Ambient Irony

Saturday, August 29

Daily News Stuff 29 August 2026

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Stripe has decided maybe they won't buy PayPal after all. (Axios)

Apparently they got it confused with some place in Italy.
China is secretly fueling America's datacenter rage. (Axios)

The guys pushing for all the datacenters are making it easy for them, though.

Database binary is 5M. Language is 1.2M. Both squish by 60% using UPX and seem to run just fine. The language will probably be pushing 5M as well by the time it's done, but that seems fine.

Next step is to point the language at the database and rebuild my personal blog. If that works well, others will follow.

Database

The Ninth Circuit has ruled that gambling is gambling and can be regulated as gambling. (CNN)

Seems correct to me.
OpenAI, Anthropic, Google, and a hundred other rogue AI have called to band together to protect themselves against the public and private sector. (Tech Crunch)

Huh.
The Pentagon's classification of supply-chain risk Anthropic as a supply-chain risk posed a supply-chain risk to Anthropic, says federal judge... You have got to be shitting me. (The Guardian)

The script writers for this season are getting lazy.
Canada has "poached" literally dozen of "scientists" from the US. (CityNews)

You can tell how sciencey they are from the foam.
Idiots on PCs losing data. (Tom's Hardware)

I use Claude. I have a specific WSL instance set up for it. If it deletes it, I lose maybe an hour to reinstall the whole environment and pull the code back from Git.
Intel's 14A defect density is dropping faster than expected. Here's why that's a good thing. (Tom's Hardware)

Uh... Because defects are bad and having fewer of them is good?
How Cloudflare saved 100TB of RAM on its 1.1.1.1 DNS service. (Tom's Hardware)

They started out with 250TB of RAM.
The math ain't mathing. (WCCFTech)
During the second quarter, TSMC paid out NT$36 billion in bonuses, which marked a 50.6% growth over the year ago figure of NT$35 billion.
No. I don't think it did.

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