Daily Tech News 15 August 2026

• Who are you and what have you done with France? France's Constitutional Council has found the French government's plan to block social media access to children under 15 unconstitutional for the burden it would place on everyone over the age of 15. (Reuters)
  
  Kind of obvious but something that entirely escaped both major political parties here in Australia.
  
  

• Intel says that its Raptor Lake CPUs - 13th and 14th generation - aren't going anywhere. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Because they still support cheaper DDR4 memory. The company hasn't hinted at any new architectures featuring DDR4 support, but it has introduced new configurations in Bartlett Lake chips, which use the same core design but offer up to 12 performance cores on a chip instead of 8.
  
  You can't officially buy them at retail and they require different BIOS code, but they are floating around and so are alternate BIOS files.
  
  
  
• If you have kernel level-access to your PlayStation 4, you can now have... Kernel Level Access Plus. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  This also applies to the Xbox One and perhaps more importantly to server ships like the Opteron 6300, which I hope nobody is still running for anything critical.
  
  
  
• Why does Claude Fable feel worse than older Claude Opus models? (GitHub)

  Selecting for models that do well on benchmarks (and indeed training for them or on RLVR tasks in general) inherently selects for models that make bold, usually-correct assumptions in the face of ambiguity. It penalizes models with a tendency to stop and ask for clarification or direction.

  In short, because the incentive was to forge ahead and get things wrong rather than to stop and ask questions.
  
  
  
• The weather was cold and cold. (The Register)
  
  Did Claude Fable write that article?
  
  
  
• The Ploopy A Plus is here. (Ploopy)
  
  Plooping up your database connection, it would seem.
  
  
  
• The Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 cores 20% higher on AnTuTu than Gen 5. (WCCFTech)
  
  That makes it twice as fast on that benchmark as the Gen 3 I have in the tablet I just bought, although given price increases it will likely cost four times as much. The Gen 5 model of that tablet already costs three times what I paid.
  
  
  
• Judge James Lemongrab has ordered Google to stop fucking around and make it easier to install alternate app stores on Android. (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  Unacceptable!
  
  
  
• Apple also seems fully committed to fucking around. (MacRumors)
  
  The company wants a 15% cut of purchases not made through Apple's servers.
  
  
  
• He who represents himself has a fraud as a client. (404 Media)
  
  Ah, the old hide your fraud attempts in white text on a white background trick. And I would have got away with it too, if it weren't for that meddling Select All.
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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