• Anthropic has filed DMCA takedown requests against - so far - more than eight thousand online copies of their leaked Claude Code source code.  (Yahoo)
  
  Paging King Canute and Barbra Streisand.  Would King Canute and Barbra Streisand please come to the discourtesy phone.
  
  
  

Tech News

• AI can clone open source software in minutes - and that's a problem.  (TechSpot)
  
  Open source software is protected by copyright law, and that depends on the exact expression of the code.  It's easy for an AI to make sufficient changes to dodge copyright law while keeping functionality intact.
  
  Or mostly intact.  In my experience even performing straightforward changes like that you still end up with some breakage.
  
  And of course this was possible before AI as well; it just took a little more effort.
  
  
  
• ONLYOFFICE has suspended its partnership with Nextcloud after the latter forked its product to create Euro-Office, targeting weenies.  (Neowin)
  
  Or you can just do that, I guess.
  
  
  
• Cloudflare has announced EmDash, a "spiritual successor" to WordPress created following Matt Mullenweg's spiral into insanity.  (Phoronix)
  
  Or that too.  More work than just stealing stuff outright though.
  
  
  
• Sweden has moved away from computers in the classroom and back to books and paper following a long term decline in student test results.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Sounds good as long as I don't have to write term papers longhand.
  
  
  
• Artemis II is off on its way almost to the moon.  (NASA)
  
  Missed it by that much.
  
  
  
• SpaceX has filed for an IPO. targeting a valuation of $1.75 trillion.  (Reuters)
  
  Which...  Is still a lot.
  
  
  
• Tech startup R3 Bio is creating brainless clones for organ harvesting.  (MIT Technology Review)
  
  Hey, I've seen this one!  It's a classic!
  
  
  
• The CEO of America's largest public hospital system says he's ready to replace radiologists with AI.  (Radiology Business)
  
  Let a thousand lawsuits bloom.
  
  
  
• DRAM prices are expected to jump 63% in Q2, and NAND flash for SSDs by 75%.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Panic buying before the worst of the price increases hit looks like it was a good move.  I have enough memory and storage to keep going for years.
  
  
  
• On the other hand, if you're in the market for a new mid-range graphics card, look out for discounted 16GB XFX Radeon 9060 XTs.  I bought one early this year as part of my panic attack, and they have very much bucked the trend by cutting the price by 20% since then.
  
  That's in Australia but the price here would be equivalent to $310, against an MSRP of $350.
  
  Not a high-end card but fast and capable and not overly power-hungry.
  
  
  
• Guess what also costs around $310?  The 16GB Raspberry Pi.  (Jeff Geerling)
  
  I was thinking of buying one - actually the Pi 500+, which is the model built in to a mechanical keyboard - but passed on it because at the time only the keyboard itself was available and not the bundled desktop kit with a matching mouse and cables and power supply.
  
  That model is the worst affected, but even the 4GB Pi 5 has increased in price by 75%.
  
  
  
• Microsoft says you can avoid viruses in messages by never reading your messages.  (The Register)
  
  This is true.
  
  
  
• Nova Lake HX - the laptop range for Intel's next generation - will come with up to 28 cores.  (WCCFTech)
  
  That's only a minor change, though.  Existing Intel laptop chips have up to 8 P-cores and 16 E-cores.  Nova Lake HX adds four low-power cores to that.
  
  Also, as with the current Panther Lake family, there will models with the advanced integrated graphics (branded as B390), but then you get half as many CPU cores.  You can't have both.

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