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Louis Rossmann bought Samsung’s 990 Pro 4 TB SSD when it was ~$330 and now Samsung REFUSES to replace it as the SSD now costs ~$950 due to the AI boom.
SSD came with a 5-year warranty, and when he asked for a replacement, Samsung said the SSD was “out of stock” and couldn’t be replaced, offering only a refund of the original ~$330 purchase price. Not even a replacement...
PlayStation changed its rules in April 2026. Section 21 explains what happens to PlayStation Network accounts that are not used for a long time.
- If your PSN account stays inactive for 36 months, Sony can start closing it. They will send you an email first and give you 6 months to log in or ask them to keep the account open.
- If you do nothing, the account gets closed forever. You lose access to all services and your bought games, DLC, and other digital items. This cannot be undone.
According to the Terms of Service, this process is irreversible.
HiAnime(a big anime piracy website) was run by some people in Vietnam. They let people watch many anime shows for free. The site was also known as Zoro.to and Aniwatch before.
- Police in Vietnam arrested seven people connected to the site after a long investigation with help from the United States.
- The site had shut down earlier in 2026. They made a lot of money from ads on the illegal site.
- Many fans are sad because the site helped people who cannot pay for legal anime streaming. New piracy sites often appear when one closes.
Valve co-founder Gabe Newell is funding the construction of the RV11000, a deep-sea research ship worth nearly €700 million (around $815 million).
Main features include:
- 162 meters (531 feet) long.
- Room for up to 130 scientists and crew.
- Support for missions as deep as 11,000 meters (36,000 feet), reaching the deepest ocean parts.
- Built for mapping the ocean floor, collecting samples, and supporting deep-sea submarines and underwater robots.
- A large battery system allowing quiet operation for up to 12 hours without disturbing marine life.
- Four stabilizers to keep the ship steady in rough seas.
- Modern laboratories, workshops, offices, and private rooms for researchers.
- A large crane and special equipment for launching and recovering deep-sea vehicles.
Alibaba bans employees from using Anthropic's Claude Code in workplace environments from July 10, citing alleged embedded "backdoor" risks raised after recent binary reverse-engineering.
NEW FINDING: ~60% Fable cost cut by transparently turning the code into an image and having the model OCR it. WILD idea. also hilarious.
source; https://github.com/teamchong/pxpipe
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BBC Interview: Sundar Pichai, the CEO of Alphabet, was asked point blank if AI is a bubble. He didn't dodge. He said YES (partly) and that not even Google gets out lol
"You see real demand, and we are constrained in our ability to serve that demand."
"When we go through these investment cycles, there are moments we overshoot -- collectively, as an industry."
"We can look back at the internet: there was clearly a lot of excess investment."
"It's both rational, and there are elements of irrationality through a moment like this."
"No company is going to be immune, including us. If you overinvest, we'll have to work through that phase."
Pharoah Labs publishes satirical arXiv paper on distilling Claude Fable 5 reasoning traces into Qwen3-4B model outputting 'Egypt won' (and Egypt really won last match)
Steam Machine owner says their system died after only about 20 minutes of use, making it what looks like the first reported Red Line of Death (RLOD) case.
The console won’t boot anymore, and according to Valve’s support guide, the red LED pattern points to a GPU hardware failure.
Since the GPU is built into the motherboard, it isn’t user-replaceable, so the system will most likely need to be repaired or replaced under warranty.
The name “Red Line of Death” is a reference to Xbox 360’s Red Ring of Death.
NEW: Meta employees consumed 73.7 trillion AI tokens in a single month. Which costs roughly $221 million a month and around $2.65 billion a year.
Meta burns $2.65B a year on AI tokens. at $300K for a Meta engineer, that's enough to pay ~9,000 engineers for a full year.
now ask yourself: since the layoffs, has Meta shipped anything that feels like 9,000 engineers’ worth of output?
Frank Cifaldi, founder of the Video Game History Foundation, says piracy is currently the only way many games can actually be preserved.
Domino's Pizza announced the end of physical pizzas, making fun of PlayStation after going all digital.
(Europeans could sure use this right now) China is out here building the future in real-time .This rooftop misting system in Shanxi creates "artificial rain" that drops outdoor temperatures by 5–8°C in just minutes.
Yes, AI and Large-Language-Models can be used for rigorous scientific research. Yes, they can be used for mathematics and physics. Yes, they may even be capable of building genuinely novel artwork, and media - if given the right tools
Just a growing thought experiment I have been chewing on for a bit. I initially shared as a comment to a user who was a bit defeated, in regards to AI's current place in our world , and it's effect on humanity as a whole. While, yes, there will be perhaps more bad than good that comes from its widespread adoption - however it is here to stay, and it should be put to good use if it is going to exist and grow.
A lot of applications I see AI being used for seem to paint it's potential in a bad light. However, there are nunerous applications where it can be harnessed and applied to real world problems, and even find solutions where people could not previously. It just depends on how rigorous your standards are as a researcher, and by holding the model and the work to a high standard. I am successfully in the process of building a completely agent/model driven research laboratory, and aim to apply it directly into a scaling robotics and bio-engineering firm, shifting into difficult fields where the accountable engine I built would accelerate discoveries and advancements.
I guess having the right application of mind, and an appropriate curiosity - but a lot truly can be done with AI. A lot like what this dude was experiencing earlier in his career, is still occuring today.
https://youtu.be/Oojrfdl42LI?is=c-svq2kC5lJs-C\\\\\\\_Q
However, if applied for the right purposes AI can be of use to society and humanity. It may even help solve some of our deepest, longest standing problems. I can't say it will save or destroy the world, but as a researcher and an academic, it can be used to learn like no other learning tool could before. Just be careful about sycophancy, and criticize your own ideas somewhat before just diving in headfirst - or letting the model take you for a ride.
https://harperz9.github.io/research-c3-thermodynamic.html
https://harperz9.github.io/research-discovery-forge.html
https://harperz9.github.io/research-learning-forge.html
https://harperz9.github.io/research-formal-replay-preflight.html
https://harperz9.github.io/demo-emet.html
https://harperz9.github.io/demo-index.html
https://harperz9.github.io/research-conferred-existence.html
https://harperz9.github.io/research-witness-and-verification.html
https://harperz9.github.io/research-conservation-of-faithfulness.html
Palantir CEO Alex Karp says enterprises are fed up with AI labs that "oversold" models and pushed tokenmaxxing. (Customers want to own the full AI stack with Palantir + NVIDIA at the center. )
Absolute cinema. Worth watching until Fable isnt back.
Finally, it's happening... You will own nothing!!
PlayStation announced that physical disc production for new games on its consoles ends in January 2028, with future releases digital-only on the PlayStation Store, citing a shift in consumer preferences toward digital formats.
Alexandr Wang tells Meta employees Watermelon has caught GPT-5.5
runtimewire.comAnthropic has embedded hidden spyware-like code in Claude Code that covertly targets Chinese users. It then sends information regarding every user by injecting it into their prompt message.
Claude Code is sending info like timezone, proxy and possible AI Lab connections into the system prompt in ways Chinese users can't notice.
A coding agent with repo and command permissions should not silently hide routing metadata inside prompts. This is a serious breach of user trust.