Daily Tech News 9 October 2026

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Global PC shipments have plunged 20%, shocking industry analysts. (Notebook Check)

Who expected the numbers to be much worse.

One of them tried to blame it on "macro conditions", which is of course pure bullshit, unless he's referring to the scale of the price increases.

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The developer of ArtCraft posted the announcement on Reddit, which was a mistake. (Tom's Hardware)

It always is. Also:[quote>Skeptics also warn of safety concerns with vibecoded software; a single person has generated potentially hundreds of thousands of lines of code for multiple pieces of software very quickly, and verification of the code becomes a mountain of a task for a developer without a team; a 2026 State of Code Developer Survey of 1,100 professionals by Sonar indicates that 96% of developers do not fully trust AI-generated code. Privacy problems, malicious code, unsafe file handling, and more are among the list of concerns.[/quote>First, it's a desktop app. Second, compared with Adobe?
Global Foundries (formerly AMD's chip manufacturing division) is going to produce cows for TSMC. (Tom's Hardware)

I think.
Why isn't the industry freaking out about DeepSeek 4.1 Flash? (Jono's Corner)

Because, as the Hacker News thread points out, subscriptions, dummy.

DeepSeek is a fraction of the price of Anthropic's API usage-based rates. Anthropic's subscriptions, though, can be a fraction of the price of DeepSeek. And of itself.
Arrange the Offenback's Galop infernal for a 35-voice synthesiser, reading the orchestral parts from PDFs of actual 19th century score sheets used (and written in) by an actual 19th century orchestra. As a demo for my fantasy 10-bit home computer.
Which is almost but not quite entirely unlike the Atari 800XL. (Tom's Hardware)

Which is going on sale again soon priced at $219.

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Disclaimer: Who let the owls out?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at October 09, 2026 04:02 AM (odBC9)

2 Morning

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 09, 2026 04:03 AM (Ys0s/)

3 G'Day, everyone, TGIF

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

4 Why buy a new PC when they are increasingly just Dumb Terminals? Particularly when said dumb terminals costs more with marginal improvement in performance.

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 09, 2026 04:07 AM (Ys0s/)

5 4 Why buy a new PC when they are increasingly just Dumb Terminals? Particularly when said dumb terminals costs more with marginal improvement in performance.

Posted by: Pete Bog
--

No advantage over a good phone.

Posted by: Braenyard - some Absent Friends are more equal than others _ at October 09, 2026 04:15 AM (BzKNL)

6 Pete Bog, good morning

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2026 04:19 AM (nxLtX)

7 Braenyard it also may be that our use cases have devolved while phones iPads etc have improved. It’s been awhile since I spent any significant time using a multi-tab spreadsheet.

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 09, 2026 04:19 AM (Ys0s/)

8 Disclaimer: Who let the owls out?

h00t

Posted by: m at October 09, 2026 04:19 AM (odBC9)

9 A car or a PC?....choices, choices.

Good morning everyone.

I just went to check on a script that finished. Stuff happened so I'm making coffee and getting to my project. The dog sleeps until 8am and I just put my friends' cat outside so morning is crazy productive.

Also I came to see if they found Talarico's meat-deprived, cross-dressed corpse somewhere.

Everyone have a really good day.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy 105 years old - puppy at heart at October 09, 2026 04:19 AM (Sco7b)

10 Good Morning Ben Had,

Have you lined up all the parts for the annual soirée?

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 09, 2026 04:21 AM (Ys0s/)

11 Pete Bog, May be a glitch.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2026 04:23 AM (nxLtX)

12 BOING!

Maple ginger salmon done. Lemon chicken grilling.

Maybe l8r.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at October 09, 2026 04:25 AM (i2Ycu)

13 May be a glitch.
Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2026 04:23 AM (nxLtX)

Uh oh. Rain?

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 09, 2026 04:31 AM (Ys0s/)

14 7 It’s been awhile since I spent any significant time using a multi-tab spreadsheet.
Posted by: Pete Bog at October 09, 2026 04:19 AM (Ys0s/)

"Come up and see me sometime."
--multi-tab spreadsheet

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

15 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at October 09, 2026 04:36 AM (n17eQ)

16 Pete Bog, Friday meat supplier has not called me back. We may have to go with an alternative.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2026 04:39 AM (nxLtX)

17 "Come up and see me sometime."
--multi-tab spreadsheet
Posted by: m at October 09, 2026 04:35 AM (odBC9)

Or being used by. Ah the good old days. Manual input into multiple fields. Next I’ll be yelling at those kids to get off my input tabs.

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 09, 2026 04:41 AM (Ys0s/)

18 Road kill or the Mexican butcher shop west of the HEB?

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 09, 2026 04:43 AM (Ys0s/)

19 from the ONT

227 People are freaking out about the livestream in Austin...lol!!!
Posted by: lin-duh at October 08, 2026 11:03 PM (VCgbV)

I haven't been able to track this down online. Anybody know what this "livestream in Austin" is, chime in?

Posted by: m at October 09, 2026 04:46 AM (odBC9)

20 Been catching up on Talarico in the ONT.

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

21 Last nice day for awhile, heavy rain coming Sunday

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 04:47 AM (Ia/+0)

22 Unit sales have collapsed. We need to raise prices to make up the loss.
-PC maker’s MBA sales team

Posted by: Accomack at October 09, 2026 04:48 AM (28cZF)

23 Has Jimmy T resurfaced after a ten day drag queen bender?

Posted by: Pete Bog at October 09, 2026 04:48 AM (Ys0s/)

24 Been up since like 01:45

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 04:51 AM (Ia/+0)

25 Someone in the ONT mentioned a comment by Stephen Miller about some dirt on Talarico. I see this as entirely plausible.

Posted by: Ben Had at October 09, 2026 04:55 AM (nxLtX)

26 Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 05:00 AM (Ia/+0)

27 Thing about the weather is you can't do anything about it.
My brother and his wife came up here because of the hurricane, they live on the Gulf. But I'm here in the north part of the state and his kids live about an hour away from me in Tennessee. I'm just proud they came up here and got away from the storm. And I hope their place will be ok down south.

Posted by: Case at October 09, 2026 05:01 AM (ROPCF)

28 24 Been up since like 01:45
Posted by: Skip at October 09, 2026 04:51 AM (Ia/+0)

I've just been getting up around 3am the last week or so. You must get TONS done. Without the animals constantly around, it's pretty productive.

.............................

I watched part of the Walmart surveillance video on the ONT. That's a LOT of cameras and I dealt blackjack in a casino years back.

Posted by: Stateless - Ralphy - 105 years old! Puppy at heart! at October 09, 2026 05:02 AM (Sco7b)

29 Morning, Tech Peeps

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

30
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at October 09, 2026 05:11 AM (AMvSw)

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