Daily-ish Tech News 10 August 2025

• OpenAI has priced GPT-5 so low it may spark a price war. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Chance would be a fine thing.
  
  
  
• OpenAI's GPT-5 comes with up to 80% fewer hallucinations. (The Register)
  
  Fewer hallucinations are good, or so the voices tell me.
  
  
  
• OpenAI's GPT-5 is one hundred percent convinced that "blueberry" is spelled with three b's. (Kieran Healy)
  
  Oops.

• I have RSV - respiratory syncytial virus - and putting a name to it doesn't help at all to be perfectly honest.
  
  I bought a COVID test because I was starting to suspect this wasn't just a cold, and the particular test also tested influenza A and B - it didn't feel like the flu, but okay - and RSV, which hadn't crossed my mind at all.
  
  Good news: My lifetime 100% COVID-free rating remains untouched.
  
  Bad news: RSV is bloody annoying.
  
  The common symptoms in adults match mine precisely, so I haven't developed an idiosyncratic reaction.

  If present, symptoms are generally isolated to the upper respiratory tract: runny nose, sore throat, fever, and malaise. In most cases, nasal congestion precedes the development of cough. Unlike other upper respiratory infections, RSV is more likely to cause new onset wheeze in adults.

  Still annoying.

• HTTP is not a simple protocol. (Haxx)
  
  It drives everything and is implemented everywhere but it is rarely if ever entirely correct. The original 1.0 version in 1997 ran to 18,615 words; the later 1.1 version currently runs to 95,740 words, as much as a substantial novel.
  
  
  
• HTTP/2: The sequel is always worse. (Portswigger)
  
  It just is.
  
  
  
• Microsoft Lens - Window's free text-scanning app - is being replaced with AI. (Thurrott)
  
  That's "blueberry" with three b's.
  
  

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