Wednesday, May 06
Daily News Stuff 6 May 2026
Overweight Bin Edition
Overweight Bin Edition
Tech News
- The latest version of Google Chrome has a neat new feature: It installs a 4GB local AI model on your computer without asking or even telling you. (That Privacy Guy)
Now that you know about it, can you delete it?
Yes, if you jump through seven flaming hoops.
Does it stay deleted?
No.
Not only is this a generally bad move, it is probably illegal in the UK and Europe.
- Notepad++ is not out for the Mac. (Ars Technica)
The notepad is a lie.
Tech News
- Lenovo's 5th generation Legion Tab is out now for $849. (Liliputing)
That's with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage, which is not expandable.
I have the 3rd generation model with the same memory and storage capacity and a slightly lower display resolution. It cost me around $450, making the new model not a bargain I am in a hurry to pick up.
- Microsoft is automatically adding Copilot as an author to Git commits if it occupied the same continental plate as your code at any point. (Heise)
Thanks, Microsoft!
- Moving your systems to a mainframe is now cheaper than using VMWare. (The Register)
And it's not even IBM saying this.
- Google Deep Mind staff in Britain are about to suddenly be laid off due to economic conditions. (Wired) (archive site)
I can see the future. And sometimes even the past. Present is cloudy though.
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Microsoft reverted that "add Copilot as an author" change within hours after there was much outcry on Hacker News (and elsewhere, I only saw HN). And said that it was a bug that it would add Copilot as a co-author in ALL of those situations, and that that bug would be fixed.
But not every news source got the "Oh, they reverted it and said it was a mistake" news.
But not every news source got the "Oh, they reverted it and said it was a mistake" news.
Posted by: Robin Munn at Wednesday, May 06 2026 06:39 PM (1oDVe)
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That Heise site has an obnoxious cookie policy: you MUST consent to accepting ads from their "up to 193 partners" to view the page without a subscription."
Unless you use reader mode.
Unless you use reader mode.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, May 06 2026 11:49 PM (IEZnl)
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There's an hextention called "I still don't care about cookies" that dumps those popovers.
Posted by: normal at Thursday, May 07 2026 12:31 AM (LADmw)
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Nice. I hate those, and also the "sign up for our newsletter" ones.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, May 07 2026 02:00 AM (IEZnl)
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The Notepad++ news is disappointing. An unofficial release claiming more association than is actual, produced with unacknowledged AI, somehow seems par for the course, though. After your previous post, I had downloaded it, but hadn't gotten around to installing it. I guess I won't, now. It's not as though I really needed it, anyway, but it would have been nice.
Posted by: wheels at Thursday, May 07 2026 02:03 AM (7JARh)
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The important thing about the Copilot story is that a single Microsoft engineer pushed this to the world without any kind of review or release process.
Related, the Heise site loads without a pop-up on Brave.
-j
Related, the Heise site loads without a pop-up on Brave.
-j
Posted by: J Greely at Thursday, May 07 2026 02:45 AM (oJgNG)
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"The important thing about the Copilot story is that a single Microsoft engineer pushed this to the world without any kind of review or release process."
Hmmm. That sounds like something AI would do.
Hmmm. That sounds like something AI would do.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, May 07 2026 06:10 AM (IEZnl)
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