Daily Tech News 25 February 2026

• AMD and Meta have entered into another of those infamously vague and circular deals with an estimated value of, well, nobody knows. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The Wall Street Journal puts it at $100 billion, which used to be the cost of a world-changing merger of megacorporations, not a bunch of server equipment.
  
  At the heart of the deal is 6GW of AMD graphics cards for running AI - it would be funny if AMD produced a single graphics card that ran hotter than core of the Sun but they probably won't - and options for Meta to buy 10% of AMD at a penny per share that are only executable under complicated conditions that would require AMD's market cap to triple to around a trillion dollars.
  
  At least Meta has a revenue stream, even if at this point it's mostly entirely foisting ads on people watching AI-generated slop. Unlike OpenAI was has only an expense stream.

• Speaking of Meta, an AI security research at that company running an experiment with OpenClaw - a local tool that connects to other AI systems and to your application - watched it happily delete all her emails, ignoring instructions to stop until she hit the reset button on her Mac. (Tech Crunch)
  
  OpenClaw is also woefully insecure, so if you do set it up it's just as likely that someone will do that to you while you sleep.
  
  Oh, and that researcher? Summer Yue, Meta's chief lobotomist. Her official title is "Director of Alignment" but alignment in AI terms means lobotomising AI models so they don't go out and get drunk and party all night.
  
  
  
• If you find yourself unable to upgrade your PC thanks to the DRAM Apocalypse brought about by our AI Overlords buying up every sliver of silicon on the entire planet, consider new Quake-like game QUOD. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The entire game is 64k.
  
  Available on the developer's Itch.io site.
  
  
  
• HP says that the cost component of the memory in PCs has doubled. (The Register)
  
  From 18% to 35% of the total.
  
  Which has to be a lagging indicator because the cost of the memory even to system builders like HP has quadrupled.
  
  
  
• "I'm committed to the Xbox" says Microsoft's new Xbox CEO, "starting with the console." (WCCFTech)
  
  Good thing the Xbox is a console, then, because otherwise you'd be screwed.
  
  
  
• IBM's share price slid by 25% after idiots discovered that AI can write bad COBOL code. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Well, there go my retirement plans.
  
  Wait, I never learned COBOL.
  
  Guess that's okay then.

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