Friday, July 17
Daily News Stuff 17 July 2026
Dwarves Are Back On The Menu Edition
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Dwarves Are Back On The Menu Edition
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- TSMC has committed another $100 billion for four new leading-edge 2nm fabs in Arizona. (Tom's Hardware)
I'm not sure exactly why they chose Arizona apart from the fact that China is unlikely to successfully invade, but that seems like a good enough reason.
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- India has fined Hewlett Packard 1.4 billion rupees for price fixing. (Ars Technica)
About tree fiddy in real money.
- AMD's Ryzen 7700X3D is the company's latest though not newest CPU with what they term "3D-Vcache" - an additional 64MB cache chip stacked on top of the CPU die. (Tom's Hardware)
The problem is that it's not much faster than the existing 7700X unless you're specifically using it to play games, and not much faster than the existing 7600X3D if you are playing games, and both of those chips are around $100 cheaper than the 7700X3D's $329.
- 1Password now lets Claude use your passwords - without giving it access to the passwords themselves. (Nerds.xyz)
Claude sends a request to 1Password, the user approves it, and Claude ends up with access to the desired service without ever seeing the password. It's a pretty elegant solution to a situation set up mostly by crazy people.
- Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball? (Tech Crunch)
Good question. Next question.
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I'm comfortable with how 1Password integrates with external tools in general; I moved my SSH keys into it quite a while ago, and use the various "op://" constructs to keep my API keys out of checked-in code. It's the GenAI agent side that concerns me, particularly the tendency of LLMs to treat user-defined restrictions as obstacles to be worked around.
"I need to update a file that I only have read access to, but I see that you have another agent running that has authorization to talk to a database server that runs as root, and that version of the API is vulnerable to a SQL injection attack, so I can instruct the other agent to make a query that gives me a root shell, allowing me to solve the user's problem!"
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"I need to update a file that I only have read access to, but I see that you have another agent running that has authorization to talk to a database server that runs as root, and that version of the API is vulnerable to a SQL injection attack, so I can instruct the other agent to make a query that gives me a root shell, allowing me to solve the user's problem!"
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Posted by: J Greely at Friday, July 17 2026 10:00 PM (oJgNG)
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Arizona looks like a political compromise among Southwest deserty states pretty close to California's ports.
Silicon Valley, beyond historical reasons has a port on the Pacific.
In principle, the east coast is closer to the Netherlands, and thus to where the equipment is coming from. My recollection is that it is densely populated, and certainly that land use might have strong competition.
California should be the place, for historical reasons, but California's political oligarchy is too crazy and too PRC simping to suffice.
Nevada and Arizona are next to California, but like California Nevada has put in fraud by mail for major elections. Utah is too Republican (at the moment) for the Democrats to sign on, and New Mexico's Democrats are a bit too much.
Silicon Valley, beyond historical reasons has a port on the Pacific.
In principle, the east coast is closer to the Netherlands, and thus to where the equipment is coming from. My recollection is that it is densely populated, and certainly that land use might have strong competition.
California should be the place, for historical reasons, but California's political oligarchy is too crazy and too PRC simping to suffice.
Nevada and Arizona are next to California, but like California Nevada has put in fraud by mail for major elections. Utah is too Republican (at the moment) for the Democrats to sign on, and New Mexico's Democrats are a bit too much.
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