Daily Tech News 21 June 2026

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AMD and Intel have unveiled their new ACE instruction set, which extends AVX vector instructions into matrix calculations. (Tom's Hardware)

A single ACE instruction can result in up to 1024 multiplications, which is convenient but not exactly adhering to the RISC philosophy.

We'll probably be waiting a couple of years to see this. AMD previously announced a new matrix engine for Zen 7 - which is not expected until 2028.

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UK supermarket Tesco is suing Broadcom over their VMWare villainy. (The Register)

Tesco purchased perpetual licenses to VMWare and signed matching support contracts before the company was bought by Broadcom. Broadcom is now - according to the suit - refusing to provide support services unless customer repurchase the licenses at new, vastly inflated prices.
Cloudflare has announced temporary accounts for AI agents that can be deployed for an hour without human intervention. (Cloudflare)

There are nine and sixty ways I can think of off the top of my head that this could go horribly wrong. I suspect that Cloudflare can think of even more, and have already put in place countermeasures for half of them.
A $200 ChatGPT subscription used to the full could be costing OpenAI $14,000. (TechSpot)

And a $200 Claude subscription could cost Anthropic $8000.

Be right back, upgrading some subscriptions...
A suicide booth for fish? (Tech Crunch)

Marketed as humane but actually designed to preserve the flavour.

Hmm.
The Atlantic did something useful? (The Verge)

They published a searchable database for music used in training AI song generators.

Most of it copyrighted, much of it by extremely litigious labels.

And here's me all out of popcorn.
Lenovo's Thinkpad X11 is an 11" tablet. (Notebook Check)

Not the fastest and certainly not the lightest, but it has something few tablets can match: A removable battery.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Mada fada coconut.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 21, 2026 04:32 AM (3UbC6)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at June 21, 2026 04:32 AM (6wpGE)

3 Good sunshiny summer Sunday morning! Exercised, showered, and hydrated.

Gets up, lazies!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 21, 2026 04:37 AM (3UbC6)

4 Guten morgen. horde.

Posted by: clarence at June 21, 2026 04:38 AM (I5lp2)

5 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at June 21, 2026 04:40 AM (Hpgos)

6 Psy - Gentleman
He seems nice.

Posted by: m at June 21, 2026 04:41 AM (6wpGE)

7 >>>Psy - Gentleman
He seems nice.

Posted by: m

>Interesting. Nice editing and directing. What genre would you call that?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 21, 2026 04:48 AM (fkjGs)

8 Good morning all, time for me to try and go to sleep.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen? at June 21, 2026 04:48 AM (Q/FnY)

9
I forgot about this silliness. Sunrise at Stonehenge. That happen a little before midnight EDT:

https://t.ly/i5pu9

Sunrise happens there at about 1:10 in. The Druids blow some damned horn or something. Now, I don't know why they don't put a camera right dead center so they can show the sun rise over the Heel Stone.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at June 21, 2026 04:49 AM (w6EFb)

10 Mornin' Horde.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 21, 2026 04:52 AM (O7YUW)

11 Care for our children . Proverbs 13:1. International Fellowship of Christians and Jews:

https://tinyurl.com/4dnj2ef9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 04:52 AM (dSKRp)

12 3 Good sunshiny summer Sunday morning! Exercised, showered, and hydrated.
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 21, 2026 04:37 AM (3UbC6)

I failed to hydrate before going to bed and that was a big mistake.

Posted by: m at June 21, 2026 04:53 AM (6wpGE)

13 >Interesting. Nice editing and directing. What genre would you call that?

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at June 21, 2026 04:48 AM (fkjGs)
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Korean Rot.

Psy is most famous for Gangnum Style:

https://youtu.be/9bZkp7q19f0

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 21, 2026 04:54 AM (3UbC6)

14 God the Father. Christian devotional on Ephesians 3:16-19:

https://tinyurl.com/5mu4y9va

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 04:54 AM (dSKRp)

15 G'mornin' everyone!

lovely foggy morning out there, 44 degrees, and I'm getting ready for a hit-the-trailhead-at-dawn hike!

making extra coffee, woohoo!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at June 21, 2026 04:57 AM (VyBeY)

16 Officer plays piano to comfort family after father's fall and after he is taken care of. Faithpot site :

https://tinyurl.com/499bvm84

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 04:58 AM (n3VHW)

17 From the AOS home page Top Headlines side column:

Paul Sperry

NEW: Just heard something extraordinary from a former White House official who worked with former National Security Adviser H.R. McMaster in Trump45's NSC: "McMaster had weekly phone calls with George Soros. We have no idea why." Neither could be reached for comment.
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All the signs were there. I first read about the deep statesman McMaster in the 2020 book, "The Memo: Twenty Years Inside the Deep State Fighting for America First, by Rich Higgins.

Higgins kept trying to send a message way upstream to Trump WH no. 1 that something was very rotten in the NSC, where McMaster ruled.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 21, 2026 05:01 AM (3UbC6)

18 @7/Rev. Wishbone: " What genre would you call that?"

My first thought was "weird" but in actuality I believe it's K-pop (Korean pop).

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 21, 2026 05:02 AM (O7YUW)

19 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at June 21, 2026 05:06 AM (V0/Sp)

20 Shuttle driver goes into rushing water to save people:

https://tinyurl.com/4nzjtc5u

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 05:09 AM (OYsYV)

21
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at June 21, 2026 05:12 AM (AMvSw)

22 The soft breeze caressing the tree
Leaves gently swaying in line
Warm summer sunlight will agree
That all is right and fine

The soft scent of flowering hedge rows
Deepens our love of beauty
Colorful birds line up to pose
As if this were a call to duty

Raise your eyes up to the sky
Let your voice call to the breeze
And let all know that as we fly
All may do as they please

fin

Posted by: clarence at June 21, 2026 05:18 AM (I5lp2)

23 Posted by: clarence at June 21, 2026 05:18 AM (I5lp2

Lovely. Thanks!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 05:20 AM (n3VHW)

24 I am very grateful to FenSpouse who is a good man and dad ,and who is kindly preaching for me on Father's Day because I cannot talk about being a father,

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 05:23 AM (n3VHW)

25 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at June 21, 2026 05:29 AM (NyXeV)

26 @24/FenelonSpoke: I'm glad FenSpouse is a good husband and father, whose presence in your life brings you joy. This is how it should be.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 21, 2026 05:30 AM (O7YUW)

27 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at June 21, 2026 05:30 AM (O7YUW)

Thanks. That's very kind of you. He also makes me laugh - which is important in a relationship ( at least for me) I think.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 05:33 AM (OYsYV)

28 Good morning you tech oriented early risers or up laters. And Pixy

Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at June 21, 2026 05:34 AM (CUnWa)

29 If I put out a whiteboard sign. "My husband is not a non gestating parent. Happy Father's Day!" Someone would knock over the sign, right?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 05:38 AM (dSKRp)

30 We had a nice picnic with conservatives at the park yesterday . This year nobody defaced the signs or put rude graffiti up at the entrance to the park. I am glad about that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 05:40 AM (OYsYV)

31 So I figured out what was obvious to everyone else. My use of ExpressVPN made all the videos on AoS HQ "not available".

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 21, 2026 05:47 AM (4+cmr)

32 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2026 05:47 AM (iMotb)

33 My use of ExpressVPN made all the videos on AoS HQ "not available".

Posted by: JM in Illinois at June 21, 2026 05:47 AM (4+cmr)
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Sometimes, changing servers under the VPN resolves such issues.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 21, 2026 05:53 AM (3UbC6)

34 G'Day everyone
Happy Father's day toalldadsout there

Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 05:53 AM (Ia/+0)

35
Good morning, Hordians. Can't go to church this morning, and maybe not today, because about half my driveway is several inches under water.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at June 21, 2026 05:54 AM (O0L8i)

36 ...toalldadsout there

Posted by: Skip at June 21, 2026 05:53 AM (Ia/+0)
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I need some space!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at June 21, 2026 05:54 AM (3UbC6)

37 We had a nice picnic with conservatives at the park yesterday . This year nobody defaced the signs or put rude graffiti up at the entrance to the park. I am glad about that.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at June 21, 2026 05:40 AM (OYsYV)
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That's so nice to hear! So did we, in fact! 😄

Missed you, VIA. Hope you and the missus can come next time.

Happy Father's Day to all our Hordeling dads. God bless them all.

Posted by: bluebell at June 21, 2026 05:55 AM (afFes)

38 So the Volvo Intake gasket and various other small parts scheduled to arrive via FedEx between 1100-1500 did not arrive till after 2130 last night. So needles to say, the wagon did not get fixed last night.

BUT....hijinks of the political kind did rear its head yesterday during the leadoff to this Tuesdays run-off election.

I get a text in the middle of the day. And it starts with my name, and goes on to tell me how it is time to support one of the state candidates whom we shall simply call Jenny. And it tells me how she is great for women, supports all the major leftist women's causes, and we need to rally to support her.

But something, from the statements, which go completely against her platform, to the photo, which is a rather unflattering photo all make me suspect that this is an attempt to turn conservatives against her on Tuesday and vote for her opponent.

So I sent her campaign an email with a screenshot of the email that I received, and less than thirty minutes later the actual candidate called me directly, and we talked for over ten minutes.

As I suspected, someone supporting her opponent in the runoff is sending this out, quite possibly in violation of the law.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2026 05:58 AM (iMotb)

39 Bluebell!

We so wanted to come as well.

Perhaps next year, if we can pull it off.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at June 21, 2026 05:59 AM (iMotb)

40 Evening and morning to the vast AoSHQ Empire's satellites and satraps, on this first true morning of summer!

I dreamed I was part of a vast evacuation ahead of some apocalyptic event. My boss said,"We need to get you a gun," and we went to the armory. Nobody else was there, but guns kept vanishing from the tables even as I looked. I grabbed a .38 revolver and a box of shells before it disappeared.

Later there was some discussion about restoring medical databases after The Event. "We don't have any programmers for Cameron!" I spoke up and said, "I know it." Someone else complained that the developers had located one table *inside* of another. I explained lucidly how a one-to-many relationship works. (How we had time for this when civilization was about to collapse is beyond me.)

So. Howz yer Sunday morning?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at June 21, 2026 06:00 AM (wzUl9)

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