Tuesday, August 11
Daily News Stuff 11 August 2026
Delululemon Edition
Delululemon Edition
Top Story
- Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million opposing California's demented billionaire tax. (Tech Crunch)
The article says the tax would cost Brin $13 billion, but if so they have revised it. The original language would have hit Brin and Google co-founder Larry Page particularly hard due to how voting rights are assigned for their shares, sending his tax liabilities soaring to around $50 billion.
- Speaking of demented billionaires, Mark Zuckerberg wrote an essay on why we should be thankful for AI. (Tech Crunch)
And managed to make a convincing case... For the opposition.
Tech News
- TSMC can sidestep its $1 billion worth of Apple ASICs awaiting memory supplies by... Making more AI chips? (WCCFTech)
What?
- TSMC doesn't have $1 billion worth of Apple ASICs awaiting memory supplies. (WCCFTech)
Supplies!
- Meta's new Muse Glimmer model provides an always-on AI model that can run on consumer hardware. (Meta)
All you need is a $5000 graphics card. And to run the model in quantized (half-precision or less) mode.
You do have a $5000 graphics card, don't you?
- Sorry, I meant $7000 graphics card. (Tom's Hardware)
You snoozed, you losed.
- Windows 11's built-in weather app uses 1.2GB of RAM all by itself. (Tom's Hardware)
Fire, for the killing with.
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On the one hand, I do not think meteorological calculations are necessarily completely straightforward. On the other hand, having the OS people implement those on everyone's local machine would be literally insane. On the gripping hand, however they did it, the lack of controls on RAM and processor budgets is appalling.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, August 12 2026 12:05 AM (6eVrQ)
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I like the Grok images. I particularly like the Spaceport, and the rocket launching form the island - it reminds me of villain lair from The Incredibles
Posted by: Zendo Deb at Wednesday, August 12 2026 02:43 PM (RItMw)
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The simple explanation for the weather app being a pig is that it's probably an Electron app.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, August 13 2026 02:59 AM (44CZr)
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but Padme/Anakin Tauri is a good alternative, right? (Better way to use Javascript and web developers for UI does not mean that you might not be better off with motif or something instead. But, presumably there are reasons why we can get GTK, FLTK, IUP, etc., and that motif has downsides I don't understand because I am not a real programmer yet. )
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thursday, August 13 2026 11:14 PM (6eVrQ)
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