Daily Tech News 13 April 2026

• DC. Suicide Squad is a DC property, not Marvel.
  
  
  
• The peril of laziness lost. (Dtrace)
  
  AI makes it easy to generate millions of lines of code.
  
  What it doesn't make it is a good idea.
  
  It used to be that laziness by itself placed a brake on the wheel of code churn. Now you also need to know what you are doing. And that is hard work to begin with.

• Don't buy the Ultra 7. (Notebook Check)
  
  Dell's new XPS lineup comes in Ultra 5, Ultra 7, and Ultra X7 models.
  
  The Ultra 5 and 7 have almost indistinguishable performance. The X7 is significantly faster for CPU-intensive tasks, and enormously faster for graphics.
  
  
  
• Twitter is cutting payments by 60% or more to clickbait accounts. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Good.
  
  
  
• Europe is not a serious country. (Hacker News)
  
  In this case, a programmer in Spain couldn't access Docker images on Cloudflare because a football match was on.
  
  
  
• If you wanted to play the new game Crimson Desert but couldn't because it didn't run on Intel graphics, now you can. (WCCFTech)
  
  They fixed it.
  
  ...
  
  Yeah, that's about it, really. They've released three major updates - including Intel graphics support - in four weeks.
  
  
  

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