• Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered, every third-level .name domain has been cancelled. (Neil Fraser)
  
  To explain: .name is what is known as a top level domain. There's no dot that comes after it.
  
  The companies that own top-level domains get to sell second level domains to people. Those people can then use them as the see fit and create as many third (and fourth, and so on) level domains as they want, for free. ace.mu.nu and my own ai.mee.nu, for example.
  
  .name is different, for a good reason. Since it directly models real names, they directly sell third-level domains.
  
  Or did. If you have one, like, say, Neil Fraser, you are about to become nameless.
  
  Because Verisign. All my homies hate Verisign.
  
  
  
• Lenovo's new ThinkCentre X Ultra comes with AMD's brand new Ryzen AI Max Pro 495. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  What's the difference between that and the previous Ryzen AI Max Pro 395?
  
  Nothing! Absolutely nothing! Stupid! You're so stupid!
  
  
  
• I hugged you a face but I boughted it. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  For $12.93 billion.
  
  
  
• Intel's next-generation Nova Lake processors won't ship until Q1 2027. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And that's for the smaller models, up to 28 cores. The high-end 52-core version will arrive an unspecified number of months later.
  
  Also, Razer Lake and Hammer Lake will follow, though we have no details on either of those as yet.
  
  Anyway, I'm going to buy either the 52 core Nova Lake or the 24 core Zen 6 when they come out.  I didn't need one previously; now I do, because I am constantly recompiling large Rust codebases.
  
  
  
• Salesforce says it wasn't able to keep its profit margins up because it was spending too much on Claude AI. (The Register)
  
  I really have to wonder what these guys are doing. If they were using the Claude AI for production tasks like spam filtering, yes, that gets expensive. But they're not. They specifically say R&D.
  
  With my personal Claude account - I recent upgraded to Max 5x, the $100 per month plan - I have built two databases, two compilers, and an interpreter, in the space of two weeks, 280,000 lines of Rust and 70,000 lines of code in a language that didn't exist a week ago except on paper. Test suites, custom fonts and UI designs.
  
  Yes, I've been building out specs I wrote that I didn't have time to complete before now, but if Salesforce is blowing its budget this badly that means they are not writing specs.
  
  
  
• Also, the emulator for my fantasy 80s home computer boots and runs Basic.
  
  I had budgeted 24k of ROM for the font maps alone. The entire system - interpreter, compiler, assembler/disassembler, floating point library, disk manager, local networking, multi-buffer screen editor, and twice the number of fonts I had planned - currently totals 36k.
  
  
  
  Nothing amazing yet... But it works.
  
  As a proof of concept I'm porting Hack to it.  Not Nethack; even early releases of that are too large for the base model I'm emulating.  There's a modern, cleaned up repository of the original Hack C code on GitHub.  Being evil, the plan is to throw that at Claude to translate it into Basic, compile the Basic, and see what it does.
  
  
  
• On the bigger language project, half the binary now consists of three functions: TLS, regular expressions, and image processing.  5MB out of 10MB.
  
  Currently implementing SSH so that might change a little.
  
  Update: It didn't.  All the cryptography primitives needed for SSH were already built, so it just needed some pure code in the language itself to arrange them.
  
  
  
• All the superintelligentsia went down at the same time. (Ars Technica)
  
  Oops.

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• A group called Nexus is advertising 153 million US drivers licenses for sale on Russian exploit site Exploit. (Krebs On Security)
  
  They advertised this with a photo of the drivers license of a certain... Brian Krebs.
  
  Uh.
  
  And he followed up by asking 10 friends to see if their redacted data was in the list. Nine times out of ten, it was.
  
  How did this happen? We may never know. Oh.

  Here’s where it gets interesting: I was able to find my mother’s drivers license in this service as well, and the timestamps for her images are just a few seconds apart from mine. That’s notable because we both handed our licenses to the Hertz rental car representative at the same time.

  Oops.
  
  So Hertz got hacked?
  
  Nothing so pleasant.

  Edwards told KrebsOnSecurity that although he did not rent a car in Vegas, he did hand over his license at the TSA checkpoint, at a marijuana dispensary in Vegas, and at his hotel (the Aria). But he said the only one of those three that for sure scanned his ID in some kind of device was the dispensary.

  Not Hertz it would appear, but, the company that Hertz uses to verify IDs.

  Contacted by KrebsOnSecurity, idscan.net said it was investigating the matter, but the company has not yet shared an official statement or a substantive reply to specific questions sent via email.

  The birdbath is on fire.

• AI datacenter investment is projected to hist $32 trillion by 2050. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The future belongs to electricians.
  
  
  
• The Acer Veriton RI110 looks like a very nice mini PC. (Liliputing)
  
  Price not mentioned. It will not be cheap.
  
  
  
• Lenovo's new Legion Y700 Infinite is the ultimate small Android tablet right now. (Notebook Check)
  
  It's the premium version of the generation 5 model of the tablet that I bought generation 3 of recently. Better, yes, but not worth four times the price.
  
  
  
• Is this the future of America? (The Verge)
  
  Loudoun County? I fucking hope not. I live in Australia and I already know too much of that place.
  
  
  

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• Anthropic has announced its new frontier models, Claude Mythos and Claude Fable 5.1.  (Anthropic)
  
  Are they any good?  No, because -
  
  
  
• Anthropic pledges to try harder to keep models under control.  (The Register)
  
  The result is a sort of virtual fetal alcohol syndrome where they panic blindly when they think you might be indirectly suggesting BAD THING and collapse screaming on the floor so that Anthropic's day-to-day model Opus has to come to the rescue.
  
  Fable also spends tokens like water.
  
  
  
• Anthropic's new Fable release is cheaper, less restrictive.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Two lies for the price of one.
  
  
  

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• AI still gives results ranging from bad to terrible when vibe coding.  But that all changes if you happen to have a 106-page spec of a task nailed down to the last bit and nanosecond.  Give Claude Opus that, and it will mechanically fill in all the requirements and write conformance tests to prove it did everything you asked and nothing you didn't ask.  And it's not stupid - if you left out something necessary it will tell you.
  
  I mean, it's not like I have a lot of 106-page specs for personal projects nailed down to the last bit and nanosecond...  But I did have one.  And now I have 10,000 lines of Rust.
  
  And a steadily increasing amount of machine code for an architecture that didn't exist last week except on paper.
  
  
  
• What am I doing?
  
  EVERYTHING.
  
  Every programming project I've ever mentioned on this blog and subsequently dropped when it got too hard or life got too busy I've gathered up and I'm feeding what I have through Claude Code.
  
  Recursively, in many cases.
  
  The updates I wanted to make to this site for many years were held back by missing features in Python and MySQL.
  
  So...  I just wrote my own.  Took an upgraded Claude subscription and couple of weeks.
  
  I also found time to slot in that retrocomputer project I spent all that time on a few years back.  I have a VM and a cross-compiler, and now I'm building a native compiler.  Then I expand that work to the other...  Five architectures, I think.  Maybe six.
  
  It even emulates my DSP and video controller designs.  It's not cycle-accurate but it's scan line accurate - it emulates the allocation of memory bandwidth at 120 accesses per scan line.
  
  In the 106 pages of specs Claude found one error - I think it's an error - where I misstated the number of memory accesses per scan line for a particular video mode, out of a couple of dozen.
  
  
  
• Bought myself another tablet - the 11" older sister to my 8" Lenovo Legion Tab.  Same CPU, RAM, and ROM, but a larger display and higher resolution - 3200x2000.  40% off on clearance and comes with pen and keyboard - the pen I already have one of and it works well; the keyboard is a wait-and-see.
  
  The newer models are faster but much more expensive, and the one high-end large tablet I have died of battery bloat.
  
  
  
• Sony is arguing in court that no reasonable customer would assume that they own what they bought.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Of course not.  You'd have to be a complete idiot to believe Sony.
  
  
  
• Who is John Galt, the new CEO of Apple?  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Or just some guy from a book.
  
  
  
• Florida has banned Flock cameras from state highways.  (WCTV)
  
  Liberals everywhere thrown into cognitive dissonance.

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• I'm an Amazon HR drone who hasn't coded in 25 years.  Then I didn't code.  (About Amazon)
  
  If you count code generators, my LOC count is in the tens of billions.  Shipped to production.  And I wrote those code generators.
  
  
  
• Speaking of retarded people, California.  (Linuxiac)
  
  Just unanimously passed an age of consent law for keyboards.

• Database, programming language, standard library, extended library, and now another database.
  
  Then the actual applications.
  
  Not sure how much code I've "written" in the last couple of weeks, but I did build an entire new programming language and then create 42,000 lines of code in that new language.
  
  
  
• Broadcom has pledged to lockdown open source Python and Java libraries.  (The Register)
  
  Broadcom now owns VMWare.  VMWare owns RabbitMQ.  RabbitMQ has myxomatosis.
  
  
  
• OpenClaw 2.0 pours glitter on slow-burning security dumpster fire.  (The Register)
  
  Basically, yeah.
  
  
  
• The safest job from AI may be writing.  (Murat Buffalo)
  
  Press X to doubt.
  
  
  
• Asus has announced an RTX Spark laptop.  (Notebook Check)
  
  Y tho.

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