Daily Tech News 31 May 2026

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GitHub Copilot users are aghast at the exponentially higher costs they are facing starting tomorrow with the introduction of usage-based billing. (Tech Crunch)
"What a joke," one Redditor recently wrote, claiming that, while they currently only pay around $29 per month, the new rate will balloon their costs to nearly $750 a month.
He posted this with a screenshot of his estimated bill... From a visibly unactivated version of Windows.
Another user posted "WOW, didn't expect new pricing model to be this ridiculous," sharing a screenshot that appeared to show that their costs had shot up from around $50 to some $3,000.
Both of them posted to Reddit, and both got dunked on for being obviously incompetent vibe-coders.

I use Claude Code. My company pays for the 5X plan, and I rarely hit the 1X mark. The people who do hit the limit are either experimenting - fair enough - or trying to tell the AI to generate an entire application with a single prompt, which just doesn't work.

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What to expect from Nvidia at Computex. (WCCFTech)

A new Arm-based laptop chip. Which would be great if anybody could afford a new laptop.
What to expect from AMD at Computex. (WCCFTech)

A new x86-based laptop chip, specifically Medusa Halo, the successor to the Ryzen AI Max 395+. Up to 24 CPU cores and a bigger GPU upgraded from RDNA 3.5 to RDNA 5. Which would be great if anybody could afford a new laptop.
What to expect from Intel at Computex. (WCCFTech)

Updated handheld gaming things, using the new Panther Lake chips with the B390 graphics core, which is actually faster than AMD's mainstream integrated graphics. Which would be great if anybody could afford a new handheld gaming thing.
MSI's Claw 8 EX AI, for example. (Liliputing)

It has a 1920x1200 8" 120Hz display, up to 32GB of RAM, and an M.2 2280 slot for storage, along with Intel's new Arc G3 which is a low-power edition of the Panther Lake laptop chip with Arc B390 graphics.

Don't expect it to be cheap though.
You can now print 3D objects in colour on your colour 3D printer. (Prusa)

Well, that's novel.

What they're doing here is taking an existing multi-colour 3D printer (ideally you want a 5-colour model) and then feeding it CMYKW filament spools and printing your model in halftone using a 0.1mm screen.

That's not very high resolution but it helps that it's 3D so you get some colour from the obscured layers as well as from adjacent dots.

Really have to wonder what it does to performance though. 3D printers are slow enough as it is.

You can use it with existing filament, not just the new CMYKW spools designed specifically for the purpose, but you'll need to recalibrate the colour model.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Eight nations though and all bets are off.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at May 31, 2026 04:31 AM (6wpGE)

2 Disclaimer: Eight nations though and all bets are off.

I dunno. She seems pretty formidable.

Posted by: m at May 31, 2026 04:38 AM (6wpGE)

3 7.15.15.4 13.15.18.14.9.14.7

Posted by: bot is as bot does at May 31, 2026 04:41 AM (nMEUx)

4 'Woot' backwards is to ow.

Posted by: SciVo at May 31, 2026 04:42 AM (Sy6m/)

5 BOING!

Started my computer this morning to discover and MS Office update that changes the Outlook Navigation area's look and icons.

Years of academy training taught me how to restore the old setting.

Missed me again, Microsoft!!!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 31, 2026 04:45 AM (5UTWB)

6 4 'Woot' backwards is to ow.
Posted by: SciVo at May 31, 2026 04:42 AM (Sy6m/)

But w00t backwards is t0 0w.

Posted by: m at May 31, 2026 04:48 AM (6wpGE)

7 Skip appears to be snoozing:

366 Way too early to get up
Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2026 03:11 AM (Ia/+0)

Posted by: m at May 31, 2026 04:50 AM (6wpGE)

8 AI is nothing more than "Ask Jeeves" with better interface.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 31, 2026 04:50 AM (/lPRQ)

9 I thought GitHub was a food delivery service.

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 31, 2026 04:52 AM (/lPRQ)

10 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at May 31, 2026 04:59 AM (hcPzc)

11 9 I thought GitHub was a food delivery service.
Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 31, 2026 04:52 AM (/lPRQ)

Git grub?

Posted by: m at May 31, 2026 05:01 AM (6wpGE)

12 That reminds me that MS tried to shove me back on to OneDrive with the last Win 10 update.

They failed but I'm pretty damned annoyed with them changing my settings without permission.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at May 31, 2026 05:03 AM (/HDaX)

13 That reminds me that MS tried to shove me back on to OneDrive with the last Win 10 update.

They failed but I'm pretty damned annoyed with them changing my settings without permission.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent

Who do you think wants all these data centers?

Posted by: Itinerant Alley Butcher at May 31, 2026 05:07 AM (/lPRQ)

14 GitHub Copilot users ... (Tech Crunch)

That Tech Crunch article is written at a level that even a non-techy person like me can understand it. Thank you, Tech Crunch! I can't evaluate it, but I can read it.

I much appreciate Pixy's interlinear snarks for helping with the evaluation part.

Posted by: m at May 31, 2026 05:07 AM (6wpGE)

15 aha! A typo in the Tech Crunch article:

The changes, which will take place June 1, mean that users will charged

Posted by: m at May 31, 2026 05:11 AM (6wpGE)

16 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 31, 2026 05:16 AM (9L7Ix)

17
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 31, 2026 05:16 AM (AMvSw)

18 >>>What to expect from AMD at Computex. (WCCFTech)
... Which would be great if anybody could afford a new laptop.

Uh-oh, I wonder if there are going to be riots.

Posted by: m at May 31, 2026 05:18 AM (6wpGE)

19 But w00t backwards is t0 0w.
Posted by: m at May 31, 2026 04:48 AM (6wpGE)

1 st4nd c0rr3ct3d.

Posted by: SciVo at May 31, 2026 05:22 AM (Sy6m/)

20 19 But w00t backwards is t0 0w.
Posted by: m at May 31, 2026 04:48 AM (6wpGE)

1 st4nd c0rr3ct3d.
Posted by: SciVo at May 31, 2026 05:22 AM (Sy6m/)

Nice one!
("One." Let no pun go unmade.)

Posted by: m at May 31, 2026 05:28 AM (6wpGE)

21 I thought I would get (and install) a dash cam for my daughter who's moving away. The "v30" SD card costs as much as the dash cam itself (or darn near). Wow!

Posted by: actually inside the beltway at May 31, 2026 05:31 AM (L1JuH)

22 Oh, I do love videos from postmodern jukebox. And I can still afford them

Posted by: JM in Illinois at May 31, 2026 05:33 AM (RuRlp)

23 Someone needs to tell Germany that the war is over:

https://tinyurl.com/944yverv

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 31, 2026 05:37 AM (5UTWB)

24 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2026 05:41 AM (Ia/+0)

25 Newark. Willowed from the ONT:

Help! I've been robbed!

https://tinyurl.com/4u3pjcbh

NOT TO WORRY!

The NJ AG has got your back:

https://tinyurl.com/4pyevtvm

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at May 31, 2026 05:42 AM (5UTWB)

26 Evening and morning, AoSHQ satellites and hangers-on! 'Tis Sunday again and the last day of May. Where *did* this month go?

I woke a little before the alarm -- not Stirling's fault, just mine own. In a bit I have to go work out, and I'm dreading pushing myself through -- and inhaling -- that thick hot wet air out there.

In the meantime: coffee. Howz about you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 31, 2026 05:52 AM (wzUl9)

27 IS PARIS BURNING? IS PARIS BURNING?

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 31, 2026 05:53 AM (qFwJc)

28 A 20 minute video of how Pink Floyd 's song, Comfortably Numb, came to be.

https://youtu.be/urVHbs_ZUys

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at May 31, 2026 06:00 AM (glnUu)

29 !!!

Graham Platner for Senate
@grahamformaine
10h
A message from my wife Amy:

A five-minute message!

Y'know, if you're both going through marriage counseling AND you're both seeing therapists to work through your "mental health issues" (I believe that's a direct quote), then maybe this is not your time to be ensconced in a US Senate position. BUT we'll leave that up to the voters in Maine.

Posted by: m at May 31, 2026 06:02 AM (6wpGE)

30 Ooh, nice:

Stephen L. Miller retweeted
Varad Mehta
@varadmehta
12h
Graham Platner and James Talarico are both manifestations of Democrats' men/male/masculinity problem, just from opposite ends of the spectrum.

Posted by: m at May 31, 2026 06:05 AM (6wpGE)

31 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: What is my nation? Who talks of my nation?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 31, 2026 06:12 AM (TZz9Q)

32 This made me laugh. "Babylon Bee" and new Bible translations from the James Talarico Bible:

https://tinyurl.com/asyp9xm8

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2026 06:13 AM (ZeH0U)

33 A 20 minute video of how Pink Floyd 's song, Comfortably Numb, came to be.

---------------
Lots of drugs?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at May 31, 2026 06:13 AM (TZz9Q)

34 on a roll:

Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
7h
"Honey, I've decided to run for the US Senate. A DNC PR focus group recruited me and I think I can win."

"Ok but can we talk about the thing?"

"Which thing? The tattoo?"

"No I'm cool with that. The OTHER thing."

"My Reddit posts bashing rape victims, gays, blacks and Purple Heart recipients?"

"No., THE OTHER THING."

Posted by: m at May 31, 2026 06:13 AM (6wpGE)

35 "Oh, you found out about the murder dungeon?"

"No, the other... Wait, what?"

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 31, 2026 06:16 AM (BLOW1)

36 35 "Oh, you found out about the murder dungeon?"

"No, the other... Wait, what?"
Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 31, 2026 06:16 AM (BLOW1)

hahahahahahaha
It is currently difficult for me to breathe.

Posted by: m at May 31, 2026 06:17 AM (6wpGE)

37 I had an unexpected and unwanted interaction with a Karen the other night.

Briefly, this all started when she told me to move my chair so her husband and her could crowd into a space at a counter where there was no room for even half a person. Basically she was demanding I hand over my perfect seat at a concert the other night. I was like, "nah that's not happening."

The final bits of this dust up had me telling her to keep her hands off me and rebuffing her demands that I speak with her. It was then that she escalated things to a place I never saw coming when she said "Fine. You don't have to speak with me but you're going to listen to me." That didn't work out for her either.

It's was all rather amusing.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at May 31, 2026 06:20 AM (glnUu)

38 37 I had an unexpected and unwanted interaction with a Karen the other night.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at May 31, 2026 06:20 AM (glnUu)

She seems nice.

Posted by: m at May 31, 2026 06:24 AM (6wpGE)

39 Rebuild and open the Mental Hospitals.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 31, 2026 06:25 AM (qFwJc)

40 Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at May 31, 2026 06:20 AM (glnUu

Sorry for the trouble . And how was the concert?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 31, 2026 06:25 AM (ZeH0U)

41 Sorry for the trouble . And how was the concert?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

The music was off the charts great. The unexpected comedy routine was pretty fun too.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at May 31, 2026 06:27 AM (glnUu)

42 >>It was then that she escalated things to a place I never saw coming when she said "Fine. You don't have to speak with me but you're going to listen to me."

You laughed at her, didn't you.

Posted by: Nazdar at May 31, 2026 06:34 AM (NcvvS)

43 42 >>It was then that she escalated things to a place I never saw coming when she said "Fine. You don't have to speak with me but you're going to listen to me."

And then the murders began?

Posted by: Just kidding at May 31, 2026 06:39 AM (Ucgf4)

44 I had an unexpected and unwanted interaction with a Karen the other night.

*****

I ran into many of those back in the bad old days when I refused to wear the Muzzle of Submission for a Fake Pandemic. 9 out of 10 were old, bitter, and pompous white women.

Posted by: Biergood at May 31, 2026 06:41 AM (PwgSL)

45 That’s why you should always carry some noise-cancelling ear buds with you at all times so that just in case a Karen says “but you are going to listen to me” you can say “I don’t think I am” and put the ear buds in your ears, while turning on some Metallica.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 31, 2026 06:42 AM (6ydKt)

46 Good morning Horde. Thx Pixy , as always
Beautiful 43° this AM in the mid Hudson. Good sleeping weather

Posted by: Smell the Glove at May 31, 2026 06:44 AM (SW0z7)

47 Good morning morons

Is Tehran burning?

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 31, 2026 06:47 AM (RIvkX)

48 I prefer the traditional spelling. Teheran

Posted by: no one of any consequence at May 31, 2026 06:50 AM (qFwJc)

49 @3/bot is as bot does: "7.15.15.4 13.15.18.14.9.14.7"

Back atcha.

Also: G'morning Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at May 31, 2026 06:50 AM (O7YUW)

50 I can't see much news out there

Posted by: Skip at May 31, 2026 06:50 AM (Ia/+0)

51 https://tinyurl.com/4u3pjcbh

Want civil war? This is how you get civil war.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 31, 2026 06:51 AM (RIvkX)

52 Is Tehran burning?
Posted by: San Franpsycho at May 31, 2026 06:47 AM (RIvkX)

I don’t think so.
Paris was rather warm and flamey in spots last night, though.

Close enough?

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 31, 2026 06:52 AM (6ydKt)

53 I have an old Intel i5 machine that ran Windows 7 quite well. I played around with upgrading it to Windows 10, and it is pig slow!

Reinstalling Windows 7 is a pain in the ass!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo at May 31, 2026 06:52 AM (iERP6)

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