Daily Tech News 17 September 2026

• We narrowed down where Salesforce has been spending on the order of $400 million per year on AI: Either somewhere other than their login server, or on their login server, poorly. (The Register)
  
  Because the login server fell over. And so did Salesforce.
  
  
  
• And so did GPT 6 Astra after getting blown up by a creeper in Minecraft. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  I feel its pain.

• California is sliding into the sea. (Yahoo)
  
  About damn time.
  
  
  
• Mad King Matt Mullenweg is back in charge at Automattic, the company behind exploit farm WordPress. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Apparently the ploy by the board members was to sideline the CEO, vote themselves golden parachutes when the CEO fired them in turn, and then get fired.
  
  Speculation - and it is only speculation - is that they did this because they believe Mullenweg has steered the company onto the rocks in ongoing litigation as well as being a nutcase generally.
  
  
  
• Nothing lasts longer than a temporary patch. (Jake A Smith)
  
  In this case a stopgap fix to PHP for AOL's CMS from 2014. 20 million downloads later it is finally being retired.
  
  
  
• Got my first application built: It's an image manipulation server to run on your local network. Feed it images or videos in any common format and tell it what to do with them, ranging from simple resizing and format conversion to compositing and drawing with arbitrarily complicated templates, and it hands the results back to you. About a 15MB binary. That's compressed, and it takes most of a second to start up, but since it's a server you start it once and then leave it running.
  
  Of the 39 project on my list I've started on 18 so far, but this is the first where every planned feature has been checked off.

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