Daily Tech News 15 September 2026

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Nvidia has stopped selling its own "Founders Edition" RTX 5090. (Tom's Hardware)

You can still buy third-party models - but they cost as much as $9500.

The MSRP is still $2000.
They have, helpfully, announced the RTX PRO 5500, which is a 5090 with the memory bus cut down from 512 bits to 448. (Tom's Hardware)

And two banks of 3GB memory chips for a total of 84GB of VRAM.

Priced at $NaN.

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Anthropic says blah blah blah. (Tom's Hardware)

Yeah, thanks guys.
Clickfix attacks are booming. (Tech Crunch)

So-called "Clickfix" attacks are when the hackers get lazy and convince users to hack themselves, by offering links to download and install software using the obviously broken approaches offered by an increasing number of companies who probably know better but don't care better.

At least in this case the hackers went to the effort of hacking the official HBO Max account on Reddit so they could spread official-looking posts containing the links that would let you hack yourself.
Xcancel is Xcancelled. (Xcancel)

Again.

Thanks, Twitter. Great move there.
Today: An enterprise-level DNS server, faster Markdown rendering, skip lists in the database so it can quickly jump to the 3000th page of a listing, and a building a better 3270.

Markdown using an optimised Rust library is about four times faster than in the language itself, which is less than expected but indicates that the language is faster than expected.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: It really is something other than else.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at September 15, 2026 04:38 AM (odBC9)

2 Someone forgot to push the button but it couldn't possibly be me.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at September 15, 2026 04:38 AM (BLOW1)

3 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at September 15, 2026 04:42 AM (Ia/+0)

4 You know it's bad when the $2000 original MSRP seems like a bargain in retrospect.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 15, 2026 04:46 AM (6ydKt)

5 Push the button, Max!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at September 15, 2026 04:46 AM (iIyc0)

6 And two banks of 3GB memory chips for a total of 84GB of VRAM.

Priced at $NaN.

If you have to ask, you can't afford it.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 15, 2026 04:47 AM (6ydKt)

7 Disclaimer: It really is something other than else.

The video is "unavailable"...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 15, 2026 04:47 AM (l3cgK)

8 Bottom YouTube video is not available in the States, it appears.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 15, 2026 04:48 AM (6ydKt)

9 Anthropic says AI can boost U.S. GDP by 32%, up to $44.4 trillion in four years — economics model predicts that displaced employees 'may have to switch to jobs like electrician and nurse'

Well, until the robots take those jobs.

And boosting the GDP by 32% in four years seems like an estimate only a stoned LLM could come up with.

It's certainly boosting Nvidia and the RAM/Storage companies by more than 32%, though.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 15, 2026 04:53 AM (6ydKt)

10
Sep 15, 2026
Asmongold Clips / Asmongold Reacts To: Lindsay Clancy trial media coverage escalates as outlets expose increasingly personal details about the lone holdout juror

https://tinyurl.com/2twtamyx

youtube

Posted by: m at September 15, 2026 04:54 AM (odBC9)

11 At least in this case the hackers went to the effort of hacking the official HBO Max account on Reddit so they could spread official-looking posts containing the links that would let you hack yourself.

I'd never fall for that.
If I see a multi-part captcha looking pop-up I immediately close the page just because I'm not a trained monkey waiting around so I can play puzzles just to look at a webpage.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 15, 2026 04:56 AM (6ydKt)

12 https://tinyurl.com/2twtamyx

youtube

Posted by: m at September 15, 2026 04:54 AM (odBC9)

You can skip the extra tinryurl step with YouTube by using their short link.

On the video page click on the "Share" button below the video, copy the URL of everything before the question mark (the ?- and everything after it isn't needed, it's just for tracking).

Then you'll have a short youtu.be/ link to share.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 15, 2026 05:01 AM (6ydKt)

13 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 15, 2026 05:03 AM (sAmhv)

14 Next trial with some women doing something stupid or insane will get a total %100 pass. No juror will want to face the wrath of the Leftists.

Posted by: Skip at September 15, 2026 05:07 AM (Ia/+0)

15
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 15, 2026 05:08 AM (AMvSw)

16 Then you'll have a short youtu.be/ link to share.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 15, 2026 05:01 AM (6ydKt)

Yup. What I always do. On the other hand, when I'm using non-EweToob links and use a shortener like tinyurl, those links can be tracked by tinyurl...
Any guesses what they do with that data?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 15, 2026 05:12 AM (l3cgK)

17 14 Next trial with some women doing something stupid or insane will get a total %100 pass. No juror will want to face the wrath of the Leftists.

Posted by: Skip at September 15, 2026 05:07 AM (Ia/+0)

I'm old and tired. Have a technical degree, so most likely wouldn't be picked for a jury, as lawyers don't like folks like me on juries, even if I AM brown-skinned...
And I would stand my ground with reason and logic. Wouldn't matter to lying bitches and soyboys; they'll obfuscate about it to the press.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 15, 2026 05:14 AM (l3cgK)

18 12 https://tinyurl.com/2twtamyx
youtube
Posted by: m at September 15, 2026 04:54 AM (odBC9)

You can skip the extra tinryurl step with YouTube by using their short link.

On the video page click on the "Share" button below the video, copy the URL of everything before the question mark (the ?- and everything after it isn't needed, it's just for tracking).

Then you'll have a short youtu.be/ link to share.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 15, 2026 05:01 AM (6ydKt)

I appreciate that--I didn't know that procedure.

I have manually applied the youtube shortener before--which gives the same result you're describing--and a cob asked for a tinyurl instead.I think sometimes one of them shorter and sometimes the other one is shorter.

In the case of this Asmongold clip
the youtube shortener would give this:
https://youtu.be/ACO3wKfN5H8

instead of this:
https://tinyurl.com/2twtamyx

Posted by: m at September 15, 2026 05:14 AM (odBC9)

19 Posted by: m at September 15, 2026 05:14 AM (odBC9)

Dildo is only worried about blowing margins...as long as the link doesn't do that (and is short enough), he generally doesn't care.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 15, 2026 05:15 AM (l3cgK)

20 Not complaining, here.

Posted by: m at September 15, 2026 05:18 AM (odBC9)

21 It might be tragedy here, think well pump died.
Its always been question of when not if

Posted by: Skip at September 15, 2026 05:18 AM (Ia/+0)

22 I can see it now...I get on this kind of jury, they dig up the fact the police came to my place multiple times, I've had Restraining orders against me and my wife from my own mother (all temporary and thrown out by the court when the hearings took place)...they dig deeper into medical records protected by HIPAA...
No context, only aspersions. That's the way the modern media works, and I'd sue right away and look for help in doing so from a number of organizations that help folks with stuff like this.

Those charges against the black juror...they were dropped, right? They were related to a divorce, right?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 15, 2026 05:19 AM (l3cgK)

23 21 It might be tragedy here, think well pump died.
Its always been question of when not if
Posted by: Skip at September 15, 2026 05:18 AM (Ia/+0)

My computer monitor is overheating and getting glitches and it looks like I'm going to have to replace it. "When," not "if," indeed.

Posted by: m at September 15, 2026 05:20 AM (odBC9)

24 Yup. What I always do. On the other hand, when I'm using non-EweToob links and use a shortener like tinyurl, those links can be tracked by tinyurl...
Any guesses what they do with that data?...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 15, 2026 05:12 AM (l3cgK)

I assume they're selling it as marketing data.

Tinyurl has referral deals with some companies, too.
I noticed that when you run a NYPost link through tinyurl, the short link will run through a redirect for tinyurl to make money off of a referral link, which Ghostery blocks and you have to click to proceed or I'd have never known about it.

The deal must've ended though because the last time I ran a NYPost URL the referral redirect didn't happen.

The URL shorteners have to make money somehow, I guess.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 15, 2026 05:20 AM (6ydKt)

25 The Asmongold clip has had 1 million views in 7 hours.

Posted by: m at September 15, 2026 05:21 AM (odBC9)

26 The URL shorteners have to make money somehow, I guess.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 15, 2026 05:20 AM (6ydKt)

Yup. Nothing is free; if you think it is, you just haven't realized the cost yet.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 15, 2026 05:21 AM (l3cgK)

27 Or let me say, nothing that nature or God provides isn't free...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 15, 2026 05:22 AM (l3cgK)

28 is free...damn double negatives, inverting the meaning...LOL

Only that which nature and God provides is possibly free.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 15, 2026 05:23 AM (l3cgK)

29 He voted his conscience.

Posted by: m at September 15, 2026 05:23 AM (odBC9)

30 My computer monitor is overheating and getting glitches and it looks like I'm going to have to replace it. "When," not "if," indeed.

Posted by: m at September 15, 2026 05:20 AM (odBC9)

Luckily for you computer monitors are relatively cheap these days compared to other parts.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 15, 2026 05:24 AM (6ydKt)

31 29 He voted his conscience.

Posted by: m at September 15, 2026 05:23 AM (odBC9)

They want men devoid of such encumberances.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 15, 2026 05:24 AM (l3cgK)

32 Rappelling guys still on the outer building wall, sealing whatever potential cracks they find. Had major leakage above and below 2 windowsills.

Perfect timing before the first rains are due in a few weeks from now.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 15, 2026 05:25 AM (D0X9e)

33 I almost forgot to BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 15, 2026 05:25 AM (D0X9e)

34 Don't buy an LG monitor.
They are also known lately for installing unwanted software automatically and bombarding you with pop-ups (for PCs, not sure if it does the same thing on Macs).

Although Microsoft jumped on LG for doing it, so they may have stopped.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 15, 2026 05:27 AM (6ydKt)

35 30 My computer monitor is overheating and getting glitches and it looks like I'm going to have to replace it. "When," not "if," indeed.

Posted by: m at September 15, 2026 05:20 AM (odBC9)

Luckily for you computer monitors are relatively cheap these days compared to other parts.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 15, 2026 05:24 AM (6ydKt)

It's a Thunderbolt. I love it so much.

Posted by: m at September 15, 2026 05:27 AM (odBC9)

36 My computer monitor is overheating

Posted by: m at September 15, 2026 05:20 AM (odBC9)
-

Only YOU can prevent desktop fires.

Seriously, don't delay in getting a replacement, even if you borrow someone's spare temporarily.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 15, 2026 05:27 AM (D0X9e)

37 31 29 He voted his conscience.

Posted by: m at September 15, 2026 05:23 AM (odBC9)

They want men devoid of such encumberances.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 15, 2026 05:24 AM (l3cgK)

They want all people who are Not Like Them to be devoid of such encumbrances.

Posted by: m at September 15, 2026 05:28 AM (odBC9)

38 25 The Asmongold clip has had 1 million views in 7 hours.

Posted by: m at September 15, 2026 05:21 AM (odBC9)

I'm going to watch it here in a bit.
He at least gives me something to laugh about.

BTW, Pixy fixed the YouTube video up top.
Sailor Muppets.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 15, 2026 05:29 AM (6ydKt)

39 38 25 The Asmongold clip has had 1 million views in 7 hours.

Posted by: m at September 15, 2026 05:21 AM (odBC9)

I'm going to watch it here in a bit.
He at least gives me something to laugh about.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 15, 2026 05:29 AM (6ydKt)

It's a 3-minute clip.
It's not a funny one.

Posted by: m at September 15, 2026 05:30 AM (odBC9)

40 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 15, 2026 05:37 AM (VyBeY)

41 It's a 3-minute clip.
It's not a funny one.

Posted by: m at September 15, 2026 05:30 AM (odBC9)

Muppets was always hit & miss.
The old guys in the balcony were usually good for a few laughs.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 15, 2026 05:43 AM (6ydKt)

42 Mornin' Horde.

What a lovely morning for a hot water tank failure. Ugh.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 15, 2026 05:45 AM (O7YUW)

43 oh, you meant Asmongold....

Yeah, just watched it.
I was laughing at the juror not being able to think of a bad thing against Lindsay.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 15, 2026 05:45 AM (6ydKt)

44 Cool but at least a nice day today

Posted by: Skip at September 15, 2026 05:47 AM (Ia/+0)

45 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at September 15, 2026 05:56 AM (V0/Sp)

46 I can call same company that does my heater service, won't be cheap I am afraid.
Last time did it myself with my dad's help, but not possible now.

Posted by: Skip at September 15, 2026 05:58 AM (Ia/+0)

47 37 31 29 He voted his conscience.

Posted by: m at September 15, 2026 05:23 AM (odBC9)

They want men devoid of such encumberances.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 15, 2026 05:24 AM (l3cgK)

They want all people who are Not Like Them to be devoid of such encumbrances.

Posted by: m at September 15, 2026 05:28 AM (odBC9)

They don't want people with consciences...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at September 15, 2026 05:58 AM (l3cgK)

48 Good morning Horde. Thx Pixy. Your comment about Anthropic " blah, blah, blah" is spot on. No one knows what will happen with AI, people wanting government involvement are either power hungry leftists or playing an angle
On a different note, I walked to my local convenient store about half hour ago. Fall is here it's 48°. Clear but chilly, only going to low 70s today.

Posted by: Smell the Glove at September 15, 2026 05:59 AM (N2HNb)

49 @Skip: Apparently water related failures are in both our camps this morning. Sorry you're going through well pump failure.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at September 15, 2026 06:00 AM (O7YUW)

50 they want them dead

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 15, 2026 06:01 AM (VyBeY)

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