Daily Tech News 22 April 2026

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AMD's new top-of-the-line Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 processor is here. Don't buy it. (Tom's Hardware)

Not AMD's fault. They've resisted shipping CPUs with this configuration for years, claiming that it only helped performance for certain very specific workloads.

They were right.

Also, Intel's new 270K Plus is nearly as fast for creative work at less than half the price. Yes, it's on a dead platform, but even if you'll end up throwing away both the CPU and the motherboard it may work out better value than the 9950X3D2.

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Framework's new Laptop 13 Pro provides an Intel Core Ultra 7 358H - the one with the best in class integrated graphics that only works with soldered LPDDR5X memory - and also expandable memory. (Notebook Check)

Courtesy of a LPCAMM2 module, which lets you upgrade memory that would normally be soldered to the motherboard.

Up to 64GB of RAM, a 2880x1920 13" touch screen, and none of the Four Essential Keys. Sore point, because they have 20 different keyboard options including some with additional keys, but none have those four.

It's fully compatible with the existing Laptop 13's motherboard and expansion modules, but with a CNC machined aluminium chassis.

They also announced a keyboards - which also lacks the Four Essential Keys.
SpaceX has signed a deal with Cursor that gives them the option to buy that company for $60 billion. (Twitter)

This may or may not happen.
Anthropic suspended one company's access to Claude, leaving 60 employees unable to do anything for 15 hours. (Tom's Hardware)

I don't think the problem there is with Anthropic.
Amazon meanwhile is investing $25 billion in Anthropic, as part of a deal where Anthropic spends $100 billion over 10 years with Amazon. (CNBC)

The money on the bus goes round and round...
The 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica is online. (Britannica 11)

Start with A and keep going until you run out of pages.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: It's not what you don't do, it's the way you don't do it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2026 04:31 AM (Ia/+0)

2 !!

Posted by: clarence at April 22, 2026 04:31 AM (5OgL1)

3 w00t

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 04:31 AM (YbTYS)

4 Otters called.

Posted by: clarence at April 22, 2026 04:32 AM (5OgL1)

5 >>>Anthropic suspended one company's access to Claude, leaving 60 employees unable to do anything for 15 hours. (Tom's Hardware)
I don't think the problem there is with Anthropic.

Agreed!
"Unable to do anything." sheesh

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 04:33 AM (YbTYS)

6
I don't care what Amazon does. Keep Claude away from the DoD.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at April 22, 2026 04:34 AM (n7rxJ)

7 Mornin'

The Rockford Files - Greatest TV show evah!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 22, 2026 04:37 AM (sAmhv)

8 >>>Amazon meanwhile is investing $25 billion in Anthropic, as part of a deal where Anthropic spends $100 billion over 10 years with Amazon. (CNBC)

... and pretty soon you're talkin' real money.

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 04:37 AM (YbTYS)

9 I've been looking up how to cast video to my Roku TV with Linux Mint. Some options, but from what I've read, tricky. It's not to major of an issue. I can just use a good ole fashioned HDMI cable and plug the laptop into the TV directly. Just wondering if I could cast it too. The MacBook isn't an issue. Casts pretty easily.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 22, 2026 04:43 AM (sAmhv)

10 Disclaimer: It's not what you don't do, it's the way you don't do it.

Similarly:

'Tain't What You Do (It's the Way That Cha Do It)

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 04:45 AM (YbTYS)

11 ... and pretty soon you're talkin' real money.
****

Stock options, corporate accounting games, balance sheet transfers out of thin air are all manifestations of imaginary gains and losses. No real money involved. But the crash will be real and spectacular.

Posted by: clarence at April 22, 2026 04:48 AM (5OgL1)

12 I expect the Devil is enjoying Lenin's birthday

Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2026 04:49 AM (Ia/+0)

13 12 I expect the Devil is enjoying Lenin's birthday
Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2026 04:49 AM (Ia/+0)

What do you get for the man who already has everyone else's things?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at April 22, 2026 04:50 AM (Ot/FD)

14 7 Mornin'

The Rockford Files - Greatest TV show evah!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at April 22, 2026 04:37 AM (sAmhv)

You might be right!

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 04:53 AM (YbTYS)

15 70 years ago, in April of 1956, my martial arts Sensei, Black Belt Hall of Fame Judo Instructor, the late Karl Geis, almost blew up the world. He was an Air Force radio traffic analyst stationed in Japan on a Sunday. He was the only analyst on duty, when he noticed that all of the Russian Bomber call signs had launched toward the US simultaneously. He called in the LT who was serving as Officer of the Day, and showed him the data. The LT said to him, "What do we do?" Karl said "Call NORAD and report this." They got the General in charge at NORAD and told him. He called President Eisenhower, who ordered an all out nuclear strike on the USSR by SAC. Meanwhile in Japan they had scrambled all the other Traffic Analysts - who confirmed Karl's analysis. In 1956 there was no "Fail Safe". When SAC launched, the bombers were on their way to their targets. All of the foreign analysts were called in and again confirmed Karl's analysis. Suddenly a French analyst shouted "Those Idiots have switched their Civilian and Military call signs. This is the resupply of Siberia after the winter" when he saw a plane land in Siberia. When SAC was recalled the lead B-52s were over Soviet Air space.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at April 22, 2026 04:54 AM (Da7Vv)

16 Good morning, everyone. I hope you all had a blessed day yesterday . I was over at the local senior care center with the Bible study group- a small group of lovely people who meet twice a month for study. Yesterday we were looking at Revelation 5:9-13 which is about living creatures and angels all singing " Worthy is the lamb who was slain" and "To him who sits on the throne and to the Lamb be blessing and honor and glory and might forever and ever!"

Yesterday I went to the "Faithpot" site and there was a video of Ce Ce Winans singing a song about this passage:

https://tinyurl.com/tsszfcj5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2026 05:00 AM (An79C)

17 Mornin' Horde.

Coffee. Bacon. Eggs.

Fueling commences.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 22, 2026 05:04 AM (O7YUW)

18 Continuing from downstairs
https://www.americanthinker.com obama hops aboard mamdani_s_socialist bandwagon

I would advocate he always was, just with a smoke screen

Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2026 05:04 AM (Ia/+0)

19 Toddler shares magical moments with some horses.

https://tinyurl.com/3vebp6d5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2026 05:05 AM (PFs9e)

20 @15/An Observation sez Trump is my President:

That's not one of the close-calls I'd heard of previously. One is left to wonder how many times this sort of thing has happened.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 22, 2026 05:07 AM (O7YUW)

21 Back to the city, its a big project so expect to have to go there for a few months
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2026 05:09 AM (Ia/+0)

22 So, don't buy nothin'. Okay, will do.
* zombie hand hits up newegg...*

Posted by: weft cut-loop at April 22, 2026 05:11 AM (diia5)

23 18 ... obama hops aboard mamdani ...
Posted by: Skip at April 22, 2026 05:04 AM (Ia/+0)

ewwwww

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 05:12 AM (YbTYS)

24 @18/Skip: "I would advocate he always was, just with a smoke screen"

And one heck of a smoke screen it was. Any time I need to remember that I don't hate the media enough, I just have to think back to them running offense and defense for Obama and how much they hid information about him that the voters should have, and needed to know.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 22, 2026 05:15 AM (O7YUW)

25 17 Mornin' Horde.

Coffee. Bacon. Eggs.

Fueling commences.
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 22, 2026 05:04 AM (O7YUW)

And toast?

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 05:16 AM (YbTYS)

26 Very belated BOING!

Israel Independence Day here. Just back from ascending the Temple Mount. Was most uplifting and joyous. Oh, and I was planning on going even before this came out:

https://tinyurl.com/4p2dhs8n

Sounds like a plan!

Anyhoo, early noon stove top coffee bubbling away. Then we're off to a gathering of pups and grandpups for the family BBQ somewhere deep in the heart of Judea and Samaria.

Maybe l8r.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at April 22, 2026 05:17 AM (1o8D5)

27 @25/m: No toast. Just black wakeup juice and protein.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 22, 2026 05:19 AM (O7YUW)

28 Happy Independence Day, Biden's dog.! Our morning prayers include prayers for Israel everyday.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at April 22, 2026 05:25 AM (zMLZ6)

29 That Rockford theme made me remember how much I liked it when it was on, I had a handheld cassette recorder at the time and I recall holding it up next to the tv and recording the song on tape. Nobody under 30 - maybe 40 - would even understand that.

Posted by: Tom Servo at April 22, 2026 05:26 AM (Fmj+u)

30 That's not one of the close-calls I'd heard of previously. One is left to wonder how many times this sort of thing has happened.

There used to be a Wikipedia page on the 1956 event, but they have withdrawn it.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at April 22, 2026 05:32 AM (Da7Vv)

31 Tech thread is jumping today. Good morning.

Posted by: Pete Bog at April 22, 2026 05:36 AM (uyu6y)

32 Just back from toast-making!

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 05:37 AM (YbTYS)

33 @Pixy: You should write to Framework and explain what the four essential keys are, and why they should offer them on a keyboard variant.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at April 22, 2026 05:39 AM (O7YUW)

34 I recently saw a YouTube video claiming that in 1952, an Air Force F94-A shot down a Nuclear armed Russian B-29 copy over Alaskan territorial waters. My dad flew back seat in an F94-A about that time. The radar screen was so dim that he had to carry a blanket to throw over his head during daytime, so he could see the screen.

Posted by: An Observation sez Trump is my President at April 22, 2026 05:40 AM (Da7Vv)

35 Evening and morning, all! Slept solidly but not long, after a dream where I was attempting to direct -- and star in -- a TV episode about a husband-wife acting team hosting one of those old-style quiz shows like What's My Line? You know, when they hired people with actual wit and sophistication to appear on TV even if they weren't that glamorous-looking, like Bennett Cerf, Henry Morgan, or Dorothy Kilgallen.

The trouble? I had no real script, and was depending on some of the other actors to improvise. A nightmare indeed.

Anyway, I am awake, and have to head off to the tire and service shop about my headlight in a couple of hours. How 'bout choo?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at April 22, 2026 05:47 AM (+2QQb)

36 some fun stuff in the comments here:

Josh Weinstein
@Joshstrangehill
10h
Yes! I was just able to use this line in a conversation, once again!

It's my #1 most used Simpsons quote (And it might even be my line)

My #2 most used line is Moe's "Pret-ty clevah!" from "Hurricane Neddy"

What's YOUR most used Simpsons quote?

(Used in regular conversation)

Hmm your ideas are intriguing to me and I wish to subscribe to your newsletter.

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 05:49 AM (YbTYS)

37 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at April 22, 2026 05:52 AM (VyBeY)

38 for example:

heytherecharlie
@heytherecharli3
7h
Replying to @Joshstrangehill
I have three kids and no money! Why can't I have no kids and three money?

Posted by: m at April 22, 2026 05:54 AM (YbTYS)

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