Daily Tech News 12 May 2026

• Digg is back - again - this time as an AI news aggregator. (Tech Crunch)
  
  That is, the content is about AI, but it seems to be ranked by human readers.
  
  I'm not sure why just AI - though that is a hot topic at the moment - but Digg was originally a news aggregator just like this.

• Sales data from Korea indicates that SSD prices are up 63% and memory prices up 29%. (WCCFTech)
  
  Compared with last month.
  
  
  
• The SINKER brand under the POWEV division within Jiahe Jinwei has announced it is shipping DDR5 modules for domestic, server, and industrial use. (WCCFTech)
  
  Yes, it's a Chinese company. How could you tell?
  
  
  
• Who is the Palantir chore coat for, asks the Verge? (The Verge)
  
  Well...
  
  
  
• The third season of The Rings of Power airs November 11. (The Verge)
  
  I think there's some overlap there.
  
  
  
• Anthropic's bug-hunting Mythos AI is just a marketing stunt. (The Register)
  
  Accoridng to the creator of the library and utility cURL, who knows a thing or two about AI bug hunting having been inundated with AI-generated bug reports for years.
  
  
  
• If AI writes your code, why use Python? (Medium)
  
  Actually a very good question.
  
  Python is a great programming language for humans to use, because it makes it easy to get something up and running - at the cost of becoming slow and burdensome for large systems.
  
  But the same properties that make it easy for humans to write make it hard for AI models to reason about, and languages like Rust and Go that favour strict, static typing are easier for AI models to generate correctly and also compile to code that runs faster.
  
  The remaining win for Python is its massive ecosystem with modules like Numpy and PyTorch for numerical processing and AI respectively, but if you don't need to use those directly, why not go straight to Rust?
  
  
  
• AMD looks like it's gearing up to release the Radeon RX 9050. (Notebook Check)
  
  It's basically a slightly slower version of the 8GB 9060 XT, drawing slightly less power. The recommended power supply has dropped from 500W to 450W, so we may be seeing a card that draws 120W or less.

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