Harbour sunrise with doggo

DuckDB uses RDBMS to tackle lakehouse 'small changes' issue : Batching teensy changes in chunks creates massive performance boost, DuckDB Labs team claims

Nice piece on @duckdb.org's Duck Lake by @datadictum.bsky.social #databs

I remember John Peel opening his show with US 80s/90s, and that made a big impression on my 14-year-old brain.

Wayne also requires $1.5 trillion cap ex or we just won't feel the benefits of Wayne

very good

how it's going

how it started

It's nearly six years since I wrote about Palantir in the NHS> www.theregister.com/2020/05/19/c.... It's good to see it being debated in Parliament this afternoon.

yes, me as well

I mean, we all *knew* why they're pushing AI, but it's fun when they just come out and say it.

Until there’s liability you’re going to say anything about your broken product to cover the hundreds of billions in costs coming.

I remember this going out out live in front of millions and I’m glad it’s captured for posterity. Yes, Queen played to segregated audiences in apartheid South Africa

Brazil; another planet

I knew it was bad but really didn’t appreciate it was quite this bad

as.ft.com/r/db911dd6-f...

yet this is where we are. who would vote for house prices to fall?

it's a drag

incredible

If AI agents mess up, there's nobody to sue : Vendors tout the potential, but responsibility remains unclear

"It's just another crest of a hill where you have no idea what's ahead of you," one legal expert told me. Vendors expect a multi-billion-dollar market for AI agents, but won't take responsibility for their work. www.theregister.com/2026/04/05/a...

UK National Data Library plan needs work, study finds : Agents will look for info elsewhere unless official sources sharpen up

UK National Data Library plan needs work, study finds
www.theregister.com/2026/04/08/national_data...
Agents will look for info elsewhere unless official sources sharpen up.

Oh dear... It turns out that AI isn't the magical solution that the IA charlitans sell it as being...

Thought of a lyric:

"I can't make things/ But I can make things worse."

OpenAI gets $122B to 'just build things' as the world blows them up War, oil shocks, and market nerves could yet knock the AI boom off course Opinion  OpenAI has secured an additional $122 billion in capital from a diverse group of investors and reached a nominal $852 billion valuation, the highest of any pre-IPO tech company.…

OpenAI gets $122B to 'just build things' as the world blows them up

oops

Why mathematicians are boycotting their biggest conference More than 1,500 mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting be moved from the U.S.

1500+ mathematicians are demanding that their field’s most prestigious meeting, the International Congress of Mathematicians, where the prestigious Fields Medal is awarded, be moved from the US because of geopolitical concerns and immigration policy www.scientificamerican.com/article/why-...

i remember spagetti trees, kinda

machine for living... off takeaways

a cookie monster from sesame street is smiling and looking at the camera ALT: a cookie monster from sesame street is smiling and looking at the camera

I actually looked up the Liz Truss Nasa thing

Big Tech's $635 billion AI spending faces energy shock test, S&P Global says Massive investments in artificial intelligence that underpinned record runs in equities face a major hurdle as the Middle East ​crisis clouds prospects for growth and energy costs, said Melissa ‌Otto,...

hi www.reuters.com/world/china/...

I Decompiled the White House's New App

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The official White House Android app has a cookie/paywall bypass injector, tracks your GPS every 4.5 minutes, and loads JavaScript from some guy's GitHub Pages.