This accidentally fell out of her pocket when I bumped into her. Took me four goes.
Thursday, July 23
Daily News Stuff 23 July 2026
Disclaimer: So, class, what have we learned from this? "Absolutely nothing!"
Proximate Causal Inviolability Edition
Top Story
- Across the social sciences, half of research doesn't replicate. (Science)
And only 34% of it is confirmed by multiple reviewers.
But it gets worse.
In political science and economics replicability rises to more than 60%.
For education, the number is... Zero.
Tech News
- Apple is launching a new deal with Klarna where you can rent an iPad. (ComputerWorld)
You'll own nothing and we really don't care whether you like it.
- Code in the iOS 27 beta suggests that Apple will be able to switch your rented iPad off remotely if you don't pay your bill. (9to5Mac)
Because of course.
- Samsung's new Z Fold 8 is here. (CNet)
You can get a pretty decent phone for the price of a high-end gaming PC.
- The Linux kernel team just published 432 security issues in two days. (The Register)
Asdfghjkl.
- The Hisense A10 is an e-ink phone with a detachable LCD screen. (Liliputing)
It clips onto the back of the phone with magnets.
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Wednesday, July 22
Daily News Stuff 22 July 2026
Summertime In July Edition
Summertime In July Edition
Top Story
- LLM company OpenAI says that LLM archive site Hugging Face was breached by hackers using OpenAI's LLMs to gain access to models hosted at Hugging Face in order to breach... I dunno. (Tech Crunch)
Seems legit.
Tech News
- EU courts have ruled that if your country is invaded by VPNs that's your own problem. (Tech Radar)
This decision actually seems to be sane.
- How to link two Dell Pro Max GB10 AI systems together with the built-in 200Gb Ethernet to make a single system. (Tom's Hardware)
Step One: Plug them in.
- China is considering banning Chinese AI companies from manufacturing chips at Taiwan's TSMC. (Tom's Hardware)
And also from reversing entropy.
- AI companies are buying up old books - physical books printed before 2022 - because they are free of AI slop. (404 Media)
It's a real problem, because if you feed AI slop into a slop machine things go from bad to worse, fast.
Tech News
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Tuesday, July 21
Daily Tech News 21 July 2026
Arkastic Edition
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Arkastic Edition
Top Story
- And you thought you had problems: The combined debts of Alphabet, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle has spiked to $1.65 trillion. (SE Dailing)
Or as the linked article puts it, 2455 trillion won.
It's not often that you read financial news with numbers in the quadrillions.
Tech News
- Hackers wiped Romania's entire land registry database. (CyberNews)
They had a backup.
- LibreOffice has slammed Microsoft - again - for using Microsoft Office file formats in Microsoft Office. (XDA Developers)
Uh huh.
- Anthropic's $1.5 billion copyright settlement has been approve by the court. (Tech Crunch)
Wait, I haven't published my book yet.
Guess I'll need to find someone else to steal it.
- Massive Dynamic is raising a new round of funds at a valuation of $20-30 billion. (Tech Crunch)
Good for you, William Bell.
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Unique Ode
Something is breaking and it's not the Shield Hero.
Something is breaking and it's not the Shield Hero.
ASCII
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz
0123456789 !"#$%&'()*+,-./:;<=>?@[\]^_`{|}~
Common accented Latin
àáâãäåæçèéêëìíîïðñòóôõöøùúûüýþÿ
ÀÁÂÃÄÅÆÇÈÉÊËÌÍÎÏÐÑÒÓÔÕÖØÙÚÛÜÝÞß
Greek
ΑΒΓΔΕΖΗΘΙΚΛΜΝΞΟΠΡΣΤΥΦΧΨΩ
αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρστυφχψω
Cyrillic
АБВГДЕЁЖЗИЙКЛМНОПРСТУФХЦЧШЩЪЫЬЭЮЯ
абвгдеёжзийклмнопрстуфхцчшщъыьэюя
Hangul
가나다라마바사아자차카타파하 한글 테스트 안녕하세요
Common numerical & currency symbols
¹²³¼½¾ⅠⅡⅢⅣⅤⅥⅦⅧⅨⅩ €£¥¢₹₽₩₪฿
Common punctuation & symbols
‘’"”«»–—…†‡•‰′″‹›¡¿§¶†‡•
CJK (Chinese / Japanese / Korean ideographs)
漢字 日本語 中文 한국어 你好世界 東京 北京
Arabic
العربية مرحبا بالعالم ا ب ت ث ج ح خ د ذ ر ز س ش ص ض ط ظ ع غ ف ق ك ل م ن ه و ي
Hebrew
עברית שלום עולם א ב ג ד ה ו ז ח ט י כ ל מ נ ס ע פ צ ק ר ש ת
Mathematical operators & symbols
∀∁∂∃∄∅∆∇∈∉∊∋∌∍∎∏∐∑−∓∔∕∗∘∙√∛∜∝∞∟∠∡∢∣∤∥∦∧∨∩∪∫∬∭∮∯∰∱∲∳
Box-drawing & geometric
─│┌┐└┘├┤┬┴┼═║╒╓╔╕╖╗╘╙╚╛╜╝╞╟╠╡╢╣╤╥╦╧╨╩╪╫╬
■□▢▣▤▥▦▧▨▩▪▫▬▭▮▯▰▱▲△▴▵▶▷▸▹►▻▼▽▾▿◀◁
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◦◧◨◩◪◫◬◭◮◯
MB3 diagnostic test
☀☁☂☃☄★☆☇☈☉☊☋☌☍☎☏☐☑☒☓☔☕☘☙☚☛☜☝☞☟
☠☢☣☤☥☦☧☨☩☪☫☬☭☮☯☰☱☲☳☴☵☶☷☸☹☺☻☼☽☾☿♀♁♂♃♄♅♆♇
Hiragana (full basic set + small/combining forms)
ぁあぃいぅうぇえぉおかがきぎくぐけげこごさざしじ
すずせぜそぞただちぢっつづてでとどなにぬねのはばぱ
ひびぴふぶぷへべぺほぼぽまみむめもゃやゅゆょよらり
るれろゎわゐゑをんゔゕゖ゙゚゛゜ゝゞゟ
Katakana (full basic set + small/combining forms)
ァアィイゥウェエォオカガキギクグケゲコゴサザ
シジスズセゼソゾタダチヂッツヅテデトドナニヌ
ネノハバパヒビピフブプヘベペホボポマミムメモ
ャヤュユョヨラリルレロヮワヰヱヲンヴヵヶヷヸ
ヹヺ・ーヽヾヿ
Extra useful Japanese punctuation & marks
。、・「」『』【】〔〕〜…ー゛゜
Mixed real-world test
こんにちは、世界！ これはヒラガナとカタカナのテストです。
コンニチハ、セカイ！ コレハヒラガナトカタカナノテストデス。
ぁあぃいぅうぇえぉお ァアィイゥウェエォオ
がぎぐげご ガギグゲゴ
ぱぴぷぺぽ パピプペポ
ゔゕゖ ヴヵヶ
「こんにちは」『コンニチハ』【テスト】
Emoji – basic (common faces & objects)
Here be dragons.
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Monday, July 20
Daily News Stuff 20 July 2026
Tally Deck Views Edition
Tally Deck Views Edition
Top Story
- Oops. Forgot there was planned maintenance due on the proxy server. It restarted cleanly but I needed to restart some of the software a second time before it was happy.
- OpenAI has rushed to reassure users that the brand new GPT 5.6 still has all the same features they know and love. (InfoWorld)
Like accidentally deleting all your files but being really sorry about it afterwards.
- Alibaba's AI tool Qwen 3.8 is launching and will soon be open-weight - that is, you can't create your own version but you can download and run it yourself. (Twitter)
One small problem is that is has 2.4 trillion parameters, meaning you'll need a graphics card with 4.8 terabytes of VRAM to run it efficiently, and not many end users have the necessary hardware.
- Meanwhile Apple just hired the original team behind Qwen. (WCCFTech)
Who Alibaba had fired in a quiet reminder that grotesque ineptitude is not solely a gift of the western world.
Tech News
- Orchid is a delightfully retro and approachable hipster synth. (The Verge)
That bad, huh?
- Zilog's Z80 has turned 50 and been discontinued but don't you worry. (Tom's Hardware)
A replacement chip has been reverse-engineered and is now available. It's built on an ancient 130nm node, but that's magic compared to the 4 micron node used in the original Z80.
It runs at 50MHz and the chip itself measures a quarter of a millimeter on a side.
- China's CXMT is preparing to launch DDR6 memory and attempt to steal market share away from Samsung and SK Hynix. (WCCFTech)
Great. We'll be here, starving, just as we always have been.
- The head of SK Group, owners of Big Three memory maker SK Hynix, says that memory prices are too high and have to come down. (Tom's Hardware)
Not that he cares about customers. But while SK Hynix is pulling in record revenues and profits, every other tech company in the chaebol is in the doldrums due to exorbitant memory costs.
- Speaking of which, while the 2026 model of the Razer 18 laptop is not any faster than last year's, it does at least cost you more money while providing half the memory and storage. (Notebook Check)
Wait.
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Sunday, July 19
Daily News Stuff 19 July 2026
Woolly Hippo To You Edition
Woolly Hippo To You Edition
Top Story
- Nvidia's 5000 Super graphics cards are lined up on the runway ready to go as soon as someone breaks the news to the passengers that the price of their tickets just tripled. (Tom's Hardware)
Or less obliquely, the 3GB memory chips used for the Super models are three times the price of the standard 2GB chips.
Which is STUPID because the GPUs already support two banks of memory and Nvidia could more cheaply produce a 24GB RTX 5070 Super than an 18GB version.
AMD should make mainstream 24GB and 32GB cards just to mock their rivals.
- Speaking of AMD, the company launched its Ryzen 7700X3D CPU at a price of $329 last week, making it something less than a bargain because the 7800X3D is available cheaper than that. (Tom's Hardware)
You can now pick up a 7700X3D for $279.
Worth pointing out the the previous generation's 5800X3D runs to $349.
Tech News
- The AGI AI828 contains no AI at all; it's just an SSD. (Tom's Hardware)
And an expensive one; it's a DRAMless PCIe 4.0 design, and the 1TB model costs as much as a 4TB Team brand SSD I bought in March.
Welcome to the 21st century. Enjoy the ride. The complimentary barf bags are in the seat pocket in front of you. Yes, there are a lot of them.
- Korean outfit 2P Game Arcade is hosting a competition for games that fit entirely on a single 1.44MB floppy. (Tom's Hardware)
Plenty of room. Why, that's 1.6 Amiga floppies!
- Of which around 15,000 can be downloaded from the Amiga Freeware Archive. (Amiga Freeware)
Which used to be a lot, but that was long ago and in precisely the same country.
- Kimi is the latest menace to the domestic threat of communist AI creators from foreign AI creators. (Tech Crunch)
Meanwhile, OpenAI's head of strategic futures Dean Ball said that Kimi is "a very good model" whose performance probably can't be "explained away by distillation or anything like that," adding that he's "personally surprised the Chinese state continues to allow the open sourcing of models this good, given potential risks."
Right. Sure.
- China's Kimi K3 identifies itself as Claude, betraying its distilled origins. (WCCFTech)
You were saying, Bean?
- AMD's upcoming 10 core Zen 6 laptop chip stomps all over AMD's existing 10 core Zen 5 laptop chip in new benchmark leaks. (WCCFTech)
In fact, it stomps all over AMD's existing 12 core laptop chip. It's not even close. It comes in as 33% faster than the equivalent Zen 5 chip in multi-core tests, and 35% faster single-core.
Since I'm writing this on a Zen 3 system and the latest hardware I have is Zen 4, it looks like a pretty substantial jump.
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Saturday, July 18
Daily News Stuff 18 July 2026
Accidental Umpires Edition
Top Story
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Speculation is that it's a unit conversion error in the cost estimation tool, but all we know for sure is that people who barely use the service are being alerted to cost estimates in the billions of dollars, and for businesses that have active applications the predicted bills run into the trillions.I tried to embed the tweets two different ways but the end result was that the editor ate the entire post, so links are all you get. Saved by my reflexive habit of Ctrl-C to capture the post content before I hit save, from back when the server glitched a lot more often than it does now.
Tech News
- TSMC says that its work towards 1.4nm technology is progressing well, with 90% yield on SRAM dies and 90% of targeted performance on logic circuits. (Tom's Hardware)
1.4nm is the node after the 2nm node that we are expecting to see late this year, so it won't reach production until at least 2028. A 90% yield this early is a good sign.
- AI datacenters must produce as much energy as they consume, says retarded communist and part-time Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese. (Tom's Hardware)
Alexa, please repeal the laws of thermodynamics.
- The Zilog Z80 has turned 50. (Goliath32)
As has that website.
- Microsoft's new Surface Laptop is here with its complement of eight whole gigabytes of RAM. (The Verge)
That's plenty for Linux, and tolerable for MacOS. Running Windows 11 it's a miserable experience.
- The Redmagic Astra 2 tablet is here, with a 9" 185Hz OLED screen, a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 CPU, up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, and... Active cooling? (Liliputing)
The one thing I want from a tablet is not to have a fan whining at me.
- The Lenovo Legion Y700 Infinite tablet is here, with an 8.8" OLED display, a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 CPU, up to 24GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, and... Passive cooling, apparently. (Notebook Check)
It's going the be horribly expensive and I just picked up their Gen 3 model at half price so I'm not even tempted, but at least it's silent.
- Beelink's new ME Pro 370 is a NAS with a Ryzen 370 12-core laptop CPU, supporting two or four 3.5" hard drives, three M.2 SSDs, and... Up to 256GB of RAM? (Notebook Check)
That seems unlikely, because that amount would require four 64GB DDR5 modules, and nobody is putting four SODIMM slots in consumer equipment.
I have ten DDR5 SODIMMs. Believe me, I've looked.
Research
The Eighth Law already requires that every admissible alteration of the noetic field (and, by extension, every macroscopic world-line that couples to that field) lie along a null geodesic of the full 6D manifold that satisfies the 2T-gauge conditions. Ordinary 3+1 orbital motion is the projection of such a higher-dimensional geodesic. Spin-orbit locking therefore cannot be a purely 3-spatial mechanical equilibrium; it must also be consistent with the hidden
and
components of the geodesic. In practice this appears observationally as an additional, apparently arbitrary ceiling on how tightly a world can remain synchronized: once the integrated "geodesic resistance”
exceeds a threshold set by the unknown couplings
,
and the noetic tensor, further dissipative evolution is forbidden even if ordinary tidal torque remains. The result is that perfect, permanent 1:1 locking may be rarer or more fragile than in 3+1 physics, and residual libration or slow drift in the relative orientation of the permanent day/night hemispheres can persist.
This actually makes complete sense given the context, and solves the problem, but even so gives me a headache.
All I wanted to do was make the sky blue.
I've also been tinkering with Fable as well as Grok, and while it's impressive, I don't trust it. It heaped effusive praise on what I consider one of the weakest points of the plot of the story I'm working on.
All I wanted to do was make the sky blue.
I've also been tinkering with Fable as well as Grok, and while it's impressive, I don't trust it. It heaped effusive praise on what I consider one of the weakest points of the plot of the story I'm working on.
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Friday, July 17
Daily News Stuff 17 July 2026
Dwarves Are Back On The Menu Edition
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Dwarves Are Back On The Menu Edition
Top Story
- TSMC has committed another $100 billion for four new leading-edge 2nm fabs in Arizona. (Tom's Hardware)
I'm not sure exactly why they chose Arizona apart from the fact that China is unlikely to successfully invade, but that seems like a good enough reason.
Tech News
- India has fined Hewlett Packard 1.4 billion rupees for price fixing. (Ars Technica)
About tree fiddy in real money.
- AMD's Ryzen 7700X3D is the company's latest though not newest CPU with what they term "3D-Vcache" - an additional 64MB cache chip stacked on top of the CPU die. (Tom's Hardware)
The problem is that it's not much faster than the existing 7700X unless you're specifically using it to play games, and not much faster than the existing 7600X3D if you are playing games, and both of those chips are around $100 cheaper than the 7700X3D's $329.
- 1Password now lets Claude use your passwords - without giving it access to the passwords themselves. (Nerds.xyz)
Claude sends a request to 1Password, the user approves it, and Claude ends up with access to the desired service without ever seeing the password. It's a pretty elegant solution to a situation set up mostly by crazy people.
- Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball? (Tech Crunch)
Good question. Next question.
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