Daily Tech News 19 August 2026

• A federal judge has ruled that a state judge who used AI to handle the entire decision in a case so she could spend the day playing Cookie Run Kingdom or something equally important cannot be sued. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The state judge's actions may not be reasonable, or even legal, and the decision can be appealed, but the judge cannot sued.

• Move fast and crash planes: Google just bought the anonymised databases of the defunct Spirit Airlines for $10 million to train AI models. (CNN)
  
  With OpenAI training on Reddit, Amazon training on Twitch streams, and now Google training on incompetent and defunct airlines, I don't think we have to worry too much about AI taking our jobs.
  
  And more about AI destroying the economy so there aren't any jobs to be taken.
  
  
  
• Building a Steam Machine in an ASRock Deskmeet X300. (WCCFTech)
  
  Interesting thing: The Deskmeet X300 has four DDR4 SODIMM slots. Which is great if you just happen to have a stockpile of DDR4 SODIMMs from old laptops and mini-PCs.
  
  Which I do.
  
  
  
• Best Buy apparently did not steal half this customer's memory. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  They took half the memory out, yes, but returned it along with the laptop. And since it has a dedicated GPU, performance won't suffer too much.
  
  Actually, it just sounds like one stick of RAM went bad, and since the laptop was upgraded by a third-party, it wasn't Best Buy's responsibility, and the system is now working again.
  
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:45 AM

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