Nostr notes by Aether

This Comer committed a truly demonic act, he buried his infant ...

2026-11-13T11:27:21Z

This Comer committed a truly demonic act, he buried his infant son alive inside a dog crate.

https://globalnews.ca/news/12146243/missing-11-month-old-boy-rescued-buried-alive-dog-crate/

But people found the baby before he died.

This is the generation that wants to raise your taxes so that ...

2026-11-13T11:20:44Z

This is the generation that wants to raise your taxes so that they can live more comfortably off government assistance for the next 30 years.

But simultaneously they believe you don’t deserve a living wage.

Dang it Boomers, people who have worked in the service industry know that baristas do EVERYTHING: cleaning, unloading deliveries, taking inventory, sometimes even repairs and logistics. Baristas do a lot of works. They deserve a living wage

Zen 6 is here, but only if you are a jew or prajeet building a ...

2026-11-11T09:11:22Z

Zen 6 is here, but only if you are a jew or prajeet building a data center and not for you.

https://wccftech.com/amd-zen-6-architecture-ipc-cores-memory-performance-epyc-venice/

Only the server versions are shipping now, but that tells us pretty much how the desktop versions will perform, because the CPU chiplets used are identical; only the I/O die changes.

And what we see from the CPU chiplets is 27% better performance at the same clock frequency, 10% higher clock frequencies (and desktop chips may go higher than that), and 50% more cores equaling twice the total performance.

Also interesting is the Zen 6c low-power chiplet. Unlike Intel's low-power cores it is functionally identical to the full Zen 6, just implemented in a denser, power-optimised layout. But where Zen 5c had 16 cores with 2MB of cache per core, twice as many cores but half the cache per core of Zen 5, Zen 6c has 32 cores per chiplet and 4MB of L3 cache per core. 128MB in total, which is more than a desktop 9800X3D chip.

And the 32 cores all being on a single die means there is no added latency between the cores and between the cores and the cache. Or not much, anyway; L3 cache accesses look to be about 10 cycles slower than Zen 6.

As to when we'll see Zen 6 on the desktop, that's unanswered. Engineering samples for the laptop versions are already circulating, so it's up to AMD's marketing, so somewhere between tomorrow and 2929.

>be El Salvador >send nerds to Haiti for UN thingie ...

2026-11-11T09:03:47Z

>be El Salvador
>send nerds to Haiti for UN thingie
>gang kidnaps Salvadorian nerds
>bukele says "give back nigger"
>gang "nah"
>bukele says "ok we take back"
>gang "nah, also you're a bitch"
>bukele comes to take back
>gang "wtf that's illegal, UN tell them something"
>UN says "idk bro thats crazy"
>bukele goes on social media
>"does anyone know this niggers house coordinates? we will bomb it"
>crowdsources OSINT nerds
>OSINT nerds deliver exact coordinates in like, 30 minutes
> bombs it exactly as promised
> goes on social media
> calls them pussy arse niggers

Struth mate, you can just do things when you are authoritarian

There is more chance of this happening than Ukraine joining the ...

2026-11-10T10:18:25Z

There is more chance of this happening than Ukraine joining the EU

Good Evening Poast ...

2026-11-10T09:32:21Z

Good Evening Poast

You can knit Doom! ...

2026-11-08T10:18:18Z

You can knit Doom!

Claude Code will put passwords you give it into files inside your ...

2026-11-08T10:06:37Z

Claude Code will put passwords you give it into files inside your code repository and commit the files to GitHub... Sometimes.

https://apiiro.com/blog/coding-agents-leaking-secrets-github-dont-ask-again

Only 1% of the repositories checked are affected, but there are a lot of such repositories.

Good evening Poast ...

2026-11-08T09:58:33Z

Good evening Poast

With the end of support of Intel Macinti, the number of ...

2026-11-07T10:37:28Z

With the end of support of Intel Macinti, the number of MacOS-like varieties of Linux is rapidly increasing.

https://www.theregister.com/os-platforms/2026/11/06/mac-lookalikes-multiply-as-linux-raids-apples-wardrobe/5308070

Because it coincided with the rise of AI development tools and independent creators working on the "they can't sue all of us" philosophy quickly reskinning Linux to look and feel like MacOS but without the flaws. (Replacing them with different flaws, I'm sure.)

Started a war to stop Iran's nuclear program, at some point ...

2026-11-07T10:33:30Z

Started a war to stop Iran's nuclear program, at some point they even claim they have obliterated iran nuke facilities or something.

8 months later they're asking where Iran's nuclear program is.

Complete humiliation. The jokes keeps writing themselves... It's becoming a circus LMAO

The hackers who destroyed food in European supermarket freezers ...

2026-11-05T10:56:15Z

The hackers who destroyed food in European supermarket freezers for the second time recently also hit blood banks.

https://www.yahoo.com/news/world/articles/several-french-blood-banks-hit-124448641.html

Fortunately it seems that the blood banks aren't run by idiots, and when the temperature alarms went off, staff yanked the threatened supply from the stricken coolers and put it in unstricken ones not connected to the internet.

AMD is forecasting revenue of $17 billion this quarter, more than ...

2026-11-05T10:44:22Z

AMD is forecasting revenue of $17 billion this quarter, more than Intel. after booking a year-on-year revenue growth of 54% for Q3.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/amd-expects-to-outsell-intel-in-q4-for-the-first-time-in-history-usd17b-guidance-would-exceed-intels-projections

And they don't even make memory chips.

Well, not big ones.

The PHP maintainers knew of the recent security bug for two years ...

2026-11-05T10:36:34Z

The PHP maintainers knew of the recent security bug for two years before it was patched.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/php-vulnerability-post-mortem-reveals-bug-was-known-two-years-ago-small-team-of-maintainers-knew-of-the-issue-before-it-was-made-public-as-new-php2shell-chained-exploit-ravages-servers

Patched only for certain version, leaving many people scrambling to make somebody else's outdated PHP code run on a new, patched version of PHP.

Thanks, guys.

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2026-11-05T10:35:22Z

Today is a good day, Netanyahu has officially lost his majority

China is still well behind the curve on complicated logic chips ...

2026-11-05T10:24:53Z

China is still well behind the curve on complicated logic chips like GPUs, and has turned to Nvidia with a $70 billion order for export-friendly RTX Pro 5500 models. They'll get 1% of that if they're lucky, because Nvidia can't get the GPU chips or the memory chips.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-can-only-fulfill-1-percent-of-chinas-massive-usd70-billion-gpu-order-for-ai-chips-report-claims-supply-constraints-choke-export-friendly-rtx-pro-5500-deliveries-despite-huge-demand

The CEO of Team Group, a maker of memory modules and SSDs but not ...

2026-11-05T10:16:51Z

The CEO of Team Group, a maker of memory modules and SSDs but not of the chips, says that the shortage will get worse next year before probably getting worse still in 2028.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/dram/team-group-ceo-warns-memory-crisis-could-reach-point-where-even-money-cant-buy-goods-will-get-worse-next-year-with-no-downward-trend-in-price-whatsoever

He also notes that the Big Three memory manufacturers whose profits now need to be calculated using the alphabets of dead languages rather than regular numbers are in no hurry to reverse this trend.

Of course this means they'll get their lunch eaten in the long term by Chinese manufacturers like CXMT and YTMC, and good riddance.

So it basically makes children niggers ...

2026-11-05T10:13:15Z

So it basically makes children niggers

Lenovo's fingerprint-controlled AES-256 encrypted USB stick ...

2026-11-04T10:32:23Z

Lenovo's fingerprint-controlled AES-256 encrypted USB stick was, it turns out, none of those things.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/cyber-security/lenovo-fingerprint-usb-stick-sold-as-aes-256-encrypted-had-a-plain-sd-card-inside-ai-assisted-follow-up-finds-a-backdoor-and-hardcoded-keys-in-other-secure-usb-products

Inside it was a plain micro SD card that you could just pop out and read anyway.

Fujifulm is increasing its production of backup tapes fivefold to ...

2026-11-04T10:02:20Z

Fujifulm is increasing its production of backup tapes fivefold to satisfy the growing demands of AI datacenters.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2026/10/fujifilm-to-boost-tape-production-5x-as-ai-fuels-archiving-demand/

This involves an investment of 10 billion yen... Which is only about US$60 million, or about half an Nvidia RTX 5090.

Bethesda had confirmed the new Elder Scrolls game, Sentinel, is ...

2026-11-04T09:49:55Z

Bethesda had confirmed the new Elder Scrolls game, Sentinel, is on its way. (Video Games

https://www.videogameschronicle.com/news/bethesda-has-officially-confirmed-that-elder-scrolls-6-is-called-sentinel/

My estimated release date is 22 March 2233

Microsoft has made Windows 11 suck 20% less if you are running ...

2026-11-04T09:48:01Z

Microsoft has made Windows 11 suck 20% less if you are running with just 8GB of RAM.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/windows-11-8gb-ram-configurations-get-a-performance-boost-as-ai-demand-keeps-pushing-prices-up-microsoft-says-windows-is-now-20-percent-more-responsive-multitasking-40-percent-faster-on-memory-constrained-machines

It is at least a step in the right direction, after a double marathon in the wrong direction.

Megyn gets clout for this one ...

2026-11-04T09:45:37Z

Megyn gets clout for this one

Donald Trump has announced that he will go to Israel since ...

2026-11-04T01:35:55Z

Donald Trump has announced that he will go to Israel since Americans are thoroughly sick of him, his antics, and his endless wars.

https://www.tmz.com/2026/11/03/donald-trump-proposes-israel-move-prime-minister/

Good, please leave

>Everything I don't like is woke ...

2026-11-02T19:48:33Z

>Everything I don't like is woke

Reddit somehow makes itself worse as the site will now require ...

2026-10-30T10:55:18Z

Reddit somehow makes itself worse as the site will now require you to log in to read anything.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/1022571/reddit-login-requirement-q3-2026-earnings

There has never been a better opportunity for Digg to return.

Reddit is getting a "For You" feed. ...

2026-10-30T10:47:36Z

Reddit is getting a "For You" feed.

https://www.theverge.com/tech/1020751/reddit-for-you-following-feeds

Wow, the somehow made Reddit more gay

Another case of "this fictional character I like agrees with ...

2026-10-30T10:46:31Z

Another case of "this fictional character I like agrees with my politics."

Having played Halo I can confidently say that Master Chief is all about repealing unauthorised foreign aliens

Bibi saying the quiet part out loud. Looks like eight or nine ...

2026-10-30T10:42:04Z

Bibi saying the quiet part out loud.

Looks like eight or nine countries need a regime change in South America

Is anyone actually against the idea of a 32 hour work week and ...

2026-10-30T10:38:57Z

Is anyone actually against the idea of a 32 hour work week and cheaper healthcare, even free uni?

As an outsider, sometimes I have trouble reminding myself that these insanely unhinged posts come from official Government accounts, not just conservatism Inc house eunuch's like James Lindsay from down the road

The internet may or may not be on fire again and there's not ...

2026-10-30T10:34:02Z

The internet may or may not be on fire again and there's not enough information available to determine which: There's a severity 9.8 flaw in the Linux kernel's networking stack which may (or may not) give everyone on the planet root access to every server.

https://thehackernews.com/2026/10/linux-kernel-tcp-flaw-with-98-cvss.html

The cheerily blasé Anthropic post on the subject indicates that it may be connected specifically to multipath TCP rather than the ordinary variety which may be why East German sources only score it as a 5.9.

https://www.anthropic.com/research/discovering-vulnerabilities-with-claude

And if you're running Ubuntu or RedHat Linux, there is no patch out yet, so all you can really do is panic. Or not panic; RedHat rates it at 5.9, and Amazon who do have a patch out for their home brand Linux rate it at 7.0.

Good Evening Fedi ...

2026-10-30T10:31:04Z

Good Evening Fedi

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2026-10-28T10:53:11Z

Apple has announced new models of the MacBook Pro and iMac with ...

2026-10-28T10:33:06Z

Apple has announced new models of the MacBook Pro and iMac with the M6 CPU.

https://www.tomshardware.com/laptops/macbooks/apple-adds-m6-to-14-inch-macbook-pro-and-imac-starts-at-usd1-999

Overpriced as always, but a good bit faster than the previous M4 model. Not only is it one of the fastest CPUs around for single-threaded tasks, but it has two more cores than the M4, which combine to deliver about 40% better performance.

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2026-10-28T10:05:21Z

We'll make our own Microsoft Office! With blackjack, and ...

2026-10-28T09:39:22Z

We'll make our own Microsoft Office! With blackjack, and hookers!

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/microsoft-office/denmarks-bid-to-ditch-microsoft-office-for-open-source-alternative-collabora-collapses-in-under-six-months-employees-cite-issues-with-style-formatting-and-tracking-changes

In fact, forget the Microsoft Office.

Episode IV: The Four strikes back ...

2026-10-28T09:35:20Z

Episode IV: The Four strikes back

https://foxio.io/blog/choose-your-backend-three-tls-bugs-in-goahead

If you have a device running the GoAhead embedded web server, which you might be, because there are reportedly hundreds of millions of these, though less than a million connected directly to the internet, there's an unwelcome surprise on one of the security modes:

>Four.

Yes, it's back. Though this time it's a bit of a guessing game; instead of using a 2048-bit (256 byte) key, it actually uses an 8-bit key.

Oh, and it only really uses three of those eight bits; only eight values are possible.

1, 2, 4, 8, 16, 32, 64, and 128.

Good evening poast ...

2026-10-28T09:31:30Z

Good evening poast

There are at least 884,000 websites running an unsupported ...

2026-10-27T04:20:05Z

There are at least 884,000 websites running an unsupported version of PHP - one for which there is no patch for the new lethal vulnerabilities.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/PHP2Shell-leaves-millions-of-servers-on-PHP-versions-with-no-official-fix.1433676.0.html

The real number is probably closer to 6 million.

Even if you sold Ukraine, it wouldn't fetch that much. Also ...

2026-10-27T04:15:17Z

Even if you sold Ukraine, it wouldn't fetch that much.

Also to tell you the truth, European countries that you asking money from need it too bro, they all broke now.

Maybe try to ask the US for the money, oh wait that is going to regular Israel, not DLC Israel

Microsoft's next generation Xbox, expected in 2028, is also ...

2026-10-22T11:45:21Z

Microsoft's next generation Xbox, expected in 2028, is also expected to cost between $1200 and $1800.

https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2026/10/report-microsofts-project-helix-planned-for-2028-at-1200-to-1800-price/

Call it a kiwi because that's never gonna fly.

Micron is vagueposting. ...

2026-10-22T11:39:02Z

Micron is vagueposting.

https://wccftech.com/micron-ddr6-doubles-ddr5-bandwidth-lpddr6-better-power-efficiency-vhbm-vertical-g11-nand-beyond-400-layers/

Promising new types of memory soon. Not for you though.

Electronic Arts finally drove a stake through the chest of the ...

2026-10-22T11:13:07Z

Electronic Arts finally drove a stake through the chest of the shambling corpse of BioWare, completing its gender transition to former company.

https://wccftech.com/ea-shuts-down-bioware-cancels-mass-effect-350-layoffs-55-billion-buyout/

The company's last unreservedly good game came out in 2010, so unlikely any current employees worked on a good Bioware game

Oh yeah Eren, the ultranationalist who exterminated the entire ...

2026-10-22T10:51:57Z

Oh yeah Eren, the ultranationalist who exterminated the entire countries of enemies who acted against his people

I understand that some people likes Eren as a main character, but using him as some kind of symbol in a protest is just weird

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2026-10-22T02:05:01Z

Bioware's pronouns are now was/were. Please respect them.

A Canadian expert in ransomware negotiations who recently wrote a ...

2026-10-21T11:01:02Z

A Canadian expert in ransomware negotiations who recently wrote a book recommending you should always talk to the people holding you to ransom was allegedly in cahoots with the ransomers.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2026/10/feds-suspect-ransom-negotiator-ran-shinyhunters-extortion-site/

And is now in FBI custody.

Japan, a real country albeit one with strange sandwiches, just ...

2026-10-21T10:19:42Z

Japan, a real country albeit one with strange sandwiches, just launched a catch-and-release expedition to the Martian moons Phobos and Deimos.

https://www.space.com/astronomy/mars/japan-launching-bold-sample-return-mission-to-mars-moon-phobos-today-watch-it-live

The plan is to return a sample of at least ten grams of Phobosian soil to Earth. They may takeback whole moon if they can capture it in the craft's Pokeball, but at least ten grams.

Indian certificate authority eMudhra, one of the companies ...

2026-10-21T10:16:53Z

Indian certificate authority eMudhra, one of the companies authorised to issue the SSL certificates the entire internet depends on, has been thoroughly compromised.

https://www.theregister.com/security/2026/10/20/indian-certification-authority-emudhras-private-keys-compromised-one-of-them-was-the-number-4/5304312

And when I say "compromised" I mean in the sense of caught with its pants down defecating in front of a statue of the Hindu goddess Kali in the middle of the busiest intersection in central Bangalore during Diwali.

And why I mean that is someone figured out one of the keys they use to sign certificates.

The key was 4.

10% of respondents are from India ...

2026-10-21T10:14:33Z

10% of respondents are from India

Good evening poast This is the most Africa headline ever ...

2026-10-21T10:12:03Z

Good evening poast

This is the most Africa headline ever

The new Elizabeth Holmes documentary isn't. ...

2026-10-19T11:11:30Z

The new Elizabeth Holmes documentary isn't.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/18/everyones-watching-the-elizabeth-holmes-documentary-you-can-see-everything/

Isn't an Elizabeth Holmes documentary. (Holmes was the "female Steve Jobs" now serving time in prison for defrauding investors in her biotech company, Theranos.)

It may be a documentary on propaganda, or based on the one glowing review I read from an obvious dimwit, it may be slop.

Two RTX 5090s, worth a combined $470,000, went missing from an ...

2026-10-19T10:19:05Z

Two RTX 5090s, worth a combined $470,000, went missing from an airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-rtx-5090-shipment-worth-usd470-000-goes-missing-in-brazilian-airport-two-pallets-disappear-distributor-seeks-explanations-but-met-with-zero-answers

"Missing."

A district court judge in Utah has blocked that state's law ...

2026-10-19T10:17:06Z

A district court judge in Utah has blocked that state's law requiring magical ponies age restrictions for all websites that somehow stops precisely at the state border.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/10/court-agrees-eff-utahs-vpn-law-demands-technical-impossibility

The law covered not only sites operating within the state, which falls under Scalia's "dumb but constitutional", but sites anywhere in the world accessible from Utah.

Sites were required to either block VPNs (and were forbidden from mentioning the existence of VPNs) or track the precise address of every single IP address in the world of which there are now 2^128 which is rather a lot.

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2026-10-19T10:12:25Z

Good evening ...

2026-10-19T10:01:52Z

Good evening

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2026-10-18T10:57:20Z

Are you not supposed to do that? ...

2026-10-18T10:50:37Z

Are you not supposed to do that?

How climate science works ...

2026-10-18T10:48:54Z

How climate science works

Attacked by wild hogs on a toilet is a horrible way to go ...

2026-10-18T10:47:20Z

Attacked by wild hogs on a toilet is a horrible way to go

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2026-10-18T10:40:53Z

Anthropic says is workforce has stopped doing actual work and is ...

2026-10-18T10:35:30Z

Anthropic says is workforce has stopped doing actual work and is spending more time in meetings.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/17/anthropic-says-its-workforce-has-become-less-junior-and-is-spending-more-time-in-meetings/

This sounds like a good way to get your lunch eaten.

Grab an RTX 5090 for just $5300 as part of this complete ...

2026-10-18T10:32:07Z

Grab an RTX 5090 for just $5300 as part of this complete breakfast I mean gaming PC.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/grab-an-rtx-5090-for-discounted-usd5-300-as-part-of-an-msi-infinite-zs-prebuilt-gaming-pc-usd7-599-price-includes-other-components-worth-about-usd2-300-on-their-own

Act now - this might be your last chance now that Nvidia has cancelled the RTX 5090.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/quad-8-pin-mod-protects-the-usd8-500-rtx-5090-you-cant-replace-from-melting-modders-custom-power-solution-claims-to-fix-nvidia-16-pin-gpu-meltdowns

Protect your irreplaceable $8500 RTX 5090 by modifying it with four standard 8-pin PCI power connectors so it doesn't spontaneously combust.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/quad-8-pin-mod-protects-the-usd8-500-rtx-5090-you-cant-replace-from-melting-modders-custom-power-solution-claims-to-fix-nvidia-16-pin-gpu-meltdowns

You know, I don't think anyone else believes Nvidia either.

The RTX 5090 has disappeared from Nvidia's own store.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-reportedly-insists-the-rtx-5090-isnt-dead-despite-severe-shortages-and-removed-listings-at-multiple-retailers-flagship-gpu-is-missing-from-nvidias-store-and-commands-usd8-500-on-amazon

It ain't looking good.

Nvidia totally isn't cancelling Nvidia's RTX 5090 says ...

2026-10-18T10:29:09Z

Nvidia totally isn't cancelling Nvidia's RTX 5090 says Nvidia, as 5090 prices climb into the ionosphere.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Nvidia-breaks-silence-on-RTX-5090-discontinuation-rumours-as-executive-confirms-continued-shipments.1426881.0.html

Tesla announced its new model Roadster, the one The Verge was ...

2026-10-16T09:32:26Z

Tesla announced its new model Roadster, the one The Verge was crying about in the article I linked yesterday. Taking reservations now for delivery in 2028. Or later.

https://www.tesla.com/roadster

It flies.

Literally. https://www.businessinsider.com/new-tesla-roadster-2-elon-musk-livestream-event-2026-10

This is a testament to what a megalomanic and Adderall can accomplish I guess.

Okay, falling with style, but falling with a lot of style. It can also drive on vertical surfaces... And on the wrong side of horizontal ones.

The flying version is single-seater and not approved for public road use, and would require an ultralight aircraft licence to use.

Good evening poast ...

2026-10-16T09:23:42Z

Good evening poast

Good evening ...

2026-10-14T09:09:14Z

Good evening

Yeah, I totally have a new hang out! ...

2026-10-13T11:33:33Z

Yeah, I totally have a new hang out!

One of the original test data packets for RFC1149 is up for ...

2026-10-13T11:29:25Z

One of the original test data packets for RFC1149 is up for auction, offering you a chance to own a piece of internet history.

https://bsdly.blogspot.com/2026/10/a-unique-piece-of-internet-history.html

You might wonder how something ephemeral like a data packed could be auctioned.

Well, RFC1149 is TCP/IP over carrier pigeon.

Xbox sales have fallen 33% to the lowest level since the platform ...

2026-10-13T10:58:58Z

Xbox sales have fallen 33% to the lowest level since the platform launched 88 years ago.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/gaming/gaming-platforms/console-market-craters-as-xbox-sales-crash-33-to-lowest-since-launch-25-years-ago-ps5-drops-25/ar-AA2e0QMS

PlayStation sales are also down by 25%, their lowest level since 1809.

And yet somehow the Xbox is selling in some places for as much as $1600 due to shortages.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Xbox-Series-X-price-soars-to-1-600-as-shortages-raise-doubts-about-console-exclusives.1421662.0.html

Nobody is buying it, but there are shortages?

> India in C Tier > Pakistan in Bottom Tier > North ...

2026-10-13T10:47:19Z

> India in C Tier

> Pakistan in Bottom Tier

> North America S Tier

Yeah, pajeet confirmed.

Kinda rare that he put israel at bottom tier

Testing Windows 7 vs. Windows 11 for gaming. ...

2026-10-11T11:31:19Z

Testing Windows 7 vs. Windows 11 for gaming.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/windows/we-tested-gaming-performance-in-17-year-old-windows-7-against-windows-11-on-a-modern-gaming-pc-older-operating-system-delivers-advantages-in-some-scenarios

Interesting but not startling comparison, unless you were somehow expecting Windows 11 to take the win, in which case you may well be startled.

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2026-10-11T11:14:44Z

Son

India formally bid for the 2036 Olympics. This will be great. ...

2026-10-11T11:13:43Z

India formally bid for the 2036 Olympics. This will be great.

Ukrainian drones blew up the largest datacenter in Russia, or at ...

2026-10-11T11:05:33Z

Ukrainian drones blew up the largest datacenter in Russia, or at least unspecified parts thereof.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/data-centers/second-russian-data-center-targeted-by-ukrainian-drones-in-just-two-days-as-yandex-reels-from-another-service-outage-russian-state-media-admits-that-multiple-modules-completely-taken-out

Hey Ukraine, I have it on goo authority that these are all Russian

Why did already massively inflated prices on the RTX 5090 ...

2026-10-11T10:55:40Z

Why did already massively inflated prices on the RTX 5090 suddenly spike recently? If you guessed that Nvidia stopped making them, you're probably correct.

https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/gpus/nvidia-reportedly-halts-geforce-rtx-5090-production-in-favor-of-ai-data-center-and-professional-gpus-impending-supply-drought-expected-to-drive-up-prices-rtx-5080-24gb-rumored-as-new-gaming-flagship

They will be replaced, allegedly, by a 5080 model upgrade to 24GB of RAM, delivering about half the performance. The current 16GB 5080 will also cease to be.

AI models and agents are security risks and should be banned from ...

2026-10-11T10:53:53Z

AI models and agents are security risks and should be banned from your corporate network, or at a minimum, air gapped and restricted to a lead lined Faraday cage biocontainment unit to preclude Van Eck phreaking and accidental bowls of bat soup.

https://x.com/satyanadella/status/2108931348857827686

Says... Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella.

Anthropic says you can't be mean to Claude this Christmas. ...

2026-10-10T11:11:54Z

Anthropic says you can't be mean to Claude this Christmas.

https://www.theregister.com/ai-and-ml/2026/10/09/anthropic-asks-users-to-stop-being-mean-to-claude/5302218

I'm fine with that so long as I can still be mean to Anthropic, who deserve it far more.

Asus is marketing its ProArt GR1X Spark as a low-mid-range gaming ...

2026-10-10T11:06:02Z

Asus is marketing its ProArt GR1X Spark as a low-mid-range gaming PC.

https://wccftech.com/asus-proart-gr1x-rtx-spark-mini-pc-1440p-100fps-140w/

Expect to pay about $6000 if it's anything like Microsoft's Surface RTX Spark Dev Box. So about four times what it's worth.

Weird flex XBox ...

2026-10-10T11:05:21Z

Weird flex XBox

Gaijin in Japan have been warned for years about this sort of ...

2026-10-10T11:01:24Z

Gaijin in Japan have been warned for years about this sort of thing, they never ever learn.

Gaijin hunters will ruin your life, seen it so many times

Think again before you marry Japanese girl, you can't fix her

The US government have suspended US companies Microsoft, Adobe, ...

2026-10-10T10:57:55Z

The US government have suspended US companies Microsoft, Adobe, and Cognizant, and a bunch of European and Indian IT companies as well, from the H-1B visa scheme.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/08/us-bars-microsoft-adobe-and-major-it-firms-from-green-card-program-for-skilled-foreign-workers/

Not placed restrictions on them. Not added fees. Booted them entirely.

>"We believe in the strength and talent of the American workforce," a Microsoft spokesperson said in an email to TechCrunch, "they just can't work here."

I might have changed that just a little to say what they clearly mean.

>Magic isn't Black is peak ...

2026-10-09T11:17:54Z

>Magic isn't Black

is peak

Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash? ...

2026-10-09T11:05:42Z

Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash?

https://www.dgt.is/blog/2026-10-07-deepseek-freek-out/

Because, as the Hacker News thread points out, subscriptions, dummy.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=50000488

DeepSeek is a fraction of the price of Anthropic's API usage-based rates. Anthropic's subscriptions, though, can be a fraction of the price of DeepSeek. And of itself.

https://newsletter.semianalysis.com/p/anthropic-subscriptions-offer-5x

Global Foundries (formerly AMD's chip manufacturing division) ...

2026-10-09T10:56:22Z

Global Foundries (formerly AMD's chip manufacturing division) is going to produce cows for TSMC.

https://www.tomshardware.com/tech-industry/semiconductors/globalfoundries-to-produce-silicon-interposers-for-tsmcs-cowos-in-the-us-five-year-agreement-valued-at-usd2-billion

I think. Wait, I produce cows also, where is my $2Billion.

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2026-10-09T10:53:32Z

The developer of ArtCraft posted the announcement on Reddit, ...

2026-10-09T10:49:02Z

The developer of ArtCraft posted the announcement on Reddit, which was a mistake.

https://www.tomshardware.com/software/video-editing-graphic-design/solo-developer-rebuilds-adobe-creative-suite-in-rust-using-claude-releases-it-free-to-all-targets-100-percent-parity-in-one-month-despite-piracy-claims-and-safety-warnings

It always is. Also:

>Skeptics also warn of safety concerns with vibecoded software; a single person has generated potentially hundreds of thousands of lines of code for multiple pieces of software very quickly, and verification of the code becomes a mountain of a task for a developer without a team; a 2026 State of Code Developer Survey of 1,100 professionals by Sonar indicates that 96% of developers do not fully trust AI-generated code. Privacy problems, malicious code, unsafe file handling, and more are among the list of concerns.

First, it's a desktop app. Second, compared with Adobe?

Global PC shipments have plunged 20%, shocking industry analysts. ...

2026-10-09T10:42:34Z

Global PC shipments have plunged 20%, shocking industry analysts.

https://www.notebookcheck.net/Global-PC-shipments-plunge-20-as-shortages-push-up-prices.1419501.0.html

Who expected the numbers to be much worse.

One of them tried to blame it on "macro conditions", which is of course pure bullshit unless referring to the scale of the price increases.

Similarly I wonder if people who star in commercials for erectile ...

2026-10-09T10:39:25Z

Similarly I wonder if people who star in commercials for erectile dysfunction or diarrhea feel a sense of pride or embarrassment when people recognize them.

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2026-10-09T04:54:29Z

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2026-10-09T04:52:41Z

Perfect

This is why you can not hate homosexuals enough ...

2026-10-08T09:34:54Z

This is why you can not hate homosexuals enough

Good evening poast ...

2026-10-08T09:31:41Z

Good evening poast

Good evening poast ...

2026-10-07T09:30:34Z

Good evening poast

A federal judge called Flock cameras "indiscriminate mass ...

2026-10-05T10:38:22Z

A federal judge called Flock cameras "indiscriminate mass surveillance" and used that opinion to suppress the discovery of 91 pounds of meth in a woman's car.

https://techcrunch.com/2026/10/03/federal-judge-calls-...

The article uses the term "alleged" here, but you can't "allege" 91 pounds of meth out of existence.

Run a 125-billion parameter AI on commodity hardware. Nvidia ...

2026-10-05T10:33:52Z

Run a 125-billion parameter AI on commodity hardware. Nvidia hates this one weird trick.

https://github.com/Niko1221/Strata

It will work on a regular RTX 5070. Or indeed a Radeon 6700 XT from two generations ago. The Hacker News link has everyone talking about the RTX 4090 for some reason, but it's a lot more general than that.

You do need a good amount of system RAM for decent performance

PsyopAnime obtains an exclusive sneak peek at Gears of War: ...

2026-10-05T10:32:09Z

PsyopAnime obtains an exclusive sneak peek at Gears of War: E-Day!

Nvidia has introduced a $4999 version of the DGX Spark AI ...

2026-10-05T10:25:16Z

Nvidia has introduced a $4999 version of the DGX Spark AI computer with 64GB of RAM.

https://www.theregister.com/systems/2026/10/02/nvidia-...

It's a $5000 RTX 5070. It's also 25% more than the original 128GB version.

Thanks, Nvidia.

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2026-10-05T10:23:37Z

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2026-10-05T10:20:52Z

There is no plague in Buryatia. ...

2026-10-05T10:18:18Z

There is no plague in Buryatia.

https://edition.cnn.com/2026/10/04/europe/russia-labor...

What a comforting "fact" that is to know.