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Silicon Valley has forgotten what normal people want Did the tech industry get high on its own supply?

So good. I think @lopatto.bsky.social may be my favorite writer covering the tech industry.

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In a nutshell. 😊

The Infowars news is funny, yes. But more importantly, it is an outright rebuke of Alex Jones' evil.

It's testament to the strength and resilience of the Sandy Hook families who survived this bullshit for more than a decade as well as the Onion, which didn't give up on this for the last 18 months.

news: The FT is offering buyouts. Pay determined by length of service. However, "for this year only, we have agreement to lift the cap on individual payments in 2026 from £100,000 to £120,000."

Yes, I have just done a naked forward roll. But there was a good reason Adrian Chiles

Opinion Homes I've no fewer than 17 wooden spoons. But I have a favourite and I'd miss it for ever if it went missing Adrian Chiles

Celebrating 4/20 in your 20’s vs celebrating 4/20 in your 30’s

Andreessen Horowitz saw the future — but did the future leave it behind? Disruptors, disrupted

as always @lopatto.bsky.social nailed this ages ago (gift link!) www.theverge.com/23697708/and...

a16z launching a TBPN competitor whose biggest opening day guest is balaji reading his own tweets suggests a16z is a stupid about media as it has ever been

Like most people don’t want to build their own calendar app or analyze data

It’s not that useful for most normal people doing normal stuff. I think what people in tech are grappling with is indifference. It’s a curiosity that big money is telling us will CHANGE EVERYTHING. I don’t remember them having to try so hard with the iPhone or social media or the World Wide Web or…

Me after being left behind by AI:

It’s made-up nonsense. Nobody’s spending the money yet because the money doesn’t actually exist. Some subset of it does.

This is how most tech peoole value news.

David Byrne last night at the Frost. Best visuals I’ve seen since Roger Waters in 2017, possibly even better. Band and arrangements also sounded fantastic and fresh. Not a cheap ticket but worth it imo.

Sounds like CDOs

Bodega

Golden Gate

SF at its finest today.

Tourists Try To Ride Elk Which Are Taking Over Beaches In Coastal Oregon Town As herds of elk have overtaken a beach in a small Oregon coastal town, tourists have tried to put their children on them to ride and others attempt to…

Why would anyone think it's ok to put their CHILD on elk? Just leave the animals alone, people.

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Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283 Pause your Mythos panic because mainstream models anyone can use already pick holes in popular software Anthropic withheld its Mythos bug-finding model from public release due to concerns that it would enable attackers to find and exploit vulnerabilities before anyone could react.…

Claude Opus wrote a Chrome exploit for $2,283

Looking forward to this #PinkFloyd live set from 1975. Of course wanting the standalone CD means having to wait an extra week compared to the vinyl option but hey ho. Hopefully there’ll be a live set from The Animals tour to follow next year, PF as angry as they get but still sounding magnificent. 💿

Loud, power hungry - opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban If there's one thing folks want less than Copilot in their taskbar, it's a bit barn in their backyard Loud, thirsty, power hungry, and intensely unpopular with neighboring residents: datacenters are becoming the new nuclear waste dump. And many localities are now saying "not in my backyard."…

Loud, power hungry - opposition grows to datacenters as Maine passes bit barn ban

Sure the name is funny, but it is the scheduling framework used in a LOT of supercomputer configurations because that’s what it was designed to do.
Nvidia want to hawk their magic shovels, so now what was an academic resource is controlled by a shovel sales org.

Nvidia pledges more openness as it slurps up Slurm : And parades its latest trio of Nemotron models

We expressed concern over Nvidia buying Slurm way back when it happened last December: www.theregister.com/2025/12/16/n...

Microsoft 365 confirms new premium tier with a premium price : E7 arrives with a hefty price. Got to keep those shareholders happy

We were on M365's new premium tier last month:
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Google Chrome lacks browser fingerprinting defenses : Browser fingerprinting is everywhere

If you want tech news by and for tech people before the mainstream and business pubs catch on, follow @theregister.com. Our writer @lot49.com covered Alexander Hanff's findings on Chrome fingerprinting yesterday: www.theregister.com/2026/04/16/g...

I wrote about what happened in the Long Island Iced Tea case. One might draw one's own conclusions about what's going on here.

You’re still using mixers? Interesting.

Allbirds shoe company moving to AI infra is the top OPINION: Following in the footsteps of Long Island Iced Tea

Yeah this AI thing is just about played out…I look forward to the day when it’s just…technology. Part of the landscape. Not magic, not something to freak out about or hitch your wagon to or fight about.
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