• Xbox is not for sale, says Xbox.  (Windows Central)
  
  Unless you have a lot of money.
  
  Like...  Any at all.
  
  

• Pi 1.0 is here.  (Earendil)
  
  It's a thing.  That people use.  Apparently.
  
  What it does is not mentioned.
  
  
  
• Micron says that memory is going to get even more expensive over the next two years.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Even though because the company is booking an 86% gross margin it is in no hurry at all to see prices go back to normal.
  
  
  
• Anthropic and OpenAI keep saying their products will kill all life in the galaxy.  The FTC decided to take a look at that.  (CNBC)
  
  Either they're lying, which is bad, or they're not lying, which is worse.
  
  

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• Google has announced Gemini 4 Argon, which the company is calling its most powerful AI model to date that you are not allowed to use.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Thanks Google.  Thanks for thirteen years of sucking.
  
  
  
• Reddit is killing RSS feeds and ending public API access because fuck you that's why.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Shut up, you're not my real dad!
  
  Also, this:

  RSS, or Really Simple Syndication/Rich Site Summary, is a web feed that lets users and applications access updates to a website in a standardized format. The format became particularly popular in the blogging era, as it offered a way to subscribe to a site’s new posts in a news-reading app. Google once operated the most popular of these, but shut it down in 2013, ceding the market to companies like Feedly and other indie applications.

  2013 was 13 years ago.

• The Department of Defense has launched Project Meridian, a bold new effort to stop fighting the previous war.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  They've called upon Elon Musk, Palmer Lucky (CEO of defense contractor Anduril), and Newt Gingrich to offer their expertise, a move that has deeply offended the perpetually deeply offended.
  
  
  
• Speaking of the Pentagon, hackers stole millions of personnel record during a months-long data breach.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Good work, guys.
  
  
  
• Speaking of months long data breaches, a teenage hacker found himself in an unprotected Microsoft internal environment with access to 17 trillion records.  (Faav)
  
  What is this, a database of ants?
  
  
  
• Moonshot AI, the Chinese company behind AI model Kimi K3, tried to hack into OpenAI...  And failed.  (WCCFTech)
  
  You are trying to kidnap what I have rightfully stolen, an I find it most ungentlemanly.
  
  
  
• Got my Christmas cakes, and my Japanese maple is showing signs of life.  Also have my 12-bit 1980s personal computer emulator showing signs of life.

Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, October 01 2026 10:01 PM (1zWbY)

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