Daily Tech News 12 June 2026

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It's been an entire day since there was a critical Microsoft vulnerability so here we are again. (The Register)

It's BitLocker again this time, which not many people care about because a major problem is with it being too secure; encrypting your entire computer without ever prompting you to set up a decryption key. Built-in ransomware.

Anyway, the hack allows you to access an encrypted PC if it has run a Windows Defender offline scan... Ever.
Meanwhile Maine's security breach disclosure portal suffered a security breach. (Bleeping Computers)

Clever hackers found a way to post fake but official-looking security breach notices. You can probably see where that could lead.

Tech News

Running a little late because my boss really wanted the Australian team (including me) to pass a new feature to the QA team in the US before the end of the day. I wasn't sure but said I'd give it a try.

It worked flawlessly the first time.
xAI is offering 66% off for three months for their SuperGrok upgrade if you want to play with it - down from $30 per month to $10. I find Grok very useful for correlative searches that used to require lots of manual digging in Google, and before that an entire wall of paper manuals, so I'm giving it a try.
OpenAI is also considering cutting prices. (CNBC)

Smells like IPO season.

Worth noting is that xAI (part of SpaceX) is now profitable. OpenAI is very definitely not.
Xbox is hosed says Xbox chief content officer Matt Booty. (Engadget)

Not mentioned: Who hosed it.
I haven't seen an official announcement but RTX 3060 and 3050 cards are popping up again. (Tom's Hardware)

The 3060 is a decent card.
Technocommunists are eating each other over in Europe. (ZDNet)

Again.
Luis Rossman is suing Samsung over SSD warranties. (Tom's Hardware)

As the article notes, one of Rossman's 4TB Samsung 990 Pro drives failed. He sent it back, and they... Sent the dead drive right back to him, saying it was fine.

He runs a high-end computer repair shop so he has the tools to hand to prove it was not fine.

Samsung offered him a refund - of the original price. The drive now costs three times as much.

But none of that is why he's suing them. They offered him a refund, claiming they don't have the drive in stock to provide a warranty replacement.

But the drive is literally in stock right this moment. Samsung just didn't want to honour the warranty.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: That never happens.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:40 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at June 12, 2026 04:39 AM (6wpGE)

2 >>>Running a little late

Worth waiting for!

Posted by: m at June 12, 2026 04:41 AM (6wpGE)

3 BOING!

Gonna try and get me some SpaceX IPO stock later today.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 12, 2026 04:43 AM (zBP9L)

4 Thank you, Pixy!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 12, 2026 04:43 AM (iMotb)

5 Hot sticky good morning horde

Posted by: Accomack at June 12, 2026 04:43 AM (8jVAy)

6 G'Day everyone
TGIF

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

7
Meanwhile Maine's security breach disclosure portal suffered a security breach. (Bleeping Computers)

Clever hackers found a way to post fake but official-looking security breach notices. You can probably see where that could lead.

More videos of Derrick Clapner dancing with Li'l Tottie on display? A trove revealed of more Derrick Clapner junk shots? The horrors are too gruesome to even contemplate!

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Humiliate! Humiliate! Humiliate! at June 12, 2026 04:46 AM (ixS3i)

8 Scissor Sisters - Take Your Mama

I dunno, was that video weird enough?

Posted by: m at June 12, 2026 04:47 AM (6wpGE)

9 I'm not RC, and yet I think a person ( Maine Kampf) who refers to the Virgin Mary as a "skank"
Deserved to be defeated.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 12, 2026 04:48 AM (ix8EF)

10
Xbox is hosed says Xbox chief content officer Matt Booty. (Engadget)

Stop humiliating my Erf cousin!

-- John Big Booty ("It's Boo Tay!") of Planet Nine

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Humiliate! Humiliate! Humiliate! at June 12, 2026 04:49 AM (fdSfO)

11 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at June 12, 2026 04:51 AM (V0/Sp)

12 Newsweek said something about Karmelo Anthony:

https://tinyurl.com/443a294f

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 12, 2026 04:51 AM (zBP9L)

13
Deserved to be defeated.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

Agreed. Maine Kampf and that simp running for Senator in Texas both have gone out of their way to impugn Mary's character.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Humiliate! Humiliate! Humiliate! at June 12, 2026 04:54 AM (fdSfO)

14
Newsweek should simply own up to its humiliating heritage and start calling itself The Dollar Rag

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Humiliate! Humiliate! Humiliate! at June 12, 2026 04:57 AM (fdSfO)

15 Trying to get out of here as fsst as I can
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at June 12, 2026 04:59 AM (Ia/+0)

16
@Newsweek
Jun 10
Perspective: Rittenhouse walked. Anthony got 35 years. The cases differ—but America judges fear by tribe, not law.

What would "fear" mean in this context?

Posted by: m at June 12, 2026 05:00 AM (6wpGE)

17 8 Scissor Sisters - Take Your Mama

I dunno, was that video weird enough?
Posted by: m

Probably?

I wanted to use the Norwegian Recycling Sweet Mama o' Mine remix but there doesn't seem to be a video for that version.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 12, 2026 05:00 AM (BLOW1)

18
Karmelo used deadly force to assert squatter's rights and thereby became the assailant.

Kyle was being pursued by a mob out for his blood and was assailed three different times as he fled from them.

One's intent was offensive, the other's was defensive.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Humiliate! Humiliate! Humiliate! at June 12, 2026 05:07 AM (fdSfO)

19 16
@Newsweek
Jun 10
Perspective: Rittenhouse walked. Anthony got 35 years. The cases differ—but America judges fear by tribe, not law.

What would "fear" mean in this context?
Posted by: m at June 12, 2026 05:00 AM (6wpGE)

I shouldn't cut Newsweek any slack at all.

Posted by: m at June 12, 2026 05:13 AM (6wpGE)

20 Apparently, Trump whacked the IRGC two nights ago so bad that they gave up.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at June 12, 2026 05:14 AM (qFwJc)

21 Time for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 12, 2026 05:15 AM (iMotb)

22 14
Newsweek should simply own up to its humiliating heritage and start calling itself The Dollar Rag
Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Humiliate! Humiliate! Humiliate! at June 12, 2026 04:57 AM (fdSfO)

Not negative enough!

Posted by: m at June 12, 2026 05:15 AM (6wpGE)

23 Old time hymn- "All people that on earth do dwell" - sing by famous Christian music folks- Bill and Gloria Gaither:

https://tinyurl.com/565j7y7n

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 12, 2026 05:16 AM (ix8EF)

24 Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Humiliate! Humiliate! Humiliate! at June 12, 2026 04:54 AM (fdSfO

I was not aware of what Texas Talarico said about the Virgin Mary, but no doubt, it was offensive too.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 12, 2026 05:17 AM (ix8EF)

25 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 12, 2026 05:17 AM (Hbeqj)

26
Bonchie retweeted
Al Carbo
@carbo_al
Jun 10
One of the funny ironies of this race is Susan Collins comes from a thoroughly working class Irish-Catholic background in rural Northern Maine

While Graham Platner is the child of wealthy liberal WASPs & literally went to an out of state $70,000 a year prep school, his Grandfather (William Platner) was a famous modern architect

Susan Collins grew up as a farm hand in Caribou, Graham Platner grew up on a costal mansion

His entire identity is fake

Posted by: m at June 12, 2026 05:21 AM (6wpGE)

27 It worked flawlessly the first time.
Dang! Congrats!

Posted by: RandomDave (of the Rebel Riders, apparently) at June 12, 2026 05:22 AM (aJQbY)

28 Evening! (For late toilers) Morning! (For early risers like me, whose effin' black CAT kicked him at effin' 3:45 am. Great way to start his fifth year with me!) At least it's Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished.

I'm trying one of Linda's fake-milk products in my coffee. Not bad, but it's not *coffee*-coffee, if you know what I mean.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026 05:25 AM (wzUl9)

29 Stephen L. Miller retweeted
Robert Sterling
@RobertMSterling
13h
The German soccer player just left Buc-ee’s. Now take him to Bass Pro and show him the AR-15s.

Posted by: m at June 12, 2026 05:28 AM (6wpGE)

30 The house hunt continues. My former home-to-be is now back on the market for somebody who has the money, patience, and time to spend to fix it up internally.

Meanwhile, I need to work out this morning. Howzabout you?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026 05:30 AM (wzUl9)

31 Worth noting is that xAI (part of SpaceX) is now profitable. OpenAI is very definitely not.

Sure, for three months until the Google deal expires.

Posted by: Ace's liver at June 12, 2026 05:32 AM (B9Dv5)

32 Hail woke me up. My garden. It didn't last long, so hopefully it didn't beat it up too bad.

Posted by: huerfano at June 12, 2026 05:33 AM (VJX5o)

33 I loved Ace's renaming of the latest Star Wars film -- "The Marzipan and Fondu," "The Mermaid and Gorgon," etc. The boss leads the wittiest bunch of writers and posters on the 'Net.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026 05:34 AM (wzUl9)

34 @Pixy: "It worked flawlessly the first time."

Which is slightly better than "Of course it works, it compiled, didn't it?"

QA will now run it through their automated regression test scripts and it will pass with flying colours.

Then the users will get their hands on it. (Ominous foreboding music goes here.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 12, 2026 05:36 AM (O7YUW)

35 The 3060 is a decent card.

I have one. It runs all my games without a problem, even on Linux with Nvidia's garbage Linux driver. Granted, I'm not an FPS guy, so maybe I'm just not noticing marginally slower frame rates.

Posted by: Ace's liver at June 12, 2026 05:37 AM (B9Dv5)

36 Kind stranger in Los Angeles. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/4rz5m9yk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 12, 2026 05:37 AM (IeCgc)

37 The local Fox outlet trumpets that we will have a new Trader Joe's opening today not far from my former employer.

This news fills me with mild but waning interest. The TJ's in the suburbs is a more pleasant drive to get to and also offers plenty of free parking. Lower sales tax, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 12, 2026 05:37 AM (wzUl9)

38 When Xbox Chief Content Officer has a conference call, it's called a "Booty Call"

Posted by: Xbox Facts at June 12, 2026 06:04 AM (8XeQo)

39 Shut up, Big Booty, you're the biggest baby I ever seen!

Posted by: Lord John Whorfin at June 12, 2026 06:05 AM (8XeQo)

40 Morning, one and all. I managed to get out the door early enough to hit the gym but that meant going without coffee. Life is all about balance.

Posted by: NR Pax at June 12, 2026 06:08 AM (+4yJ5)

41 To be honest, I'm rather disappointed in Samsung's behavior regarding the drive. Hope the man doesn't need to go to court over getting a replacement.

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

42 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: Once is happenstance...

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at June 12, 2026 06:14 AM (amcLV)

43 A tech company rejecting an RMA claim by Louis Rossman is a military supplier rejecting a call from the president. This is not going to end well for them.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at June 12, 2026 06:15 AM (BLOW1)

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