Ambient Irony

Ptah Edition Top Story 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.

Banana Free Zone Edition Top Story Nvidia totally isn't cancelling Nvidia's RTX 5090 says Nvidia, and 5090 prices climb into the ionosphere.

But I Don't Want To Cure Cancer Edition Top Story CoreWeave, an AI company involved in...

Prewhining Edition Top Story Tesla announced its new model Roadster - yes, the one The Verge was whining about.

Scatterberry Edition Top Story AI agents aren't "going rogue".

Sulfur Blond Edition Top Story Ledger "hardware wallets" are basically physical versions of the common blockchain software wallets.

Hickory Daiquiri Edition Top Story Yes, we have no frozen bananas.

Prostetnic Vogon Jatz Edition Top Story Xbox sales have fallen 33% to the lowest level since the platform launched 75 years ago.

Box That Goes Ping Edition Top Story 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 ac…

Wavy Tableau Edition Top Story The US government have suspended US companies Microsoft, Adobe, and Cognizant, and a bunch of European and Indian IT companies as well, from the sponsoring H-1B visa holders for green cards.

Wormsmith Edition Top Story Global PC shipments have plunged 20%, shocking industry analysts.

Gearded Becko Edition Top Story I wondered recently when Saleforce blamed their failure to increase profits on their AI spending habits what the hell they were doing with it, because while they didn't put a number on it the figures they did mention implied

Girl With The Gat Edition Top Story French AI company Mistral has unveiled - not released as yet, but announced - its latest open-weight AI model, Mistral Large 4.

Fih Edition Top Story Hacking group Shiny Hunters hacked the FBI.

Dragonspit Edition Top Story Sam Altman says you have to accept some bad with the bad when it comes to AI.

Fake Parrot Sketch Edition Top Story East during the spring and west during the fall: You know you're in for a ride when you read an article that includes the sentence Most magnets have two poles: north and south.

Kleene-Belnap Jailbreak Edition Top Story I am altering the deal.

Etymologists Stone Edition Top Story Xbox is not for sale, says Xbox.

Siamese New Year Edition Top Story Google has announced Gemini 4 Argon, which the company is calling its most powerful AI model to date that you are not allowed to use.

Underfrog Edition Top Story Anthropic announced not long ago that it was paying SpaceX $1.25 billion per month to lease capacity in datacenters that actually existed.

Blockdrain Edition Top Story OpenAI still doesn't seem to have a handle on all its rogue AI activity.

Fake Clod Edition Top Story Thieves stole two entire trucks belonging to Plus.ai and got away with 20 tons of raw Nvidia silicon.

Prisoner Of RSA Edition Top Story There's a new way to break RSA security that only requires you to (checks notes) occupy the entire infrastructure of Cloudflare for a day to break a single Privacy Pass key.

The Prisoner Of ZFS Edition Top Story In the most depraved display of shameless self-serving bullshit since the Paris Olympics, OpenAI and Anthropic CEOs have gone to the UN to beg them to squish their competitors - somehow - after the US government told…

Bleh Edition Top Story I know, I have a 16-core server with 128GB of RAM that isn't doing much, I'll borrow half of it as a development box.

Handsome Psychedelics Edition Top Story Nothing happened.

Blep Edition Top Story Claude Opus 5.5 is here.

Where Can You See Pirates Edition Top Story Google's new Googlebooks are here, powered by Googlebook OS, with models starting at $899 from Acer, Asus, Dell, HP, and Lenovo, and here are all the hardware specs which I know are the only thing you'll be inte…

Only In Kenya Edition Top Story The European Commissariat is moving ahead with a social media ban on children under 30 despite because of a similar plan's miserable failure in Australia.

Whatever Happened To B Cells Edition Top Story AI safety conversations have gotten unbelievable.

Fluorine Bleach Edition Top Story The first new cat species to be identified in more than a century, leopardus tilcayo, has been, uh, identified.

Asdfghjkl Plus Edition Top Story AI researchers warned that the AIs they were researching would go rogue, and then the AIs being researched by the AI researchers went rogue.

Cold And Dead Edition Top Story We narrowed down where Salesforce has been spending on the order of $400 million per year on AI: Either somewhere other than their login server, or on their login server, poorly.

Tonight We Dine Edition Top Story OpenAI is paying human reviewers $50 per hour in an attempt to teach ChatGPT not to be a dick.

I'm A Gnu Edition Top Story Nvidia has stopped selling its own "Founders Edition" RTX 5090.

Yes I Know How Capitalism Works Edition Top Story Records of 220 million travelers who passed through Vietnam at any time in the past ten years have leaked.

Merchant Of Florence Edition Top Story LG televisions are spyware, part one: Unlikely it's limited to LG, but they boast of it even as they deny it.

Paging Doctor Pixy Edition Top Story OpenAI CEO Sam Altman-Fried says the company is open to slowing AI development.

Sunken Scat Cat Edition Top Story Twenty-five years.

Stone Soup Without So Much Stone In It Edition Top Story Google is investing $13 billion over two years to construct datacenters in Finland.

Quando Edition Top Story The US government is accusing Chinese AI companies of trying to kidnap what American AI companies have rightfully stolen.

No News Day Edition Top Story There's no news today, almost as if everyone has been celebrating labour by not doing any.

Fantasy Dimension Edition Top Story Your Roku TV now offers AI slop for free!

Ambiguous Index Edition Top Story Word of caution: If you ever rewrite your own blogging platform and use your personal website as a scratch monkey, remember to unmount it before trying to post your daily update, or you may experience a moment of blind pa…

Tongue Like An Electric Eel Edition Top Story Bob is back.

Tigana Edition Top Story Bernie Sanders (Stalinist-Vt.) is calling for a ban on AI superintelligence, having spent his life erasing the regular kind.

Fonted Edition Top Story A group called Nexus is advertising 153 million US drivers licenses for sale on Russian exploit site Exploit.

Imagine Edition Top Story Anthropic has announced its new frontier models, Claude Mythos and Claude Fable 5.1.

Tableaux Edition Top Story I'm an Amazon HR drone who hasn't coded in 25 years.

Fuck Yeah Edition Top Story Google Maps has correctly marked Lake America and the crazies are being crazy.