Daily Tech News 9 September 2026

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The US government is accusing Chinese AI companies of trying to kidnap what American AI companies have rightfully stolen. (Cyberscoop)

And they think it quite ungentlemanly.
Meanwhile Google is giving Europe exactly what it asked for, the bastards. (Engadget)

The EU mandated that tech companies not treat their own products more favourably than competitors', which is insane.

So Google is complying by make its products worse - just for Europe.

Diana Moon Glampers eat your heart out.

Tech News

I found $12,000 worth of DDR4 RAM in my garage. (Tom's Hardware)

Well, not me personally; the guy in the article. I have $1200 worth of DDR3 RAM in my garage. The DDR4 stash is in the guest suite.
Running Kimi K3 on an M5 Macbook at one token per second. (GitHub)

Still painful but 70 times faster than the original version. That's a model that requires 5.6 terabytes of VRAM to run at full precision.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Two is one and one is none and none is somehow two.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at September 09, 2026 04:35 AM (odBC9)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 09, 2026 04:36 AM (Ia/+0)

3 Pixy, the front page is weird. It shows your headline and top two stories, then Continue reading, then nothing but white space!

(I clicked Continue reading, and everything sorted out.)

Posted by: m at September 09, 2026 04:37 AM (odBC9)

4 Yeah, something is up. I don’t know how comments appeared because I never clicked on it. No old posts were showing either.

Posted by: Accomack at September 09, 2026 04:38 AM (8jVAy)

5 Living a low tech life in a high tech world !

Posted by: Ben Had at September 09, 2026 04:40 AM (E0Et6)

6 The Kessler Twins - I Say a Little Prayer

So cute!

Posted by: m at September 09, 2026 04:42 AM (odBC9)

7 The main page is only loading the Tech News up to the "Continue Reading" link, no other stories appear, UNTIL you click "Continue Reading" then the rest of the tech news AND the other stories appear.

Might be some advertising chicanery going on. (I don't know I have all that crap blocked.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 09, 2026 04:43 AM (O7YUW)

8 Oops. Fixed.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 09, 2026 04:44 AM (BLOW1)

9 Aha, I see m experienced the same thing.

Pixy, we have a problem.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 09, 2026 04:44 AM (O7YUW)

10 HAD a problem. Thanks Pixy.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 09, 2026 04:44 AM (O7YUW)

11 m, I saw a reply to you about not eating before bed time but I didn't see your comment. I hope you are well.

Posted by: Ben Had at September 09, 2026 04:45 AM (E0Et6)

12 3 Pixy, the front page is weird. It shows your headline and top two stories, then Continue reading, then nothing but white space!

(I clicked Continue reading, and everything sorted out.)
Posted by: m at September 09, 2026 04:37 AM (odBC9)

After I clicked Continue reading, then the rest of the post appeared; then the red-font options for Close it up and Comments appeared, and I clicked Comments and yay.

Posted by: m at September 09, 2026 04:45 AM (odBC9)

13 And ... G'morning Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 09, 2026 04:45 AM (O7YUW)

14 11 m, I saw a reply to you about not eating before bed time but I didn't see your comment. I hope you are well.
Posted by: Ben Had at September 09, 2026 04:45 AM (E0Et6)

Thank you, Ben Had. I'm very well. I had just, for some time, had a tiny stomach problem at night and thought, oh, well, getting old. It had not dawned on me to try "no eating 2 hours before bed," which reduce the tiny stomach problem to zero problem. Yay for the ONT morons.

Posted by: m at September 09, 2026 04:47 AM (odBC9)

15 Another hero from 9/11. "The man in the red bandana": Welles Crowther .Scroll down in link for video. "Town hall " website:

https://tinyurl.com/2rvypur3

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 09, 2026 04:47 AM (Tgq0P)

16 8 Oops. Fixed.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 09, 2026 04:44 AM (BLOW1)

It was a test.
It was only a test.
If this had been a real emergency, you would have been notified through ...

uh-oh

Posted by: m at September 09, 2026 04:50 AM (odBC9)

17 I will be glad when this long commute job is over
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at September 09, 2026 04:52 AM (Ia/+0)

18 Good evemorning!

Posted by: SciVo at September 09, 2026 04:52 AM (ke3zm)

19 You too, Skip.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 09, 2026 04:52 AM (O7YUW)

20 Cat accidentally thrown out in landfill with couch is rescued and reunited with family. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/2k7knwyy

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 09, 2026 04:55 AM (JrHfD)

21 The guy who found $12K worth of ECC DDR4 in that server that work let him take when they decommissioned it:

A)bort R)etry S)ell it

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 09, 2026 04:55 AM (O7YUW)

22 G&R, We described the glitch so differently, but got to the same result! We are clearly not AI.

3 Pixy, the front page is weird. It shows your headline and top two stories, then Continue reading, then nothing but white space!

(I clicked Continue reading, and everything sorted out.)
Posted by: m at September 09, 2026 04:37 AM (odBC9)

7 The main page is only loading the Tech News up to the "Continue Reading" link, no other stories appear, UNTIL you click "Continue Reading" then the rest of the tech news AND the other stories appear.

Might be some advertising chicanery going on. (I don't know I have all that crap blocked.)
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 09, 2026 04:43 AM (O7YUW)

Posted by: m at September 09, 2026 04:56 AM (odBC9)

23 And they think it quite ungentlemanly.

No honor among thieves.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 09, 2026 04:59 AM (6ydKt)

24 Man from MO writes on the value of silence and Psalm 46. "When silence speaks". Upper Room devotional:

https://tinyurl.com/4mnmfz49

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 09, 2026 05:02 AM (l/vq4)

25 The EU mandated that tech companies not treat their own products more favourably than competitors', which is insane.

The EU has built its entire existence on getting between the company and the customer. It's worked for them so far, in everything but economic growth, so why change now?

Making electronics manufacturers use USB-C for charging ports is about the best thing the EU has ever done in the regulatory space. Some people like their laws on data privacy, which has some good aspects, but mostly that's just a bureaucratic paperwork nightmare and does very little to stop data brokers in the grand scheme of things.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 09, 2026 05:04 AM (6ydKt)

26 It will be so great when Clancy's ex sues some of the TikTok fems and then the TikTok fems start yelling, "He's trying to PROFIT off the m*rd*rs!!!" and we sit and wait until the other shoe drops.

Posted by: m at September 09, 2026 05:04 AM (odBC9)

27 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at September 09, 2026 05:04 AM (V0/Sp)

28 One of them even said/smirked, "He did it. So sue me."

Posted by: m at September 09, 2026 05:05 AM (odBC9)

29 And related hymn, "Open my eyes that I may see" which mentions "Silently now I wait for thee":

https://tinyurl.com/4vyhpkc8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 09, 2026 05:05 AM (l/vq4)

30 Running Kimi K3 on an M5 Macbook at one token per second. (GitHub)

Still painful but 70 times faster than the original version. That's a model that requires 5.6 terabytes of VRAM to run at full precision.

I've been trying a new AI for basic help with technical questions lately.

It's blazing fast due to some optimizations the company uses (which I couldn't explain if I tried).

https://chatjimmy.ai/

I just asked it a basic technical question and the return rate was:
"Generated in 0.043s • 14,196 tok/s"

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 09, 2026 05:07 AM (6ydKt)

31
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 09, 2026 05:09 AM (AMvSw)

32 I just asked it a basic technical question and the return rate was:
"Generated in 0.043s • 14,196 tok/s"
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 09, 2026 05:07 AM (6ydKt)

Is 14,196 tok/s tokens?

Posted by: m at September 09, 2026 05:11 AM (odBC9)

33 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 09, 2026 05:12 AM (sAmhv)

34 This was my "God incident" from yesterday. I had to pick up spouse from bus depot. There was a lady in a car who said , smiling , "Your husband said "I'm missing my wife" ( I was a bit late) . She was wearing a tee shirt saying "Faith over fear" . I told her I liked her tee shirt and we had a nice conversation about the importance of her faith.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 09, 2026 05:14 AM (SzveA)

35 @22/m: "G&R, We described the glitch so differently, but got to the same result! We are clearly not AI. "

I'm just trying to figure out why I used the word "stories" instead of "posts" when referring to the ONT, the Cafe, etc...

I'm going to claim "Up earlier than expected, and no caffeine yet." The lack of caffeine is currently being remedied.

And no, we're not AI, unlike the "Cat casita" link in the Cafe. Go through it slowly. Watch for the sudden unexpected changes (not the ones that imply time-skip.) Hint: The sink.

And I've finally figured out why AI sets me off so much: It's the deceptions (intentional or not.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 09, 2026 05:19 AM (O7YUW)

36 Is 14,196 tok/s tokens?

Posted by: m at September 09, 2026 05:11 AM (odBC9)

Yes, tokens per second.
Which is... a lot.
Most returns rates are around 50 to 200 tokens per second using online AI chatbots, etc.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 09, 2026 05:20 AM (6ydKt)

37 Fen, I appreciate how you always find good stories to share.

Good morning, everyone! It's a pleasant day so far despite being at work. Had a meeting yesterday with my finance dude. Things are pretty good on that front.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 09, 2026 05:20 AM (NR6c1)

38 @26/m: { "He's trying to PROFIT off the m*rd*rs!!!" }

Don't start nothin' won't be nothin'.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 09, 2026 05:21 AM (O7YUW)

39 Stephen Miller (redsteeze on X) seems to think Trumps actions just blew the mid terms. I like Redsteeze, mostly. Unfortunately he needs to pretend he's some middle of the road guy, not one of those Trumpers. Comes across as a bit fake. He was never a conservative. I think he identify's as a libertarian. He is funny.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 09, 2026 05:25 AM (sAmhv)

40 35 And no, we're not AI, unlike the "Cat casita" link in the Cafe. Go through it slowly. Watch for the sudden unexpected changes (not the ones that imply time-skip.) Hint: The sink.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 09, 2026 05:19 AM (O7YUW)

I'm not seeing the sink-problem?

There's some snazzy cat-home architecture (and people-home architecture) via Hacker News (from 2024):

https://lanparty.house

Posted by: m at September 09, 2026 05:28 AM (odBC9)

41 Posted by: NR Pax at September 09, 2026 05:20 AM (NR6c1)

You are most welcome, NR. It makes me feel good to share some positive stories and I'm glad if others like them as well.

Have a great day, everyone. You are a blessing to others.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 09, 2026 05:28 AM (mXZ+5)

42 Good morning m, All.

Well, one of the doggies is limping badly. I probably can't get into my vet anytime soon, so I'll have to go to emergency. It's times like this that I hate that they can't talk.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at September 09, 2026 05:28 AM (llBIB)

43 36 Is 14,196 tok/s tokens?

Posted by: m at September 09, 2026 05:11 AM (odBC9)

Yes, tokens per second.
Which is... a lot.
Most returns rates are around 50 to 200 tokens per second using online AI chatbots, etc.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 09, 2026 05:20 AM (6ydKt)

Thanks.
I had just typed tok (in TikTok) and thought wait hold on wut.

Posted by: m at September 09, 2026 05:29 AM (odBC9)

44 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 09, 2026 05:33 AM (2Ez/1)

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