Daily Tech News 27 November 2025

• OpenAI says a dead teenager circumvented ChatGPT safety features before committing suicide. (Tech Crunch)
  
  This comes out of one of the manifold lawsuits for wrongful death levied against OpenAI by the families of, well, crazy people.
  
  And OpenAI actually seems to have a point:

  OpenAI claims that over roughly nine months of usage, ChatGPT directed Raine to seek help more than 100 times.

  Why didn't you tell him to seek help?
  
  (Produces list of dates, times, and messages.)
  
  We did.

  But according to his parents' lawsuit, Raine was able to circumvent the company's safety features to get ChatGPT to give him "technical specifications for everything from drug overdoses to drowning to carbon monoxide poisoning," helping him to plan what the chatbot called a "beautiful suicide."

  Y'know, back in the Paleozoic era there were these things called libraries.
  
  Razors pain you;
  Rivers are damp;
  Acids stain you;
  And drugs cause cramp.
  Guns aren't lawful;
  Nooses give;
  Gas smells awful;
  You might as well live.
  
  
  
• OpenAI needs to raise $207 billion by 2030 so that it can... Continue to lose money. (Financial Times) (archive site)
  
  Someone remind me why we are doing this again?

• Public websites in many US states and whatever Canada has instead of states, bailiwicks or voivodeships or something, for potential jury members to access data on their duties had - have - a tiny flaw: You can just look up anyone's details. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Not directly, but like WhatsApp you could simply run through all the possible numbers - even easier in this case because they are sequential - and access every single piece of data. And there was no rate limiting.
  
  
  
• Asus' new Lockerstor Gen2 NASes offer up to six 3.5" drive bays, four M.2 slots for storage or caching, and dual 5Gb Ethernet ports. (Notebook Check)
  
  And a PCIe slot if you need more speed.
  
  Priced starting at $470.
  
  
  
• What's better than a supercomputer? A supercomputer with baked salmon. (The Register)
  
  Norway's newest supercomputer is also being used to provide warm water for local salmon farms, or, if you dial the heat up just a little...
  
  
  
• Reviewing the Framework Desktop. (Serve the Home)
  
  A month ago these AI-oriented systems with 128GB of unified RAM seemed awfully expensive.
  
  Then the prices for regular memory went not merely into orbit, but directly out of the Solar System.
  
  Since prices for these integrated systems have not been adjusted yet, they are suddenly looking much more attractive.
  
  
  
• AI companies are moving beyond the scale-up phase. (ABZ Global)
  
  Ilya Sutskever (co-founder of OpenAI and now running his own company) and Yann Lecun (chief of AI at Meta) point out that the age of just scaling things up and getting better results is already over, and that all the money in the world can't make AI actually useful without much more research.
  
  Lecun goes further and says - as I do - that LLMs are simply not a path to real intelligence. He lays out four key elements needed for intelligence, and notes that LLMs do not feature any of them.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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