• AMD says that not only will its new CPU stomp all over Nvidia's new CPU - three times the performance per watt on a rack-scale deployment, but its current two year old CPUs already deliver twice what Nvidia is promising.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Promises vs. promises is all whatever, but promises vs. currently shipping product when the currently shipping product wins is not great for Nvidia.
  
  What's more, Intel's current CPUs are nearly 50% faster than Nvidia's future CPUs in the same tests.

• More on that Dario and the Wolf story.  (Twitter)
  
  Anthropic's Fable model is their existing Mythos mythos model with additional controls to prevent abuse.
  
  Those controls were broken.
  
  Anthropic said they weren't broken broken and refused to do anything about it.
  
  The US government then showed them the far side of regulatory capture.
  
  
  
  
  
• The only scalable delete in PostgreSQL is DROP TABLE.  (PlanetScale)
  
  Bobby, your country needs you.
  
  
  
• The UK is planning to ban social media for children under 16.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  But not Bluesky.  Same thing happened in Australia.
  
  
  
• Bitcoin is down to just $64,000 after peaking over $110,000 in the past year.  (CNBC)
  
  The people who bought at 50 cents will be devastated.
  
  
  

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Posted by: Rick C at Monday, June 15 2026 11:00 PM (iSD2J)

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