Wednesday, April 29
Daily News Stuff 29 April 2026
Five By Five Edition
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Five By Five Edition
Top Story
- Six AI datacenters have been proposed in a small rural town in Pennsylvania, the equivalent of 51 Walmart Supercenters or three-and-a-half median meteorite late bombardment impact craters. (Tom's Hardware)
The town of Archbald is an unremarkable former coal-mining town that just happens to lie right on a main power line from the Susquehanna nuclear power complex.
But you gotta build those datacenters. They're the hot new thing and you can't miss out.
- The sharemarket slumped on reports that OpenAI missed its internal
fairy talesrevenue targets. (Tom's Hardware)
Nvidia, Oracle, AMD, and pretend-AI company Coreweave were all caught in the crossfire.
Not enough though.
Tech News
- Oh, and Claude went down. (Claude)
Every cloud has a silver nitrate lining.
- Ghostty is leaving GitHub because GitHub sucks. (MitchellH)
Well, like, that's just your opinion, man.
- A critical flaw in GitHub's infrastructure opened everything up to a carefully crafted Git push. (Wiz)
What do you mean, everything?
EVERYTHING!
- GitHub actions are the weakest link. (Nesbitt)
And can't be fixed without breaking a lot of stuff because it's baked into the design. But given that the design is breaking more things worser, a little breaking now might be better than a lot of breaking later.
- AI agents can work better if you tell them clearly and concisely exactly how to do their jobs. (AugmentCode)
But they can also screw up regardless.
- The laptop RTX 5070 graphics module is now available in a 12GB version. (Notebook Check)
It costs twice as much as the desktop card. And is also slower; Nvidia's current laptop models are all one step lower in spec than the desktop cards. The laptop 5090 is really a 5080 with more RAM, and the 5070 is a 5060 Ti.
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