Daily Tech News 25 March 2026

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OpenAI has shuttered its Sora AI-generated video app just six months after it first launched. (Hollywood Reporter)

Disney was planning to invest $1 billion in OpenAI and license some of its IP to be used in Sora. That deal is as dead as the app itself.
OpenAI's "Instant Checkout" feature that allowed used to purchase products from within a chat session has likewise been deprioritised. (Tech Crunch)

K-i-l-l-e-d, deprioritised.

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Arm has announced its first AGI CPU, dubbed reasonably enough the Arm AGI CPU. (Arm)

It has 136 Arm Neoverse N3 cores running at 3.7GHz, 96 lanes of PCIe Gen 6 - yes, 6, and support for DDR5-8800 memory, which is pretty fast for a server.

That's all nice, but you might be wondering where the AGI comes into it.

That's the neat part. It doesn't.
The FCC has banned imports of new routers made in other countries, which is where imports come from. (Liliputing)

This follows an unending series of massive exploits of consumer networking equipment in recent years.

Companies can apply to a conditional approval program to continue to sell products to the United States, but that comes with certain caveats, like upgrading device security to be "not total shit".

Security experts that are usually critical of government inaction in this area appear stunlocked at seeing all their recommendations enacted in one fell swoop.
Telling an AI that it is an expert programmer makes it worse. (The Register)

To nobody's surprise.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Beep boop.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 25, 2026 04:02 AM (sAmhv)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at March 25, 2026 04:03 AM (+YA9H)

3 Pixy, maybe ace could be given a cool hash like you have? He was all over the threads yesterday--yay!--as this:

Posted by: Woke Ace (Soon to be a guest on Tucker Carlson) ... (1wjle)

Posted by: m at March 25, 2026 04:09 AM (+YA9H)

4 ha ha and this:

Posted by: Acewayne Assante ... (1wjle)

Posted by: m at March 25, 2026 04:11 AM (+YA9H)

5 Girls Generation. Korean?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 25, 2026 04:12 AM (sAmhv)

6 The site should be modified so ace can only post as Lamont with the hash (bGdmY).

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 25, 2026 04:13 AM (yjflf)

7 And my current hash basically reads like a furry saying yiff with a ballgag in his mouth. Unappreciated, bruv.

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 25, 2026 04:15 AM (yjflf)

8 I noticed that and wondered if it was a bad thing.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at March 25, 2026 04:29 AM (Q/FnY)

9
Magills
@magills_
15h
Frankly speaking I don’t think we should allow the monarch of a Muslim country the honor of addressing Congress

Disclose.tv
@disclosetv
17h
JUST IN - King Charles will deliver a speech to the U.S. Congress the week of April 27 as he visits the U.S. — Politico

The comments are harsh (about his delivering a speech before Congress).

Posted by: m at March 25, 2026 04:30 AM (+YA9H)

10 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2026 04:31 AM (Ia/+0)

11 hahahahahaha

Wick
@WickSBG
10h
Replying to @magills_
What happened to “no kings” 😂

Posted by: m at March 25, 2026 04:32 AM (+YA9H)

12 10 G'Day everyone
Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2026 04:31 AM (Ia/+0)

Unless you say that while snugly fitted into a 'roo's pouch, it's cultural appropriation!

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at March 25, 2026 04:33 AM (yjflf)

13 Yhat video was interesting

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2026 04:36 AM (Ia/+0)

14 I am impressed by the social responsibility of that Girls' Generation video, taking aspirational consumption into account. Too many creators either forget or don't care that kids and teenagers are always looking up to older ones, consuming media up in age from themselves. For example, my understanding is that the primary market for "Young Adult" novels is adolescents, or maybe even tweens. And so it is with this video, where the performers themselves look to be young adults, but their target audience is not there yet. Somewhere in the process, a creative director cared about the health of his society and culture.

Posted by: SciVo at March 25, 2026 04:42 AM (Sy6m/)

15 13 Yhat video was interesting
Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2026 04:36 AM (Ia/+0)

That made me watch it.
It's cute! "Change Room" was off a bit; or prescient.

Posted by: m at March 25, 2026 04:46 AM (+YA9H)

16 And they weren't on their cellphones--I don't think I saw a single cellphone. Which is refreshing.

Posted by: m at March 25, 2026 04:48 AM (+YA9H)

17 Open AI is a company with a product that can only make so much money chatting up bored people or writing their essays or legal briefs for them. That subscription fee only goes so far, and currently it's not as profitable as it needs to be.

Every other thing they're trying to sell can be done just as well, or better, by other AI/AI Agents, many of them for free or just the cost of the equipment and time.

Since Open AI is currently the king of the AI field many of their competitors are trying to follow their lead as they can't figure out how to make enough profit to pay for their data centers and dividends to their shareholders either.

It seems this might be the beginning of the AI bubble deflating (at least somewhat), as most of these Big AI corps can't get a handle on how to build-out while making enough money to keep everything inflating.

They've also driven up technology prices so high it's costing them more and more to do anything just like everybody else trying to get their hands on memory/storage chips of any kind. Energy prices are going the same route.

Something has to give and the bankruptcy or AI exit strategy for some of these big corps is on the horizon.

(I hope.)

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 25, 2026 04:50 AM (6ydKt)

18 16 And they weren't on their cellphones--I don't think I saw a single cellphone. Which is refreshing.

Posted by: m at March 25, 2026 04:48 AM (+YA9H)

Looked it up.

They released this song in 2009, so yeah, smart phones weren't quite a thing yet, but it only took a few years later before they were everywhere.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at March 25, 2026 04:55 AM (6ydKt)

19 Belated BOING!

Car cleaned.

Some shopping done.

Two ballistic missiles intercepted.

There's only so much one can do to be here on time.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 25, 2026 05:04 AM (1o8D5)

20
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at March 25, 2026 05:13 AM (tljrc)

21 Hot little asian broads gets my blood pumping. It's even better when I can't understand a word they're saying.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 25, 2026 05:20 AM (Wnd0C)

22 Evening to the late Woden's Day toilers, morning to the early risers and insomaniacals. Stirling the Great Black Cat did not wake me up this morning, amazing to relate. So, here I am with my coffee.

SpeakingOf, if you're here, I took your advice and looked up Memory Clean 2 to try and resolve my iMac's hesitations. I downloaded it for both Apple products I have here; seems to work. While I was at it, I saw another product called CleanUpMySystem on the Apple Store. It appeared to be free -- but then turned out to have only a free three-day trial. Uninstalled.

I also researched how to speed up the Brave browser -- most of the hesitations have happened in Brave; and a couple of ways to speed up the MacOS. Best advice: Restart your computer every now and then!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 05:28 AM (wzUl9)

23 >>>Security experts that are usually critical of government inaction in this area appear stunlocked at seeing all their recommendations enacted in one fell swoop.

Wiktionary
stunlock
(video games) To render (a character) unable to move or react by repeatedly hitting them and keeping them in a stunned state. I got stunlocked by that boss's electric attack and died.

Posted by: m at March 25, 2026 05:35 AM (+YA9H)

24 Today is SS payday, so I'll hit the grocery for some supplies, including and especially feline thug chow. Might give the car a rinse -- though it will just be covered in yellow dust and leaves again by tomorrow.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 05:35 AM (wzUl9)

25 5 Girls Generation. Korean?
Posted by: Puddleglum

Yep. And I appreciate how Korean girl groups can look hot without being trashy.

Posted by: NR Pax at March 25, 2026 05:39 AM (NR6c1)

26 High costs as a barrier to enter or remain in a market is one of the tests for a monopoly in Sherman Antitrust.
The costs are not an accident

Posted by: Accomack at March 25, 2026 05:39 AM (/Chlc)

27 Regarding the FCC actions, of course El Reg and their commentards were snarking superciliciously on this about Trump, no new routers for years because let's not actually discuss the sensible details about the real requirements being 'have some basic freakin security', etc, etc.

Posted by: RandomDave at March 25, 2026 05:39 AM (aJQbY)

28 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 25, 2026 05:40 AM (2Ez/1)

29 Wolfus, as a long-time Windows user, I now feel obligated to snark about how memory issues like that are only supposed to happen on Windoze boxes and blah blah blah shouldn't have to ever reboot because unix.

Posted by: RandomDave at March 25, 2026 05:43 AM (aJQbY)

30 https://thenewneo.com/joe kent leaker

Neo has been by here again

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2026 05:43 AM (Ia/+0)

31 Thurs. I take the Buick in for some filter changes and inspection of belts and hoses in prep for my trip to Kansas next month. I hope I don't have to buy a new LF tire; it's over five years old, while the others are about two. The usual advice is to replace both tires at the same end of the car, which would mean throwing away the RF tire. Oh, and I have to air up the compact spare. It takes ca. 60 psi compared to the others' 33-35.

"In long-range planning for a trip, I think there is a private conviction that it won't happen."
( -- John Steinbeck, Travels With Charley)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 05:45 AM (wzUl9)

32 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 25, 2026 05:47 AM (MIIRH)

33 27, because it's unpossible that PDT or America did something right.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 25, 2026 05:48 AM (MIIRH)

34 Wolfus, as a long-time Windows user, I now feel obligated to snark about how memory issues like that are only supposed to happen on Windoze boxes and blah blah blah shouldn't have to ever reboot because unix.
Posted by: RandomDave at March 25, 2026

***
Oh, I've always been a PC guy; I began in the DOS days and moved on into Windows. This MacBook Air laptop and the iMac desktop I inherited from work, so, you know, free. I used the laptop of and on for remote work in 2020; yesterday I finally got around to deleting all those files, which couldn't hurt the performance either.

What I like about the Macs is that, *generally*, they are like 1980s Mercedes. Once you understand how they work, they just work.

I could pick up a much more recent and powerful iMac and laptop, used, on the macsales site. Doesn't seem urgent right now.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 05:51 AM (wzUl9)

35 NR Pax - I agree

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2026 05:51 AM (Ia/+0)

36 Nice story about an artist.
, her friend and an art show. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/9fdxd4kn

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 25, 2026 05:54 AM (rZCVI)

37 66 F. here, high humidity of course, no wind. Perfect workout conditions. Now to coax my motivation out from under the bed. Actually, with close to enough sleep, I feel pretty good. Once I feed the monsters, I'll change, stretch, and hit the road.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at March 25, 2026 05:54 AM (wzUl9)

38 It's funny about the router thing, how can anyone be absolutely sure the device does not have a spyware element even if mfd. in the USA from foreign components.

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at March 25, 2026 05:55 AM (s1NDj)

39 35 degrees going to 54, much nicer for 1 day tomorrow

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2026 06:01 AM (Ia/+0)

40 353 million views for Girl Generation

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2026 06:02 AM (Ia/+0)

41 >>Many people start their work with AI by prompting the machine to imagine it is an expert at the task they want it to perform, a technique that boffins have found may be futile.

Uhm... I just ask it to do the things I want it to do, but that's just me.

And in other news, my ERP is in beta and being put through its paces by me and a couple of other PM's and APM's.

2 years of development has been compressed to a little over 6 months.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at March 25, 2026 06:03 AM (XV/Pl)

42 Morning, Horde...How goes it?

We interrupt this invaluable Tech Thread with an important Sunday Morning Book Thread update:

In solidarity with ace and to commemorate "Tolkien Reading Day," I, too, will begin reading The Hobbit followed by Lord of the Rings.

I haven't read either of them in many years. In the case of The Hobbit I'm not even sure I've read my current copy.

We now return you to your regular morning Tech Thread shenanigans.

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at March 25, 2026 06:06 AM (ESVrU)

43 21 Hot little asian broads gets my blood pumping. It's even better when I can't understand a word they're saying.
Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 25, 2026 05:20 AM

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No yellow!

Posted by: H. Biden at March 25, 2026 06:07 AM (2Ez/1)

44 Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2026 06:07 AM (Ia/+0)

45 For those enjoying the video, I also recommend "Run Devil Run" and "Lil Touch."

Posted by: NR Pax at March 25, 2026 06:08 AM (NR6c1)

46 eh, what the heck, why not, here goes for a 51st re-read!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 25, 2026 06:08 AM (MIIRH)

47 Incidentally, I'm using a borrowed laptop for the moment, and I'm finding that Windows 11 is fine. Well, I had been led to expect a raging dumpster fire, so it had a very low bar to clear, but it's quite alright. It's a little different, as they can never resist the urge to change things around, but I haven't noticed anything problematic yet. Nice silver lining to an unfortunate circumstance, I got to see it for myself.

Posted by: SciVo at March 25, 2026 06:12 AM (Sy6m/)

48 30 https://thenewneo.com/joe kent leaker

Neo has been by here again
Posted by: Skip at March 25, 2026 05:43 AM (Ia/+0)

https://thenewneo.com/2026/03/24/joe-kent-leaker

Posted by: m at March 25, 2026 06:15 AM (+YA9H)

49 Elizabeth, the Charismatic Voice, reacts to Ironmouse's "Music Box of Fate."

https://youtu.be/3fDpADXe2ac

Posted by: Anna Puma at March 25, 2026 06:17 AM (2GVsD)

50 Young man prays over police officer and helps renew his faith. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/2kpz28w7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 25, 2026 06:23 AM (ix8EF)

51 Old time hymn played on guitar- "What a friend we have in Jesus":

https://tinyurl.com/bsh4bj9b

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 25, 2026 06:30 AM (ix8EF)

52 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at March 25, 2026 06:34 AM (bQ4nt)

53 Good morning! Gotta actually do some work work before getting outside to do some landscaping work. But it's gonna be a nice sunshiny day and things are taking shape.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 25, 2026 06:44 AM (3Ope8)

54 I thought this was a nice story. Pope Leo declares Fr. Edward Flanagan "venerable" And no, i am not RC,and not, Episcopalian and not a "priestess" as one poster here has described me . I am interested in Fr. Flanagan ( the founder of Boys Town) because he sounds like he was quite a good man. The Korean War vet and patriarch of our church who just died gave to Boys Town and he wasn't RC either . From National Catholic Register:

https://tinyurl.com/28jet4ju

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 25, 2026 06:44 AM (ix8EF)

55 I needed a jumpstart to my morning. Here, I'll share.

A metal cover of "Every 1's a Winner" by Carsten Stepanowicz along with Janneck Risse:

https://youtu.be/ivp_tSIOFTw

Based on the original by "Hot Chocolate". Covered and made popular again in 1991 by the Canadian band "Bootsauce".

Let's go conquer the day.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at March 25, 2026 06:45 AM (O7YUW)

56 I know I said "no yellow" but I might have been a little hasty.

Posted by: Hunter Biden, girl group afficianado at March 25, 2026 06:47 AM (0aLZX)

57 Pope Leo declares Fr. Edward Flanagan "venerable"

I read that as “venereal” - ha!

Posted by: Buzz Adrenaline at March 25, 2026 06:49 AM (JRP2U)

58 Dawn seems a little bit slow today, or maybe my coffee intake got a little ahead of the daily action

Posted by: Huck Follywood at March 25, 2026 06:52 AM (0aLZX)

59 Nood: Moronin' Report.

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at March 25, 2026 06:57 AM (S108+)

60 nood!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 25, 2026 07:01 AM (MIIRH)

61 Disney shut down the Sora app because too many people were spoofing Disney movie previews on there.

Bet

Posted by: Blanco at March 25, 2026 08:47 AM (sW/8y)

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