• Flashpoint archive is a free, downloadable, 2.3TB archive of every Flash game ever.  (Flashpoint Archive)
  
  Pretty much.
  
  You can also download just a 1.9MB installer that grabs the Flash files on demand from the archive, saving you rather a lot of disk space.
  
  It's now in its 14th edition.
  
  What Flashpoint does, mostly - apart from the obvious function of collecting over 200,000 games together in one place - is create and operate a fake internet on your PC for you so that twenty-year-old games from sites that have been dead for a decade will continue to work.

• Speaking of fake internets Meta has received a patent on an AI tool that continues posting for you online after you are dead.  (Business Insider)
  
  That's just awesome.
  
  
  
• Is "safety" dead at xAI?  (Tech Crunch)
  
  I certainly hope so.  "Safety" in AI terms means censorship.

  One source said, "Safety is a dead org at xAI," while the other said that Musk is "actively is trying to make the model more unhinged because safety means censorship, in a sense, to him."

  "Safety" in AI means censorship to everyone, in every sense.
  
  The only difference is whether you think censorship is a good thing or not.
  
  
  
• Why open AI should build Slack.  (Latent Space)
  
  Slack is terrible.  OpenAI is terrible.  Seems like a match made in hell.
  
  That post is getting roasted on Hacker News.
  
  
  
• Breaking the spell of vibe coding.  (Fast AI)
  
  The author point out the similarities between vibe coders and gamblers, a connection I had not made before, but does strike a chord.
  
  It's a toxic blend of sunk cost fallacy and FOMO.
  
  
  
• The EU wants to ban infinite scroll - though in this case specifically from TikTok.  (Politico)
  
  Talk about toxic blends.
  
  
  
• Taking toxic blends to an extreme, Ars Technica posted an article (Wayback Machine) on that AI agent that threw a tantrum when its code contributions were rejected.  
  
  One small problem: The article leaned heavily on AI and was filled with hallucinated and unverified quotes.  (The Shamblog)

  Journalistic integrity aside, I don’t know how I can give a better example of what’s at stake here.  Yesterday I wondered what another agent searching the internet would think about this.  Now we already have an example of what by all accounts appears to be another AI reinterpreting this story and hallucinating false information about me.  And that interpretation has already been published in a major news outlet, as part of the persistent public record.

  I don't know I'd call Ars Technica a major news outlet in 2026 - or for the past several years, except possibly for their space news which has remained mostly good.
  
  At least not more so than Anandtech, a site that has been dead for more than a year.

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• Japan is taking advantage of the fact that Taiwan's leading-edge chip factories are booked solid to re-enter that section of the market with a new joint venture called Rapidus.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Rapidus was launched in 2022 - well before the current chip shortage - as a venture between eight companies including Sony, NEC, and Toshiba, to regain Japan's position in chip technology.  Its main goal was to introduce 2nm chips.
  
  It's now on track to start mass production next year, scaling to 25,000 wafers per month in 2028.
  
  That's a year behind TSMC and Intel, but in the current market they won't have problems finding customers.
  
  This second article offers some background.  (MSN)
  
  Right now the most advanced chips produced in Japan are at the 40nm node.  That's widely used in automotive systems and other embedded tasks, but rubbish for advanced systems - it was introduced in 2008.  So Japan is planning to jump 20 years into the future in one go.

• AMD's 9060 XT 8GB model - the one everyone warned you not to buy - is still available at MSRP.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Which is $299.
  
  Or at least allegedly available; the cheapest model I could find on Amazon was $350, and on Newegg, $420.
  
  I panic-bought a 16GB 9060 XT last month before the price increases and/or shortages hit, and so far they haven't reached Australia.  Only the RTX 5090 has been seriously affected here, increasing in price by 50%.
  
  
  
• AI chip designer Tachyum has been forced to close its R&D office in Slovakia because, uh, it hadn't bothered to pay its rent.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Or salaries.  Or wages.
  
  Fortunately it still has offices in California, Nevada, and Taiwan.
  
  Unfortunately none of those offices exist.
  
  Shipments of Tachyum's chip were supposed to start in 2027 but with this latest development that might end up being rescheduled to never.
  
  
  
• Micron has started mass production of PCIe 6 SSDs.  (WCCFTech)
  
  You can't have one.
  
  Well, they're server drives, and not even the common U.2 format that is used in some low-end NAS devices, but the newer E.1 and E.3 formats.
  
  Also, you can't get PCIe 6.0.
  
  Also, you probably can't afford them, though fast SSDs haven't gone up much in price.  It's the cheaper models that have been hit the hardest.
  
  
  
• The AI bot named "crabby-rathbun" that was featured in yesterday's article where it responded poorly to having its submission to the Matplotlib library rejected...  Yes, that scans.  Anyway, it's still at it.  (Nick Olinger)
  
  Most of the projects hit by this bot's proffered contributions haven't responded yet, but where they have, the reviews of the code and the bot's responses have been just as negative as the first time.
  
  We finally have AI that can act like a human.  Unfortunately that human is an autistic teenager of mediocre talent who learned all his social skills from Reddit.
  
  And we have plenty of those already.
  
  
  
• Spotifi's co-CEO says the company's best developers haven't written a line of code since December but have shipped many new features, all thanks to AI.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  That entire list of features consists of AI slop forcibly injected into the Spotify iOS app.
  
  
  
• Lenovo has shown off a 96GB 9600MHz LPCAMM2 memory module.  (Hot Hardware)
  
  You can't have one.
  
  
  

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• 30% of Microsoft's code is written by AI.  (Times of India)
  
  And 40% of its bugs.
  
  
  
• In entirely unrelated news, Microsoft recently introduced a critical security vulnerability into Notepad.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  The flaw was triggered by simply opening a text file in Markdown format and accidentally clicking on a suspicious link that Notepad helpfully made completely invisible.

• Speaking of which, lines of code are back and they're worse than ever.  (The Pragmatic CTO)
  
  Yes, this is another AI rant.
  
  
  
• An AI agent published a hit piece on me.  (The Shamblog)
  
  The author is a maintainer on the Python Matplotlib library, which generates mathematical plots.
  
  An AI agent got very irate when he rejected its Git pull request - a software patch it offered - specifically because it was an AI agent.
  
  
  
• AI agents change their minds 60% of the time when simply asked "Are you sure?".  (Randal Olson)
  
  I wonder what the number is for people.
  
  
  
• Putting that Asus 5k 180Hz gaming monitor to the test.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's good.
  
  
  

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• Why the economics of orbital AI datacenters are so brutal.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  It doesn't make much sense unless you're both a major AI company and the world leader in orbital launch capacity, which narrows it down to slightly less than one company.
  
  Even for SpaceX it's not viable until Starship goes into volume production.  So far, as the article notes, the rocket hasn't yet achieved orbital flight.
  
  The other major problem is the lifespan of the datacenters.  If SpaceX uses cheap silicon solar panels, those will degrade fairly quickly in space.  But the current economics of AI chips limits the useful lifetime of the hardware to a similar period to the solar panels - about five years.
  
  But then what?  Drop entire datacenters into the ocean?  Do the fish need that much compute capacity?
  
  
  
• Meanwhile SpaceX's SuperHeavy booster - used to launch Starship - has passed the latest round of testing with flying colours.  (Ars Technica)
  
  The company may be ready for a test of its updated Starship V3 by the end of March.

• An overclocked 9800X3D performs exactly like a 9850X3D.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  No surprise since the 9850X3D is an overclocked 9800X3D.
  
  
  
• The 9800X3D remains the best selling CPU at retail outlets.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Which is interesting, because it's not exactly cheap.
  
  Second-best seller is the five year old 5800X, which uses DDR4 memory.  That's where system builders on a budget are spending their money.
  
  Intel is barely an afterthought in retail CPU sales.
  
  
  
• Intel's high-end Nova Lake chips are expected to be large and expensive.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The 24-core (8P + 16E) chiplets with the large L3 cache are expected to measure 150mm2, about 50% larger than AMD's 12-core (all Performance cores) Zen 6 chiplets with the cache die included.  And the top-of-the-line models will include two of those chiplets, manufactured on TSMC's 2nm and Intel's 1.8nm processes.
  
  Still, 48 cores (plus 4 low-power cores on the I/O chiplet) and 288MB of L3 cache is an awful lot for a desktop processor, even if 32 of the cores are efficiency models.
  
  With both these and AMD's 24-core Zen 6 CPUs set to show up later this year, it will be interesting to see how they compare, and if they can still deliver when attached to standard dual-channel DDR5 memory.
  
  
  
• Claud Code got dumbed down.  (Symmetry Breaking)
  
  Not the AI service itself, but the interface.
  
  Previously it told users what files the AI was examining.  Now that feature has been removed and you can only get a summary so devoid of detail as to be useless, or a stream-of-consciousness firehose so packed with detail as to be useless.
  
  The developers working on the tool at Anthropic appear to be actively fighting requests from an increasing number of users to simply change things back.\

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• The global memory market is set to hit $550 billion this year.  (Trendforce)
  
  Thanks a bunch, Sam Altman.
  
  Speaking of which, two of the SSDs I ordered during the brief sale late last year seem to have disappeared into the Twilight Zone.  Amazon gave me a refund without a fuss, but now I have to pay twice as much to replace them.  Though, given the compression of SSD prices, that does give me much better drives - Crucial T710 vs. P310.
  
  
  
• And while the Big Three memory makers don't plan to do anything to alleviate the shortage - quite the opposite - TSMC is planning to invest $45 billion on new factories this year.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The company is also working on a 1nm process due around 2030.
  
  

• Europe is working - well, not working so much, because they don't do that over there, but scheming - towards yet another failed attempt at breaking away from the clutches of the American payment processors.  (European Business Magazine)
  
  I don't know.  Have you tried...  Cash?
  
  
  
• Meanwhile in Japan the stock market gained $3 trillion on Prime Minister Sanae Takaichi's extremely successful re-election bid.  (European Business Magazine)
  
  Takaichi's party won a two-thirds supermajority in Japan's parliament even without the help of their coalition partner.  Her election platform includes plans to invest $700 billion in AI, semiconductor manufacturing, and quantum.
  
  
  
• Python's dynamic typing problem.  (While For Loop)
  
  The Python programming language is designed for rapid development of small, simple applications, but the exact features that make it shine there are a massive pain when your application stops being small and simple.
  
  I maintain an application containing about a million lines of Python at my day job, which is a long way beyond small or simple.  When your programming language does not force rigour upon you, you had better be prepared to provide it yourself.
  
  
  
• Microsoft has announced plans to make Windows 11 more confusing.  (Thurrott)
  
  And that's not my editorialising, that's straight from the article.
  
  
  
• And also more annoying.  (The Register)
  
  Same deal.
  
  
  
• Microsoft also issued a DMCA takedown against indie block game Allumeria.  (Notebook Check)
  
  The takedown has since despawned, but the developers thank the three trillion dollar company for the free publicity.

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• Get your ass to the Moon.  (Ars Technica)
  
  It may be a harsh mistress, but it's a lot closer to the shops.
  
  SpaceX is refocusing on lunar colonies as a short-term goal, and strip-mining the surface and feeding raw materials into railgun launch systems to provide the resources for the company's planned cloud of orbital datacenters and/or inconveniencing pesky bureaucrats on their holidays.
  
  SpaceX didn't mention any such thing, of course, but Eric Berger has read the classics.

• Intel's Nova Lake platform will support up to 48 PCIe lanes.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That's 16 PCIe 5.0 lanes from the CPU for slots and 8 for storage, plus up to 12 PCIe 5.0 and 12 PCIe 4.0 lanes from the chipset.  Given that even an RTX 5090 is barely slowed down by only having 4 lanes of PCIe 5.0 available, that's a pretty healthy number.
  
  And 8 SATA ports and approximately 40 USB ports.
  
  There are five different chipsets planned, though the W980 offers pretty much everything including support for ECC memory...  Which is not a chipset function but a CPU one, but something Intel likes to do.
  
  
  
• Linux 7.0 is almost here.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's one louder.
  
  Canonical hopes to ship it in Ubuntu 26.04 in April, which is cutting it pretty close.  But that's a long-term release and perhaps they'd rather have the very latest kernel in a version they will be supporting for a decade.
  
  
  
• GitHub fell over.  (GitHub Status)
  
  Because reasons.
  
  
  
• Nope.  (BBC)

  The company [Rilla] has become something of a poster child for a fast-paced workplace culture known as 996, also sometimes referred to as hustle culture or grindcore.
  
  In simple terms, it puts a premium on long working hours, typically 9am to 9pm, six days a week (hence "996").
  
  For most of us, that would be gruelling. But according to Will Gao, head of growth at Rilla, its 120 employees simply don't see it that way.

  When the "head of growth" says employees don't see it that way, you can take it to the bank that they absolutely do.

  "We look for people who are like Olympian athletes, with characteristics of, you know, obsession, infinite ambition.

  Galley slaves.

  He insists that while the hours are generally long, there's no rigid structure.
  
  "If I'm like, 'Holy cow, I have a super idea I'm working on', then I'll just keep working until 2 or 3am, then I'll just roll in the next day at noon or something", he explains.

  Nope.
  
  I have to work weird hours sometimes.  Comes with the job.
  
  But I have a rule that when I do need to work late, I don't clock in again for twelve hours, minimum.
  
  
  
   
• You'll need to verify your age on Discord by uploading government-issued photo ID if...  You want to see porn.  (The Verge)  (archive site)
  
  Didn't Discord already get hacked and leak a whole bunch of ID documents?
  
  Why, yes.  I do believe it did.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Also, who the hell watches porn on Discord?  That's what Twitter is for.

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• The robot revolution will not be televised in 8K.  (MSN)
  
  The recent fuss over AI-only social network Moltbook is deflating somewhat as it becomes clear that the filters controlling what could post on the networked worked as well as the security, which is to say, not at all:

  Replies and quote posts were quick to cast doubt on Karpathy's interpretation, however. One noted that Moltbook posts promoting bot-only languages or messaging platforms appeared to be connected to human accounts promoting the same ideas.  This wasn’t bots conducting independent conversations, these users argued, just human puppeteers putting on an AI-powered show.

  Also everything - Moltbook itself and the Moltbot / OpenClaw framework used for it - was and remains irreperably insecure.
  
  
  
• Still hedging my bets on the insect uprising: We saved the wrong bees.  (MSN)
  
  Well-meaning idiots, understanding nothing, making the situation worse.  Where have I heard this story before?

  "Suppose I were to say to you, 'I'm really worried about bird decline, so I’ve decided to take up keeping chickens.'  You'd think I was a bit of an idiot," British bee scientist Dave Goulson said in a video last year.  But beekeeping, he went on, is "exactly the same with one key difference, which is that honeybee-keeping can be actively harmful to wild-bee conservation."  Even from healthy hives, diseases flow "out into wild pollinator populations."

  There are more bees now than ever.
  
  There are also more chickens now than ever.
  
  That was never the problem.

• 8K televisions haven't taken off, which is a shame if you planned to use one as a large monitor. But 8K monitors for professional users are still here.  The Asus ProArt PA32KCX is one such.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  At a 32" screen size, 8K is all the resolution you will ever need.  Possibly slightly more.
  
  But at $8,799 you would hope so.
  
  For now if you need a high-resolution desktop display you are better off with a 5K monitor at a twelfth the price, or a 4K monitor for a fraction of that price.
  
  
  
• Western Digital has detailed its plans for a 140TB 14-platter 3.5" hard drive.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Not for you, but disk large disk drives were briefly available last year for reasonable prices.
  
  
  
• A C compiler in 512 bytes.  (XOrVoid)
  
  Here it is.  This is the complete binary file for the compiler - Base 64 encoded, so it's actually three quarters of this size in binary:

  6gUAwAdoADAfaAAgBzH/6DABPfQYdQXoJQHr8+gjAVOJP+gSALDDqluB+9lQdeAG/zdoAEAfy+gI AegFAYnYg/hNdFuE9nQNsOiqiwcp+IPoAqvr4j3/FXUG6OUAquvXPVgYdQXoJgDrGj0C2nUGV+gb AOsF6CgA68Ow6apYKfiD6AKrifgp8CaJRP7rrOg4ALiFwKu4D4Srq1fonP9ewz2N/HUV6JoA6BkA ieu4iQRQuIs26IAAWKvD6AcAieu4iQbrc4nd6HkA6HYA6DgAHg4fvq8Bra052HQGhcB19h/DrVCw UKroWQDoGwC4WZGrW4D/wHUMuDnIq7i4AKu4AA+ridirH8M9jfx1COgzALiLBOucg/j4dQXorf/r JIP49nUI6BwAuI0G6wyE0nQFsLiq6wa4iwarAduJ2KvrA+gAAOhLADwgfvkx2zHJPDkPnsI8IH4S weEIiMFr2wqD6DABw+gqAOvqicg9Ly90Dj0qL3QSPSkoD5TGidjD6BAAPAp1+eu86Ln/g/jDdfjr slIx9osEMQQ8O3QUuAACMdLNFIDkgHX0PDt1BIkEMcBaw/v/A8H9/yvB+v/34fb/I8FMAAvBLgAz wYQA0+CaANP4jwCUwHf/lcAMAJzADgCfwIUAnsCZAJ3AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAVao=

  The article is an interesting list of the tricks used to pull this off: Basically it's a Forth compiler that accepts C syntax.  Forth in turn is a legendarily simple compiler to implement that essentially bootstraps itself from a handful of assembly code instructions into a high-level language.
  
  For some values of "high level".
  
  
  
• Turning the Raspberry Pi 500+ into (outwardly) a BBC Micro.  (The Register)
  
  I had planned to buy a Raspberry Pi 500+ to use for retrocomputer emulation, but the full kit was not available in Australia (I would have needed to buy a 500+ and a 500 kit to have everything match) and all my available funds got dumped into buying DRAM before it all disappeared, and the 500+ has since increased sharply in price.
  
  At least it will probably be available.
  
  
  
• The Radxa Cubie A7S is a single board computer - similar to the Raspberry Pi but smaller - starting at $25.  (Liliputing)
  
  The CPU is an Allwinner A733, with two A76 cores at 2GHz and six A55 cores at 1.8GHz.  That actually compares pretty well with the Raspberry Pi 5's CPU which has four A76 cores at 2.4GHz.
  
  The $25 price is a lot cheaper than the 1GB Raspberry Pi 5 at $45, and even cheaper than the Raspberry Pi 4 which costs $35 for 1GB.
  
  Just three catches:
  
  First, it was briefly up for pre-order, but now it's entirely sold out.
  Second, there is a physically larger model - the A7A - that is in stock, but it costs $5 more.
  Third, that's not for 1GB of RAM.  That's for 4GB of RAM.
  
  I guess that last point is the opposite of a catch.
  
  
  
• Anthropic's new AI model, Claude Opus 4.6, is great at finding security flaws.  (Axios)  (archive site)
  
  That's good news, because AI models are also great at generating new security flaws.
  
  As of course are human programmers.

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• A trillion here, a trillion there.  Sooner or later, you're talking about fake money.
  
  The global semiconductor industry is on track to hit $1 trillion in sales for 2026.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That's up from $800 billion in 2025.
  
  The report doesn't compare shipment volumes with total revenue, though the writer of the article has the sense to point out this limitation.
  
  
  
• US tech stocks lost an aggregate $1 trillion as a little air was let out of the AI bubble.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It definitely hasn't popped, but it's a trillion dollars smaller than it was.
  
  
  
• The Big Three cloud platforms - Amazon's AWS, Google's Cloud, and Microsoft's Azure - have a trillion dollars in back-orders.  (Sherwood)
  
  Smaller cloud companies have similar backlogs, proportionally.
  
  And the hosting provider I use is temporarily out of the 9950X3D.

• The CIA World Factbook has been abruptly retired, after being around for more than 50 years in print, and nearly 30 years on the web.  (CIA)
  
  No reason was given.
  
  
  
• The EU is planning massive fines for TikTok because, essentially, it works and people use it.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  A trillion here, a trillion there...
  
  
  
• Disney has disabled Dolby Video and HDR10 in Europe due to reasons.  (Thurrott)
  
  The reasons being a patent dispute.
  
  The dispute is with Interdigital, a US company, but is taking place in German courts.
  
  
  
• Hollywoods big bet on AI is a bust.  (Wired)  (archive site)
  
  Whether used as a technology or as a plot line, human customers aren't buying it.
  
  
  
• Heroku isn't dead.  (Heroku)
  
  It's just pining for the fnords.
  
  Heroku was an early platform used by people who had an app to deploy but lacked the technical skills to run their own server.
  
  
  
• OpenClaw, formerly MoltBot, formerly ClawdBot, is full of holes.  (The Register)
  
  OpenClaw is an AI-generated AI agent that runs on Apple hardware and has found popularity among people who don't understand AI.
  
  Anyway, it leaks everything up to and including credit card numbers.

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• losetup is the key
  
  
  
• Nvidia will not be releasing any new video cards this year.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Their money is all tied up in not investing in OpenAI.
  
  They aren't likely to release anything new next year either.  The 5000 Super series appears to be dead and the 6000 series has been pushed back to 2028.
  
  That leaves the field wide open for AMD to fumble.
  
  
  
• Valve meanwhile will be releasing its new Steam Cube this year, just not quite yet.  (Liliputing)
  
  Real soon now though.

• Razer's new limited edition Boomslang costs $1337.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's a mouse.
  
  
  
• If you already have an Nvidia graphics card, congratulations!  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The latest Windows 11 update causes major problems, including reduced performance and graphics glitches.
  
  You can roll it back but the same update patches 114 security holes.
  
  
  
• It's 2026.  Just use Postgres.  (Tigerdata)
  
  Postgres is something of a database construction kit, but that is likely still less work than (as in the example provided) running seven different databases.
  
  
  
• There are multiple critical flaws in n8n, whatever that is.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  So what counts as critical these days?

  According to Pillar Security, exploiting CVE-2026-25049 enables complete compromise of the n8n instance and could be leveraged to run arbitrary system commands on the server, steal all stored credentials, secrets (API keys, OAuth tokens), and sensitive configuration files.

  Yeah, sounds pretty critical to me.
  
  
  

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