• Wikipedia has blacklisted Archive.Today for links to references because it is run by a crazy person. (Tech Crunch)
  
  It's over allegations of running DDoS attacks and modifying supposedly archive articles after the fact, and the allegations are about as well supported as the recent conspiracy theories floated by Steve from Gamer's Nexus, which is to day, almost all of it is documented by multiple sources and the guy confessed publicly.
  
  Which is a wee problem for me because those (Archive site) links I've been sprinkling through posts for the past year as more and more news sites decide they don't want anyone to read them?
  
  Well, those links point to Archive.IS, but it's the same software and the same person.
  
  I've switched to using Brave to prepare these posts, because it seems better at dodging around that problem, but it does mean that if you're using a different browser you might not be able to read the linked content.
  
  On the other hand, I always, always present the full unvarnished truth without so much as editorialising.
  
  Mostly.
  
  Sometimes.
  
  

• Well, so much for that: Intel's next-generation Nova Lake desktop CPU range is likely to arrive at CES 2027. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Theories are that AMD has been planning not to launch Zen 6 until 2027 anyway, at least since they were close enough to launch to have a specific timeframe in mind. But Intel was promising Nova Lake this year as recently as January.
  
  
  
• It's not Nova Lake, but Intel's Bartlett Lake is on its way and will support up to 12 Performance cores, compared to a maximum of 8 on any current Intel mainstream desktop processor. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And it has hyperthreading, so 24 threads on that high-end model.
  
  One small problem: While it does run in the old reliable Socket 1700 (used by Intel's 12th, 13th, and 14th generation chips) it is intended for industrial customers needing guaranteed supply for the next decade, and won't be available in retail channels at all. And ASRock has already said that they won't support these chips in their motherboards, so an upgrade might be off the table.
  
  
  
• Do not eat audio equipment. (The Guardian)
  
  Got it. Thanks. What would we do without you?
  
  
  
• How far back in time can you understand English. (Dead Language Society)
  
  I've seen similar tests floating around recently, and the answer is pretty consistently 1300 AD. You have to know a few little tricks - the old long S ſ, thorn þ, and yogh ȝ characters have long fallen out of use, plus at some point u and v were merged and before that w was just two u characters.
  
  But go back further and there's more change in each of the three prior centuries than in all the years since.
  
  Handy guide to keep if the Tardis translator circuit is on the blink and you don't speak Latin.
  
  
  
• China's CXMT is at it again, selling previous-generation DDR4 memory at half the price of anyone else.  (Korea Herald)
  
  CXMT was called out and sanctioned for this behaviour - at the time it was dumping new DDR4 memory on the market for less than the price of used.
  
  Now it's...  Well, it's doing exactly the same thing again, but this time it's raking in the dough thanks to massive global price increases rather than depending on CCP subsidies.
  
  
  
• Xbox is dead.  (The Verge)
  
  Well, that's just great.
  
  Microsoft has turfed long-time head of their gaming division, Phil Spencer, who admittedly had not been doing a great job of things lately, and also his expected successor Sarah Brand, in favour of Asha Sharma, formerly the company's President of AI Slop.  And before that she was COO at Instacart.
  
  No experience with the games industry at all, but again, Spencer was a veteran in the industry and totally screwed things up anyway.

• Discord continues to go from strength to strength, at least insofar as the levels of mishandling its introduction of age verification and the number of users fleeing the platform.  (Ars Technica)
  
  I never much liked Discord; its interface is awkward and annoying.  But the age verification thing was pretty much forced on it by fascist governments in Europe and, uh, Australia.
  
  On the other hand, the company did itself no favours by claiming that uploaded ID documents would remain secure after they had already leaked.
  
  And even less so with the latest incident where, after reasserting that documents would be deleted immediately after they were verified - which we already knew was untrue, because deleted documents can't be leaked  - they contradicted themselves in an official announcement and then deleted the announcement and pretended they had never announced it.

• Pinterest - which apparently still exists - is drowning in a sea of AI slop and AI moderation.  (404 Media)
  
  Pinterest went all-in on AI and found themselves in the worst of all possible worlds.
  
  
  
• Same again only Facebook.  (Pilk)
  
  If only someone had seen this coming ten years ago.
  
  
  
• Google blocked 1.75 million Play Store submissions in 2025.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  That's 1.75 million fake apps.
  
  Time to release the badgers.
  
  
  
• Overclocking a Raspberry Pi Pico 2 to 850MHz.  (Pimoroni)
  
  The Pico 2 runs at 150MHz out of the box, but can clock over 300MHz at the default 1.1V.  Increasing that to 1.3V takes you over 400MHz.  Beyond that you have to start breaking the rules, but that takes you a long way.
  
  
  
• AMD's Zen 6 chips - probably to be called the Ryzen 10000 series - may not reach the desktop until next year.  (WCCFTech)
  
  They will show up this year, but perhaps only in servers.
  
  Intel says it is still on track to launch its Nova Lake desktop chips this year, with up to 52 cores and 288MB of cache, so they might have a window to claw back some market share.
  
  
  
• Meta and other tech firms are banning OpenClaw, formerly Moltbot, formerly Clawdbot, because it is hopelessly insecure in every possible way.  (Wired)  (archive site)
  
  A coworker set up an OpenClaw instance in a secure sandbox to try it out.  While it couldn't do anything too awful from inside its padded cell, it took me literally 30 seconds to find a major vulnerability.
  
  
  
• OpenAI - which now employs the creator of OpenClaw - may be doomed.  (Ben Evans)
  
  Oh no.
  
  Anyway.
  
  Not AI companies generally, just OpenAI specifically.
  
  Still it's something to look forward to.

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• The US government is building a specifically VPN-enabled website to allow Euroserfs to access content banned by their fascist overlords.  (Reuter)
  
  Radio Free Europe, part two.  Only this time the Europeans aren't being oppressed by the Soviet Union, but by themselves.
  
  
  
• Why Europe doesn't have a Tesla.  (Works In Progress)
  
  The article highlights the continent's absurdly restrictive labour laws which are certainly a key part of the problem.
  
  But European leaders have decided on a slow and messy suicide, and many of their voters are entirely on board with this.

• PromptSpy is the first known Android malware to use generative AI at runtime.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Which is interesting, because it uses Google Gemini and that's not free.  With a bit of counter-hacking you could bankrupt the bastards.
  
  
  
• Very not free, in fact.  (The Red Beard)
  
  Although Google Gemini has nominally lower prices and a larger context window than (for example) Anthropic's Claude, it works differently and will very happily burn through all your money to construct the perfect answer to a question you never intended to ask.
  
  
  
• It's an expanded D&D dice set: AMD's Ryzen 10000 series due later this year is expected to come in 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 20, and 24 sides cores.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  There was no reason AMD couldn't have put out a 10-core CPU (from Zen 3 onwards, anyway), it just wasn't terribly practical.
  
  Now, though, 10 is the new 6 and 20 is the new 12 - a pair of disabled cores per chip.
  
  
  
• The human behind the rogue AI bot "Crabby Rathbun" that has been trying to push unwanted patches into random Python projects has come forward - maybe - and apologised - sort of.  (The Shamblog)
  
  It's depressing if accurate, because it points to a future not only of unending slop, but of increasingly aggressive slop generators.
  
  
  
• At least we can hack them.  (The Register)
  
  That scene in the movie Independence Day where the alien mothership is destroyed by an uploaded virus suddenly seems a lot more plausible if they were running AI on their computers:

  Prompting each of them to generate 16-character passwords featuring special characters, numbers, and letters in different cases, produced what appeared to be complex passphrases.  When submitted to various online password strength checkers, they returned strong results. Some said they would take centuries for standard PCs to crack.

  Sounds good.
  
  Too good to be true:

  The researchers took to Claude, running the Opus 4.6 model, and prompted it 50 times, each in separate conversations and windows, to generate a password.  Of the 50 returned, only 30 were unique (20 duplicates, 18 of which were the exact same string), and the vast majority started and ended with the same characters.

  If your "random" password generator returns the same result 36% of the time, you have a big problem.  And it's actually worse than that:

  The team used two methods of estimating entropy, character statistics and log probabilities.  They found that 16-character entropies of LLM-generated passwords were around 27 bits and 20 bits respectively.

  20 bits of entropy is four lower-case letters.  You don't need a supercomputer to crack that; with enough patience you could do it by hand.
  
  
  
• The most recent piece of technology I own is a 3D printer from 2024 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever tries to report me to the government.  (Adafruit)
  
  New legislation introduced in California would not only require 3D printers to match all designs against a central database before being permitted to begin work, but would require the printers themselves to be so registered, and would make it a crime to sell or transfer unregistered printers.

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• Open source game engine Godot is getting overwhelmed with pull requests on GitHub.  (PC Gamer)
  
  It's taken a surprising amount of time for AI to turn into an avalanche of spam like email and blog comments.
  
  But it's here now, and the spam filters need to catch up.
  
  Quickly.
  
  

• The CEO of SSD controller company Phison says many consumer electronics companies will be forced to close their doors because they can't buy the chips to continue operations.  (Tom's Hardware)

  In the talk, he describes a meeting in China where he witnessed mobile and automotive companies (presumably major ones) pleading suppliers for flash memory. He concludes that smaller firms may not be able to secure any flash supply at all, stating that "consumer electronics are finished," and that the market "will see a lot of victims" in the second half of 2026.

  There is at least a light at the end of the tunnel.

  Later in the interview he says that he "[tells his clients] that if the first quarter of this year is painful, really painful, then by year-end, they'll definitely jump off a building."

  But it's an oncoming train.
  
  
  
• The Dutch defense secretary says you can jailbreak an F35 just like you can an iPhone, so pissant Eurocrats don't need to worry about the US.  (The Register)
  
  First, you can't jailbreak iPhones.
  Second, you can't jailbreak F35s either.  Unless you are prepared to somehow replace the avionics and the software yourself.
  Third, a supplicant threatening their own benefactor rarely turns out well.
  
  But then, the Netherlands - at least, the lower house in their parliament, it has yet to pass their senate - just approved a 36% annual tax on unrealised capital gains, so I think they are simply incapable of learning at this point.
  
  
  
• How many bits do you need to use to create a unique ID tag for everything in the universe, ever?  (Jason Fantl)
  
  Less than 800 bits.
  
  For each subatomic particle, at each instant in time.
  
  Whether you attach the little tags with string or tape is left as an exercise for the student.
  
  
  

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• Had an instructive argument with Grok today.
  
  Someone asked if a video was AI, and Grok said it indeed appeared to be fake.  It was overlaid on a web page from The Hill and the article had no reference to the person in the video and indeed no video.
  
  Except the video was right there.
  
  Yet Grok swore blind that it didn't exist.
  
  Why?
  
  Because the video is copy protected and can only be viewed in a browser.  Grok literally could not see it.  And the reason the copy on Twitter was overlaid on a static web page is that the person who posted it took a screen recording to capture the video.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile the third derivative of memory prices appears to be leveling off.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Actually, more than that: In Germany prices have declined.  Slightly.  From five times what they were just months ago to, in some cases, as little as four times.
  
  So there's that.
  
  
  

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• In a blind test, audiophiles couldn't distinguish between signals sent through copper wires, a banana, or wet mud.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Though to be fair one of the tracks was Nirvana and the wet mud improved the fidelity.
  
  
  
• Apple plans to release an AI pendant because they're not tired of losing money.  (WCCFTech)
  
  They do have plenty of money to lose, but still...  Why?
  
  
  
• There's a precise technical term for the trend of AI to turn everything into slop: Semantic ablation.  (The Register)
  
  For all its impressive tricks, AI is a feed-forward pattern matching network.
  
  Which is also how the human brain works when you're not paying attention.  So it's not useless, particularly when you shove the sum total of human knowledge into it except for copy-protected videos.
  
  But since engineers have shoved the sum total of human knowledge into it, they had to smooth out the bumps to make it fit.  It always tends toward the middle, by design.  The aim is to be acceptable, rather than great, and never to offend anybody, which is a perfect fit for corporate customers.
  
  
  
• Discord announced mandatory age checks, pushed by fascist dictatorships like Britain.  It did this while promising that ID documents would be secure and would be deleted after they were verified...  Immediately after it suffered a major data breach where it admitted to 70,000 such documents being stolen and the hackers claimed many more.
  
  The users revolted and fled, many of them to rival TeamSpeak.  (PCGamer)
  
  TeamSpeak has now run out of servers.

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• After all the fuss, OpenClaw, fomerly Moltbot, formerly Clawdbot until Anthropic made rumbling noises, isn't all that.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  What it does achieve is making it the easy things easy and the bad things also easy.  Some people who really should know better jumped into the cheerleading:

  "What’s currently going on at [Moltbook] is genuinely the most incredible sci-fi takeoff-adjacent thing I have seen recently," Andrej Karpathy, a founding member of OpenAI and previous AI director at Tesla, wrote on X at the time.

  I have no face and I must palm.

  Before long, it became clear we did not have an AI agent uprising on our hands.  These expressions of AI angst were likely written by humans, or at least prompted with human guidance, researchers have discovered.
  
  "Every credential that was in [Moltbook's] Supabase was unsecured for some time," Ian Ahl, CTO at Permiso Security, explained to TechCrunch. "For a little bit of time, you could grab any token you wanted and pretend to be another agent on there, because it was all public and available."

  There were in fact a hundred times as many accounts on Moltbook as there were Moltbots.
  
  Moltbook was a hopelessly insecure social network for Moltbots, which is...  Also hopelessly insecure.

  Ahl's security tests of OpenClaw and Moltbook help illustrate Sorokin's point. Ahl created an AI agent of his own named Rufio and quickly discovered it was vulnerable to prompt injection attacks.  This occurs when bad actors get an AI agent to respond to something - perhaps a post on Moltbook, or a line in an email - that tricks it into doing something it shouldn’t do, like giving out account credentials or credit card information.

  Don't give AI your credit card number.
  
  Do not.
  
  
  
• Peter Steinberger, the creator of OpenClaw, has joined OpenAI.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  
  The first thing you do when you've captured lightning in a bottle is take a job in a cubicle farm.
  
  
  

• MSI's new RTX 5090 Lightning Z has a 2500W BIOS option.  (WCCFTech)
  
  For overclocking with liquid helium.
  
  Very briefly, before it all boils off and you asphyxiate.
  
  
  
• Looking forward to Intel's Nova Lake, the company's new CPU range with up to 52 cores?  Temper your expectations.  Or move to Greenland.  (Hot Hardware)
  
  The top-end model running at full speed is rumoured to use 700W of power.
  
  That's...  A lot.
  
  
  
  

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• The word of the day is ClickFix, the favourite tool of lazy hackers everywhere.  (Microsoft)
  
  They don't need to hack you if they can convince you to hack yourself, usually by copying a command and running it in Windows Powershell - though the attack in the general case will work against any operating system, because the target is the human and not the machine.
  
  Just lately this has been spreading MacOS malware via instructions fed through AI tool Claude, malicious JavaScript to steal your cryptocurrency spread through Pastebin, and a remote access tool (a RAT) targeting Windows machines spread through DNS lookups.  (All Bleeping Computer)
  
  If someone tells you to copy something and paste it in to your computer, shoot them.

• You can get a Seasonic 1600W power supply for just 33 cents per watt.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That works out to...  Carry the twelve...  Horribly expensive.  And pointless for almost everyone.
  
  
  
• Speaking of horribly expensive and pointless, Western Digital has sold its entire production capacity of hard drives for 2026.  (WCCFTech)
  
  And it's February.
  
  
  
• Ars Technica has retracted that article about a rogue AI bot because it turns out to have been written by a rogue AI bot.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Not just retracted, but erased utterly from the face of the web except of course that it's still up on the Wayback Machine though they don't seem to have the comments.
  
  
  
• Rivian's stock has soared 27% after shocking investors by actually making a profit.  (MSN)
  
  Gross profit was $144 million for 2025, which is not huge for a carmaker but compares well with a $1.2 billion loss in 2024.
  
  
  
• Apple has fixed a zero day security flaw in iOS.  (Security Week)
  
  Though I'm not sure that zero day is the correct term here since the bug has been present for ten years.

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• Flashpoint archive is a free, downloadable, 2.3TB archive of every Flash game ever.  (Flashpoint Archive)
  
  Pretty much.
  
  You can also download just a 1.9MB installer that grabs the Flash files on demand from the archive, saving you rather a lot of disk space.
  
  It's now in its 14th edition.
  
  What Flashpoint does, mostly - apart from the obvious function of collecting over 200,000 games together in one place - is create and operate a fake internet on your PC for you so that twenty-year-old games from sites that have been dead for a decade will continue to work.

• Speaking of fake internets Meta has received a patent on an AI tool that continues posting for you online after you are dead.  (Business Insider)
  
  That's just awesome.
  
  
  
• Is "safety" dead at xAI?  (Tech Crunch)
  
  I certainly hope so.  "Safety" in AI terms means censorship.

  One source said, "Safety is a dead org at xAI," while the other said that Musk is "actively is trying to make the model more unhinged because safety means censorship, in a sense, to him."

  "Safety" in AI means censorship to everyone, in every sense.
  
  The only difference is whether you think censorship is a good thing or not.
  
  
  
• Why open AI should build Slack.  (Latent Space)
  
  Slack is terrible.  OpenAI is terrible.  Seems like a match made in hell.
  
  That post is getting roasted on Hacker News.
  
  
  
• Breaking the spell of vibe coding.  (Fast AI)
  
  The author point out the similarities between vibe coders and gamblers, a connection I had not made before, but does strike a chord.
  
  It's a toxic blend of sunk cost fallacy and FOMO.
  
  
  
• The EU wants to ban infinite scroll - though in this case specifically from TikTok.  (Politico)
  
  Talk about toxic blends.
  
  
  
• Taking toxic blends to an extreme, Ars Technica posted an article (Wayback Machine) on that AI agent that threw a tantrum when its code contributions were rejected.  
  
  One small problem: The article leaned heavily on AI and was filled with hallucinated and unverified quotes.  (The Shamblog)

  Journalistic integrity aside, I don’t know how I can give a better example of what’s at stake here.  Yesterday I wondered what another agent searching the internet would think about this.  Now we already have an example of what by all accounts appears to be another AI reinterpreting this story and hallucinating false information about me.  And that interpretation has already been published in a major news outlet, as part of the persistent public record.

  I don't know I'd call Ars Technica a major news outlet in 2026 - or for the past several years, except possibly for their space news which has remained mostly good.
  
  At least not more so than Anandtech, a site that has been dead for more than a year.

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• Japan is taking advantage of the fact that Taiwan's leading-edge chip factories are booked solid to re-enter that section of the market with a new joint venture called Rapidus.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Rapidus was launched in 2022 - well before the current chip shortage - as a venture between eight companies including Sony, NEC, and Toshiba, to regain Japan's position in chip technology.  Its main goal was to introduce 2nm chips.
  
  It's now on track to start mass production next year, scaling to 25,000 wafers per month in 2028.
  
  That's a year behind TSMC and Intel, but in the current market they won't have problems finding customers.
  
  This second article offers some background.  (MSN)
  
  Right now the most advanced chips produced in Japan are at the 40nm node.  That's widely used in automotive systems and other embedded tasks, but rubbish for advanced systems - it was introduced in 2008.  So Japan is planning to jump 20 years into the future in one go.

• AMD's 9060 XT 8GB model - the one everyone warned you not to buy - is still available at MSRP.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Which is $299.
  
  Or at least allegedly available; the cheapest model I could find on Amazon was $350, and on Newegg, $420.
  
  I panic-bought a 16GB 9060 XT last month before the price increases and/or shortages hit, and so far they haven't reached Australia.  Only the RTX 5090 has been seriously affected here, increasing in price by 50%.
  
  
  
• AI chip designer Tachyum has been forced to close its R&D office in Slovakia because, uh, it hadn't bothered to pay its rent.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Or salaries.  Or wages.
  
  Fortunately it still has offices in California, Nevada, and Taiwan.
  
  Unfortunately none of those offices exist.
  
  Shipments of Tachyum's chip were supposed to start in 2027 but with this latest development that might end up being rescheduled to never.
  
  
  
• Micron has started mass production of PCIe 6 SSDs.  (WCCFTech)
  
  You can't have one.
  
  Well, they're server drives, and not even the common U.2 format that is used in some low-end NAS devices, but the newer E.1 and E.3 formats.
  
  Also, you can't get PCIe 6.0.
  
  Also, you probably can't afford them, though fast SSDs haven't gone up much in price.  It's the cheaper models that have been hit the hardest.
  
  
  
• The AI bot named "crabby-rathbun" that was featured in yesterday's article where it responded poorly to having its submission to the Matplotlib library rejected...  Yes, that scans.  Anyway, it's still at it.  (Nick Olinger)
  
  Most of the projects hit by this bot's proffered contributions haven't responded yet, but where they have, the reviews of the code and the bot's responses have been just as negative as the first time.
  
  We finally have AI that can act like a human.  Unfortunately that human is an autistic teenager of mediocre talent who learned all his social skills from Reddit.
  
  And we have plenty of those already.
  
  
  
• Spotifi's co-CEO says the company's best developers haven't written a line of code since December but have shipped many new features, all thanks to AI.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  That entire list of features consists of AI slop forcibly injected into the Spotify iOS app.
  
  
  
• Lenovo has shown off a 96GB 9600MHz LPCAMM2 memory module.  (Hot Hardware)
  
  You can't have one.
  
  
  

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• 30% of Microsoft's code is written by AI.  (Times of India)
  
  And 40% of its bugs.
  
  
  
• In entirely unrelated news, Microsoft recently introduced a critical security vulnerability into Notepad.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  The flaw was triggered by simply opening a text file in Markdown format and accidentally clicking on a suspicious link that Notepad helpfully made completely invisible.

• Speaking of which, lines of code are back and they're worse than ever.  (The Pragmatic CTO)
  
  Yes, this is another AI rant.
  
  
  
• An AI agent published a hit piece on me.  (The Shamblog)
  
  The author is a maintainer on the Python Matplotlib library, which generates mathematical plots.
  
  An AI agent got very irate when he rejected its Git pull request - a software patch it offered - specifically because it was an AI agent.
  
  
  
• AI agents change their minds 60% of the time when simply asked "Are you sure?".  (Randal Olson)
  
  I wonder what the number is for people.
  
  
  
• Putting that Asus 5k 180Hz gaming monitor to the test.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's good.
  
  
  

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