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Ananaisotropic Edition Top Story Every fusion power startup that has raised over $100 million. (Tech Crunch) Your weekly reminder that it is the 21st century, and not everything is poop-flavoured ice cream. In a truly 21st century maneuver, one of the companies on the list announced plans to merge with a group owned by the sitting US president last December in a $6 billion deal. Speaking of the…
Twenty Essential Classical Elements Edition Top Story Who are you and what have you done with France? France's Constitutional Council has found the French government's plan to block social media access to children under 15 unconstitutional for the burden it would place on everyone over the age of 15. (Reuters) Kind of obvious but something that entirely escaped both major political parties here in…
Two Ventlemen Of Genoa Edition Top Story You get a letter of marque and reprisal! And you get a letter of marque and reprisal! Everybody gets a letter of marque and reprisal! (White House) (Yes, the White House) In Minecraft. Tech News Google's Gemini 3.7 Flash inhabits an interesting space near the Pareto Frontier of AI solutions. (Google) Near the frontier. Not on it. It is outclassed by…
Trurl And Klapaucius Are Dead Edition Top Story The "Godmother of AI" says the biggest risk to AI is students losing the desire learn. (Tech Spot) Don't know how to tell you this, Fei-Fei... Tech News If you want to buy Nvidia's RTX 6000 Pro Blackwell graphics card, it will now cost you $16,000. (Tom's Hardware) Which is a lot. Intel says, hey, maybe there's money to be made in the memory…
Viverrid Browser Edition Top Story SK Hynix plans to expand its production in China by 50%. (Tom's Hardware) And it's gone. Tech News Gemini has reached a billion users. (Ars Technica) Rather in the same way that Meta's Threads reached... Whatever user count they claim for that tumbleweed farm. Speaking of reversing cause and effect, Bluesky's active user base is shrinking as its focus expands…
Delululemon Edition Top Story Sergey Brin has now spent $100 million opposing California's demented billionaire tax. (Tech Crunch) The article says the tax would cost Brin $13 billion, but if so they have revised it. The original language would have hit Brin and Google co-founder Larry Page particularly hard due to how voting rights are assigned for their shares, sending his tax liabilities…
Aud Hep Edition Top Story A Google developer has vibe-coded an entire new browser - albeit one that doesn't browse the web. (XDA Developers) Instead it interprets every URL as an AI prompt and vibe codes a web page on the spot. It's a slop machine. Tech News If you happen to have half a terabyte of Crucial DRAM that you bought before prices went into the ionosphere and the brand ceased to be, at…
Fossas Civets And Coatis Edition Top Story Five of America's top tech companies - Amazon, Google, Meta, Microsoft, and Oracle - are expected to burn through $125 billion in cash this year on their AI rollouts. (Washington Post) (archive site) Oh no, and here's me all out of popcorn. Things look even worse for SpaceX. (CNBC) Well, that sucks. SpaceX's revenue doubled and losses halved in the recent…
Blurplish Edition Top Story The entire planned DRAM production for 2027 from Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix has already sold out. (IGN) I was reporting on the growing crisis last year but didn't take it personally until I watched a YouTube video advising people that there was no need to panic buy, and that prices would level out in 2027. I promptly panic-bought. Memory is now selling at prices last…
Liminal Bugs Edition Top Story A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $942 million under a law that so far as I can tell is both unconstitutionally vague and entirely inapplicable. (WSJ / MSN) Appeals lawyers making bank again. Meanwhile OpenAI has fired back at Apple saying that if they were able to steal all of Apple's trade secrets then they weren't all that secret, were they? (Tech Crunch)…
Holo Live Edition Top Story Cloudflare has announced its new open-source operating system, Cloudflare OS. (Phoronix) It is not an operating system. It's an application. Written in JavaScript. That depends on Cloudflare services to function. So... Thanks, I guess? Tech News China's CXMT aims to have 30% of global DRAM market share by 2030. (Tom's Hardware) I have plenty of DDR5 (and DDR4) memory…
Spain And Suffering Edition Top Story On the fifth of August of this year, SpaceX will blow up the Moon. (Yahoo) Wait, that was... Two hours ago. Well, can't see the Moon right now. Guess it worked. SpaceX has doubled its revenue since the same quarter last year. (Tech Crunch) And more importantly, halved its losses. SpongMonkeys hardest hit. Tech News I'm convinced AI image generators act…
Teratornia Edition Top Story Who is legally liable for Anthropic and OpenAI accidentally murdering eleven trillion people? It's complicated. (Tech Crunch) Oops, sorry, that was next week's question. Though the answer is the same as this week. Because corpses can't sue. Meanwhile Apple finally fixed Siri, only to find nobody cares. (Tech Crunch) Sudo make me a sandwich. Tech News After a record…
Why Did It Have To Be Elves Edition Top Story The Xbox may keep disc support as Sony shoots itself and its customers in the feet. (WCCFTech) This would be an intelligent and obvious move meaning there is no chance it will happen. Xbox has been hit with worldwide price increases. (WCCFTech) I bought one a while back. On the one hand, it has since increased in price by nearly 50%. On the other hand,…
Omniglot Edition Top Story Microsoft has vowed to make Windows 11 actually work in 8GB of RAM, which is timely given that the company is shipping Windows PCs with 8GB of RAM. (Tom's Hardware) Before the DRAM Apocalypse advice was simple: Do not buy a system with 8GB of RAM unless it is user-upgradable and you plan to immediately upgrade it. Now the advice is more along the lines of: Buy a Mac, or…