Daily Tech News 12 May 2026

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Digg is back - again - this time as an AI news aggregator. (Tech Crunch)

That is, the content is about AI, but it seems to be ranked by human readers.

I'm not sure why just AI - though that is a hot topic at the moment - but Digg was originally a news aggregator just like this.

Tech News

Sales data from Korea indicates that SSD prices are up 63% and memory prices up 29%. (WCCFTech)

Compared with last month.
The SINKER brand under the POWEV division within Jiahe Jinwei has announced it is shipping DDR5 modules for domestic, server, and industrial use. (WCCFTech)

Yes, it's a Chinese company. How could you tell?
Who is the Palantir chore coat for, asks the Verge? (The Verge)

Well...
The third season of The Rings of Power airs November 11. (The Verge)

I think there's some overlap there.
Anthropic's bug-hunting Mythos AI is just a marketing stunt. (The Register)

Accoridng to the creator of the library and utility cURL, who knows a thing or two about AI bug hunting having been inundated with AI-generated bug reports for years.
If AI writes your code, why use Python? (Medium)

Actually a very good question.

Python is a great programming language for humans to use, because it makes it easy to get something up and running - at the cost of becoming slow and burdensome for large systems.

But the same properties that make it easy for humans to write make it hard for AI models to reason about, and languages like Rust and Go that favour strict, static typing are easier for AI models to generate correctly and also compile to code that runs faster.

The remaining win for Python is its massive ecosystem with modules like Numpy and PyTorch for numerical processing and AI respectively, but if you don't need to use those directly, why not go straight to Rust?
AMD looks like it's gearing up to release the Radeon RX 9050. (Notebook Check)

It's basically a slightly slower version of the 8GB 9060 XT, drawing slightly less power. The recommended power supply has dropped from 500W to 450W, so we may be seeing a card that draws 120W or less.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Sixty days of siege, outnumbered and weak... Oops, wrong battle.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at May 12, 2026 04:31 AM (RtN13)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2026 04:31 AM (Ia/+0)

3
Skip,

I hope you have a great day.

Do you have a long drive today?

Posted by: four seasons at May 12, 2026 04:33 AM (3ek7K)

4 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 12, 2026 04:36 AM (1o8D5)

5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig-w2L6vw08

Posted by: Ray's Cyst at May 12, 2026 04:37 AM (jrgJz)

6 The comments on this are great. I can't tell if Daniel is kidding, here:

Daniel
@growing_daniel
May 10
It’s over for digital animation. This is too good. Guilds and unions will try to void it in Hollywood but it’s over, amazing full length films will be made by amateurs in weeks.

They’ll need a distribution platform. Can anybody set a video to be a rental on YouTube?

He links to:

Marko Slavnic
@Markoslavnic
May 8
The quality of animation you can create on your own is truly amazing. We really are just limited by our imaginations at this point. Go tell your story!

Made in @runwayml in a few hours and a handful of gens.

Posted by: m at May 12, 2026 04:42 AM (RtN13)

7 Yeah , library job today, is a bit of a ride. Its cross country ( shorter)or highway ( longer)

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2026 04:46 AM (Ia/+0)

8 Guten morgen, horde.

Posted by: clarence at May 12, 2026 04:50 AM (JKg5d)

9 Better get going
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at May 12, 2026 04:50 AM (Ia/+0)

10 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 12, 2026 04:52 AM (sAmhv)

11 >>>If AI writes your code, why use Python? (Medium)

This just seems ... scary?

The future of programming won’t be languages easiest for humans. It’ll be languages easiest for agents. We just shipped a Mac app where our engineers didn’t know a single line of Rust (or Tauri) beforehand. Result: ~1/10th the size… highly performant. Agents are the new programmers.

A shipped app, in a language nobody on the team knew, one-tenth the size of the Electron version, faster at runtime. The humans never had to learn Rust to get there.

The next project you start doesn’t have to default to Python.

Posted by: m at May 12, 2026 04:53 AM (RtN13)

12 chore coat=freaks+geeks. amarite?

Posted by: clarence at May 12, 2026 04:55 AM (JKg5d)

13 Rejoinder: Evermore

Posted by: clarence at May 12, 2026 04:56 AM (JKg5d)

14 Thanks very much, Pixy, for the musical selection. I had never heard of that group, Sabaton, because I'm an old person. 😉Perhaps some other old people have heard of them , but I have never been a heavy metal person.

I knew something was going to be different when it started out with church bells. I had to look up the lyrics because I couldn't understand them. Very powerful , inspirational message.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2026 04:59 AM (PFs9e)

15 And I just learned of this story behind, "I have decided to follow Jesus", an old time hymn we sing in church. I found it very powerful:

https://tinyurl.com/y7jy6p44

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2026 05:01 AM (PFs9e)

16 Your posts about programming remind me about why I did not start programming way back when. And it looks as if not much has improved. I will use what suits my needs and disregard the rest.

Posted by: clarence at May 12, 2026 05:06 AM (JKg5d)

17
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 12, 2026 05:10 AM (8iYDv)

18 And I wanted to tell the story of a very nice encounter at the local CVS which opens at 7:00 a.m. I had to get a pill spliter and some other things. Nobody seemed to be around but some folks who were waiting to work at the pharmacy, I think. Then a lady emerged from the back and helped me find a pill splitter When tried to get Advil PM and the other items at the self checkout it said said "age restricted" I told the woman , "I put in my birthdate, but I did something wrong. I can assure you that I am over 18 by quite a bit." She said " Me too" and then helped me at a real register. She was very kind and I appreciated that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2026 05:13 AM (PFs9e)

19 heh

Daniel
@growing_daniel
7h
Bullying works

Daniel
@growing_daniel
Feb 21
I love the thinking machines people, they're a great group. They should make a product or something

Posted by: m at May 12, 2026 05:19 AM (RtN13)

20
Daniel
@growing_daniel
12h
holy shit they made Her

Thinking Machines
@thinkymachines
12h
People talk, listen, watch, think, and collaborate at the same time, in real time. We've designed an AI that works with people the same way.

We share our approach, early results, and a quick look at our model in action.

Posted by: m at May 12, 2026 05:21 AM (RtN13)

21 Hey, Fen.
You posted after I signed off yesterday. You asked if what I wrote was me or someone else. I must claim those musings for myself. My intro is generally guten morgen. The prose I post is my outro, marked by fin.

Posted by: clarence at May 12, 2026 05:25 AM (JKg5d)

22 14 Thanks very much, Pixy, for the musical selection. I had never heard of that group, Sabaton, because I'm an old person. 😉Perhaps some other old people have heard of them , but I have never been a heavy metal person.

I knew something was going to be different when it started out with church bells. I had to look up the lyrics because I couldn't understand them. Very powerful , inspirational message.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Glad you liked it. My favourite song of theirs is Winged Hussars, about the relief of Vienna in 1683.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 12, 2026 05:30 AM (BLOW1)

23 Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 12, 2026 05:30 AM (BLOW1)

Thanks. I will look that up.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2026 05:35 AM (Nx5jP)

24 Morning, one and all. It's a nice morning so far here in California East.

Yesterday, I had a chat with my mom. She's been getting frustrated as hell at dealing with the VA, USAA and several financial companies in getting the POA acknowledged. USAA wants a selfie for their records, the VA keeps asking for more documentation and the site ID Me is not working for her and she can't stay on the phone long enough to deal with this because she still has to keep an eye on dad.

I finally asked if she could get a helper from their community to watch dad so she could handle all of this without distraction. "Yes, but it costs money."

"Isn't this covered under your contract?"

There was an annoyed pause and she said it was so she has to get a lawyer friend to have a chat with the people running the place.

TL/DR; Getting old sucks.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 12, 2026 05:36 AM (+4yJ5)

25 Posted by: clarence at May 12, 2026 05:25 AM (JKg5d)

That's great! You have quite a talent .

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2026 05:36 AM (Nx5jP)

26 Please pray for JTB's wife . There was a note on an earlier thread that she had to go to the emergency room. She was having tingling and high blood pressure. I don't think they figured out what was going on but she was released, I believe. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2026 05:38 AM (Nx5jP)

27 Evening and morning, folken,

The week has begun with a disturbance in the Farce. My Braun coffeemaker has failed. It gets power, but simply does not brew. I think it failed yesterday morning; I'd brewed my usual five cups, drunk two, and went to work out. When I poured a new cup about an hour later, the machine was off and the coffee was cold. I thought I'd forgotten to hit the "Auto Off" button, which keeps the stuff warm for up to four hours. Guess not.

Nobody repairs these small appliances any more, and the machine is well out of warranty. So I guess I'm going shopping this morning. I've had a few swallows of coffee to keep me going, though.

So howz yer day so far?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 12, 2026 05:41 AM (wzUl9)

28 Nobody repairs these small appliances any more, and the machine is well out of warranty.

That's more than a little annoying to me. There is a market for this but most small appliances are built with a short lifespan in mind.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 12, 2026 05:43 AM (+4yJ5)

29 Nobody repairs these small appliances any more, and the machine is well out of warranty.
*
That's more than a little annoying to me. There is a market for this but most small appliances are built with a short lifespan in mind.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 12, 2026

***
I certainly can't find anybody near me with a 'Net search. My first Braun machine, a fairly simple one, I bought in late 1986; it performed without issue until '99. There was a tech shop in Denver which repaired its leak, and it went back into service until about '02 or '03. No shops here in Da Swamp, so I've had a succession of machines, each lasting about four years, since.

I want one with the brew pause, so you can pour a cup during the brewing, and with a keep-warm feature. Target has one for about $80. (Grrrr.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 12, 2026 05:49 AM (wzUl9)

30 heh

Nikita Bier
@nikitabier
May 9
For my account, it’s opened the door to a mental hospital

Nikita Bier
@nikitabier
May 9
The value of an X account can be measured by what doors it opens for you in real life.

Posted by: m at May 12, 2026 05:55 AM (RtN13)

31 Last night I was thinking I'd go out to breakfast. I guess it's gonna happen. Shave and shower, feed the monsters, head out to eat, and stop at Target on the way back.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 12, 2026 05:56 AM (wzUl9)

32 I want one with the brew pause, so you can pour a cup during the brewing, and with a keep-warm feature. Target has one for about $80.

If it helps, Mr. Coffee has some on Amazon that are cheaper.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 12, 2026 06:06 AM (+4yJ5)

33 tap

tap

tappity

tap

Is this thing on?

Posted by: Will Robinson at May 12, 2026 06:06 AM (zBgIx)

34 I want one with the brew pause, so you can pour a cup during the brewing, and with a keep-warm feature. Target has one for about $80.
*
If it helps, Mr. Coffee has some on Amazon that are cheaper.
Posted by: NR Pax at May 12, 2026

***
I'm sure there are, but I don't want to wait for delivery. Maybe I'll have a look at Walmart's offerings and see if they have a Mr. Coffee that will do the things I want.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 12, 2026 06:08 AM (wzUl9)

35 The warmth of the afternoon sun
Means our day is for fun
Gliding through the air above
Blessed evermore by love
As the day comes to an end
Like a river embraces a friend

fin

Posted by: clarence at May 12, 2026 06:09 AM (cSctv)

36 "If AI writes your code, why use Python?"

Probably to make it easier for a human to go fix when the code doesn't work.

Posted by: Part-time Thinker at May 12, 2026 06:10 AM (T/KJ0)

37 21 My intro is generally guten morgen. The prose I post is my outro, marked by fin.
Posted by: clarence at May 12, 2026 05:25 AM (JKg5d)

prose-->poetry
?

35 The warmth of the afternoon sun
Means our day is for fun
Gliding through the air above
Blessed evermore by love
As the day comes to an end
Like a river embraces a friend

fin
Posted by: clarence at May 12, 2026 06:09 AM (cSctv)

Posted by: m at May 12, 2026 06:11 AM (RtN13)

38 I'm sure there are, but I don't want to wait for delivery.

That's fair. And Walmart seems to have a decent selection.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 12, 2026 06:12 AM (+4yJ5)

39 Retired firefighter travels 800 miles to see a young woman whom he helped deliver graduate. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/42chr46b

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2026 06:13 AM (ix8EF)

40 Posted by: clarence at May 12, 2026 06:09 AM (cSctv)

Very nice. Thanks.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2026 06:14 AM (ix8EF)

41 Nobody repairs these small appliances any more, and the machine is well out of warranty. So I guess I'm going shopping this morning. I've had a few swallows of coffee to keep me going, though.

So howz yer day so far?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 12, 2026 05:41 AM (wzUl9)

I've got a Keuring K-Cup maker here that isn't being used.
Dad drank coffee, but I don't.
So I got him the maker after Mom died because he said he didn't need a full pot without her drinking out of it and he just wanted to use K-Cups.

The thing was only used a few months before he quit drinking coffee totally and now it's just sitting there (along with almost an entire case of McDonald's brand Decaf K-Cups) and hasn't been turned on in a year or more.

I've tried giving it away to people who drink coffee but nobody can be bothered to take a free, barely-used, coffee maker with extra water filters and a cleaning kit.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 12, 2026 06:17 AM (6ydKt)

42 41 I've got a Keuring K-Cup maker here that isn't being used.
Dad drank coffee, but I don't.
So I got him the maker after Mom died because he said he didn't need a full pot without her drinking out of it and he just wanted to use K-Cups.

The thing was only used a few months before he quit drinking coffee totally and now it's just sitting there (along with almost an entire case of McDonald's brand Decaf K-Cups) and hasn't been turned on in a year or more.

I've tried giving it away to people who drink coffee but nobody can be bothered to take a free, barely-used, coffee maker with extra water filters and a cleaning kit.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 12, 2026 06:17 AM (6ydKt)

Maybe a church would like the donation? Even if it's to give away to someone else.

Posted by: m at May 12, 2026 06:24 AM (RtN13)

43 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at May 12, 2026 06:27 AM (V0/Sp)

44 Great foster mother owl. From " Sunny Skyz" site:

https://tinyurl.com/mu8harrc

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 12, 2026 06:27 AM (ix8EF)

45 I've tried giving it away to people who drink coffee but nobody can be bothered to take a free, barely-used, coffee maker with extra water filters and a cleaning kit.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 12, 2026

***
I'd be interested -- except I don't want to get into the K-Cup business. I buy my Cafe El Morro ground coffee at Aldi, $3.65 for 8.8 oz. Those K-Cup packages are $$. I brew about five cups a morning, drink three or four small cups, and pour the rest into a mug in the fridge for a quick swallow or two when I get up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 12, 2026 06:27 AM (wzUl9)

46 That scan, which analyzed curl’s git repository at a recent master-branch commit, was sent back to him earlier this month, and it found just five things that it claimed were “confirmed security vulnerabilities” in cURL. Saying he had expected an extensive list of vulnerabilities, Stenberg wrote that the report “felt like nothing,” and that feeling was further validated by a review of Mythos’ findings.

So the guy wrote a program with almost zero vulnerabilities and he's disappointed that the AI didn't find more and therefore it's all a 'marketing stunt'?

If it was me, I'd be celebrating that I write such clean code that there was no way to hack it, meaning I'm good, damn good, at my job.

Yet this guy acts like his balloon was just popped.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 12, 2026 06:28 AM (6ydKt)

47 I'd be interested -- except I don't want to get into the K-Cup business. I buy my Cafe El Morro ground coffee at Aldi, $3.65 for 8.8 oz. Those K-Cup packages are $$. I brew about five cups a morning, drink three or four small cups, and pour the rest into a mug in the fridge for a quick swallow or two when I get up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 12, 2026 06:27 AM (wzUl9)

All good.
I just remembered my nephew and his girlfriend are back in town, and I think they drink coffee so maybe I can offload it onto them.

I doubt they drink decaf, though, so I'll probably be chunking that in the garbage.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 12, 2026 06:29 AM (6ydKt)

48 Maybe a church would like the donation? Even if it's to give away to someone else.

Posted by: m at May 12, 2026 06:24 AM (RtN13)

I was also thinking my brother could take it to his workplace.

I'll find somebody to take it eventually.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 12, 2026 06:33 AM (6ydKt)

49
During the last few days i had listened to / watched videos that retold the story of the Battle of Cowpens (1781). The shattering of Banastre Tarleton's loyalist force by the patriots led by Daniel Morgan set in motion events that led to Cornwallis surrendering at Yorktown by October.
Now, I mostly listen to such fare as I do something else. Here, as far as things go, these videos did a decent job sticking to the facts as we know them today (with conversations among participants being free to take more liberty with the truth -- after all, such were neither recorded nor related by participants.
On the visual side, however, they were vomitous masses. Depictions of long lines of combatants stretching clear out to the horizon, way out of line with the actual numbers known (around 1,000 with Morgan and 1,650 with Tarleton). Every combatant uniformly decked out in stereotypical gear associated with their cause. And on it went. Visual vomit delivered up as cookie cutter scenes by AI. Complete crap, lazy and deliberately misleading.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 12, 2026 06:34 AM (xG4kz)

50 \m/
Rock on, Sabaton

Posted by: kuiperoort at May 12, 2026 06:40 AM (+qMco)

51
We've designed an AI that works with people the same way.

Sorry, TM, but we'll be the judge of that.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Imprison! Imprison! Imprison! at May 12, 2026 06:42 AM (xG4kz)

52 I was also thinking my brother could take it to his workplace.

I'll find somebody to take it eventually.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 12, 2026 06:33 AM (6ydKt)

They are perfect for the workplace, since then people can each just brew their own coffee on demand, or even bring in their own k-cups if the employer would rather not bear the cost.

Posted by: SciVo at May 12, 2026 06:43 AM (Sy6m/)

53 Party’s over
Host is dead
The great adventurer’s sick in bed
No celebrations
Family voices
Familiar names
They’re coming after you again
To celebrate

Posted by: OSI at May 12, 2026 06:43 AM (T6aVk)

54 They are perfect for the workplace, since then people can each just brew their own coffee on demand, or even bring in their own k-cups if the employer would rather not bear the cost.
Posted by: SciVo at May 12, 2026 06:43 AM (Sy6m/)

Or, if they prefer, tea, or apple cider, or cocoa, or many different coffees.

I love the Keurig machine.

Posted by: Cow Demon at May 12, 2026 06:45 AM (T6aVk)

55 mornin yall. The Experts say "The AI jobs crisis will hit women much harder than men".

I suppose the Experts think women are more easily replaceable than men. The steno pool will be decimated.

Posted by: fd at May 12, 2026 06:47 AM (vFG9F)

56 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 12, 2026 06:48 AM (Hbeqj)

57 >>>Last night I was thinking I'd go out to breakfast. I guess it's gonna happen. Shave and shower, feed the monsters, head out to eat, and stop at Target on the way back.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere,

>You should be a life-coach for people who are unemployed or retired to help keep them and stay on a daily schedule. I guess the critters help with that. It's tough to maintain when you have few immediate responsibilities.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at May 12, 2026 06:49 AM (kSpDG)

58 Women are more often involved in jobs like HR and other useless make work to reach quotas.

Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at May 12, 2026 06:49 AM (EcHpA)

59 If AI can replace that nasty dyke down at the parts store I am all for it.

Posted by: fd at May 12, 2026 06:49 AM (vFG9F)

60 >>> I'll find somebody to take it eventually.

That's a big part of the problem. It is so easy to purchase a new, cheaply made gadget. Taking a used gadget from someone is almost stigmatized.

Make repairs great again!

Posted by: fluffy at May 12, 2026 06:50 AM (V0/Sp)

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