".  (Tech Crunch)
  
  I've said before that currently popular AI models - which is to say, Large Language Models or LLMs - don't understand anything at all except language.  They're language models.  That's what they do, and it's all they do.
  
  Except that's not quite true, because they don't understand language in any real way either.

  The failure of large language models to understand the concepts of letters and syllables is indicative of a larger truth that we often forget: These things don’t have brains. They do not think like we do. They are not human, nor even particularly humanlike.

  Most LLMs are built on transformers, a kind of deep learning architecture. Transformer models break text into tokens, which can be full words, syllables, or letters, depending on the model.

  "LLMs are based on this transformer architecture, which notably is not actually reading text. What happens when you input a prompt is that it’s translated into an encoding," Matthew Guzdial, an AI researcher and assistant professor at the University of Alberta, told TechCrunch. "When it sees the word 'the,' it has this one encoding of what 'the' means, but it does not know about 'T,' 'H,' 'E.'"

  Typeahead with delusions of grandeur.

• Microsoft has applied the same AMD speed improvements I mentioned yesterday to the current version of Windows 11.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  So you don't need to upgrade to a new version; it will arrive with the regular monthly updates.
  
  
  
• Don't buy tattoo ink from Amazon.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Unless you're a microbiology student looking for a great topic for your PhD thesis.
  
  
  
• Can a YouTube video fix your wet phone?  (The Verge)
  
  Well, no, but curiously enough, sort of.
  
  It's not the video, of course, but the audio that goes with it, which is designed to generate the lowest tones a phone speaker can produce at as loud a volume as possible.
  
  And testing shows that this does eject water from the speaker.  There's a video of it in action in the article.
  
  If the water gets elsewhere inside the phone, though, it's probably toast.

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• If you play games on Windows and have a new system using a Ryzen 9000 chip you're not going to want to miss the Windows 11 24H2 update.  (WCCFTech)
  
  No, seriously.  It's an average of 11% faster across a broad range of games, and up to 35% in the case of Gears 5.
  
  This is great news if you just got a new AMD system and were disappointed with the performance gains over the previous generation.
  
  If you have a previous generation Ryzen 7000 (or 8000) system, unfortunately it only brings...  An average of 10% better performance and a peak of 32% in Gears 5 again.
  
  Reportedly it also provides better performance on Ryzen 5000, though Hardware Unboxed hasn't had time to run all those tests yet.
  
  What doesn't gain huge performance benefits from this update is anything running on chips from Intel...  Except for some reason Gears 5 again, where the 14600K showed a 25% performance gain.
  
  It's not clear exactly what's been going on, because this suggests that Windows has been inadvertently tanking AMD performance for years.  The update was focused on the new branch prediction features in Zen 5, but somehow it improved the prior two Zen generations as well.

• Microsoft is planning to remove the last traces of the Control Panel from Windows.  (The Register)
  
  It's been there since Windows 1.0.  Time for it to enjoy a long vacation somewhere warm.
  
  
  
• Or, y'know, not.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Microsoft's communications strategy is to confuse everyone to the point that they can never be sued because nobody knows what anything means.
  
  
  
• The FBI's secure data storage facility is just piles of hard drives lying around in a warehouse.  (The Register)
  
  Top men.
  
  
  
• The Lenovo Legion Go is getting a dock and a joystick wedge.  (The Verge)
  
  I don't want a Lenovo Legion Go (which is an 8" Windows tablet).  I want a Lenovo Legion Tab.
  
  Which has finally been released outside China, and is not available anywhere so far as I can tell.
  
  What I can get is an NEC Lavie T9, which...  Is a Lenovo Legion Tab.
  
  
  
• The French government has said the French government is not involved in any way with the French government's arrest of the CEO of Telegram.  (Politico)
  
  That makes sense.
  
  
  
• Russian military communications are reportedly in disarray because they were heavily reliant on...  Telegram.  (Politico)
  
  Look, it is Politico, so take that with a grain of salt.  In fact almost everything about the article is weird, including the corrections:

  This article has been updated to correct Margarita Simonyan's function. She is a Kremlin propagandist.

  Well, okay then.
  
  
  
• SpaceX's Polaris Dawn private mission is scheduled for launch...  Originally 22 minutes ago, now about this time tomorrow.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  A ground-side helium leak was detected a few hours ago and the launch was pushed back by 24 hours.

• Black Myth Wukong is utterly mediocre and undeserving of all the attention it has been getting thanks to games and tech media trying to destroy it.  (The Verge)
  
  Black Myth Wukong is a new Chinese computer game based on the 16th century novel Journey to the West.  One of many such adaptations, including the TV show Monkey and the anime Dragon Ball.
  
  Anyway, as far as journalists are concerned, the developers of Black Myth Wukong made the unforgivable error of not actively hating their own customers, even going so far as to not hire expert bankruptcy generators Sweet Baby Inc.  (Which is a whole 'nother drama in itself.)
  
  That, coupled with guidance encouraging independent reviewers not to be hyper-partisan communist ratbags, spelled death for the game according to journalists.  (The Gamer)
  
  Black Myth Wukong has sold ten million copies.
  
  In three days.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile Dustborn, a game which - and I quote - "let me smash fascists and flirt with my situationship on a road trip across America" - in other words, a game that has done everything right according to those same journalists, launched at the same time and has sold...  We don't know.  (PC Gamer)
  
  The developers have gone very, very quiet after release.
  
  But it has 74 reviews on Steam.
  
  Black Myth Wukong has 379,672 reviews.
  
  Dustborn peaked at 83 simultaneous players.
  
  Black Myth Wukong peaked on the same day at 2,415,714 players.  On Steam alone; Black Myth Wukong is available on console as well.
  
  Of course, Dustborn is a much smaller title and was never going to be as popular, but 3,000,000% is a hell of a delta.

• If you always wanted a Sinclair Spectrum - and I don't know why you would, because it was never actually good, just cheap - well, you can now get one for about $99.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Well, an Android emulator in a Spectrum case with a Spectrum keyboard.  In other words the worst parts of the original Spectrum have been faithfully reproduced, while the parts that worked have been replaced with software.
  
  
  
• Asus is showing off GaN PC power supplies.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  GaN power transistors are becoming common in laptop and phone chargers because they are compact and...  Well, that's it really.  How much this matters for PC power supplies is another question.
  
  
  
• Well, yes, but actually no.  Is Telegram really an encrypted messaging app?  (Cryptography Engineering)
  
  This question is suddenly important with the recent arrest of Telegram's CEO by French fascists.  The answer remains...  Kind of.
  
  
  
• The Port of Seattle and Sea-Tac Airport have been eaten alive by a cyberattack or maybe they're just incompetent.  (Tech Crunch)

  Late Saturday evening, the airport said it was still experiencing outages: "There is not an estimated time for return and Port teams continue to work to restore full service." It also encouraged travelers to use airline apps to get their boarding passes and bag tags, and to allow extra time to reach their gates.

  Well, that's definitive.
  

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• Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram, has been arrested in Paris on charges of...  Fuck charges, he's a libertarian and this is France.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Durov founded Russian social network VKontake before resigning because...  We don't know exactly, but allegedly because the Russian government had assumed de facto control of the company, wanted him gone, and wasn't too fussy about how he left.  China subsequently banned VKontakte as a tool of the Russian government, but China bans everyone.
  
  Ars' creative director Aurich Lawson - who personally suspended my account once for pointing out the site's rampant hypocrisy - noted:

  I'm pretty curious to see how this plays out. Is it really as simple as "you ran a platform where you didn't moderate private messages, therefore you're criminally responsible for everything people said"?
  
  Because that seems pretty chilling on the face of things.

  Do tell, Mr. Lawson.
  
  It's time to start treating Europe like North Korea.  If you go there, assume that you are not coming home intact.

• NASA has finally made a decision.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Butch and Suni will be coming home on SpaceX's Crew Dragon, after tests of another Starliner module showed similar but not identical failures in the attitude control thrusters.
  
  A second Crew Dragon module will be sent up to dock with the ISS next month - there is one docked permanently as a lifeboat - with two additional crew onboard.  The return trip is planned for February next year.
  
  
  
• Do you have a laptop, mini-PC, or all-in-one desktop that handles your computing needs just fine but you need more storage - and want to stick with an all solid-state solution - and you need something fast and don't want to mess about with NAS hardware and USB 10Gb Ethernet adapters?
  
  Yes?
  
  The TB4S-OC from Aoostar may be what you need.  (Liliputing)
  
  The price is reasonable at $179, and it supports four M.2 drives.  Connection to your computer is by USB4 at 40Gbps or OCuLink at 64Gbps if you have that (basically PCIe over a cable).
  
  You will need a USB4, Thunderbolt, or OCuLink port.  Internally it's just a PCIe switch, so it does not work at all with generic USB ports.
  
  
  
• Always wanted your own mainframe?  Christie's has an IBM 7090 on offer right now.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Price is expected to be in the area of $50,000.  Plus shipping, which could add up because it weighs 23,000 lbs.

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• Clinical trials for a new vaccine for lung cancer are under way in seven countries.  (The Guardian)
  
  It's an mRNA vaccine, which have skeptics, but you don't have to give it to everyone, because it works to target cancer cells once they are detected, and to prevent the cancer from recurring.
  
  Given how hard chemotherapy is on the body, more selective tools like this, even if imperfect, are very welcome.

• The new Ryzen laptop CPUs look perfect for mini-PCs.  Soyo's S9 is the first NUC to appear using the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Downside: Soldered RAM, but it will be available in 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB models.
  
  Upside: With no DIMMs taking up space, it will have three M.2 slots.
  
  Other side: It's not shipping yet; the review model was a pre-production with a couple of hardware issues.
  
  It's not going to compete with an RTX 4090 - or even a 4070 - but if you are happy with 1080p medium settings, or you mostly play games that are a couple of years old, it does pretty well and the whole system runs on about 50W.
  
  I'm hoping to see one of these that uses CAMM2 memory so it is upgradeable - these chips don't support regular DDR5 DIMMs - but this is a good start.
  
  
  
• What's inside the Raspberry Pi Pico 2.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  A good rundown of the new hardware and the options available - or soon to be available, since it's not shipping to end users yet.
  
  Plus a couple of boards coming from Pimoroni, including one the exact same size and pinout as the standard Pi Pico 2 but with an extra 16MB of RAM.
  
  
  
• Microsoft has scheduled a security summit for September 10 to discuss what it plans to do about those idiots at Crowdstrike.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Well, that's not how they worded it, but it's what they mean.
  
  
  

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• What if the very people you trusted to accurately represent reality lied to you constantly?  That would be bad, wouldn't it?  (The Verge)
  
  Why, yes, The Verge, that would indeed be bad.

• Apple continues to take half of all income from developers who choose not to sell their applications on Apple's own App Store.  (The Verge)
  
  Do you want me to side with the communist tyrants of the EU, Apple?  Because this is how you make me side with the communist tyrants of the EU.
  
  It's so blatant that even the commenters at The Verge are debating it.
  
  
  
• The Litespeed Cache plugin for WordPress has a critical vulnerability that grants admin access to everyone.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  At least WordPress has advanced so that it doesn't often do this without plugins.
  
  
  
• The HMD Skyline is a phone that can be opened with a single screw and you can even replace the battery.  (The Register)
  
  iFixit rated it 9/10 for repairability.
  
  It's a mid-range rather than high-end device but that's just fine.
  
  The one downside is that it's rated water-resistant rather than waterproof.  Don't take it swimming.
  
  
  
• The founder of fintech company Synapse that recent imploded with $160 million of other people's money has raised $11 million to start a new robotics company.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  What could possibly go wrong this time?
  
  
  
• DNS is cached.  (Julia Evans)
  
  Uh, yes.  We know.
  
  
  

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• Microsoft is planning to try again with its obviously insane Windows "Total" Recall spyware system.  (Ars Technica)
  
  This is the feature - key to the so-called Copilot Plus platform - that takes screenshots of everything you do on your computer - passwords, bank account details, confidential emails - and puts them in a single conveniently labelled and indexed box for AI assistants and Russian/Chinese/North Korean/Iranian hackers to search for you.
  
  The database will now require you to log in with Windows Hello to access it, where before it was an all-you-can-eat data buffet for any application running on your computer.

  "Security continues to be our top priority and when Recall is available for Windows Insiders in October we will publish a blog with more details," reads today's update to Microsoft Windows and Devices Corporate Vice President Pavan Davuluri's blog post.

  The lie detector detected that that was a lie.
  
  Fortunately - for now - this won't function at all unless you have a new CPU with a neural processing unit capable of at least 40 trillion operations per second.  Desktop processors - even brand new ones like AMD's Ryzen 9950X - don't have that.
   

• But what could possibly go wrong oh there's another critical vulnerability in Microsoft's Copilot Studio AI platform.  (Dark Reading)
  
  Huh.
  
  
  
• Crowdstrike is mad that its competitors are making fun of its extinction-level own goal.  (Ars Technica)
  
  I'm sure they are.
  
  
  
• QNAP...  Has added active monitoring for ransomware to the latest version of its QTS operating system.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  If anything strange is detected it can be configured to back up your files on the spot or make your whole disk read-only so nothing can be changed.
  
  It's not to protect you from data theft, but from hackers destroying your data.
  
  
  
• Intel's next generation Arrow Lake desktop CPUs and motherboards are expected October 17.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Most important question is, do these actually work?
  
  Second most important question is of course, can you roast an entire ox on one in under fifteen minutes.
  
  We shall see.

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