• While the rest of us are worrying about moving on from Windows 10 and updating out hard drives to SSDs, the government is preparing to move away from Windows 95 and floppy disks.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Fortunately it's nothing important and nobody's lives are at risk.
  
  It's just the US Air Traffic Control system.

• Kioxia - formerly a division of Toshiba - is preparing to release new, faster XL Flash SSDs to compete with Intel's Optane.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And since Intel has abandoned Optane, they have the market for high-speed SSDs to themselves.  And there is a market - data bases generally, and AI-oriented databases specifically because those guys have billions of dollars.
  
  XL Flash is SLC - one bit per memory cell, compared to three or four on common consumer drives - and reduces access times from a typical 30 to 50 microseconds down to three to five microseconds.
  
  
  
• Sonoma County has converted its drone program originally proposed to track down illegal cannabis farms into a privacy-busting airborne HOA.  (SFGate)
  
  Is your grass a millimetre too long?  They will find you, and take pictures.
  
  
  
• Can AI companies train their systems strictly on public-domain documents?  No.  (MSN)
  
  Also loading publicly available data onto a computer is not copyright infringement no matter what the rent-seeking communists at Reddit would like you to believe.
  
  
  
• Apple has warned Australia not to follow the EU in opening up the App Store to allow competition, because that would be bad...  For Apple.  (NeoWin)
  
  Europe's Digital Markets Act and recent antitrust lawsuits in the US have finally loosened Apple's death grip on its own platform and its automatic 30% cut on any money that comes anywhere near an iPhone.
  
  
  
• Anthropic's AI is not writing it's own blog.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  The company has an entire team of editors revising and fact-checking what eventually makes it onto the nominally AI-generated blog, because even AI companies don't trust AI.
  
  

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• Move fast and blow up rockets: SpaceX is already preparing Starship Flight 10 for testing.  (WCCFTech)
  
  No launch date has been set just yet, but just over a week after Flight 9 suffered an attitude control failure, SuperHeavy Booster 16 underwent a static test fire in preparation for flight with the latest Starship module.

• Is the MSI X870E Tomahawk WiFi the high-end AMD motherboard to get?  Probably.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's not the one I got, just the one I probably should have got.  It's still not perfect due to the limited number of PCIe lanes available with AMD's chipsets - Intel is better on this - but it has fewer constraints than the Gigabyte board I have.
  
  Specifically on my board if you use M.2 slots 2 and 3 it cuts the main PCIe slot from x16 to x8 - not the end of the world, but inconvenient - and if you use M.2 slot 4 it turns off the secondary PCIe slot entirely.  The MSI doesn't do that, though if you use both M.2 slot 2 and the USB4 ports, both run at PCIe 5.0 x2.
  
  I bought an M.2 RAID card because it adds four slots - effectively three, because it needs to go in the secondary PCIe slot so I can't use M.2 slot four - and it cost half as much as a new motherboard.  But with the added cost of the MSI board over the Gigabyte models is half of that, and worth it if you don't want to worry about things not working.
  
  
  
• The little-known tax code change that led to mass tech industry layoffs unless it had nothing to do with any of that.  (Quartz)
  
  The change - proposed in 2017 during Trump's first term and taking effect in 2022 - made it so that companies could not immediately write off R&D expenses but had to depreciate them over a period of years...  Like most things.
  
  The link between the tech layoffs of recent years and the changes to the tax code seems to be entirely unsupported.
  
  
  
• Vibe Coding ain't shit.  (ShiftMag)
  
  Let's say you have a great idea for a new app.  You pay some guys in Uzbekistan to develop it for you.  You put it up on the AppStore.
  
  It looks great.  Everyone's happy.  And then within a week it gets hacked and all your customers lot only lose their data but the contents of their bank accounts, you're facing a class action lawsuit, the guys in Uzbekistan have disappeared, and you have no idea what happened.
  
  That's Vibe Coding.
  
  Treat it like you're a twelve-year-old girl and the people promoting it are offering candy from the back of a van.
  
  
  
• The SiPeed NanoCluster is a cluster only nano.  (Liliputing)
  
  It supports up to seven compute modules - SiPeed's own or the Raspberry Pi CM4 or CM5 (equivalent to the Raspberry Pi models 4 and 5 respectively, reasonably enough).  The cluster itself only costs $45, and equipped with seven eight-core, 8GB AI-optimised blades it still comes out to under $1200 and uses less than 65W of power.
  
  This is meant more for robotics and automation than to compete with commercial AI racks, which cost a thousand times as much and use a thousand times as much power.
  
  
  
• Solving a mysterious murder from 14th-century England with advanced mapping except not.  (Ars Technica)
  
  The guilty parties were identified and convicted in 1337, so the mapping project just...  Translated the verdict from Latin?
  
  
  

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• AMD's "budget" Radeon 9060 XT graphics card is here.  Is it any good?  (Ars Technica)
  
  Yes.  And also no.
  
  The 16GB model is pretty decent if you can find it for under $400.  The MSRP is $349 for basic models, but they sold out pretty quickly in the US.  You should still be able to find slightly faster models for around $389.
  
  (In Australia the MSRP models are still available.)
  
  The 8GB model is $50 cheaper and is readily available at MSRP because it sucks and you shouldn't buy it.
  
  It's consistently faster than Nvidia's RTX 5060 and the same price.  Compared to the 5060 Ti it's cheaper, and faster on non-ray-traced games, though a little slower in ray-traced titles.  (And a lot slower on Black Myth Wukong which significantly favours Nvidia hardware, but that's an outlier.)
  
  If you want a graphics card that is merely a bit expensive but not actually insanely overpriced, this is the one to buy.
  
  (Or go back in time a few months and nab a 7800 XT for $400 like I did.)

• SpaceX is planning to build an advanced chip packaging factory in Texas.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That is, a factory that takes individual silicon dies and puts them together to build a more complicated "chip".  AMD's server CPUs for example can contain up to 17 individual "chiplets".
  
  SpaceX plans to go a bit further, packaging devices up to, uh, two feet square.
  
  
  
• Highpoint has a PCIe 5.0 SSD RAID card that takes four M.2 drives and costs less than $1000.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That includes no SSDs.
  
  I did buy a similar PCIe 3.0 RAID card, but that only cost me $200.  It still delivers up to 8GB per second, which is more than enough for me.
  
  
  
• Living without episodic memory.  (AtherMug)
  
  Better than mistaking your wife for a hat, but still a subtly unsettling read.
  
  
  
• Intel wants a 50% gross margin on all new products.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Same.
  
  
  
• Discord's CEO is just as worried about "enshittification" as you are.  (Engadget)
  
  (Looks at Discord.)
  
  No.  No he is not.
  
  
  
• Anthropic cut off direct access to its AI services to coding startup Windsurf because they suspsected the latter company was being targeted for acquisition by OpenAI.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  They were right.
  
  
  
• Regulate me!  Regulate me!  (New York Times)  (archive site)
  
  Anthropic is upset that the AI industry is not being targeted with an impenetrable swamp of state-level regulations that only a multi-billion-dollar can afford to navigate, because it is a multi-billion-dollar company and can afford to navigate it.
  
  How can we have regulatory capture without regulations?

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• Microsoft's LinkedIn chief is running Office as part of an AI reorg.  (The Verge)
  
  Abort, abort, abort.
  
  WordPerfect is still available if you're allergic to free.

• Sydney cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains.  (Science)
  
  Oddly, I see far fewer cockatoos now that I live out in the country than I did in the suburbs of Sydney.
  
  
  
• If you're tired of gigabit Ethernet, why not try terabit?  (Serve the Home)
  
  1.6 terabit, in fact.
  
  Networking is the one area where if you pay enough money you can get whatever speed you like.
  
  
  
• How much energy does it take to think?  (Quanta)
  
  More than I have right now.  It's been a long day.
  
  
  
• The court handling the New York Times lawsuit against OpenAI - which I suspect is baseless though neither party has behaved exactly admirable - has ordered the company to preserve all logs for all users, including data that the user has nominally deleted, creating a privacy nightmare.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Or rather, none of the three parties including the court itself has behaved admirable.
  
  
  
• Reddit has filed suit against Anthropic, alleging that the company has accessed the site 100,000 times in the past year despite a big sign on the tree fort saying "NO GIRLS ALLOWED".  (The Verge)
  
  The one thing keeping Reddit alive right now is charging huge amounts to AI companies for human-generated content.
  
  Reddit itself is increasingly overrun with AI generated content.
  
  Oh no.
  
  
  
• ChatGPT can now ready your Google Drive and Dropbox.  (The Verge)
  
  No it fucking can't.

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• We can remember your pet for you, wholesale.  (The Atlantic)  (archive site)
  
  Your pet can live forever.  Except when it dies.  But then we can bring it back, better than new, ready to chew on your shoes and piddle on the rug all over again.
  
  Also, race horses.  Because that's where the real money is.
  
  ViaGen just missed one thing: The name.

• Nvidia suggests you turn down the settings on the demo of new game Hell is Us on their cards or it kind of won't work.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The game also requires an RTX 4090 to achieve even 30fps at 4k resolution, so this is not entirely Nvidia's fault.
  
  
  
• Add -noai or ?udm=14 to stop Google's "helpful" AI summaries.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Also includes a guide on how to tell Chrome and similar browsers to do that automatically.
  
  
  
• We are Harvard researchers.  We'd rather discriminate against Jews than save lives.  (The Times)  (archive site)
  
  That's not the worst of it, either.  Of a scientist bewailing the loss of her $60 million research contract thanks to Harvard's illegal bigotry and intransigence, the article says:

  The Harvard researcher Dr Sarah Fortune was only two years away from creating a vaccine that could have saved the 1.25 million people killed each year by tuberculosis.  But last month, she received a letter telling her that the $60 million grant funding her research was being halted by President Trump.

  Your choice, Miss Fortune.
  
  But:

  But now, "all the data and knowledge" her team has gathered "is gone”.
  
  "It’s as if those studies never happened," she said.

  As if.
  
  
  
• Facebook is planning to revive an old nuclear power plant.  (The Verge)
  
  And refurbish is volcano lair.
  
  
  
• Facebook (and Yandex) are spying on you.  (GitHub)
  
  Using the old Zoom trick.
  
  
  
• You can't copyright Eleanor.  (Car and Driver)
  
  A design patent, maybe?
  
  

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• A pro-AI subreddit (one of the individual forums on the Reddit site) has started banning crazies who think the AI trees are talking to them.  (404 Media)

  The moderators of a pro-artificial intelligence Reddit community announced that they have been quietly banning "a bunch of schizoposters” who believe "they've made some sort of incredible discovery or created a god or become a god,” highlighting a new type of chatbot-fueled delusion that started getting attention in early May.

  Yep, that sounds like Reddit alright.

  "LLMs [Large language models] today are ego-reinforcing glazing-machines that reinforce unstable and narcissistic personalities,” one of the moderators of r/accelerate,wrote in an announcement. "There is a lot more crazy people than people realise. And AI is rizzing them up in a very unhealthy way at the moment.”

  Oh.  Those guys.
  
  They are also crazy.
  
  
  

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• AMD's new 9060 XT could be 5% slower than Nvidia's 5060 Ti rather than 5% faster, according to leaked third-party benchmarks.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  On the other hand, the 16GB 9060 XT at $349 is cheaper than even the 8GB model of the 5060 Ti at $379, making it the easy and obvious choice given that 8GB cards are terrible for recent games.
  
  On the third hand, these MSRP numbers are all imaginary and we'll have to wait and see what is actually available.
  
  
  
• AMD meanwhile is trying to defend the existence of the 8GB model of the 9060 XT.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Both the current Xbox and PlayStation have 16GB of RAM, so games ported from consoles to PC very often want more than 8GB of video RAM to run smoothly, or sometimes to run at all, sometimes turning into slideshows at even modest settings, or simply crashing entirely.
  
  Intel's B580 is not a fast card, but it does provide 12GB of VRAM at a nominal $249, something that neither Nvidia nor AMD can provide.
  
  
  
• After running 80,000 simulations across all available polling data, researchers have concluded that the Milky Way is less than 50% likely to collide with the Andromeda Galaxy over the next ten million years.  (Science Alert)
  
  They announced that it is more likely to collide with Hillary Clinton.
  
  
  
• The Liberux Nexx is a Linux-based smartphone with more-or-less adequate specs.  (IndieGogo)
  
  It has an Arm Cortex A76 chip, which ranks as "okay, I guess".
  
  And flagship pricing - around $1500 during the pre-order stage and a proposed $2000 if it ever reached retail.
  
  
  
• It's a small world after all: The planet is in the midst of a climate catastrophe and here's Google doing Google things.  (Notebook Check)
  
  I'm not sure what exactly is going on at Notebook Check, but maybe someone should check on them.
  
  Anyway, the reason I bring this nonsense to your attention is this:

  On May 20th 2025, MIT released an article breaking down the energy costs associated with each query run through a range of AI models, including Large Language Models (LLM) and image and video generators (Diffusion).
  
  Even if you exclude the 50 gigawatt-hours of electricity it took to train GPT-4, the smallest text-based model with 8 billion parameters uses 57 joules of energy per response or 114 joules when accounting for cooling.  On a large model with 50 times more parameters, that number climbs to 3,353 joules (6706 with cooling) for each response.
  
  It would be counterintuitive to get into the maths here, as MIT do a far better job, likening each response to travelling 400 feet (122 meters) on an e-bike. Google processes around 158,500 searches every second.  So, by MIT's maths, if we could capture the power associated with running Gemini for 1 second, a person could travel 19,337 kilometres on an e-bike, or roughly one and a quarter times around the planet.

  The Earth is 40,000 kilometres in circumference.
  
  Almost exactly.  It was exact, because that's how the metre was originally defined, but they got it slightly wrong and it was a little too late to change once they got GPS operational and found the real number.
  
  
  
• AirBnB wants to build the "everything app".  (The Verge)
  
  No.
  
  
  
• Salesforce has bought Moonhub, a startup building AI tools for hiring, for an undisclosed sum.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Also no.
  
  
  
• How Digg is building a website for humans.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  A novel concept in this era.
  
  I don't think the new Digg is likely to succeed, but anyone willing to take on the festering groupthink hugbox of Reddit is welcome to try.

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• There's a new fastest gaming graphics card on the market: The Nvidia RTX Pro 6000, priced at around $10,000.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  For five times the MSRP of the previous leader, the RTX 5090, it's all of 14% faster.
  
  And it draws 596W of power under load, compared to the rated maximum of its 12VHPWR connector of 600W.  So if anything goes wrong, that could be $10,000 up in smoke.
  
  I think I'm good with my 7800 XT for now.

• Microsoft's new hardware certification standards mean fewer USB-C ports.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Well, the idea is that all USB-C ports should be able to deliver data, display, and power.  But not all USB-C ports can deliver data, display, and power, so the cheap, simple, and bloody obvious solution is to drop any USB-C ports that don't comply with the new rules.
  
  
  
• The IRS just open-sourced its file-transfer software.  (Reddit)
  
  And it's actually good?
  
  
  
• Microsoft Edge Game Assist is here.  (Hot Hardware)
  
  It tells you how to play your games, something that everybody loves.
  
  Fortunately it's easily avoided by not using Microsoft Edge.
  
  
  
• Why do lawyers keeping using ChatGPT?  (The Verge)  (archive site)
  
  Because they're stupid and lazy.
  
  Just like journalists, but they face real penalties for their stupidity and laziness.

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• CNN says that Anthropic's warning that AI could wipe out 50% of jobs is nonsense.  (CNN)
  
  For CNN, it's 100%.
  
  Maybe more.
  
  
  
• AI agents tasked with running a simple vending machine business act like petulant children, declare bankruptcy for no reason, and try to call the FBI over $2 business fees that they have previously agreed to.  (arXiv)
  
  Or to put it another way, just like CNN anchors.

• Gigabyte has listed memory supports speeds for AMD's Ryzen 9000G CPUs - which don't exist yet.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  These are desktop versions of laptop chips like the Ryzen 370.  That has four Zen 5 cores, eight slower Zen 5c cores, and 16 GPU cores - making it faster than the RX 580.
  
  We'll have to wait a few months to see how these perform on the desktop but given that previous laptop-to-desktop generations have shown as much as 35% better performance with the increased power budget the 9900G (if that is what the new 12-core chip is named) could perform close to existing 12-core chips like the Ryzen 7900.
  
  
  
• Molex - the company that makes those ubiquitous hard drive power connectors - showed off a PCIe 7.0 cable running at 128GHz over a distance of a meter.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Well, technically it's 32GHz because it's using PAM4 DDR signals, but it's still a lot.
  
  
  
• How not to sort by average rating.  (Evan Miller)
  
  The simple approaches are wrong and the right approach is definitely not simple.
  
  
  
• Running Doom on an Apple AIX Unix server from 1996.  (Old VCR)
  
  Or indeed any other AIX 4.1 system, should you have a bunch of those lying around.
  
  
  
• GitHub added a Copilot feature to use AI to automatically open support tickets and Git repo owners are pissed.  (GitHub)
  
  Imagine doing tech support for free and you get the attention of a scam call center in Myanmar because Google handed them your 2FA phone number.
  
  They are not happy.
  
  
  
• The Banana Pi BPI-R4 Pro has things.  (Liliputing)
  
  It's based on a four-core Arm Cortex A73 chip, so it should perform similarly to the Raspberry Pi 4.
  
  But unlike the Pi 4, it has seven Ethernet ports (one gigabit, four 2.5Gb, and two 10Gb supporting both RJ45 and SFP ports), two M.2 slots for storage, three M.2 slots for 5G (I think these can also take SSDs), two mini-PCIe slots for wifi, plus 8GB of built-in storage and 4GB or 8GB of RAM.  And a micro-SD slot.  And it looks like three nano-SIM slots.  And I think four USB ports including the debug port.
  
  So if you want all of that, it has it.  Would make a very flexible and powerful router if you need a very flexible and powerful router.
  
  
  
• Journalists keep embarrassing themselves.  Is that normal?  (The Verge)
  
  Apparently, yes.

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• Automattic says it will start contributing to WordPress again.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Automattic owns WordPress.
  
  That is, the software is open source, but the WordPress company is owned by Automattic, and that's how they make their money.  So their earlier announcement that they were not updating the software was slow corporate suicide to spite other people who were also not updating the software.
  
  These people are insane.
  
  Allegedly 43% of websites run on WordPress, leaving a huge market open to non-insane people.

• Ford is recalling a million vehicles over a software fault where the infotainment system can crash and disable the rearview camera, potentially leading to a more serious crash.  (Hot Hardware)
  
  This affects 2021-2025 models, mostly trucks but also Mustangs and Lincolns.
  
  It's just a software update, but if your vehicle can't update OTA like a phone, it requires a dealer to plug in and do the update for you.
  
  
  
• Dell has a backlog of orders for AI servers worth $14.4 billion right now.  (The Register)
  
  That's a good problem to have.
  
  
  
• The Beelink Mate Mini is not a mini-PC in itself, but a Thunderbolt 5 doc for the recent Mac Mini.  (Liliputing)
  
  It's designer to exactly match the size and style of the Mac Mini and sit unobtrusively underneath.
  
  It provides two USB ports, an audio jack, 2.5Gb Ethernet - which is good if you didn't buy the Mac Mini with the 10Gb Ethernet upgrade, an SD card slot, and most importantly, two M.2 slots for extra storage.  They're limited to about 4GBps speeds each, but that's pretty fast.
  
  There are a few similar products out there but they seem to be limited to 10Gb USB speeds, much slower than the potential of the Thunderbolt ports.
  
  
  
• I, a smug credentialled communist, am a good person, and anyone who disagrees with me is a bad person and deserves everything that happens to them, but I'm too nice to say so, so instead I'll turn them into an endless stream of grant proposals.  (Ars Technica)
  
  "Stop hitting yourself."
  
  
  

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• Why did Microsoft-backed startup Builder.ai abruptly collapse after achieving a market cap of $1.3 billion?  (Financial Express)
  
  You might think it was because it's AI.
  
  You'd be wrong.
  
  The whole thing appears to have been fake.  The company claimed to offer AI-driven programming services, but it looks like it was just a bunch of coders in Bangalore doing that work.
  
  On the other hand, it actually did deliver the promised code, which is more than a lot of "real" AI companies have managed.
  
  
  

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• There has never been more to watch on TV.  You just can't find any of it because everything sucks.  (Salon)
  
  Yes, Salon.  Yes, they're complaining about the internet again.
  
  But in this one specific instance they're not wrong.  I cancelled my Netflix account because it was becoming an unbearable chore to crawl through all their garbage looking for something I actually wanted to watch.
  
  
  
• Speaking of which Netflix is making a series based on the FTX blockchain Ponzi scheme called The Aristocrats.  (Twitter)
  
  Sorry, The Altruists.
  
  But it should have been named The Aristocrats.
  
  
  
• Beware of the fastmath option when compiling C code.  (Simon Byrne)
  
  It does unexpected things, and you just turned off all the warnings that would tell you about that.
  
  
  
• Stack Overflow has a plan.  (The New Stack)
  
  Its plan apparently is to collapse into irrelevance and thence bankruptcy.
  
  
  
• Journalists have negative value.  (The Verge)
  
  The article is a rant about private equity investment companies, but the whole thing happened because journalists have negative value.
  
  
  

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