Daily Tech News 26 February 2025

• Framework has announced three new models: The low-end education-focused Laptop 12, a new Laptop 13 with AMD's Ryzen 300 series chips, and the all-new Desktop. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The new Framework 13 keeps the upgradeable memory, with up to 96GB to accompany an up to Ryzen 370 twelve-core CPU. Still no Four Essential Keys though.
  
  The Framework Desktop is a mini-ITX system in a compact 4"x8"x9" case.
  
  Using AMD's latest Strix Halo CPUs, up to the Ryzen 395, with its 16 CPU cores and 40 graphics cores.
  
  Memory this time is soldered, though you can specify up to 128GB of it, and it's only a 100% markup over retail. The company said that it worked "for months" with AMD but couldn't make the memory user-upgradeable while maintaining the 8000MHz target frequency. (The new Laptop 13 uses 5600MHz memory.)
  
  There are two M.2 slots for storage, so you're free to upgrade that at least.
  
  Plus two USB 4 ports, two DisplayPort ports, HDMI, 5Gb Ethernet, two regular USB ports, a headphone jack, and two of Framework's flexible expansion ports at the front, though the video is already prewired to the rear of the case so you can't put the DisplayPort or HDMI options there.
  
  Price for the 128GB model is $1999, which is not exactly cheap, but a Mac Studio configured with 128GB of RAM will set you back $4799, which is even less exactly cheap.
  
  Laptop 13 ships in April; Desktop ships in Q3.

• And that seems to be the only thing that happened today. Tom's Hardware covered it, Hot Hardware covered it, Serve the Home covered it, The Verge covered it and managed not to mention Elon Musk even once, Liliputing covered it, Notebook Check covered the Laptop 12 though not the other two announcements, and Ars Technica managed to turn it into three separate news items.
  
  
  
• Well, this paper is interesting at least. (GitHub) (PDF)
  
  AI models designed to sneakily slip insecurities into the code they generate for you are good at the slipping in insecurities part but much less good at the sneaky part. They literally turn into Nazis.
  
  That's because AI models are lobotomised to make them behave. If you want them to behave poorly, they behave poorly all the time because they are still lobotomised.
  
  
  
• Oh, and there's this little gem: Assassin's Creed Shadows, Ubisoft's latest megaflop... Leaked. (BBC)
  
  Not details of the game. Not video of the game. The entire game.

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