Daily Tech News 10 November 2026

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Anthropic has released Claude Mythos 5.2 (which you can't have) and Claude Fable 5.2 (which you can). (Tech Crunch)

Reports are that it's fine - and noticeably faster than Fable 5.1 which is frankly not a hard thing to achieve.

Plus you get a couple of weeks of free usage of these models specifically (depending on how long you've been a subscriber) that you can claim at any time through March. Doesn't reset your Opus or Sonnet usage though.

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Anthropic also just spent $3.4 billion on gas turbines to power its datacenters. (Tech Crunch)

Because solar and wind don't cut it, and everyone knows it.
What? (Tom's Hardware)

No, seriously, what?
AMD says its graphics drivers are going to stop frying your SSD any day now. (Tom's Hardware)

Thanks, AMD.
Look out, there are llamas! (The Register)

Got a panicked call yesterday when this broke. I fixed our server so that Outlook worked, but it was all Microsoft's fault.
Drugs and alcohol. (Notebook Check)

And wild, wild women.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Hubble rubble fields of stubble.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 04:00 AM (odBC9)

2 .... sponge?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 04:02 AM (aKiSo)

3 crypto firm demanded employees pledge to take their own lives with a sword to protect open-source code

Gads, are we talking about feudal Japanese Samurai culture here?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 10, 2026 04:02 AM (l3cgK)

4 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 10, 2026 04:03 AM (xhhbf)

5 Someone shoop up Clippy dressed as a Shogun saying "It looks like you're trying to bring dishonor to your family"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 04:07 AM (aKiSo)

6 I should be sleeping...but feeling a bit down this eve...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 10, 2026 04:07 AM (l3cgK)

7 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 10, 2026 04:09 AM (sAmhv)

8 BOING!

Exercise part 1 done! Now on to part 2.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 10, 2026 04:10 AM (zBP9L)

9 Trouble?

That's Koner's pop-a-matic game!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 10, 2026 04:11 AM (zBP9L)

10 What? (Tom's Hardware)
No, seriously, what?

I think it says:

ethereum foundation sued after firing employee over mandatory source seppuku suicide pact crypto firm demanded employees pledge to take their own lives with a sword to protect open source code founder vitalik claims 1000-year mandate just artwork

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 04:14 AM (odBC9)

11 5 Someone shoop up Clippy dressed as a Shogun saying "It looks like you're trying to bring dishonor to your family"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 04:07 AM (aKiSo)

ha!

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 04:15 AM (odBC9)

12 My bet: the plaintiff is going to get the EF on the FMLA claim, if nothing else.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at November 10, 2026 04:17 AM (iIyc0)

13 >>>What? (Tom's Hardware)

archived

https://archive.is/lIVg8

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 04:17 AM (odBC9)

14 12 My bet: the plaintiff is going to get the EF on the FMLA claim, if nothing else.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at November 10, 2026 04:17 AM (iIyc0)

EF = Ethereum Foundation
FMLA = Family and Medical Leave Act

from What? (Tom's Hardware):

Fulton, who was on a salary of $195,000 per year as a lead in the Protocol Support team, is seeking unspecified damages from the Ethereum Foundation. She also disclosed her ovarian cancer diagnosis to the company on March 24, 2026, roughly two weeks before being fired. The lawsuit thus also claims interference with her rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act.

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 04:20 AM (odBC9)

15 They should just settle.

And pay her in Etherium.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 04:22 AM (aKiSo)

16 This asteroid is behaving strangely, and astronomers don't know why

Drugs and alcohol. (Notebook Check)

And wild, wild women.

The asteroid is living its best life, just leave it alone, It will outgrow it. Or OD.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 10, 2026 04:23 AM (sAmhv)

17 16 This asteroid is behaving strangely, and astronomers don't know why

Drugs and alcohol. (Notebook Check)

And wild, wild women.

The asteroid is living its best life, just leave it alone, It will outgrow it. Or OD.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 10, 2026 04:23 AM (sAmhv)

A bit too small to SMOD something...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 10, 2026 04:24 AM (l3cgK)

18 Sweet Meteor of Debauchery

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 04:27 AM (aKiSo)

19 Japanese space telescopes monitoring the object discovered a tattoo reading "Up Yours, Kepler".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 04:29 AM (aKiSo)

20 A funny from the ONT:

308 305 Good gravy I can't even blame my phone for that orthographic train wreck, I just suck at life right now.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 03:18 AM (aKiSo)

309 I'm sorry, but that made me LOL.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 10, 2026 03:22 AM (l3cgK)

yes, yes, laugh at the misfortunes of others, I see how it goes. *smily face*
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 03:23 AM (aKiSo)

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 04:31 AM (odBC9)

21 "It was the strangest thing, you know? This meteor landed in our back yard, and suddenly all we want to do is play beer pong and listen to old Biggie albums...."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 04:33 AM (aKiSo)

22 19 Japanese space telescopes monitoring the object discovered a tattoo reading "Up Yours, Kepler".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 04:29 AM (aKiSo)

and here I thought it'd be a tramp stamp...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 10, 2026 04:36 AM (l3cgK)

23 Drugs and alcohol. (Notebook Check)

And wild, wild women.

The asteroid has an odd noise emanating from it. Astronomers baffled.

youtu.be/eBShN8qT4lk

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 10, 2026 04:36 AM (sAmhv)

24 Biden's Dog, will Smotrich be out as finance minister?

Posted by: Ben Had at November 10, 2026 04:37 AM (8Uo7a)

25 Here's an idea for a sci-fi kind of short story.

An alien civilization reaches earth. But they don't even detect us as lifeforms because we live our lives on such a vastly different time scale that we either look like a flash in the pan not worth monitoring, or a dead and static feature of the natural landscape that can't even really be called "alive".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 04:42 AM (aKiSo)

26
Little Mary donned her skates
Astronomically overjoyed
Wasn't she a silly girl
Her little asteroid!

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 04:45 AM (odBC9)

27 Zombie L. Ron Hubbard greatly approves of the Seppuku Suicide pact for violating the terms and conditions of a licensing contract, but only after all your assets are assigned to him.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 10, 2026 04:47 AM (9141e)

28 uh-oh

from Pixy's

https://ai.mee.nu

Daily News Stuff 10 November 2026
Repetetetive Strain Edition

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 04:48 AM (odBC9)

29 Astronomy is mostly above my head but like reading about it.
Sounds to me lots of space rocks get captured by bigger space rocks.

Posted by: Skip at November 10, 2026 04:50 AM (xhhbf)

30 What? Microsoft is actually trying to stop spam email from being forwarded to my email accounts after hitting their servers? They had me completely fooled.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 10, 2026 04:51 AM (9141e)

31 Astronomy is mostly above my head but like reading about it. Posted by: Skip

I would go one step further Skip, and say astronomy is 100% above all our heads.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 10, 2026 04:53 AM (9141e)

32 Lindsey Buckingham - Trouble

That song has no ... oomph?

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 04:54 AM (odBC9)

33 Care to follow me on another weird thought excursion? So, that Brand asshole got sentenced to 10 years. Great, whatever. But it makes you think "man, 10 years is a long time", followed by, "what was going on 10 years ago?"

2016: Trump derangement. Ascendant sociopathy. Race riots. Evil politicians. Everyone's a perv. Movies suck. Music sucks. TV is going away.

2026: Still almost exactly that, with no discernible change whatsoever

America has literally just lost a decade. We used to become a whole new culture every ten years, to the point where we definitively marked cultural shifts by naming them numerically after decades, at least for the last ten of them or so.

Now? Nothing. We've stopped moving. We've stagnated. No one thinks anything new. No one does anything new. No one makes or builds anything new.

Elon Musk is almost the only person creating anything tangible that isn't "exactly what we had before, except bigger and creepier and less reliable".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 04:55 AM (aKiSo)

34 They do seem to guess a lot about astronomy stuff

Posted by: Skip at November 10, 2026 04:58 AM (xhhbf)

35 31 Astronomy is mostly above my head but like reading about it. Posted by: Skip

I would go one step further Skip, and say astronomy is 100% above all our heads.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 10, 2026 04:53 AM (9141e)

I don't know. Broadly speaking, astronomy includes the planet that is under our feet:

astronomy
the branch of science that deals with celestial objects, space, and the physical universe as a whole

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 05:00 AM (odBC9)

36 Arguing with someone from the Left...

https://youtube.com/shorts/28Z7_BrAYIk

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 10, 2026 05:02 AM (l3cgK)

37 I mean hell, even Elon isn't exactly inventing new frontiers, he's just resurrecting shit from the '60s we once thought would be cool and finally doing it. Space exploration. Telecommunications. This shit used to be my grandparent's "world of tomorrow" when my parents were kids, but half the planet now loathes the poor bastard who's actually giving it a try many, many tomorrows after the fact.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 05:02 AM (aKiSo)

38 Now? Nothing. We've stopped moving. We've stagnated. No one thinks anything new. No one does anything new. No one makes or builds anything new.

After Chuck Berry everything went to hell.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 10, 2026 05:02 AM (9141e)

39 don't know. Broadly speaking, astronomy includes the planet that is under our feet:

I would argue that's called farming.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 10, 2026 05:03 AM (9141e)

40 Biden's Dog, will Smotrich be out as finance minister?

Posted by: Ben Had at November 10, 2026 04:37 AM (8Uo7a)
-

Likely. Leftist, Arab/Muslim Brotherhood collaborating coalition.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 10, 2026 05:04 AM (zBP9L)

41 38 Now? Nothing. We've stopped moving. We've stagnated. No one thinks anything new. No one does anything new. No one makes or builds anything new.

After Chuck Berry everything went to hell.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 10, 2026 05:02 AM (9141e)

Hacker News will tell you about some new cool stuff.

https://news.ycombinator.com

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 05:04 AM (odBC9)

42 39 don't know. Broadly speaking, astronomy includes the planet that is under our feet:

I would argue that's called farming.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 10, 2026 05:03 AM (9141e)

That only skims the surface...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 10, 2026 05:05 AM (l3cgK)

43 ... like ...

16.
Semi-transparent, colored cadmium telluride photovoltaic panels in agrivoltaics

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 05:06 AM (odBC9)

44 Heh.

"Can we go to space, Mommy?"

"No, we have space at home, dear."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 05:06 AM (aKiSo)

45 publius! publius! You're our only hope!

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 05:07 AM (odBC9)

46 Evening and morning to the satellites and satraps of the vast AoSHQ Empire! Tiu's Day again, innit?

Cool and dry (well, as dry as a swamp can get) with some wind this am. Good workout weather.

I dreamed that I was going to look at a condo property in the east part of the city, an area where no one with sanity lives or even visits if he can help it. It took me an hour in traffic to get back to my current place from the realty office, and it would take another hour to drive back out to the evening appointment. (Dream plotting.) I was getting ready to call them and cancel when I woke up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 10, 2026 05:08 AM (56Qyq)

47 44 Heh.

"Can we go to space, Mommy?"

"No, we have space at home, dear."
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 05:06 AM (aKiSo)

"Eat your oatmeal."

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 05:10 AM (odBC9)

48 Endoastrology would be a hilarious concept.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 05:10 AM (aKiSo)

49 And FedEx says my new Laco watch -- I hope it's the correct one this time -- will be here sometime on Wed. Hope I must. The MI shop moved fast, so I got the incorrect watch into the mail back to them yesterday morning.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 10, 2026 05:10 AM (56Qyq)

50 48 Endoastrology would be a hilarious concept.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 05:10 AM (aKiSo)

Endo-astronomy?

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 05:11 AM (odBC9)

51
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 10, 2026 05:12 AM (AMvSw)

52 Although it's not exactly Endoastrology to say it's a fair bet that if you were born in Hoboken, you're probably kind of an asshole.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 05:13 AM (aKiSo)

53 Warai-otoko's thesis is something I thought about and a slightly different way.

If we were able to kidnap somebody from 1965 and plunk them down 2025 I think they would rapidly adapt since the core of technology/ Life in a western country is somewhat consistent even though the details are radically different.

On the other hand, if you were to take somebody from 1910 and plunk them down in 1965, I think there is a case to be made. They would not fare as well.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 10, 2026 05:13 AM (9141e)

54 52 Although it's not exactly Endoastrology to say it's a fair bet that if you were born in Hoboken, you're probably kind of an asshole.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 05:13 AM (aKiSo)

"42"

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 05:15 AM (odBC9)

55 Saw this link on small dead animals.

Steve Eisman gives a very good rundown on the AI boom; an explainer on AI as it stands today, Bull, Bear & doomsday scenarios, The SaaSpocalypse, The 5 risks to the stock market, and some advice on how to lower your risk investing in AI.

It's a little long, but I found it to be a very good overview with some good insights on the pros & cons of the boom and where it's heading.

My Brutally Honest Thoughts About the AI Bubble.

https://youtu.be/w1dRDj1QRks
(40m15s)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 10, 2026 05:15 AM (6ydKt)

56 Remember a few Star Trek episodes playing with time travel people

Posted by: Skip at November 10, 2026 05:18 AM (xhhbf)

57 AMD says its graphics drivers are going to stop frying your SSD any day now. (Tom's Hardware)

Thanks, AMD.

Holy crap.
I wonder how far this goes back in their drivers because I haven't updated them in a few months.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 10, 2026 05:18 AM (6ydKt)

58 On the other hand, if you were to take somebody from 1910 and plunk them down in 1965, I think there is a case to be made. They would not fare as well.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 10, 2026 05:13 AM (9141e)

I guess the direction of my thought was less about technology, and more about life just "feeling" different. Having a character, sort of. Teleport from 1996 to 2006, and things feel different. From 2006 to 2016, things feel different. From 2016 to 2026? You probably couldn't even tell the difference except price tags on the same old shit are double or triple what they were.

Obviously this is all huge broad-brush kind of stuff, but I don't think i'm too far off base here.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 05:20 AM (aKiSo)

59 In tech adventures, I got a phone call from my oldest friend. He wanted to know if I'd received some photos he'd emailed me. I hadn't. He was sending them to my old yahoo email, which I haven't used in so long that Yahoo has scotched it and built me a new mailbox. I told him my new address at the [positive nuclear particle] site, and that he could forward the email to me.

"How do I do that?"
"What program are you using?"
"Windows 11." (??!!)
"Better ask your son about the difference between an operating system and a program running on, or under, it."

He was using Outlook within Microsoft Office, and he got my test email, though it landed in spam and he didn't check until I suggested he look there. He moved that back into Inbox and added my email to his contacts.

I suppose I was just as clueless when I first learned about computers in '88, email in '93, and the 'Net in '94.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 10, 2026 05:20 AM (56Qyq)

60 David Suchet recites a:strong morning psalm-Psalm 5:

https://tinyurl.com/4ed54tw5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 10, 2026 05:21 AM (JrHfD)

61 Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at November 10, 2026 05:21 AM (xhhbf)

62 53 if you were to take somebody from 1910 and plunk them down in 1965 ... [t]hey would not fare as well.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 10, 2026 05:13 AM (9141e)

The photo at the top of the ONT shows a whole bunch of people who were adults in 1936 ([Top photo: Herald Square, 34th and Broadway, Manhattan - Berenice Abbott photo - 1936]), pretty much halfway between 1910 and 1965. There's so much that looks like today and so much that doesn't.

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 05:22 AM (odBC9)

63 I guess the direction of my thought was less about technology, and more about life just "feeling" different. Having a character, sort of. Teleport from 1996 to 2006, and things feel different. From 2006 to 2016, things feel different. From 2016 to 2026? You probably couldn't even tell the difference except price tags on the same old shit are double or triple what they were.

Obviously this is all huge broad-brush kind of stuff, but I don't think i'm too far off base here.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026

***
In photos, the clothing on everyday people has not changed since the early '90s. T-shirts and shorts everywhere, business casual in offices, suits and ties in most formal settings. They all look much the same now as they did in '92. Whereas the difference between 1935 (the ONT's pics) and, say, 1965 was great. Ditto between '65 and '75, and '75 and '85.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 10, 2026 05:23 AM (56Qyq)

64 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at November 10, 2026 05:23 AM (Hbeqj)

65 Eh, i'm probably just over-wringing the fact that i'm 29 enough now that everyone needs to get off my lawn.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 05:23 AM (aKiSo)

66 Two fishermen of the Ca coast rescue a man who had been in the water for nine hours. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/3y73m3ts

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 10, 2026 05:24 AM (JrHfD)

67 58 On the other hand, if you were to take somebody from 1910 and plunk them down in 1965, I think there is a case to be made. They would not fare as well.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 10, 2026 05:13 AM (9141e)

I guess the direction of my thought was less about technology, and more about life just "feeling" different. Having a character, sort of. Teleport from 1996 to 2006, and things feel different. From 2006 to 2016, things feel different. From 2016 to 2026? You probably couldn't even tell the difference except price tags on the same old shit are double or triple what they were.

Obviously this is all huge broad-brush kind of stuff, but I don't think i'm too far off base here.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 05:20 AM (aKiSo)

Fun topics.

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 05:24 AM (odBC9)

68 65 Eh, i'm probably just over-wringing the fact that i'm 29 enough now that everyone needs to get off my lawn.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 05:23 AM (aKiSo)

; )

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 05:25 AM (odBC9)

69 Look out, there are llamas! (The Register)

Got a panicked call yesterday when this broke. I fixed our server so that Outlook worked, but it was all Microsoft's fault.

We have spf on our DNS records for the website at work, but I haven't even bothered with DMARC, so I don't know if this is causing us problems.

Hope not.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at November 10, 2026 05:25 AM (6ydKt)

70 An alien civilization reaches earth. But they don't even detect us as lifeforms because we live our lives on such a vastly different time scale that we either look like a flash in the pan not worth monitoring, or a dead and static feature of the natural landscape that can't even really be called "alive".
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026

***
There's a comic Eric Frank Russell short story with the latter concept -- humans find a planet with life forms that, as one character says, move at two paces: "Dead slow and slower than dead."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 10, 2026 05:25 AM (56Qyq)

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