Daily Tech News 3 March 2026

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Motorola and GrapheneOS have announced a partnership to produce Motorola phones running GrapheneOS. (Liliputing)

Though I'm not sure what else they would announce.

GrapheneOS is a version of Android without Google's proprietary software. It currently only runs on, uh, Google's proprietary hardware, which I'm not sure is entirely helpful.

Having it run on something else as well might be a useful option if you want to steer away from the Apple / Google duopoly for security and privacy reasons but aren't still looking for something officially supported.

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Microsoft did not ban the word "microslop" from its official Copilot Discord forum and then shut the whole thing down when people kept using the offending term, or, well, they did but they say it was due to spam. (Windows Latest)

Sure, Microsoft. I believe you.
Anthropic got declaude. (Bleeping Computer)

I was doing server stuff today and didn't notice. I do use Claude Code to get boilerplate stuff done quickly, like generating test cases, but I didn't miss it.
The US government is moving to ban memory chips from Chinese companies YTMC, CXMT, and SMIC... From government devices. (WCCFTech)

Which doesn't really change anything for the rest of us.
The Minisforum N1 AI is a combination NAS and desktop PC and is not made by Minisforum. (Notebook Check)

Typo by Notebook Check - the device is made by Morefine.

It has an eight-core Ryzen CPU, four 3.5" bays, three M.2 slots, dual 10Gb Ethernet ports, and an 800W power supply and room for a desktop graphics card.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: I am asleep, though.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 03, 2026 04:01 AM (1o8D5)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at March 03, 2026 04:02 AM (+YA9H)

3 !!

Posted by: clarence at March 03, 2026 04:02 AM (5nlkh)

4 >>>Microsoft did not ban the word "microslop"

Such a great word!

Posted by: m at March 03, 2026 04:03 AM (+YA9H)

5 I really am off to sleep, but I haven't been on this thread in forever, so have a good day Horde.

Posted by: Debby Doberman Schultz at March 03, 2026 04:06 AM (0nHVk)

6 Good morning to everyone where it's morning, and good night to those where it's not!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at March 03, 2026 04:09 AM (BLOW1)

7 Morning all

Posted by: Tuna at March 03, 2026 04:09 AM (lJ0H4)

8 G'Day everyone
Late start again

Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2026 04:10 AM (Ia/+0)

9 The Day You Went Away - Wendy Matthews

Blecchh. Would not hang.

Posted by: m at March 03, 2026 04:13 AM (+YA9H)

10 Greetings to All Noble Teck Peoples

We are also have difficult with price of High Teck Equipments.

Grandfathers, Grandmothers and the Youngs are concern how build data centerings.

We are are have sunlight, small river, fields for animals.

Is now concern of us.

Posted by: Official Novdu Informations at March 03, 2026 04:15 AM (8l6wf)

11 Microsoft did not ban the word "microslop"

It is an "issue"

Posted by: Official Microsoft Vocabulary at March 03, 2026 04:21 AM (8l6wf)

12 I prefer to call it microsux

Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at March 03, 2026 04:24 AM (jrgJz)

13 12 I prefer to call it microsux
Posted by: TheCatAttackedMyFoot at March 03, 2026 04:24 AM (jrgJz)

microsux - verb
microslop - noun

Maybe?

Posted by: m at March 03, 2026 04:27 AM (+YA9H)

14 Bible verses from the Jewish and Christian scriptures about hope and strength in hard times . Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/yht53xtr

Posted by: Iran Watcher at March 03, 2026 04:34 AM (Nx5jP)

15 Another song I didn't know. Teen boy does a good job- "Gratitude":

https://tinyurl.com/4a4rsj8z

Posted by: Iran Watcher at March 03, 2026 04:41 AM (ix8EF)

16 Oops; forgot to change my sock.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2026 04:42 AM (ix8EF)

17 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 03, 2026 04:43 AM (sAmhv)

18 Depending on the source of components, this could be made very secure. Motorola has a good reputation for its devices.

Posted by: clarence at March 03, 2026 04:43 AM (5nlkh)

19 Microsoft did not ban the word "microslop"

It is an "issue"
Posted by: Official Microsoft Vocabulary

Microsloth says what???

Posted by: rickb223 at March 03, 2026 04:44 AM (tY81A)

20 Man writes on "God's undeniable power" and Daniel 6:25-28. Devotional is followed by additional insights and prayer. An "Upper Room" devotional:

https://tinyurl.com/bdkcaf98

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2026 04:48 AM (ix8EF)

21 Evening and morning for an ealry March Tiu's Day, ever'body. I'm up early thanks to a certain giant black cat leaping across me starting at three am. I'm trying not to reward him for doing it -- I get up, but I don't play with him or give him more than the usual attention, and I don't feed him until five am anyway. I wish I knew how to stop this behavior!

Anyway, I'm up, I'm sipping coffee, what more d'ya want?

Who are the young couple in the music video, the B & W portion? At first I thought the girl might be a very young Jane Fonda, but now I don't think so. Some French film?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2026 04:50 AM (wzUl9)

22 MicroSquashy

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2026 04:51 AM (wzUl9)

23 Good morning to all. 41 cloudy degrees here and going up to the 60s. Primary voting day. I hope everyone has a good day.

Posted by: Rufus T. Firefly at March 03, 2026 04:55 AM (fJeEs)

24 Movies! has Hitchcock's Lifeboat from 1944 on in an hour. I think I will plunk myself down and watch all of it; don't think I've ever seen it.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2026 04:57 AM (wzUl9)

25 This NJ company has hired disabled workers for 20 years to help make their candles :

https://tinyurl.com/2mws952b

Sunny Skyz site.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2026 05:04 AM (PFs9e)

26 Sorry: candle making business story was from "Good News" network site:

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2026 05:05 AM (PFs9e)

27
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 03, 2026 05:12 AM (tljrc)

28 Music interlude was nice

Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2026 05:17 AM (Ia/+0)

29 G'morning, all!

50.5 degrees out, so a good morning to walk in a bit.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 03, 2026 05:18 AM (iMotb)

30 Nrg. Mornin' Horde.

"Anthropic got declaude." *heh* Clever and amusing, Pixy.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 03, 2026 05:19 AM (O7YUW)

31 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 03, 2026 05:19 AM (bQ4nt)

32 Based on current events, it is time for me to get my CWP. Actually, well past time to do so.

But, South Carolina is kind enough to offer the course at no cost to the applicant.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 03, 2026 05:20 AM (iMotb)

33 Someone at Microsoft hasn't heard of the Streisand effect.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 03, 2026 05:25 AM (O7YUW)

34 mornin yall. Headed to Alabama this morning, up towards Tuscaloosa. I shall return with a bandaid on my knee.

Posted by: fd at March 03, 2026 05:25 AM (vFG9F)

35 excerpted:

Aelfred The Great retweeted
Spencer A. Klavan
@SpencerKlavan
10h

Kids who pass off foundational cognitive tasks like memorization to AI will be lost in an ocean of people just like them, all powerless to think their own thoughts, dependent on bad mechanical imitations of mental acts they have no capacity to perform or judge for themselves.

They’ll grow up into glazed-over subaltern dupes at the mercy of machinists who view them as little more than farm animals to milk for training data.

You could hardly do a worse disservice to a young person right now than to empty out the contents of their soul and strip them of the mental armor that only a rigorous literary education can provide.

And all in the name of some gullible claptrap about humanity and tech that wouldn’t stand up to five minutes’ scrutiny if the people peddling it and swilling it down had ever read a single thing worth reading.

Posted by: m at March 03, 2026 05:25 AM (+YA9H)

36 "Kids who pass off foundational cognitive tasks like memorization to AI will be lost in an ocean of people just like them, all powerless to think their own thoughts, dependent on bad mechanical imitations of mental acts they have no capacity to perform or judge for themselves."

That's what I think can happen. I also think that some may reject it totally, and a counterculture may arise.

Posted by: fd at March 03, 2026 05:28 AM (vFG9F)

37 fd lets hope it didn't rain all night, the day you left with the weather oh so dry

Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2026 05:29 AM (Ia/+0)

38 I'm sure this is nothing.

https://tinyurl.com/438p6dzu

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 03, 2026 05:33 AM (iMotb)

39 Skip, don't you cry for me...

Posted by: fd at March 03, 2026 05:35 AM (vFG9F)

40 Good morning, one and all. Snow and freezing rain last night so I spent some time chiseling my car free from the layer that had accumulated.

One comment I have about current events. It's absolutely wonderful to have a Secretary of War who understands that you don't blab about your war plans no matter how much the press demands it.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 03, 2026 05:35 AM (OPGS/)

41 Not only are we suffering from measles mumps and rubella, WAVY10 has announced that Trump’s Iran war is raising gas prices now.
Right now, today.

Posted by: Accomac at March 03, 2026 05:35 AM (8jVAy)

42 math alert:

Aelfred The Great retweeted
vixhaℓ
@TheVixhal
17h
If you shuffle a deck of cards properly, the exact order you get has almost certainly never existed before in human history and never will again.

The number of possible arrangements of 52 cards is 52 factorial, which works out to a number so large that it has 68 digits. To put it in perspective: even if every person who ever lived shuffled a deck once per second since the beginning of the universe, you would still barely scratch the surface of all possible arrangements.

So every time you shuffle a deck, you are most likely holding a sequence that is completely unique in the history of the universe.

Posted by: m at March 03, 2026 05:35 AM (+YA9H)

43 Time for the walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 03, 2026 05:37 AM (iMotb)

44 4 women and a dog?
I think there was a lot of H8 going on, why is the question

Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2026 05:39 AM (Ia/+0)

45 FenSpouse really likes Hank Williams Sr. so here he is doing an old time hymn, "Softly and Tenderly Jesus is calling":

https://tinyurl.com/5yfbe4a5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2026 05:42 AM (8Cor4)

46 "Officials said that the stabbing followed a crash and isn’t believed to be terrorism-related. "

They always say that. The people that were there were certainly terrified.

Posted by: fd at March 03, 2026 05:46 AM (vFG9F)

47 14 Bible verses from the Jewish and Christian scriptures about hope and strength in hard times . Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/yht53xtr
Posted by: Iran Watcher at March 03, 2026 04:34 AM (Nx5jP

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Good collection.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 03, 2026 05:49 AM (+qFxn)

48 “ And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”

Romans 8:28

Posted by: Marcus T at March 03, 2026 05:49 AM (u/66v)

49 Breakfast: seasoned scrambled egg within toasted nacho cheese taco; a whole-grain English muffin with peanut butter and honey. Plus coffee, of course.

I'll feed the furry thugs during the first commercial break in LIfeboat.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2026 05:51 AM (wzUl9)

50 Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 03, 2026 05:49 AM (+qFxn)

They are nice, aren't they?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 03, 2026 05:52 AM (rZCVI)

51 The moving guy I talked with last week, and the real estate agent in Owensboro, have not called or emailed me back since last week. Oh, well. Time to move on and find somebody else.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2026 05:52 AM (wzUl9)

52 38 I'm sure this is nothing.

https://tinyurl.com/438p6dzu
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at March 03, 2026 05:33 AM (iMotb)

archived site:

https://archive.is/tyeK6

Posted by: m at March 03, 2026 05:54 AM (+YA9H)

53 Good luck, Wolfus. I hope you find someone better and soon.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 03, 2026 05:56 AM (OPGS/)

54 @44/Skip: None of the news stories on this issue contain much more than some bare details, not enough to figure out how things escalated from a car crash to two homicides, even more injuries, and a dead dog.

This one's going to need a homicide investigation. News inside of Fairfax County, Virginia might carry a follow-up story, but I suspect the rest of the world will likely never hear more about what happened unless one or more involved is a sufficiently important person, or it ends up being an embarrassment for the State Department.

The Linked-in in page for Llemondo shows he was an IT guy.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 03, 2026 05:57 AM (O7YUW)

55 Wolfus, if you are open to it - we broke our cats' habit of waking us by using timed feeders, dispensing dry food.

Later in the day, they'd get wet food.

They were NOT happy about this change, of course.

Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 03, 2026 05:58 AM (8AONa)

56 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at March 03, 2026 05:59 AM (AN2gy)

57 Wolfus, if you are open to it - we broke our cats' habit of waking us by using timed feeders, dispensing dry food.

Later in the day, they'd get wet food.

They were NOT happy about this change, of course.
Posted by: 2009Refugee at March 03, 2026

***
I've been trying to shift them later in the morning and later in the evening. In any case I don't feed them until 5:00, even if Stirling wakes me at 3:30.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 03, 2026 05:59 AM (wzUl9)

58 No moon here - too cloudy
Hope others get to see the eclipse

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at March 03, 2026 06:00 AM (7fEFu)

59 So every time you shuffle a deck, you are most likely holding a sequence that is completely unique in the history of the universe.
Posted by: m at March 03, 2026 05:35 AM (+YA9H)

----

I believe what you've written. I just wonder if the superficial shuffles many of us use could result in a repeat.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 03, 2026 06:01 AM (0/kKZ)

60 Too bad it's raining today. It was a beautiful full moon last night

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 03, 2026 06:02 AM (0/kKZ)

61 I believe I caught an eclipse of the Moon this morning? Either that, or I’m losing my mind. Last night, the Moon was full, or nearly so. This morning, a crescent moon turning fully occluded or whatever. If it was a briquette, I’d say it’s time to put on the steaks. Really had me wonderin’ for a while

Posted by: Common Tater at March 03, 2026 06:07 AM (8c30T)

62 Full lunar eclipse at ~5:30am Central.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at March 03, 2026 06:07 AM (FLbV4)

63 The state trooper shot the guy with the knife in self defense. Apparently, the rage is strong in this one.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 03, 2026 06:08 AM (PEg9t)

64 My windshield has a coating of ice on it, not good

Posted by: Skip at March 03, 2026 06:09 AM (Ia/+0)

65 62 Full lunar eclipse at ~5:30am Central.
Posted by: Richard Cranium at March 03, 2026 06:07 AM (FLbV4)

63 The state trooper shot the guy with the knife in self defens

Would have been a beautiful sight here eight hours ago. But it's cloudy now.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at March 03, 2026 06:11 AM (EqY/n)

66 Full overcast (unlike last night) in North Texas. Oh well.

Posted by: Richard Cranium at March 03, 2026 06:13 AM (FLbV4)

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