Daily Tech News 8 April 2026

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Anthropic has unveiled Claude Mythos, a version of its AI system aimed at security analysis. (Security Week)

This is good and bad.

Good because developers can use it to find security flaws in their code.

Bad because so can everybody else.
Meanwhile AMD's AI director has slammed Claude Code for becoming dumber and lazier. (The Register)
'Claude cannot be trusted to perform complex engineering tasks' according to GitHub ticket.
Neither can anyone attempting to use it that way.

Tech News

Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies a day. (Ars Technica)

You gotta pump those numbers up. Those are rookie numbers in this racket.
Following its decision in the Cox vs. Music Cartel case, the Supreme Court has vacated the stupid decision in a similar case against Grande Communications. (TorrentFreak)

It has been sent back to the Fifth Circuit with a note saying "be less stupid this time".
The Asus Zenbook A16 is here with the new Snapdragon X2 Elite. (Tom's Hardware)

Finally, some good Arm hardware that isn't from Apple. It's an 18 core CPU, so while still a little slower on single-threaded tasks than Apples M5 CPU, it's a lot faster in multi-threaded work.

Battery life is still lacking, somehow.

Oh, it has an OLED display. That'll do it.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Well, yes. But actually no.

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 04:30 AM (Ia/+0)

2 Below freezing here, only low 50s today.

Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 04:33 AM (Ia/+0)

3 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 08, 2026 04:35 AM (sAmhv)

4 Another day of feline abuse

Posted by: TheCatBitesMyToe at April 08, 2026 04:35 AM (jrgJz)

5 41° and sunny today. Probably safe to put the plants out: a grapefruit and tree of life.

Posted by: Accomack at April 08, 2026 04:40 AM (8jVAy)

6 I hear that in Australia, software code runs counter-clockwise

Posted by: Miklos hears a lot of things at April 08, 2026 04:46 AM (MABMQ)

7 6 I hear that in Australia, software code runs counter-clockwise
Posted by: Miklos hears a lot of things at April 08, 2026 04:46 AM (MABMQ)

One man's left shift is another man's sixty-three right shifts.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 08, 2026 04:49 AM (Ot/FD)

8 No. But when there is a core dump, it circles the drain counter-clockwise.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 08, 2026 04:55 AM (qFwJc)

9 The New York times did the analysis on how many times Google's AI lies per day.

Doctor, heal thyself.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at April 08, 2026 04:55 AM (6ydKt)

10 Guten morgen, horde.

Posted by: clarence at April 08, 2026 04:56 AM (7fNaw)

11 Do Australia horse races have the horses run counter clockwise.
I remember seeing that in the UK. Do runners in the Olympics run the same way and every runner gets hit by runners running the other way? I'm sure it would be fun to watch.

Posted by: Colin at April 08, 2026 04:59 AM (e8qy3)

12 As said below freezing now, supposedly next week getting to high 80s.

Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 05:02 AM (Ia/+0)

13 Good morning everyone. Today is my 71st birthday, I made it this lap, let's see if I can do another!

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 08, 2026 05:03 AM (Q/FnY)

14 I don't know, 71 more years might be a bit more difficult

Happy Birthday Gmac

Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 05:06 AM (Ia/+0)

15 Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at April 08, 2026 05:08 AM (Ia/+0)

16
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 08, 2026 05:13 AM (2/MrR)

17 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 08, 2026 05:13 AM (iMotb)

18 53.6 degrees out.

Imagonna walk after this morning's visit to the Volvo dealership to look at that right front axle.
Lifetime warranty, and it's noisy and the cv joint is sloppy.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 08, 2026 05:14 AM (iMotb)

19 Good morning everyone. Today is my 71st birthday, I made it this lap, let's see if I can do another!

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at April 08, 2026 05:03 AM (Q/FnY)

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On my 32nd birthday, I started counting it in hexadecimal (base 16) -- so I was "hex 20."

That makes you "hex 47" today ... congratulations!

I'll turn "hex 41" in four months and be forced to sign up for Medicare ... which is better than the past 16 years ("hex 10") the wifey and I have had no medical insurance -- refusing to participate in DeathCare (and thank God we're both healthy).

Posted by: ShainS at April 08, 2026 05:15 AM (TbhYO)

20 Maryland positions itself to out-stupid California.

https://tinyurl.com/swh7uuh4

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 08, 2026 05:19 AM (iMotb)

21 Somehow I earned myself a vicious cold. Is that a good excuse to skip the gym today? Wouldn't want to get other people sick...

Maybe more coffee will tell me.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 08, 2026 05:26 AM (LYCcI)

22 27 degrees outside right now. Happy spring!

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 08, 2026 05:27 AM (LYCcI)

23 Betty or Veronica?

That's like Ginger or Mary Ann.

I'll have them all when I get some more vitamin E.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 05:29 AM (Fbc0I)

24 DailyKos is completely broken. Every post is Trump this or Trump that.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 08, 2026 05:32 AM (fsolL)

25 >>>Good morning everyone. Today is my 71st birthday, I made it this lap, let's see if I can do another!

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen?

>Happy birthday, you old fart. The fish are biting.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 08, 2026 05:36 AM (Fbc0I)

26 Betty or Veronica?

That's like Ginger or Mary Ann.

Not really. Betty and Veronica had the same face, just different color hair.

Ginger and Mary Ann were not the same.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 08, 2026 05:39 AM (qFwJc)

27 Counting in hexadecimal doesn't make you any younger.

But if you make it to 64, you might get a Birthday card from the White House.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 08, 2026 05:40 AM (qFwJc)

28 Good morning, everyone. It's a cold morning here in the GPROMD and I'm trying to get enough coffee to feel human. My pup's foot is no longer bandaged but we still have him muzzled to stop him from licking it.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 08, 2026 05:46 AM (BpO1e)

29 Evening and morning to the satellites of the far-flung AoSHQ Empire! Woden's Day, another day I need to work out. 60-66 F. depending who you ask and almost no wind. Great conditions. Right now, though, my Motivation is cowering in a dark corner someplace. I need to flush it out. Or entice it out somehow. "Here, Motie, Motie . . ."

Anyway! What are you doing this early morning?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 05:46 AM (wzUl9)

30
But if you make it to 64, you might get a Birthday card from the White House.
Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 08, 2026

***
"Will you still need me,
Will you still feed me,
When I'm sixty-four?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 05:47 AM (wzUl9)

31 God our provider . An Our Daily Bread " devotional
Based on Matthew17: 24-27:.It is followed by a prayer and insight :

https://tinyurl.com/up3zaw93

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 08, 2026 05:51 AM (ZeH0U)

32 “ And in that day you will say: “O Lord, I will praise You; Though You were angry with me, Your anger is turned away, and You comfort me.”

Isaiah 12:1

Posted by: Marcus T at April 08, 2026 05:53 AM (n9XW8)

33 The furry thugs are trying to surround me to get me to feed them early. Since there are only two of them, surrounding is not really going to happen. Still, they're displaying a strong presence. Little Dagny is up on the sofa arm next to me, which she only does when she's really hungry.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 05:55 AM (wzUl9)

34 Tiny bird creates moments of joy in a NYC park. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/2ajtsypb

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 08, 2026 05:55 AM (ZeH0U)

35 Has Iran broken the cease-fire yet?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 05:55 AM (wzUl9)

36 In broken UK news, a store employee at the Waitrose chain stopped a shoplifter this past week, and was immediately fired for doing so. Much like a bus driver who was fired after he stopped a thief who ripped a chain from a lady's neck and attempted to walk off the bus. Sounds like San Francisco circa 2022.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 08, 2026 05:58 AM (rfnom)

37 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 05:46 AM (wzUl9

I have the excitement of going to the supermarket 😉and then my son has a job interview at 10:30

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 08, 2026 05:58 AM (ZeH0U)

38 I have the excitement of going to the supermarket 😉and then my son has a job interview at 10:30
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 08, 2026

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Job interviews can be terrifying. But don't tell him that! Tell him he's interviewing them, to see if he wants to work there, as much as they are interviewing him. (Not a good idea to let that attitude slip out during the interview, maybe.) What kind of job is it?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 06:01 AM (wzUl9)

39 It's a bit of a challenge right now because we are down to two working cars for three people.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 08, 2026 06:01 AM (OYsYV)

40 May will bring the 20th anniversary of Al Gore's Inconvenient Truth. In celebration, Roger Pielke wrote a condemnation of Gore's explicit effort to force the then-new field of climate science to abandon honesty and serve the Democrat Party.

https://tinyurl.com/2p83vdj

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 08, 2026 06:04 AM (9LOW6)

41 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 06:01 AM (wzUl9

That's good way to put it . I have to give him credit. He has been researching the company and I did a mock interview with him yesterday . The trouble is he's not feeling very well right now and has a doctors appointment tomorrow

. I will just say it's an outside job.

Thanks for your kind thoughts. And encouragement.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 08, 2026 06:05 AM (OYsYV)

42 Chow time for felines. Then I need to go work out. Winds will pick up soon, blowing hard from the east. Today, like Fen, I need to visit the market, then maybe gas up the car ahead of another price increase.

That investment company finally sent me the corrected paperwork with my proper birth date on it. I'm ready to upload the forms to their site, but I wanted to triple-check with them that all is good -- or if I have to mail the forms back. Maybe, just maybe, after five months, I'll see that check with the pension balance from my 1978-87 job after I get back from Kansas.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 08, 2026 06:06 AM (wzUl9)

43 VDH writes,

Their obsessions with the low side of 30/70 issues had especially alienated Democrats from white middle- and working-class voters. Yet middle-class whites still comprise about 40–50 percent of the population and are perhaps overrepresented in voter turnout.

Democrats realize that their fixations on biological males competing in women’s sports, open borders and millions of illegal entries, radical green agendas, DEI-driven racial essentialism, and massive government entitlements rife with fraud have alienated the middle classes in general and white middle- and working-class voters in particular.
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Their solution is "more Spanberger". If voters don't like Democrat policies it's the voters who are wrong. So, don't change policies, just lie to get elected and then revert to radical marxism.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at April 08, 2026 06:08 AM (9LOW6)

44 Little beta fish turns bright blue when it's happy again:

https://tinyurl.com/4yfw4w9k

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 08, 2026 06:16 AM (n3VHW)

45 Morning Horde. Off for a two week river cruise in the Netherlands and Belgium. Our puppy/housesitter will be paid hazard pay for taking care of the 4 month old beagle princess. Pray for us since Americans may not be welcome in Europe.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 08, 2026 06:24 AM (2NHgQ)

46 @13

>> Today is my 71st birthday, I made it this lap, let's see if I can do another!

Barring anything unforeseen, you got a couple more years left in the tank.

My suggestion is to eat more steak and drink more scotch.

It’s your birthday after all.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 08, 2026 06:25 AM (XV/Pl)

47 Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 08, 2026 06:24 AM (2NHgQ)

Will keep you in prayer . I hope you have a lovely time. I've known some people who have taken a European river cruise in the past year and it was fine.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 08, 2026 06:30 AM (OYsYV)

48 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at April 08, 2026 06:33 AM (2Ez/1)

49 The best Artemis II moon images (so far):

https://tinyurl.com/y4tvmpw5

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes. at April 08, 2026 06:33 AM (kpS4V)

50 Quote from the article on Google's AI:

...and the non-deterministic nature of gen AI can make it hard to verify anything.

It's astounding to me that someone wrote that phrase and didn't immediately stop and say "maybe this whole thing is a little misguided."

Posted by: Part-time Thinker at April 08, 2026 06:33 AM (T/KJ0)

51 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 08, 2026 06:35 AM (bQ4nt)

52
Betty or Veronica?

Veronica: high-maintenance bitch. Avoid.

Betty: Fun girl.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 06:36 AM (tgvbd)

53 Good morning morons

nec my lib little sis spent a few days in Amsterdam and cruising down the Rhine in March and she hd a great time.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 08, 2026 06:39 AM (RIvkX)

54 Fen, before I forget: Good luck to your son today. I hope he gets some good news.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 08, 2026 06:43 AM (BpO1e)

55 "Good morning everyone. Today is my 71st birthday, I made it this lap, let's see if I can do another!"

I'm trailing by 4 years (as of last Friday), so if you can do it, maybe I can as well.

No offense, but I'm not holding my breath for either of us; I wouldn't mind being proven wrong for either of our cases.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 08, 2026 06:44 AM (DLVKS)

56 Happy birthday GMAC.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 08, 2026 06:44 AM (RIvkX)

57 I suspect that part of our problem in Iran is that we’ve used up our list of military targets, but the regime won’t go away. General infrastructure destruction is not a good plan , which is why we stayed away from it so far.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 08, 2026 06:45 AM (UA2di)

58 Lots of problems with ASUS and charging.

Posted by: meh at April 08, 2026 06:47 AM (Y9Pvf)

59 I suspect that part of our problem in Iran is that we’ve used up our list of military targets, but the regime won’t go away. General infrastructure destruction is not a good plan , which is why we stayed away from it so far.
Posted by: Tom Servo at April 08, 2026 06:45 AM (UA2di)
=====
If they survive, they win.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 08, 2026 06:49 AM (RIvkX)

60 IMO, one of our cease-fire requirements should have been only oil tanker traffic NOT destined for CCP ports is cleared to use the Strait of Hormuz.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 08, 2026 06:50 AM (DLVKS)

61 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 08, 2026 06:53 AM (MIIRH)

62 & Happy Birthday, Gmac!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 08, 2026 06:54 AM (MIIRH)

63 SanFranpsycho sums it up in one simple statement. If they survive, they win.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2026 06:54 AM (yAteE)

64 "If they survive, they win."

Alas, this is true, SFp

SAD!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 08, 2026 06:55 AM (MIIRH)

65 MAZE is out with another flashback video, this one showing Newsom talking to youth offenders in San Quentin prison and relating to them as a blonde lady who accidentally killed her sister with a golf cart back in 1981. She said the incident was a situation of “wrong place, wrong time,” adding that she wasn’t punished “because clearly it was an accident, but their's was probably an accident, too.”
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I've never seen this video before.

But it goes far explaining the leftist mindset. Convicted criminals are innocent victims you see, there by happenstance and bad luck.

The left sees no reason at all these people should be isolated and kept from decent society.

They are incapable of separating right from wrong.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 08, 2026 06:57 AM (RIvkX)

66 "Maryland positions itself to out-stupid California."

$189 to register my 2016 Mazda3 in S.F. Dunno how that compares to Maryland, but our weather is generally nicer.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at April 08, 2026 06:59 AM (KAi1n)

67 Fen,

I wish your son the best of luck with his interview and hopefully it is a positive step in getting him to a place where he can grow as an adult.

Posted by: pawn at April 08, 2026 06:59 AM (jstR0)

68
Happy birfday, Gmac.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 06:59 AM (tgvbd)

69 Happy birthday GMAC.& Richard Cranium!

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at April 08, 2026 07:04 AM (T5m6M)

70 Maryland positions itself to out-stupid California

I'll have to read the article when I get home but I have a feeling it's going to reinforce my desire to leave here the instant I retire.

Posted by: NR Pax at April 08, 2026 07:04 AM (BpO1e)

71
Convicted criminals are innocent victims you see, there by happenstance and bad luck.

"Criminals might be victims of circumstance in the sense that few of them ever had a fair chance, but it was a mistake to forget that the only 'fair chance' they ever wanted was a chance for easy money." - James Gould Cozzens, The Just and the Unjust, 1942.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 07:09 AM (tgvbd)

72 "If they survive, they win."

All warfare isn't zero-sum. Genocidal warfare is zero-sum, unless you're that idiot Mahatma Gandhi who was supposedly OK with self-annihilation; he could have gotten a win-win with the Nazis.

Oh, after some research, Gandhi appears to have opined that the Jews should have done freely offered their necks for slaughter but somehow thought that "would rather have India resort to arms in order to defend her honor than that she should in a cowardly manner become or remain a helpless witness to her own dishonor."

Irving, TX, has a statue of that asshole in a park. https://maps.app.goo.gl/rFyu6F8ejEh1ok8i9

Posted by: Richard Cranium at April 08, 2026 07:09 AM (DLVKS)

73
All warfare isn't zero-sum. Genocidal warfare is zero-sum, unless you're that idiot Mahatma Gandhi who was supposedly OK with self-annihilation; he could have gotten a win-win with the Nazis.

All the blood of the slaughters that took place after independence is on his hands.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 08, 2026 07:14 AM (tgvbd)

74 Couldn't get back to sleep because today is Embryo Implantation Day for Boy Embryo #2. Prayers would be appreciated, especially that I can stay calm and relaxed.

Posted by: pookysgirl, taking deep breaths at April 08, 2026 07:17 AM (Wt5PA)

75 I coulda told ya that. AI mode sucks dong. I just immediately press the X and start sifting through links. Gotta weed out the trash using human intelligence, but once you find a legit link you have at least some confidence the info is correct.

In my experience it's always with fast safer than asking ALie the same question phrased 3-4 different ways, getting 3-4 different "answers," and averaging them into something you hope approximates the "truth."

One thing that helps with Google ALie Mode is having background knowledge of your own - frequently, the lies are so off the wall, over the top stupid that you can immediately weed out the "answer."

But even people just a touch younger than me have little knowledge of anything because they were already relying on Google to handle about 80% of their cognition before AI came along.

Another generation and people will be telling each George Washington played for the 76ers and invented cherries, and nobody will be the wiser.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 08, 2026 07:17 AM (BI5O2)

76 Comrade, you cannot out-stupid California. It is physically impossible!

Posted by: Anatoly Dyatlov at April 08, 2026 07:18 AM (Ysav4)

77 @65

>>But it goes far explaining the leftist mindset.

Leftists, in the main, are lunatics and psychopath's, they are a collection of Patrick Bateman's.

They seem human, but there's nothing there.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 08, 2026 07:18 AM (XV/Pl)

78 JJS

Posted by: Steven Raichlen at April 08, 2026 07:21 AM (NcvvS)

79 When the history of today's creative bankruptcy in entertainment is written, Archie will garner a footnote. For years, a young adult drama series ran called Riverdale, which chronicled the lives of figures like Jughead, ran on television.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 08, 2026 07:22 AM (I/0M6)

80 The war has exacerbated the financial situation the IRGC is in. The economy was already collapsed before the war started, now, thousands more of their own supporters are without any income. This is how regime change happens.

Posted by: Ben Had at April 08, 2026 07:23 AM (yAteE)

81 When the history of today's creative bankruptcy in entertainment is written, Archie will garner a footnote. For years, a young adult drama series ran called Riverdale, which chronicled the lives of figures like Jughead, ran on television.
Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at April 08, 2026 07:22 AM (I/0M6

I never watched that but I seem to recall that it was real trashy, too. Like Archie is secretly banging Jughead's mom and Veronica is hooked on molly, etc.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at April 08, 2026 07:24 AM (BI5O2)

82
Archie got woke.

Posted by: Auspex at April 08, 2026 07:25 AM (Y8DZL)

83 w00t late

Posted by: m at April 08, 2026 07:27 AM (fNISR)

84 Good morning, all!

Happy Birthday, GMAC! Wish you a lovely day and a good year ahead with peace, happiness and good health.

Posted by: L - No nic, another fine day at April 08, 2026 07:35 AM (NFX2v)

85 >>>Google's AI Overviews tell millions of lies a day.

I hate it so much.

Posted by: m at April 08, 2026 08:19 AM (fNISR)

86 Check in, please, Biden's Dog!

Posted by: m at April 08, 2026 09:49 AM (fNISR)

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