Daily Tech News 10 November 2026

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Anthropic has released Claude Mythos 5.2 (which you can't have) and Claude Fable 5.2 (which you can). (Tech Crunch)

Reports are that it's fine - and noticeably faster than Fable 5.1 which is frankly not a hard thing to achieve.

Plus you get a couple of weeks of free usage of these models specifically (depending on how long you've been a subscriber) that you can claim at any time through March. Doesn't reset your Opus or Sonnet usage though.

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Anthropic also just spent $3.4 billion on gas turbines to power its datacenters. (Tech Crunch)

Because solar and wind don't cut it, and everyone knows it.
What? (Tom's Hardware)

No, seriously, what?
AMD says its graphics drivers are going to stop frying your SSD any day now. (Tom's Hardware)

Thanks, AMD.
Look out, there are llamas! (The Register)

Got a panicked call yesterday when this broke. I fixed our server so that Outlook worked, but it was all Microsoft's fault.
Drugs and alcohol. (Notebook Check)

And wild, wild women.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Hubble rubble fields of stubble.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 04:00 AM (odBC9)

2 .... sponge?

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 04:02 AM (aKiSo)

3 crypto firm demanded employees pledge to take their own lives with a sword to protect open-source code

Gads, are we talking about feudal Japanese Samurai culture here?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 10, 2026 04:02 AM (l3cgK)

4 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 10, 2026 04:03 AM (xhhbf)

5 Someone shoop up Clippy dressed as a Shogun saying "It looks like you're trying to bring dishonor to your family"

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 04:07 AM (aKiSo)

6 I should be sleeping...but feeling a bit down this eve...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 10, 2026 04:07 AM (l3cgK)

7 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 10, 2026 04:09 AM (sAmhv)

8 BOING!

Exercise part 1 done! Now on to part 2.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 10, 2026 04:10 AM (zBP9L)

9 Trouble?

That's Koner's pop-a-matic game!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 10, 2026 04:11 AM (zBP9L)

10 What? (Tom's Hardware)
No, seriously, what?

I think it says:

ethereum foundation sued after firing employee over mandatory source seppuku suicide pact crypto firm demanded employees pledge to take their own lives with a sword to protect open source code founder vitalik claims 1000-year mandate just artwork

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 04:14 AM (odBC9)

11 5 Someone shoop up Clippy dressed as a Shogun saying "It looks like you're trying to bring dishonor to your family"
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 04:07 AM (aKiSo)

ha!

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 04:15 AM (odBC9)

12 My bet: the plaintiff is going to get the EF on the FMLA claim, if nothing else.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at November 10, 2026 04:17 AM (iIyc0)

13 >>>What? (Tom's Hardware)

archived

https://archive.is/lIVg8

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 04:17 AM (odBC9)

14 12 My bet: the plaintiff is going to get the EF on the FMLA claim, if nothing else.
Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at November 10, 2026 04:17 AM (iIyc0)

EF = Ethereum Foundation
FMLA = Family and Medical Leave Act

from What? (Tom's Hardware):

Fulton, who was on a salary of $195,000 per year as a lead in the Protocol Support team, is seeking unspecified damages from the Ethereum Foundation. She also disclosed her ovarian cancer diagnosis to the company on March 24, 2026, roughly two weeks before being fired. The lawsuit thus also claims interference with her rights under the Family and Medical Leave Act.

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 04:20 AM (odBC9)

15 They should just settle.

And pay her in Etherium.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 04:22 AM (aKiSo)

16 This asteroid is behaving strangely, and astronomers don't know why

Drugs and alcohol. (Notebook Check)

And wild, wild women.

The asteroid is living its best life, just leave it alone, It will outgrow it. Or OD.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 10, 2026 04:23 AM (sAmhv)

17 16 This asteroid is behaving strangely, and astronomers don't know why

Drugs and alcohol. (Notebook Check)

And wild, wild women.

The asteroid is living its best life, just leave it alone, It will outgrow it. Or OD.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 10, 2026 04:23 AM (sAmhv)

A bit too small to SMOD something...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 10, 2026 04:24 AM (l3cgK)

18 Sweet Meteor of Debauchery

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 04:27 AM (aKiSo)

19 Japanese space telescopes monitoring the object discovered a tattoo reading "Up Yours, Kepler".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 04:29 AM (aKiSo)

20 A funny from the ONT:

308 305 Good gravy I can't even blame my phone for that orthographic train wreck, I just suck at life right now.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 03:18 AM (aKiSo)

309 I'm sorry, but that made me LOL.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 10, 2026 03:22 AM (l3cgK)

yes, yes, laugh at the misfortunes of others, I see how it goes. *smily face*
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 03:23 AM (aKiSo)

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

21 "It was the strangest thing, you know? This meteor landed in our back yard, and suddenly all we want to do is play beer pong and listen to old Biggie albums...."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 04:33 AM (aKiSo)

22 19 Japanese space telescopes monitoring the object discovered a tattoo reading "Up Yours, Kepler".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 04:29 AM (aKiSo)

and here I thought it'd be a tramp stamp...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 10, 2026 04:36 AM (l3cgK)

23 Drugs and alcohol. (Notebook Check)

And wild, wild women.

The asteroid has an odd noise emanating from it. Astronomers baffled.

youtu.be/eBShN8qT4lk

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 10, 2026 04:36 AM (sAmhv)

24 Biden's Dog, will Smotrich be out as finance minister?

Posted by: Ben Had at November 10, 2026 04:37 AM (8Uo7a)

25 Here's an idea for a sci-fi kind of short story.

An alien civilization reaches earth. But they don't even detect us as lifeforms because we live our lives on such a vastly different time scale that we either look like a flash in the pan not worth monitoring, or a dead and static feature of the natural landscape that can't even really be called "alive".

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 10, 2026 04:42 AM (aKiSo)

26
Little Mary donned her skates
Astronomically overjoyed
Wasn't she a silly girl
Her little asteroid!

Posted by: m at November 10, 2026 04:45 AM (odBC9)

27 Zombie L. Ron Hubbard greatly approves of the Seppuku Suicide pact for violating the terms and conditions of a licensing contract, but only after all your assets are assigned to him.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 10, 2026 04:47 AM (9141e)

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