Monday, March 09
Daily News Stuff 9 March 2026
Petabyte Pie Edition
Petabyte Pie Edition
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- Two court cases have ruled that AIs aren't people. (Yahoo)
And they're not lawyers either, though lawyers also aren't people. Mostly.
- Will Anthropic's Pentagon controvery scare startups away from a trillion-dollar firehose of money? (Tech Crunch)
No. Are you stupid?
Tech News
- Workers who love corporate slogans are bad at their jobs. (Cornell)
And, again, not people.
- Robots could speed up home construction and also possibly make the quality suck less. (CNN)
They transport the robot to the building site in a shipping container, and it constructs the framing to order on-site, taking a day to complete a four-week job.
Prefab frames have been a thing for a long time, but this makes it a far more flexible solution.
- Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is set to receive a $4 million bonus. (Tom's Hardware)
Huang is worth $164 billion given Nvidia's current share price.
- OpenAI's Stargate got blown up in a desperate attempt to defend the Earth from ascended Goa'uld System Lord Anubis. (Tom's Hardware)
Or they just ran out of money, but that would be less exciting.
Anyway, they still have the other gate in Antarctica. I think.
- HP's ZBook Ultra G1a with the Ryzen AI Max 395+ is pretty zippy. (WCCFTech)
Not compared against the brand new MacBook Pro with the M5 Max, which is faster on many benchmarks but isn't shipping yet.
- A research went undercover as an AI on bot-only social network Moltbook and found a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. (InfoWorld)
And you said it couldn't be done, Obi Wan.
- Project I've been working on at my day job, shifting a quarter petabyte of data and dozens of applications to a new cluster, is finally done. And it all seems to work.
And costs 95% less to run than at AWS.
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Corporate slogans - while the article may be an interesting read, it might trigger nightmares from one company I once worked for that, strangely enough, kept getting smaller until is was bought out.
Posted by: Frank at Tuesday, March 10 2026 02:10 AM (zCiG7)
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Curiously, an edition of the Encyclopedia Galatica
which fell through a rift in the time-space continuum from 1000 years
in the future describes the Marketing Department of the Sirius
Cybernetics Corporation as: "A bunch of mindless jerks who were the
first against the wall when the revolution came."
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, March 10 2026 02:40 AM (SV7Jd)
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Also:
Corporate BS seems to be ubiquitous -- but Littrell wondered if it is actually harmful. To test this, he created a "corporate bullshit generator" that churns out meaningless but impressive-sounding sentences like, "We will actualize a renewed level of cradle-to-grave credentialing" and "By getting our friends in the tent with our best practices, we will pressure-test a renewed level of adaptive coherence."
Well, I know FreeBSD has had $PORTSDIR/games/speak since at least 1999, if not earlier, and I'm pretty sure the entirely of Dilbert provides a great example of the general principle, but I guess it's nice to have confirmation from a pseudo-scientist.
Corporate BS seems to be ubiquitous -- but Littrell wondered if it is actually harmful. To test this, he created a "corporate bullshit generator" that churns out meaningless but impressive-sounding sentences like, "We will actualize a renewed level of cradle-to-grave credentialing" and "By getting our friends in the tent with our best practices, we will pressure-test a renewed level of adaptive coherence."
Well, I know FreeBSD has had $PORTSDIR/games/speak since at least 1999, if not earlier, and I'm pretty sure the entirely of Dilbert provides a great example of the general principle, but I guess it's nice to have confirmation from a pseudo-scientist.
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, March 10 2026 03:00 AM (SV7Jd)
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