Daily Tech News 10 August 2026

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A Google developer has vibe-coded an entire new browser - albeit one that doesn't browse the web. (XDA Developers)

Instead it interprets every URL as an AI prompt and vibe codes a web page on the spot.

It's a slop machine.

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If you happen to have half a terabyte of Crucial DRAM that you bought before prices went into the ionosphere and the brand ceased to be, at least you have the comfort that parent company Micron will abide by the lifetime warranty. (Tom's Hardware)

Lol. Lmao, even.

There's a reason why I bought more than I need.
Asimov was right. (The Register)

In his famous Robot stories he explored a variety of ways his Three Laws of Robotics - what we today call "alignment" - would go wrong, from malicious compliance to compliant malice to just plain human stupidity.

All of which we are seeing play out today, though the latter has never been in short supply.
Make yourself invisible to surveillance cameras with this one simple trick. (Tech Crunch)

In short: Camouflage.

In not quite so short: Wear clothing so ugly that you are painful to look at.
Lenovo has a new small tablet and it's garbage. (Tech Crunch)

Since I picked up a couple of the outgoing model of Legion Tabs - one in black, one in white - at half price, I don't need to care for a while about the scarcity or expense of good small Android tablets.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: I never knew Roy Orbison had an entire album of Dolly Parton covers.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at August 10, 2026 04:30 AM (odBC9)

2 >>>human stupidity

Redundant?

Posted by: m at August 10, 2026 04:31 AM (odBC9)

3 No, we have plenty of other kinds as well.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at August 10, 2026 04:37 AM (BLOW1)

4 Dolly Parton - Jolene (33rpm slowed down digital version)

Wild.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2026 04:37 AM (odBC9)

5 G'Day everyone
MDIG is winning the battle again

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2026 04:38 AM (Ia/+0)

6 LOL from the OdinsVlog youtube comments:

If you play this record backwards, he leaves Jolene and comes back to her.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2026 04:38 AM (odBC9)

7 Make yourself invisible to surveillance cameras with this one simple trick. (Tech Crunch)

=

https://archive.is/HoSOZ

Posted by: m at August 10, 2026 04:55 AM (odBC9)

8 Good morning, everyone! Got in earlier than anticipated and now facing the day.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 10, 2026 04:58 AM (OPGS/)

9
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at August 10, 2026 05:07 AM (AMvSw)

10 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers! Monday, Monday, Monday! That's true. However:

"Compared to being on the wrong side of the ground, even a bad Monday is pretty small kumquats, nicht wahr?"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2026 05:08 AM (wzUl9)

11 >>>In its first public test Friday at the Def Con cybersecurity conference in Las Vegas

... month ... day ... year ...

(TechCrunch surveillance article)

Posted by: m at August 10, 2026 05:09 AM (odBC9)

12 Hello tech mavens.

Was just reading an article about FEL lasers that was patiently explaining why they are the future of chip manufacturing. I could comprehend every word, even some of the less technical jargon. When I finished the article I realized I couldn’t translate anything I had read into comprehensible English. Except Elon and laser good. Save semiconductor industry. Use a boatload of power.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2026 05:11 AM (CUnWa)

13 In any case: I am up early, no blame to be cast upon Stirling. Both cats, oddly, were sleeping with me when I woke at four am. Coffee first, and then I have to decide whether I will work out (signs point to AYFKM??).

At nine I have a video tour of a new house possibility, a corner lot place, 2BR/1BA, basement and garage. Maybe I can get to Walmart and back before nine, and then run out for some things WM doesn't carry. Or, wait until ten and then handle my grocery run before lunch when it's hotter. Decisions . . .

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2026 05:14 AM (wzUl9)

14 Pixy, you're right, it does sound like Roy Orbison is doing "Jolene"!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2026 05:15 AM (wzUl9)

15 Solid chance of rain today and a little less tomorrow, and then the heat crashes back down for the rest of the week.

In other joys, there are two storms brewing up off the coast of Africa -- the twin possibility of our getting what John D. MacDonald called "one of the great Cape Verde hurricanes of August."

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2026 05:18 AM (wzUl9)

16 Dolly's super pretty there.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2026 05:20 AM (odBC9)

17 Storms this afternoon, weather predicts

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2026 05:21 AM (Ia/+0)

18 My dad was a Dolly fan, still might be, not sure he listens to music much.

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2026 05:22 AM (Ia/+0)

19
Dolly Rebecca Parton
January 19, 1946 (age 80)

Posted by: m at August 10, 2026 05:27 AM (odBC9)

20 Last night we watched a DVD of A Woman's Face, a 1941 drama with Joan Crawford. Let me go on record: I've never been a big fan of Joan, though she was very good on screen, and have never found her attractive. Yet in this film, oddly -- because she plays a bitter woman scarred since childhood who runs a blackmail operation -- she seems softer and more appealing than I've ever seen her. Melvyn Douglas plays the gifted surgeon who corrects her scar and gives her a new chance at life; Conrad Veidt ("Major Strasser" of Casablanca) is the impoverished nobleman she loves, and who wants her to murder his four-year-old cousin so he can inherit his uncle's fortune. AWF has the standard elements of a 1940s drama, but somehow they come together in a way that seems new.

Good, good stuff.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2026 05:29 AM (wzUl9)

21 Still not sure why the school Wi-Fi won't initiate a AoSHq but once on can refresh

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2026 05:30 AM (Ia/+0)

22 Wikipedia dates that photo of Dolly to 1977.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2026 05:31 AM (odBC9)

23 The Porter Wagoner Show was syndicated when I was a kid and young teen; usually on at six p.m. on Saturdays, just ahead of Lawrence Welk. Yet I don't remember Dolly being on it . . . and I'm sure I would recall her. Even at age ten or eleven I was aware of and impressed by the prettiness of girls. I knew (unlike male friends who muttered, "I hate girls!") that someday I was *going* to like them a lot, even if I didn't know why yet.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2026 05:35 AM (wzUl9)

24 The Trio did some good music. Dolly, Emmylou and Linda.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2026 05:36 AM (3ZNGI)

25 Time I thought about breakfast. The furry thugs don't get theirs until six.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2026 05:45 AM (wzUl9)

26 If you play this record backwards, he leaves Jolene and comes back to her.
Posted by: m at August 10, 2026 04:38 AM (odBC9)

The hell it does.

Posted by: Satan at August 10, 2026 05:46 AM (4g5V+)

27 Way early

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2026 05:49 AM (jhKkc)

28 Wikipedia

Following her departure from Wagoner's show, Parton branched out into pop music with her 1977 single "Here You Come Again."

Posted by: m at August 10, 2026 05:50 AM (odBC9)

29 23 The Porter Wagoner Show was syndicated when I was a kid and young teen; usually on at six p.m. on Saturdays, just ahead of Lawrence Welk. Yet I don't remember Dolly being on it . . . and I'm sure I would recall her.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2026 05:35 AM (wzUl9)

Googling

porter wagoner show dolly

pulls up a bunch of videos and photos of her on the show.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2026 05:53 AM (odBC9)

30 Good morning! Above the dirt and checking in.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2026 05:55 AM (3Ope8)

31 Good morning! Above the dirt and checking in.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2026 05:55 AM (3Ope

Dirty anti-sandite.

Posted by: The Worms at August 10, 2026 06:01 AM (dK+Kv)

32 Apparently Dolly didn't start on the PW show until 1967. Maybe by then it had moved to a different time slot, or our local station wasn't carrying it at all. Because I know I'd have noticed her.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2026 06:02 AM (wzUl9)

33 Beautiful old hymn, "Rock of Ages" sung by a woman with a lovely voice:

https://tinyurl.com/5n6ntt42

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2026 06:03 AM (xSAlF)

34 "Hope in God"- Our Daily Bread Devotional based on Lamentations 3:19-26. Devotional is followed by a prayer and song additional insights.:

https://tinyurl.com/3fh9u2hp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2026 06:08 AM (xSAlF)

35 carried over from the ONT

BBC

China evacuates one million from homes as massive storm arrives
Typhoon Dolphin has made landfall, bringing strong winds and heavy rain across eastern China including Shanghai.
3 hrs ago

Posted by: m at August 10, 2026 06:09 AM (odBC9)

36 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: I never sang for my father.

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at August 10, 2026 06:10 AM (amcLV)

37 Little boy's delight in a box of fruit loops helps a man from OK transform his community. "Sunny Skyz" site:

https://tinyurl.com/ke5mm5cw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2026 06:14 AM (xSAlF)

38 I also caught the last forty minutes or so of Sunset Boulevard on Movies! last night. Still compelling, to put it mildly. The brooding sense of . . . well, not evil, exactly, but *fate* . . . that hangs over the characters, Joe Gillis's hushed voice in narration, the hints of a brighter world outside in the form of Nancy Olson and Jack Webb . . . and Gloria Swanson's compelling turn as the (ultimately dangerous) narcissist Norma: a classic.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at August 10, 2026 06:19 AM (wzUl9)

39 They are still thinking about pumping great lakes water to the dry, desert southwest. Many locals in Vegas are disturbed that the local governments still approve endless new housing developments from one end of the valley to the other. Money is what the government wants from taxes and fees and endless houses where you can shake hands with your neighbor, the houses are so close to each other. Its even worse in the Phoenix area.

Posted by: coln at August 10, 2026 06:21 AM (CiQE7)

40
w00t
Posted by: m

================

Nice to see this word spelled correctly.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia's Phone at August 10, 2026 06:22 AM (mmrXZ)

41 And I have three requests please for the praying people. Please pray for ASHQ poster Tecumseh Tea's husband who has a late stage cancer- for wisdom from doctors and complete healing. My son starts a new job today -that all would go smoothly in the training period, and finally for P, a friend who needs relief from continual pain. Thx so much for your prayers.

I'm going to try my best to avoid politics today.
May you have a blessed day, see God at work in the day around you -even in things as simple yet beautiful as flowers in nature or through concern or kindness of others around you-. May you know that you are a blessing to others!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at August 10, 2026 06:22 AM (xSAlF)

42
China evacuates one million from homes as massive storm arrives
Typhoon Dolphin has made landfall, bringing strong winds and heavy rain across eastern China including Shanghai.
3 hrs ago
Posted by: m at August 10, 2026 06:09 AM (odBC9)

Only one million?

Posted by: Cow Demon at August 10, 2026 06:25 AM (4g5V+)

43
Even at age ten or eleven I was aware of and impressed by the prettiness of girls. I knew (unlike male friends who muttered, "I hate girls!")

Age 10: I hate girls
Age 20: I love girls
Age 70: I hate girls

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2026 06:28 AM (O0L8i)

44 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at August 10, 2026 06:28 AM (2Ez/1)

45 Dangit. I just happened to notice that one of the four Faith No More music videos that I'd downloaded was *shorter* than the album version of the same song, so I checked the other three -- same thing. Longer I could understand, if they added some storytelling fluff before and after the music. Shorter implies they made a "video edit" like they make "radio edits."

But I have downloaded a lot of music videos, and if "video edits" are common, then that's a lot of potentially lesser versions I have taking up space. And there is no way I'm just going to systematically go through and compare them all with the album version. So it's just going to grate on me in the back of my mind.

#FirstWorldProblems

Posted by: SciVo at August 10, 2026 06:29 AM (Sy6m/)

46 "Catholic dioceses across America are reporting unprecedented increases in exorcism requests, with some priests conducting hundreds of cases annually."

Sadly, this doesn't surprise me too much.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 10, 2026 06:30 AM (OPGS/)

47
China evacuates one million from homes as massive storm arrives
Typhoon Dolphin has made landfall, bringing strong winds and heavy rain across eastern China including Shanghai.
3 hrs ago
Posted by: m at August 10, 2026 06:09 AM (odBC9)

Are the Chinese media blaming Global Warming and suggesting that coal plants get shut down?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2026 06:30 AM (O0L8i)

48 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at August 10, 2026 06:33 AM (sAmhv)

49 Ready for another week of all-out, full tilt, hair-on-fire commenting action.

Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2026 06:39 AM (ZxPkt)

50 Are the Chinese media blaming Global Warming and suggesting that coal plants get shut down?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I'm surprised Greta isn't already in a first class seat on a plane going to Beijing so she can scold them.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 10, 2026 06:40 AM (OPGS/)

51 In not quite so short: Wear clothing so ugly that you are painful to look at.

Does it matter if my face and body are already too ugly to look at?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 10, 2026 06:40 AM (l3cgK)

52 50 Are the Chinese media blaming Global Warming and suggesting that coal plants get shut down?
Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh

I'm surprised Greta isn't already in a first class seat on a plane going to Beijing so she can scold them.

Posted by: NR Pax at August 10, 2026 06:40 AM (OPGS/)

While she's there, she should scold them for being the #1 polluter of plastics into the ocean...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 10, 2026 06:41 AM (l3cgK)

53 49 Ready for another week of all-out, full tilt, hair-on-fire commenting action.

Posted by: Don Black at August 10, 2026 06:39 AM (ZxPkt)

I'm losing too much hair on my head to have any hair-on-fire commenting...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 10, 2026 06:42 AM (l3cgK)

54 I worked in Phoenix a couple of years ago. It's an amazingly scenic for a city. I would drive up into the mountains an hour or so before sunset every once in a while to watch the transition from day to night,

Millions of people and growing so fast.

I remember thinking thinking about the millions of people that would die if the power went out.

Posted by: pawn at August 10, 2026 06:42 AM (L5eIP)

55 47
China evacuates one million from homes as massive storm arrives
Typhoon Dolphin has made landfall, bringing strong winds and heavy rain across eastern China including Shanghai.
3 hrs ago
Posted by: m at August 10, 2026 06:09 AM (odBC9)

Are the Chinese media blaming Global Warming and suggesting that coal plants get shut down?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at August 10, 2026 06:30 AM (O0L8i)

Typhoon Dolph for short? Typhoon Dolph Lundgren?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at August 10, 2026 06:43 AM (l3cgK)

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