Daily Tech News 11 May 2026

• Valve's Steam Machine - the GabeCube - appears to be on its way. (Notebook Check)
  
  It's not going to be cheap thanks to the RAMpocalypse, but shipping manifests show that Valve has collected 50 tons of something in a warehouse, and the latest update to Steam includes four new product codes and a reservation queue that again appear to correspond to the new device.
  
  I'm not sure I'll get one - it's a low-end console replacement and I have multiple systems more powerful - but it's good to see signs of life.

• Open source repositories are getting slammed with 10 trillion downloads a year. (ZDNet)
  
  It's a combination of AI slop and Node.JS slop. And AI Node.JS slop and Node.JS AI slop.
  
  
  
• Speaking of slop, Anthropic says Claude went evil because of fictional depictions of evil AI. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Same.
  
  
  
• Support for AMD's K5 - the company's first independently-designed x86 processor - will be removed from the Linux kernel with version 7.2. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The CPU launched in 1996, so I'd consider that fair enough. And older Linux kernels aren't about to disappear.
  
  
  
• Speaking of old CPUs, here are eight from the 1970s, some of which I've never heard of. (The Chip Letter)
  
  The TMX 1795 and the Mostek 5065 are new to me, as is the Electronic Arrays 9002. Interesting point there: It had 64 bytes of on-chip memory, which is a single register today but this processor shipped fifty years ago.
  
  
  
• HP's Eliteboard has all of the disadvantages of a notebook with none of the advantages. (The Register)
  
  It's a computer built into a keyboard. Which might be okay if the keyboard layout was perfect and the system was cheap but it's neither of those.
  
  
  
• Fake DDR5 memory is "flooding" the PC market. (WCCFTech)
  
  I put "flooding" in quotes because the example provided explicitly lists the memory as "completely junk".

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