Daily Tech News 5 August 2026

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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 retarded to get you to burn usage credits.
Can Reddit fend of a new wave of AI SEO spam? (The Verge)

No.

Do I care?

Also no.
Apple says ex-employees have been stuffing classified documents down their pants and handing them over to OpenAI. (Tech Crunch)

Anthropic hardest hit.
AMD's datacenter revenue doubled over last year, but gaming revenue declined by 30%. (Tom's Hardware)

Given that the game consoles are engaged in a mutual suicide pact and nobody is building new gaming PCs right now, I'm impressed that they held the decline to 30%.

Overall revenues were up by 50%.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Fnordbiscuits.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at August 05, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at August 05, 2026 04:31 AM (Ia/+0)

3 Rathergood - We Like The Moon

um

Posted by: m at August 05, 2026 04:32 AM (odBC9)

4 Ok, I'll ask
Pixy why do we get a popup after every comment that blurs the page then that has to be swatted away so one can comment again?

Posted by: Skip at August 05, 2026 04:33 AM (Ia/+0)

5 I've discovered tabletop games.

I'm debating spending way too much money on a multi-toolhead printer so I can print a quarter billion pieces of terrain for games I still don't have time to play, but at least I can feel like I'm making progress in while enough trees to reforest the Sahara print out while I'm dealing with either Day Job(tm) or insomnia.

Cheaper than a new 3D card, though.

Posted by: Voyager at August 05, 2026 04:36 AM (lk05u)

6 On the fifth of August of this year, SpaceX will blow up the Moon. (Yahoo)

On January 24th, Apple Computer will introduce Macintosh.

Posted by: m at August 05, 2026 04:36 AM (odBC9)

7
The last trajectory update pushed the projected impact site beyond the limb by a little bit, so it wasn't visible from earth, but the ejecta plume might have been.

None of the amateurs trying to look for it, even those with some large 'scopes, saw anything. The pros, including NASA were going to be looking with the big stuff, but they haven't said anything, and won't for a few days until they process all the data.

Some orbiters will image the site when they get the chance and we'll have images when we get them.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 05, 2026 04:37 AM (w6EFb)

8 BOING!

Just finished pool lifeguard duty for some grandpups.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at August 05, 2026 04:38 AM (8schn)

9 And don't think its the sit's fault, at school I am working at has public Wi-Fi and once on our page its fine to refresh, but get a unsafe warning to a new page. Can if I go outside and get page on mobile data can go in and have site working.
Doesn't do it on a few other of my usual places.

Posted by: Skip at August 05, 2026 04:39 AM (Ia/+0)

10 Which is more important: having someone recording when a piece of space junk smacks into the moon? Or having someone recording when a soyjack commie gets beach blanket bingo'd in broad daylight for picking a fight with one of the natives?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2026 04:45 AM (Vq1pX)

11 This pop up hell started for just about everyone a couple days ago - apparently worse on cell phones. It’s going to really cut down site traffic if it isn’t fixed.

Posted by: Tom Servo at August 05, 2026 04:48 AM (Fo91n)

12 >>>On the fifth of August of this year, SpaceX will blow up the Moon.

7 The last trajectory update pushed the projected impact site beyond the limb by a little bit, so it wasn't visible from earth, but the ejecta plume might have been.

None of the amateurs trying to look for it, even those with some large 'scopes, saw anything. The pros, including NASA were going to be looking with the big stuff, but they haven't said anything, and won't for a few days until they process all the data.

Some orbiters will image the site when they get the chance and we'll have images when we get them.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 05, 2026 04:37 AM (w6EFb)

I don't see anything about it @elonmusk

Is the NASA website where we should check back?

Posted by: m at August 05, 2026 04:50 AM (odBC9)

13 Browser settings -> Site Settings -> Javascript -> Don't Allow Sites to Use Javascript

You can fix it yourself in a few seconds. It will hurt them in lost ad revenue, but so would simply not visiting at all anymore.

Just hit the tip jar if you feel guilty about.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2026 04:51 AM (Vq1pX)

14
https://www.nasa.gov

Posted by: m at August 05, 2026 04:51 AM (odBC9)

15 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 05, 2026 04:52 AM (sAmhv)

16 >> Is the NASA website where we should check back?

https://t.ly/mA_LT

That's their statement on it. I'll be looking and will post if they have any images. It will take a while.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 05, 2026 04:53 AM (w6EFb)

17 16 >> Is the NASA website where we should check back?

https://t.ly/mA_LT

That's their statement on it. I'll be looking and will post if they have any images. It will take a while.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 05, 2026 04:53 AM (w6EFb)

Thank you!

Posted by: m at August 05, 2026 04:54 AM (odBC9)

18
It pains me that they have to say "it poses no danger to earth". But there are blithering idiots out there.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 05, 2026 04:55 AM (w6EFb)

19 16 >> Is the NASA website where we should check back?

https://t.ly/mA_LT

That's their statement on it. I'll be looking and will post if they have any images. It will take a while.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at August 05, 2026 04:53 AM (w6EFb)

It's a super-informative article, to a layperson.

Posted by: m at August 05, 2026 04:59 AM (odBC9)

20 Pixy,
What's with all the pop-up ads? Before I added Adblock Plus to my iPad and iPhone they were driving me crazy.

Posted by: Tuna at August 05, 2026 04:59 AM (lJ0H4)

21 "We like the moon" - Ugh, those little Quiznos bastards. One of the most annoying ad campaigns ever.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 05, 2026 05:01 AM (O7YUW)

22 >I've discovered tabletop games.

Fantasy, SF, or historical? This is kind of my jam. Feel free to ask questions.

Allow me to recommend Age of Hannibal, a little indie game that has a brilliant terrain generation system. You have a deck of cards with terrain features on them. You split the deck between the two players. If you have more/better scout units in your force, you get more cards than your opponent.

You then take turns laying the cards face down into zones on the table, each card adjacent to either your table edge or another of your cards. Flip them over, and place the appropriate terrain pieces in the zones.

The practical effect is that the better your force's scouts, the more you can pick a field of battle advantageous to your force - represented by actually creating that field of battle with your cards.

Posted by: Daniel Ream at August 05, 2026 05:02 AM (LgYtf)

23 Just reading comments, page goes blury

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

24 21 "We like the moon" - Ugh, those little Quiznos bastards. One of the most annoying ad campaigns ever.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at August 05, 2026 05:01 AM (O7YUW)

Having it sung by a used Falcon 9 upper stage from a commercial mission expected to impact the Moon on Wednesday, Aug. 5 would be better.

Posted by: m at August 05, 2026 05:03 AM (odBC9)

25 Probably last day at school anyway, suspect going to Animal Hospital tomorrow. Better work but far away

Posted by: Skip at August 05, 2026 05:04 AM (Ia/+0)

26 It's a super-informative article, to a layperson.
Posted by: m at August 05, 2026 04:59 AM (odBC9)

It is surprisingly well written. It's easy to become jaded in a world where every news article or press release is written by a halfwit AI or some gender studies ninth year freshman intern who still hasn't figured out how adverbs work.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2026 05:04 AM (Vq1pX)

27 26 It's a super-informative article, to a layperson.
Posted by: m at August 05, 2026 04:59 AM (odBC9)

It is surprisingly well written. It's easy to become jaded in a world where every news article or press release is written by a halfwit AI or some gender studies ninth year freshman intern who still hasn't figured out how adverbs work.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2026 05:04 AM (Vq1pX)

Haha. And then, the comments on those sorts of articles are even worse!

Posted by: m at August 05, 2026 05:05 AM (odBC9)

28
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 05, 2026 05:10 AM (AMvSw)

29 If you are operating on a computer where you can't turn off JavaScript entirely but can block specific sites, you need to block it on both "ace mu nu" and "acecomments mu nu". At least that worked to block the pop ups for me. (for now )

Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at August 05, 2026 05:15 AM (igCg8)

30 It's almost become more difficult to find good, entertaining sources for cutting edge science info, mostly thanks to the enslopification of everything. Just tell me what's going on, you know? I don't need you to patronize me like I'm smarter than everyone i know because i watched a YouTube video, and i also don't need you acting like you're smarter than me because... you made a YouTube video. Just tell me about A Thing so i can watch it and think "well that's neat".

The annoying resonance between "private equity" channels and The Algorithm.... all these channels like Veritasium, Astrum, that one insufferable bald neckbeard who apparently has about eight thousand channels...

It ought to be a nice, convenient little mechanism for some really good content, but instead it's just not worth the effort most of the time.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2026 05:28 AM (Vq1pX)

31 Back when I get to work
See you then

Posted by: Skip at August 05, 2026 05:30 AM (Ia/+0)

32 That Kyle Hill guy isn't objectively terrible, i guess.

Maybe I'm just bitter because no one had the foresight to clone twenty copies of James Burke for future generations.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2026 05:33 AM (Vq1pX)

33 Christian devotional in "Family in God" - John 14:5-11. The writer of this devotional seems like a very nice, caring man:

https://tinyurl.com/2v63rx7t

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 05, 2026 05:34 AM (xSAlF)

34 >>>SpongMonkeys hardest hit.

genius.com

The Spongmonkeys are an Internet phenomenon, created by Joel Veitch, that crossed over into television in the form of Quiznos commercials.

They appear to be a pair of graphically edited tarsiers with human mouths, and appear on the web at the rathergood.com website.

These creatures float in the air in front of a hydrangea bush while singing a song called “We Like The Moon”. One of the Spongmonkeys plays a guitar, while the other sings.

The name “spongmonkeys” originated on the B3ta website, where “spong” is a slang term for adding oversized eyes to an image.

Posted by: m at August 05, 2026 05:38 AM (odBC9)

35 The moon has a pepper bar?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2026 05:39 AM (Vq1pX)

36 Cat comforts his sick, blind dog friend who is having a bad day. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/4zx8whak

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 05, 2026 05:41 AM (p8Kan)

37 35 The moon has a pepper bar?
Posted by: Warai-otoko at August 05, 2026 05:39 AM (Vq1pX)

dingdingdingdingding!

genius.com

In early 2004 the Spongmonkeys began appearing in television advertisements for Quiznos singing an altered version of their song called “We Love the Subs.”

One commercial featured the oft-imitated line “they got a pepper bar,” referring to the self-serve assortments of peppers that are a Quizno’s selling point.

Posted by: m at August 05, 2026 05:43 AM (odBC9)

38 We too like the moon.

Posted by: The Mooninites at August 05, 2026 05:47 AM (IFHRw)

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