Daily Tech News 11 April 2026

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Look around, find the worst price! But don't buy before you come to Micro Center because we can't be beat! Our prices are insane! (WCCFTech)

And not in a good way. Elsewhere it would cost you an eye-burning $1600 to buy 128GB of RAM right now.

At Micro Center it's over $4000.

Western Digital and Samsung SSDs meanwhile have tripled in price in just the last three months, and there's little relief there with even cheaper brands using YMTC flash increasing by 50% or more.

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Anthropic has banned the creator of OpenClaw from accessing Claude, labeling him a treacherous idiot commie weasel who smells bad. (Tech Crunch)

Fair enough.
Google, Meta, Snap, and Microsoft have excoriated the European Parliament over abandoning a law that created a carve-out in privacy laws to allow online platforms to scan user content for evidence of sexual abuse and have vowed to continue to do so. (The Guardian)

Because under a separate law, the platforms are legally responsible for user content that contains evidence of sexual abuse.

They're just no longer allowed to regulate it.

A very, very European thing to do.
The latest bit of software to get indirectly hacked to deliver malware have been the CPU-Z and HWMonitor tools from the CPUID project. (Bleeping Computer)

The software itself was fine, but the website was hacked to randomly deliver malware instead of the software you tried to download. If you downloaded either package in the last couple of days - the poisoned versions were online between April 9 and 10 - you might have a problem.
Cutting off the tail of DRAM latency at the cost of, well, cost. (Tom's Hardware)

Tail Slayer is a neat bit of software that avoids having critical memory accesses delayed by DRAM refresh cycles.

But it does this by replicating your data across multiple channels of memory so you are never forced to access the memory module that is being refreshed at this precise instant.

Which works, yes, but is a very expensive solution.

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Disclaimer: We have every type of memory here at Crazy Micro Center!

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1 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at April 11, 2026 04:32 AM (bQ4nt)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2026 04:36 AM (Ia/+0)

3 Had a long bizarre dream had to go to first day of 12th grade, everything wasn't quite as was reality though. Was going to walk but was going to be late so decided to take my truck.

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2026 04:45 AM (Ia/+0)

4 I need coffee

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2026 04:50 AM (Ia/+0)

5 >>>Had a long bizarre dream had to go to first day of 12th grade, everything wasn't quite as was reality though. Was going to walk but was going to be late so decided to take my truck.

Posted by: Skip

>You need coffee, son.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 11, 2026 04:51 AM (Fbc0I)

6 I sometimes have dreams where after waking, I wonder where the hell my brain came up with that. Dreams has fascinated me
since I was a kid, and for some reason I still remember laying in a crib at the foot of my parents bed and my bed was full of cabbages. I cried and they came to wake me up I think.....

Posted by: Colin at April 11, 2026 04:55 AM (e8qy3)

7 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 11, 2026 04:55 AM (gcUgZ)

8 Traveling in the Netherlands and have to say there’s no place like home. Yes, my middle name is Dorothy.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 11, 2026 05:03 AM (6TgNZ)

9 Lots I would like to see in the Netherlands

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2026 05:05 AM (Ia/+0)

10 Guten morgen, horde.

Posted by: clarence at April 11, 2026 05:07 AM (H1EjZ)

11 Last memorable dream I had, was about 5 or 6 grizzly bears, they had assaulted the house, knocked down the doors and turned the house into a speedway of mayhem. They didn't try to kill me, but they were considering it.

Funny stuff. They trashed the whole property.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at April 11, 2026 05:07 AM (Fbc0I)

12 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at April 11, 2026 05:10 AM (AN2gy)

13 Lots I would like to see in the Netherlands
Posted by: Skip

My experience in the Netherlands fell a little flat.

Posted by: Dark Litigator at April 11, 2026 05:14 AM (KAi1n)

14
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 11, 2026 05:16 AM (2/MrR)

15 No downhill skiing in the Netherlands.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 11, 2026 05:18 AM (gcUgZ)

16 Is the Netherlands part of the Netherworld?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at April 11, 2026 05:20 AM (qFwJc)

17 Lond ago best ice skaters were often from Netherlands

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2026 05:24 AM (Ia/+0)

18 Amsterdam has been fun. The hotel we’re staying in trains students studying for hospitality management. The most staff I’ve seen in a hotel in decades. The students cover all jobs including in the kitchen while being supervised by the paid staff. They’re super polite as well.

Posted by: neverenoughcaffeine at April 11, 2026 05:25 AM (6TgNZ)

19 Oh man. I've been using these little old bluetooth workout-style headphones (66 Audio BT Sport) with my computer this whole time -- very convenient, have lasted many years of light-duty use, and are still going strong -- but I finally got a higher audio quality set (OneOdio A71), and the clarity is incredible. They're not expensive at all -- not even really "studio" headphones, more like "DJ" level -- and they're amazing. I can hear so much more from the same YouTube music videos.

I feel like I cheated myself out of years of higher enjoyment for no reason. No wait, I finally rewarded myself with higher future enjoyment! Yeah, that's the ticket. But seriously, consider getting better sound if you love sound and have been just "getting by."

Posted by: SciVo at April 11, 2026 05:47 AM (Sy6m/)

20 Good morning, All.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at April 11, 2026 05:59 AM (fovWB)

21 I really would like to see Waterloo area

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2026 06:06 AM (Ia/+0)

22 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: we remember it for you wholesale.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 11, 2026 06:06 AM (5laSV)

23 I really would like to see Waterloo area
Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2026 06:06 AM (Ia/+0)
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The Prince of Orange constructed a huge mound in the middle of the position to commemorate his (negative) role in the battle. The Duke of Wellington snarked, "They have ruined my battlefield!"

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at April 11, 2026 06:08 AM (5laSV)

24 Not that I can watch them anymore, but see next two races for F-1 in Gulf area, Bahrain and Saudi Arabia have been canceled

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2026 06:12 AM (Ia/+0)

25 I really should make breakfast before its lunch time

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2026 06:13 AM (Ia/+0)

26 >>> I really would like to see Waterloo area

Go west on RT-103 off exit 9 on I-89 in NH.

Maybe less historical interest than the one in Belgium, but they do have a covered bridge, so there is that going for it.

Posted by: fluffy at April 11, 2026 06:14 AM (AN2gy)

27 I thought F1 was supposed to be fast. Can't they outrun Iranian missiles?

Posted by: mikeski at April 11, 2026 06:15 AM (VHUov)

28 Evening and morning for all the Saturday late toilers and early risers!

Disclaimer: We have every type of memory here at Crazy Micro Center!

***
Does that include bad memories? Because you can keep those.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 11, 2026 06:16 AM (wzUl9)

29 Had a long bizarre dream had to go to first day of 12th grade

Did you remember the combination on your locker?

Posted by: Chuck C at April 11, 2026 06:17 AM (D0HYP)

30 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at April 11, 2026 06:18 AM (2Ez/1)

31 Had a long bizarre dream had to go to first day of 12th grade, everything wasn't quite as was reality though. Was going to walk but was going to be late so decided to take my truck.
Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2026

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Skip, you had a truck in your senior year? I was still riding the damn bus. There were a few of my classmates who had cars, but not many, or maybe the ones in my social circle didn't.

When I got to college the next year, the campus was full of cars and part of the orientation included how to obtain your parking permit. I hated going to that commuter school: It was just like high school, except vastly bigger and nobody knew me, and I had a 45-minute bus ride each way.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 11, 2026 06:19 AM (wzUl9)

32
A very, very European thing to do.

"Do you not know, my son, with how very little wisdom the world is governed?" - Count Axel Oxenstierna, 1648

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 11, 2026 06:20 AM (tgvbd)

33 Had a long bizarre dream had to go to first day of 12th grade
*
Did you remember the combination on your locker?
Posted by: Chuck C at April 11, 2026

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In my kind of dream, my locker would be a giant bank vault with a time lock.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 11, 2026 06:20 AM (wzUl9)

34
Does that include bad memories? Because you can keep those.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 11, 2026 06:16 AM (wzUl9)

I got plenty and would like to give them all away. Truly it is remarkable how minds like mine can retain and relive in excruciating detail every dumb, stupid and embarrassing incident in life.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 11, 2026 06:22 AM (tgvbd)

35 This afternoon and evening will be Shirley Temple Day on Movies!, so I doubt I'll drop in on that channel much today.

I'll wash and spray wax the car, hit the library, and maybe stop for an espresso at some point while I'm out. You?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 11, 2026 06:26 AM (wzUl9)

36 Living in town everyone in it walked to school, from K-12. Only bus I got was to 1/2 day vo-tech last 3 years

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2026 06:26 AM (Ia/+0)

37 >>I was still riding the damn bus. There were a few of my classmates who had cars, but not many, or maybe the ones in my social circle didn't.

K-6 we didn't even have buses. In 7th-8th, was 2 blocks short of having bus service; lived 5 minute walk from high school.

Now you see school buses picking up practically all kids.

Posted by: Nazdar at April 11, 2026 06:29 AM (NcvvS)

38 Oh, I walked to grammar school; it was only three and a half blocks away. At ages seven to eleven I thought it a long slog, at least when going to the school in the morning.

Starting at twelve I had to ride the bus to school. There were no junior highs or high schools within walking distance. Both bus rides were about twenty minutes each way *once you got on the bus*; waiting times varied.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 11, 2026 06:31 AM (wzUl9)

39 A portrait of dependence. A man writes on psalm 63, dependence on God and about his dear dog. Reflection is followed by a prayer and some additional insights. " Our Daily Bread" devotional :

https://tinyurl.com/3jwf2n9r

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 11, 2026 06:31 AM (PFs9e)

40 See on YouTube TJM has his list of Hitchcock movies

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2026 06:32 AM (Ia/+0)

41 You had dreams? Oh, we DREAMED of having dreams! All we had was a broken kaleidoscope and a bully to pull our pants down in school!

Posted by: The Four Yorkshiremen at April 11, 2026 06:34 AM (eOFY+)

42 Now you see school buses picking up practically all kids.
Posted by: Nazdar at April 11, 2026

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Or long lines of mommies in SUVs, dropping off and picking up their sprogs. It's insane.

The only time I ever got *driven* to school was during a bus strike when I was attending the commuter college. I managed to get my father to drop me off. You'd have thought I was asking him to drive way out to the Gulf Coast. "You've been the one yelling at me to 'get that degree'," I reminded him. "If you'd taught me to drive and helped me buy a car two years ago, you wouldn't have this problem!"

I got a lift back home from one classmate or another, chipping in for gas. This was when gas was about .50/gal., which seemed high then.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 11, 2026 06:37 AM (wzUl9)

43 mornin yall. It's Soapbox derby day here. I don't have an entry but our car club will be doing the timing.

The best place to watch is at the bottom of the hill where most of the crashes are. If you are there for that sort of thing.

Posted by: fd at April 11, 2026 06:42 AM (vFG9F)

44 This may be for you, Wolfus:

"Struggling Midwestern city that was once the pride of America now offering new residents $15,000 to move there"

Reading further I see it's Detroit. Maybe not.

Posted by: fd at April 11, 2026 06:47 AM (vFG9F)

45 The business day is over in Islamabad. What happened?

Posted by: M. Gaga at April 11, 2026 06:48 AM (KiBMU)

46 Good morning morons

I can't forgive Phil Collins for Susudio

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2026 06:48 AM (RIvkX)

47 I'm hearing that Eric Swalwell is too much of a pervert to run for governor but just enough of a pervert to stay in Congress.

Can't wait to see how the Party threads that needle.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2026 06:54 AM (RIvkX)

48 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 11, 2026 06:54 AM (u82oZ)

49 "Struggling Midwestern city that was once the pride of America now offering new residents $15,000 to move there"

Reading further I see it's Detroit. Maybe not.
Posted by: fd at April 11, 2026

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Most of those cities or states that offer you money to move there also insist that you have a business you're also relocating to their area.

When Detroit was the Paris of the West (1940s-1950s), I might have wanted to live there. But then they wouldn't have needed to bribe people to move in.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 11, 2026 06:57 AM (wzUl9)

50 San Franpsycho

How will the Dems proceed?

Shamelessly and flamboyantly fabulous.

Power seizing needs no moral justification to them.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 11, 2026 06:57 AM (u82oZ)

51 Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere

Please keep me updated with your plans. We have some options on meeting.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 11, 2026 06:59 AM (u82oZ)

52 They are doing the same thing to Scott Weiner too except I think they're going after him for being a Jew.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2026 06:59 AM (RIvkX)

53 Interesting banging a Chinese operative Fang Fang isn't whst got him.in trouble ever with the Marxists

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2026 07:01 AM (Ia/+0)

54 San Franpsycho

Without fraud and double-dealing, the Left's election chances are more selective.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 11, 2026 07:02 AM (u82oZ)

55 Their internal machinations are so Soviet.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2026 07:03 AM (RIvkX)

56 "Water water everywhere and not a drop to drink."

HMS Dragon has been forced into port due to lack of water aboard ship.

Posted by: Anna Puma at April 11, 2026 07:03 AM (2GVsD)

57 Salty I suspect our elections were Sovietized many years ago.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2026 07:03 AM (RIvkX)

58 Please keep me updated with your plans. We have some options on meeting.
Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 11, 2026

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I will! My plan is to leave on Friday early and be in town by Sunday afternoon.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 11, 2026 07:04 AM (wzUl9)

59 Brittania Rules the Waves
(can we borrow some Fiji water?)

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2026 07:06 AM (RIvkX)

60 San Franpsycho

Only with Trump leading the way is our own ossified gerontocracy being broken up.

GOPe killed the T.E.A. Party, so it is a unified effort.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 11, 2026 07:06 AM (u82oZ)

61 You can't be a global power if you can't supply 1 ship anywhere on call.

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2026 07:10 AM (Ia/+0)

62 It's just hard to believe my next congressman will be even worse than Pelosi.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2026 07:11 AM (RIvkX)

63 San Franpsycho

My first ship had the fresh water evaporators fail in the Caribbean. We had to UNREP for fresh water. But we managed. Got stories.

HMS Dragon could have UNREPed like we did. But they wanted to fail the mission. Very sad. In the USN, the CO, XO, Suppo, and Chief Engineer would all be fired for using that excuse.

What ever happened to UK ~~engineering and engineers~~ standards?

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 11, 2026 07:11 AM (u82oZ)

64 San Franpsycho

Baby steps. You have a new DA.

But you're right. I think of CA as a cyst filled with gangrene. There are some good cells still there, but the bad cells determine the outcome.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 11, 2026 07:13 AM (u82oZ)

65
It's just hard to believe my next congressman will be even worse than Pelosi.
Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2026 07:11 AM (RIvkX)

At least the Democratic fossils have some dim, distant memory of a more moderate party. The up and comings are full-bore, no-holds-barred DemSoc maniacs.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at April 11, 2026 07:14 AM (tgvbd)

66 Hadrian the Seventh

It is amazing that Senator Fetterman is being excoriated for the common sense he talks about, rather than praised for his extreme Left voting record.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 11, 2026 07:18 AM (u82oZ)

67 Europe has always sucked.
All they ever had was royalty and fine arts. The internet has revealed royalty to be scum and communism has ruined art. Islam will handle the demolition.

Posted by: Accomack at April 11, 2026 07:20 AM (pus6K)

68 Powerline- In Minnesota a Muslim heathcare fraudster for $11M
was allowed to leave the country by a judge.

Posted by: Skip at April 11, 2026 07:23 AM (Ia/+0)

69 Salty I like our DA overall

But very p.o. about Visha's murderer walking free. The city is still very open season on the weak and vulnerable.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at April 11, 2026 07:24 AM (RIvkX)

70 Maintencing and starting up the tractors today.

Gonna get my Spring on today, have a lot of work this year and I gotta get to it.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 11, 2026 07:24 AM (joBIh)

71 Detroit was arguably the wealthiest city. On the planet. I think it’s dropped a bit, anyhow.

Posted by: Common Tater at April 11, 2026 07:26 AM (L7CUp)

72 Breakfast for both me and the furry thugs is over. Almost time for me to shave and shower.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 11, 2026 07:26 AM (wzUl9)

73 68. Technically, he fled the country. Because the judge didn’t take his passport after he posted a $150,000 bond. You know cause he was a poor Somali.

Posted by: Jen the original at April 11, 2026 07:26 AM (7MAtR)

74 When Detroit was the Paris of the West (1940s-1950s), I might have wanted to live there. But then they wouldn't have needed to bribe people to move in.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 11, 2026 06:57 AM (wzUl9)

Funny how the Paris of the West, the Paris of the East (Beirut), and the Paris of the Middle all have turned out pretty much the same way.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 11, 2026 07:29 AM (txiLK)

75 UNREP = Underway Replenishment, for those of you who are hard of acronyming.

Posted by: Narrator voice at April 11, 2026 07:30 AM (2Ez/1)

76 Narrator voice

We are a smart military blog.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 11, 2026 07:31 AM (u82oZ)

77 Detroit was arguably the wealthiest city. On the planet. I think it’s dropped a bit, anyhow."

There's been a Detroit comeback for what, 45 years now?

Any day...

Posted by: man at April 11, 2026 07:32 AM (XuXeR)

78 Have a great day, everyone.

On to taxes. Ugh.

May you be form free and living the life you want.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 11, 2026 07:32 AM (u82oZ)

79 46 states use High School and DMV roles to automatically register 18 YO to the SSS.

(D)s are stupid to make this an issue.

Posted by: r hennigantx at April 11, 2026 07:34 AM (/+uur)

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