• Bluesky announced a new AI tool named Attie to help inmates create their own social feeds.  It did not go well.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  In three days Attie has accumulated 1500 followers - and been blocked by 125,000 users, which is to say all of them.
  
  That's more blocks than even the ICE account, suggesting that while the inmates are clinically insane they are not entirely stupid.
  
  
  

Tech News

• Life with AI is frying human brains.  (France24)
  
  It's like managing a hundred toddlers that never sleep.
  
  
  
• Restoring old photos with AI is a fundamentally broken concept.  (Petapixel)
  
  It works for movies, because movies have massive amounts of redundant information - most of each frame is identical to the previous, with just some elements shifted.
  
  With photos all you have is the photo.
  
  
  
• Or not even that: Sony has shut down almost its entire memory card business.  (Petapixel)
  
  Only a few models survived the mass cancellations which hit capacities from a lowly 64GB to a hefty 2TB.  AI taketh away, and AI taketh away some more.
  
  
  
• The latest Windows 11 update isn't.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Microsoft has pulled the update entirely because it didn't work.  At all.
  
  
  
• AMD's Zen 6 server CPUs have shown up in test results.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  These are engineering samples and probably not running even close to full speed, but they are already competitive with Zen 5.
  
  Interesting point: The high-end models have 24 or 32 cores per chip (and up to 8 chips on the CPU).  That's expected for server Zen 6c models (AMD's efficiency cores), but if they're not efficiency cores that's a big surprise.
  
  
  
• You can get a 2TB Crucial P310 for $215 on Amazon.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Yay.
  
  I ordered two of these on sale for around $150 each on New Year's Eve.
  
  Amazon lost them.

Posted by: ragdoll hit at Tuesday, March 31 2026 06:43 PM (3J+3x)

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