• 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 tales revenue targets.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Nvidia, Oracle, AMD, and pretend-AI company Coreweave were all caught in the crossfire.
  
  Not enough though.

• 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.

Posted by: PatBuckman at Thursday, April 30 2026 12:32 AM (s6adZ)

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