Daily Tech News 4 September 2026

• Bernie Sanders (Stalinist-Vt.) is calling for a ban on AI superintelligence, having spent his life erasing the regular kind. (The Hill)
  
  Fortunately AI doesn't yet reach the level of human general intelligence, and nobody is foolish enough to claim it does.
  
  
  
• GPT 6 Astra: A new level of intelligence. (OpenAI)
  
  Um.
  
  

• Every record has been destroyed or falsified, every book has been rewritten, every picture has been repainted, every statue and street building has been renamed, every date has been altered, every third-level .name domain has been cancelled. (Neil Fraser)
  
  To explain: .name is what is known as a top level domain. There's no dot that comes after it.
  
  The companies that own top-level domains get to sell second level domains to people. Those people can then use them as the see fit and create as many third (and fourth, and so on) level domains as they want, for free. ace.mu.nu and my own ai.mee.nu, for example.
  
  .name is different, for a good reason. Since it directly models real names, they directly sell third-level domains.
  
  Or did. If you have one, like, say, Neil Fraser, you are about to become nameless.
  
  Because Verisign. All my homies hate Verisign.
  
  
  
• Lenovo's new ThinkCentre X Ultra comes with AMD's brand new Ryzen AI Max Pro 495. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  What's the difference between that and the previous Ryzen AI Max Pro 395?
  
  Nothing! Absolutely nothing! Stupid! You're so stupid!
  
  
  
• I hugged you a face but I boughted it. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  For $12.93 billion.
  
  
  
• Intel's next-generation Nova Lake processors won't ship until Q1 2027. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And that's for the smaller models, up to 28 cores. The high-end 52-core version will arrive an unspecified number of months later.
  
  Also, Razer Lake and Hammer Lake will follow, though we have no details on either of those as yet.
  
  
  
• Salesforce says it wasn't able to keep its profit margins up because it was spending too much on Claude AI. (The Register)
  
  I really have to wonder what these guys are doing. If they were using the Claude AI for production tasks like spam filtering, yes, that gets expensive. But they're not. They specifically say R&D.
  
  With my personal Claude account - I recent upgraded to Max 5x, the $100 per month plan - I have built two databases, two compilers, and an interpreter, in the space of two weeks, 280,000 lines of Rust and 70,000 lines of code in a language that didn't exist a week ago except on paper. Test suites, custom fonts and UI designs.
  
  Yes, I've been building out specs I wrote that I didn't have time to complete before now, but if Salesforce is blowing its budget this badly that means they are not writing specs.
  
  
  
• Also, the emulator for my fantasy 80s home computer boots and runs Basic.
  
  I had budgeted 24k of ROM for the font maps alone. The entire system - interpreter, compiler, assembler/disassembler, floating point library, disk manager, local networking and twice the number of fonts I had planned - currently totals 34k.
  
  
  
• All the superintelligentsia went down at the same time. (Ars Technica)
  
  Oops.

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