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September 04, 2025

Daily Tech News 4 September 2025

Top Story

AI could bring us a smarter home - if we can trust it, which we obviously can't. (The Verge) (archive site)

They're talking about combining three things, each hilariously unreliable: The Internet of Things, consumer appliances, and LLM-driven AI.

It all reminds me of this:
Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via alexa! I love the future!

Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.
My house was built in 2019 and it contains no smart anythings.

Tech News

AMD says there is no AI bubble, the $500 billion AI market is real, and its chips are expensive because have you seen the price of potatoes? (WCCFTech)

Okay, Jean, whatever.
OpenAI has lifted its share offering from $6 billion to $10 billion just days after CEO Sam Altman warned that AI was in a bubble. (WCCFTech)

Burn money.
Building a bitemporal database from string cheese and floor wax. (Eval Apply)

Sorry, no idea.
The Acer Swift Air 16 could be decent. (Liliputing)

It has (up to) a Ryzen 350 CPU, which compared to my 7730U is 30% faster single-threaded, 50% faster multi-threaded, and twice as fast on integrated graphics. Memory is soldered but it has 32GB. And it offers a 16" 2880x1600 120Hz OLED display, which is basically what I have in my current laptop and is about as good a screen as you can find.

Plus two USB-C ports, one USB-A, HDMI, and a headphone jack.

Oh, and it weighs 1kg, which is very light for a full-size laptop.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: I think Katrina also lost 22lbs in the space of a week.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:54 AM

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