Daily Tech News 7 September 2026

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Your Roku TV now offers AI slop for free! (Engadget)

Never mind the quality, feel the width!
Your LG TV is spying on you. (Notebook Check)

For once this is not even overstated.

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Flock taught cops how to surveil "No Kings" protesters. (404 Media)

Just follow the trail of bloodied victims and looted bodegas?
Microsoft has announced a stripped down version of Windows 11 for AI developers. (Tom's Hardware)

It requires only 64GB of RAM and 250GB per second of memory bandwidth.
A look at the retro tech making a comeback. (Tech Crunch)

Now that AI has eaten all the real tech.
Behold the website that never asked, "are we the assholes?" (The Verge)

Yes, The Verge. Yes you are. You are all the assholes.
Today: Finished hammering Ada into alignment with Ruby (you won't believe this one weird trick), extended my home computer emulator with a tile and sprite editor, a wavetable editor, a music tracker, Forth, and local networking, and it's still under 64k, and built the application server of the suite.

Plus I bought an asset library of tiles and sprites for low-resolution adventure games - the tile size is 8x8 pixels, perfect for a retro look.

The tileset is 800MB. The computer I'm emulating doesn't have even 800kB.

Speaking of which, my initial design allowed for 128k of ROM. The Atari ST, which came a little over a year later, had 192k, and the Amiga had 256k - although neither one shipped with working ROMs; you needed a boot disk. So that seemed reasonable.

I've so far shoehorned in a Basic interpreter, a Basic compiler, a full screen editor, an assembler/disassembler, the above listed modules, and now Logo, and I'm just shy of 64k.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: An enigma and a mystery in meso-American history.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at September 07, 2026 04:31 AM (odBC9)

2 !!

Posted by: clarence at September 07, 2026 04:31 AM (311fa)

3 w00t again

Posted by: m at September 07, 2026 04:35 AM (odBC9)

4 Pixy, some of the techy morons have exclaimed recently:

"You're using Ada??!!"

ExplainLikeImFive why they are saying that and your rebuttal?

Posted by: m at September 07, 2026 04:37 AM (odBC9)

5 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 07, 2026 04:41 AM (sAmhv)

6 Disclaimer: An enigma and a mystery in meso-American history.

"What's his name?"

Posted by: m at September 07, 2026 04:42 AM (odBC9)

7 Glad I don't have a working TV ( Well, it plays DVD's and CD's ) since I know the cell phone already spies on me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2026 04:43 AM (y8wRt)

8 4 Pixy, some of the techy morons have exclaimed recently:

"You're using Ada??!!"

ExplainLikeImFive why they are saying that and your rebuttal?
Posted by: m

I write Ada now. Ada is cool.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 07, 2026 04:44 AM (BLOW1)

9 I had mostly an internet and cell phone day yesterday and it was great!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2026 04:44 AM (y8wRt)

10 Behold the website that never asked, "are we the assholes?" (The Verge)
Yes, The Verge. Yes you are. You are all the assholes.

heh

Posted by: m at September 07, 2026 04:46 AM (odBC9)

11 I have a ROKU TV and haven't even noticed the AI Slop channel.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 07, 2026 04:46 AM (sAmhv)

12 Wikipedia

Ada (programming language)

Ada is a structured, statically typed, imperative, and object-oriented high-level programming language, inspired by Pascal and other languages.

Posted by: m at September 07, 2026 04:47 AM (odBC9)

13 Behold the website that never asked, "are we the assholes?" (The Verge)
****

And "are we the bad guys" will never be contemplated.

Posted by: clarence at September 07, 2026 04:47 AM (311fa)

14 13 Behold the website that never asked, "are we the assholes?" (The Verge)
****

And "are we the bad guys" will never be contemplated.
Posted by: clarence at September 07, 2026 04:47 AM (311fa)

The commenters seem ... split?

Posted by: m at September 07, 2026 04:49 AM (odBC9)

15 If I'm being cynical, Republicans are naive: such a network of cameras will be built eventually anyway in the US and the left will cooperate for now in bringing it down only to ensure that it will be built by them when the time comes and that they are be the ones who take advantage of it.
I hope I'm wrong.

Posted by: PG at September 07, 2026 04:50 AM (i1cV2)

16 Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2026 04:44 AM (y8wRt)

Meant internet and cell phone "free" day yesterday.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2026 04:50 AM (JrHfD)

17 ExplainLikeIm29?

Posted by: m at September 07, 2026 04:52 AM (odBC9)

18 Christian dinging group "Anthem lights" sings "10,000 reasons" . Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/4sad6my2

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2026 04:52 AM (JrHfD)

19 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 07, 2026 04:59 AM (Pny+9)

20 17 ExplainLikeIm29?
Posted by: m at September 07, 2026 04:52 AM (odBC9)

(I know you're not my Research Assistant.)
(Also: I am not 29.)

Posted by: m at September 07, 2026 04:59 AM (odBC9)

21 Re: LG TV spying. Saw this on X.

Nav Toor @heynavtoor

2. LG — Turn off "Live Plus"

Settings → General → System → Additional Settings

Toggle OFF "Live Plus"

Also go to:

Settings → Support → Privacy & Terms → User Agreements

Turn off "Viewing Information"

Warning: Multiple users report LG turns Live Plus back on after software updates. Check this setting every few months.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 07, 2026 05:01 AM (Pny+9)

22 21 Warning: Multiple users report LG turns Live Plus back on after software updates. Check this setting every few months.
Posted by: olddog in mo at September 07, 2026 05:01 AM (Pny+9)

wow

Posted by: m at September 07, 2026 05:02 AM (odBC9)

23 Christian man writes on his Labor Day visit to Mackinac Island and a meaningful connection he and his wife had with another couple. Psalm 32:6-8:. Our Daily Bread devotional:

https://tinyurl.com/34u62vwx

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2026 05:03 AM (JrHfD)

24 I was watching some youtube on my iPad yesterday, and ads interruped a lot and for a long time, but okay, but the "Skip" button was awfully darned close to the "SIGN ME UP FOR THIS NOW" button--like, practically coterminous--and I wonder.

Posted by: m at September 07, 2026 05:06 AM (odBC9)

25 Interruped, they did.

Posted by: m at September 07, 2026 05:06 AM (odBC9)

26 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at September 07, 2026 05:08 AM (V0/Sp)

27
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 07, 2026 05:12 AM (AMvSw)

28 Alcoholic meets dying boy on the beach and it transforms his life. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/3t4tvakd

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2026 05:13 AM (wmzkx)

29 The cat interruped my sleep this morning.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 07, 2026 05:13 AM (Pny+9)

30 A look at the retro tech making a comeback. (Tech Crunch)
Now that AI has eaten all the real tech.

https://archive.is/gZPOJ
(archived site)

Posted by: m at September 07, 2026 05:17 AM (odBC9)

31 Pixy, have you seen Zuckerwars yet?

Posted by: Big D at September 07, 2026 05:21 AM (IUAH1)

32 Good Morning all.

Time to stop staring at the fingernail moon and go back to sleep.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at September 07, 2026 05:21 AM (Q/FnY)

33 Things are very sporty in the UK today. Protestors are standing in the water to keep boats with illegals from landing in Portsmouth and Dover. The UK government are trying to break up the protest as to aid the illegals arriving.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 05:22 AM (E0Et6)

34 Yes; For those that have clear skies, the moon is lovely !

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 07, 2026 05:22 AM (wmzkx)

35 from the TechCrunch site:

October 13 – 15 [2026]
San Francisco

Don’t miss out. The startup community will gather to answer a pivotal question: How do you build sustainably in the AI era?

Posted by: m at September 07, 2026 05:23 AM (odBC9)

36 So far as I can determine there is one of the Mommy faucets dispense a more pleasing quality/higher delivery rate than the other 5. This observation is based on the amount of fighting over faucet #4. All of the kittens want that one

Also.......the game of "he is touching me" has begun

Posted by: Kittens! at September 07, 2026 05:29 AM (LOZbR)

37 33 Things are very sporty in the UK today. Protestors are standing in the water to keep boats with illegals from landing in Portsmouth and Dover. The UK government are trying to break up the protest as to aid the illegals arriving.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 07, 2026 05:22 AM (E0Et6)

Similarly

BBC

Germany's far-right AfD hails big victory in east, but falls short of majority

Posted by: m at September 07, 2026 05:30 AM (odBC9)

38
Welcome to the 2026 edition of the Day of Labour. Pause and reflect on the many glories of that political party, no matter where it calls home.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at September 07, 2026 05:32 AM (trSL4)

39 Also BBC
3 hrs ago

Five dead after Amazon cargo plane crashes at Miami airport
Five people are dead and five seriously injured after a Boeing 767-300 cargo plane "overran" the runway and caught fire, officials say.

Posted by: m at September 07, 2026 05:33 AM (odBC9)

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