• SpaceX has shown off its Starship V3 and is planning for a test flight as early as this week.  (Teslarati)
  
  The upgrades include an improved PEZ dispenser.
  
  Disappointingly, the PEZ dispenser is the name given to the release system for satellite clusters launched to orbit and doesn't actually dispense PEZ.
  
  Starship V3 completed a static fire test last month and the test flight is scheduled for the 19th.

• OpenAI wants ChatGPT to access your bank accounts.  (The Verge)
  
  Not their bank accounts.  Just yours.
  
  
  
• Americans would rather have a nuclear power plant in their backyard than a datacenter.  (The Register)
  
  I wonder what might be causing this negative sentiment.
  
  
  
• SK Hynix workers are now the hottest marriage prospects in South Korea, ahead of doctors, lawyers, and corporate executives.  (WCCFTech)
  
  In unrelated news, the company just gave its workers an aggregate $2.5 billion in bonuses.  I think that's for a single quarter.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile Samsung is facing the prospect of a protracted strike by its own staff after failing to reach an agreement on bonuses.  (PC Magazine)
  
  If the strike goes ahead as planned, the company faces losses of around $1 billion per day.
  
  Memory prices have increased on the news, because of course they have.
  
  
  
• Scientific paper preprint site ArXiv plans to ban researchers for a year if they submit AI-generated slop.  (404 Media)  (archive site)
  
  One em-dash and you're out.
  
  
  
• The problem is the threat is only effective if they catch you.  (The Verge)  (archive site)
  
  And AI is getting better at disguising its slop.

Posted by: J Greely at Sunday, May 17 2026 02:43 AM (oJgNG)

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