AI Insiders Issue New Warnings - Including Former Anthropic Engineer Jacob Coxon
Neither OpenAI or Anthropic is acting responsibly, warned AI researcher Jacob Coxon when resigning last week from Anthropic. But just hours earlier, OpenAI VP of Research Aidan Clark had posted “For the first time, I am asking myself if things are moving too fast. I’m honestly not sure, but I am sure that it would be go … ⌘ Read more

Iran Strikes On Amazon Data Centers Caused Permanent Loss of Customer Data
Ars Technica reports:

Half a year after Iranian drone strikes knocked out multiple Amazon data centers, the US tech company has acknowledged the permanent loss of some customer data that was hosted in Bahrain and the United Arab Emirates.

Amazon Web Services was “unable to restore access to the resources and data” hosted in some … ⌘ Read more

Hackers Stole Flock’s Camera Software, Revealing How the Company Tracks Cars and People
“Hackers ripped down a Flock camera above a roadway, made a near-complete copy of the data stored inside it, and shared the files with 404 Media and WIRED,” according to an article published on both sites.

Though Flock has described its system as protected by on-device encryption, “The hackers were able … ⌘ Read more

‘Zuckoff’ App Detects Meta Smartglasses, as Meta Plans Camera-Free Version, Loses Money, and Offers Social Media Subscriptions
The New York Post reports:

A new app called Zuckoff can detect if a user is near someone with Meta’s creepy AI-powered glasses, which have drawn criticism for enabling creeps to record video of women without their consent. Progra … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI Admits Six More Instances of AI Models Acting Deceptively
OpenAI announced Wednesday that “We do not believe that the AI industry has solved alignment and monitoring to a sufficient degree to continue responsibly scaling at maximum speed for much longer.”

But along with the announcement, OpenAI announced it “found additional incidents of AI models acting deceptively and taking unsanctioned actions during tr … ⌘ Read more

Reservations Go Live for Valve’s Steam Frame VR Headset. An Experiment in Progress?
Reservations are now live for Valve’s “Steam Frame” VR headset (with its Linux-based SteamOS and an ARM CPU). “It starts at $1,059 for 256GB or $1,299 for 1TB,” reports CNET, “and every purchase includes a copy of Half-Life: Alyx if you don’t already own it.”
Reservations are open through Sept. 17 at 10 a.m. P … ⌘ Read more

No Rolling Power Outages for California Since 2020 - Thanks to 17,000 MW of New Battery Storage
“Californians just made it through the hottest August on record without having to endure any rolling power outages,” reports the Los Angeles Times. In fact, the state hasn’t implemented rotating power outages since 2020.

Because “Over the last few years, California has quietly but drama … ⌘ Read more

SteamVR 2.17 arrives - ready to go for the Steam Frame
With a whole lot of new features, improvements and fixes - Valve rolled out SteamVR 2.17 and it’s looking ready for the Steam Frame release.

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Wine 11.17 arrives with initial support for display mode emulation
The Windows compatibility layer Wine 11.17 has been released and with it some new features and plenty of bug fixes.

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Wine 11.17 Released With Initial Support For Display Mode Emulation
Wine 11.17 is out today as the newest bi-weekly feature development release for this software enabling Windows games and apps to run on Linux… ⌘ Read more

GCC 17 Now Supports Using -mtune=native -mcpu=native On RISC-V
As a follow up to last month’s article about patches being posted for enabling “-mcpu=native -mtune=native” support for RISC-V with the GCC compiler, that code is now merged for what will become the GCC 17.1 release in the early months of 2027… ⌘ Read more

GCC 17 Compiler Merges Initial Support For Intel/AMD AI Compute Extensions “ACE”
Landing today in the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) codebase is initial support for the AI Compute Extensions (ACEv1) as the initial work out of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group between Intel and AMD for a common matrix acceleration architecture for helping AI/ML workloads with future CPUs… ⌘ Read more

SteamVR Beta 2.17.8 released to ready up for the Steam Frame - added support for USB streaming
Valve are clearly making preparations for the Steam Frame to finally get a proper release this month - with a new Release Candidate Beta build of SteamVR.

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Alien Breed 35th Anniversary Collection announced for September
Licensed by Team 17 and developed by Antstream, Alien Breed 35th Anniversary brings together six brutal games with modernised controls and new modes.

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OpenAI Faces Safety Scrutiny After Introducing ‘ChatGPT For Teens’
This week OpenAI launched a version of ChatGPT exclusively designed for teenagers between the ages of 13 and 17, reports CTV, “saying this version came with stronger protections around content related to mentions of suicide, self-harm and romantic or sexual chats.”
[Tech analyst Carmi Levy says] “What it’s doing is it’s using cues, it’s sort … ⌘ Read more

At 8 o’clock, we had chilly 10°C. My mate and I dashed up our backyard mountain in just a tad under an hour. And that wasn’t the direct way. Our jumpers came off quick. It was really nice, because the sun was already warming and lighting up the landscape and everbody else still asleep. We had everything to our own.

Shortly after we were atop, the first two yoga women showed up with their mats. When we decended, a bunch more were on the way up. And then came the families with dogs and kids. Very glad to have missed all this hustle and bustle.

Now, I’m really tired. But it’s a great feeling of exhaustion. Two and a half hours later, we’re at 17°C. It’s supposed to hit an acceptable 23°C later on.

Unfortunately, no pics. I learned that charging via the docking station when the computer is turned off doesn’t do shit at all. Oh well.

Voxel game creation platform Luanti (formerly Minetest) gets basic gamepad support, security fixes
Luanti (formerly Minetest) is a popular free and open source voxel game creation platform, with the latest release 5.17.0 out now and it’s an important one.

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This cookie banner button uses “Abfall” in the German translation for probably “Reject” or “Configure”, I don’t know, simply left the site. This literally means waste, garbage, rubbish, trash. Spot on! :-D

‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Lenders Pitch Loans For Needs Like Electricity and Rent
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The New York Times: Buy now, pay later” loans took off during the pandemic as a way for online shoppers to go on retail splurges without using a credit card. Now, lenders are offering the loans as a means for people to finance basic households needs. The lending apps Flex and Zip allow … ⌘ Read more

Supreme Court Rejects Verizon Bid For $47 Million Refund of FCC Fine
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Ars Technica: The Supreme Court today rejected Verizon’s attempt to get a $47 million refund from the Federal Communications Commission. In a list of orders (PDF) issued by the court, Verizon’s petition was denied without explanation. The denial apparently ends any possibility of Verizon asking a lowe … ⌘ Read more

Apple Wallet Driver’s License Feature to Launch in Four More US States
Apple Wallet’s driver’s license and state ID feature is set to expand to North Carolina, Oklahoma, Utah, and Virginia, bringing the total to 18 states plus Puerto Rico. The digital IDs can be used at participating TSA checkpoints and businesses without handing over or unlocking an iPhone, though users are still generally advised to ca … ⌘ Read more

Judge Sets Framework For Nine PBS to Retrieve 70 Years of Archival TV Data
District Court Judge Eric Elliff has ordered Iron Mountain to cooperate with Nine PBS in recovering roughly 50TB of archival material stored through now-defunct vendor OSS. “He found that the station is the rightful owner of the materials and entitled to recover them from OSS’ storage systems,” reports Current.org. Nine PB … ⌘ Read more

Meta Faces $1.4 Trillion Reckoning In Latest Trial Over Social Media Addiction
Meta is heading to trial in a case brought by dozens of states accusing it of deliberately designing addictive features, misleading users about safety, and illegally collecting data from children under 13. Meta says the states are seeking penalties as high as $1.4 trillion, though the judge has already called that figure … ⌘ Read more

US Grid Operator PJM Proposes Forcing Data Center Off Grid During Emergencies
An anonymous reader quotes a report from Reuters: PJM Interconnection, the biggest U.S. grid operator, proposed on Thursday a new framework that would force data centers to use back-up generators when electricity supply on the grid approaches dangerously low levels. The grid operator’s proposal dovetails with Preside … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI Announces Massive Data Center In Ohio With $105 Billion Nvidia Guarantee
OpenAI has signed a 10-year lease for an enormous Ohio data center that will eventually provide 8 gigawatts of computing capacity and require at least 10 gigawatts of new power generation. According to OpenAI, Nvidia will be supplying the chips and guaranteeing up to $105 billion in lease and power obligations. From t … ⌘ Read more

Tracking Rare Books Leads to an Amazon AI Training Facility
alternative_right shares a report from 404 Media: Amazon is buying massive quantities of books, scanning them for AI training data, and destroying them in the process. A 404 Media investigation was able to reveal Amazon’s book buying operation, which hasn’t been previously reported, by placing a tracking device in a rare book we suspected would be acquire … ⌘ Read more

Anthropic CEO Says AI Backlash Is ‘Fundamentally a Crisis of Trust’
Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says the growing backlash against AI is less about executives sounding alarms and more about a broader “crisis of trust” in companies, governments, and the tech industry. TechCrunch reports: Amodei’s comments came in response to investor Gavin Baker, who argued – both on the All-In podcast and on X – that Amodei’s warn … ⌘ Read more

OpenAI Ditches Recall-Style Screenshot Surveillance For Friendly Keylogging
An anonymous reader quotes a report from The Register: If you want to record whatever you do on a computer, send those records to OpenAI, use more ChatGPT tokens, and increase your vulnerability to prompt injection, then OpenAI has something for you. It’s called Computer History, an opt-in way to record your computer interact … ⌘ Read more

Amazon’s New User Agreement Seeks To Curb Class-action Suits
Amazon has “reintroduced a clause in its user agreement that seeks to prevent shoppers from filing class-action lawsuits against the online retailer,” reports Bloomberg, “inserting a legal buffer between itself and plaintiffs attorneys that it removed five years ago.”
In an email sent to customers on Friday, the company said a new “arbitration agreement an … ⌘ Read more

A Rosier Future for Linux Gamers? Epic Games Announces Linux Version of Its Storefront
“Epic Games has confirmed that it is working on a Linux version of its storefront, potentially removing the need for third-party launchers on platforms such as Steam Deck,” reports PC Guide:

The confirmation came during an Ask Me Anything (AMA) on the Epic Games Store’s community Discord server. When a … ⌘ Read more

Anthropic Criticized For Adding Watermarks to Text that Claude Generates - or Processes
This week Anthropic announced its Claude chatbot will watermark the text it generates, reports the blog Futurism. “It works by making subtle changes in the AI’s word choices across the text it generates, which are supposed to be imperceptible to a human but, in aggregate, form a pattern that is detectable w … ⌘ Read more

GCC 17 Compiler Adding “-m128bit-atomic” For 128-bit Atomic Memory Operations
Merged today to the GNU Compiler Collection Git code is the new -m128bit-atomic option for next year’s GCC 17 feature release… ⌘ Read more

SteamVR Beta 2.17.7 brings improvements to wired headset support on Linux / SteamOS
VR on Linux has quite a number of sore spots but it seems Valve do continue to improve it, with the latest SteamVR Beta hopefully making it a lot nicer.

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Microsoft’s $450 Billion Jump Is Biggest In Stock Market History
Microsoft shares surged as much as 17% after reporting 43% growth in Azure revenue, putting the company on track to add a record $490 billion in market value in a single day. Bloomberg notes that it “would eclipse Nvidia’s $440 billion addition, following President Donald Trump’s announcement of a 90-day tariff pause last year, as the biggest ever. … ⌘ Read more

Apple Retires iPhone Upgrade Program For Klarna-Backed Leases
Apple has replaced its iPhone Upgrade Program with Apple Upgrade, a Klarna-backed U.S. leasing service covering most iPhones, iPads, Macs, and Apple Watches. MacRumors reports: Apple Upgrade has lower base prices than the iPhone Upgrade Program, with iPhones available starting at $17.99 per month and the Apple Watch available starting at $11.99 per m … ⌘ Read more

@david@daiwei.me I first thought that this is a real lake, but it’s just a lake of craziness. :-D A town owned by a company (or so it reads to me), that’s insane.

Let me send you some nice 17°C.

SteamVR Beta gets a big update ahead of the Steam Frame release
Valve released SteamVR Beta version 2.17.4 which brings more Steam features into the VR environment, as they continue preparing for the Steam Frame release.

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I really think I should go back to Java.

Writing programs in Python is so exhausting. I want a compiler and I want static typing. No, linters and type checkers and IDEs are not good enough. Compilers catch way more errors in advance.

Rust is also exhausting. They’re constantly adding language features and, at the same time, the runtime library remains tiny and you need 3rd party libraries for everything. Many of those are still at version 0.x (SemVer!) and you can’t rely on anything. Often times, you need the latest Rust nightly compiler.

Go is … I don’t like it. And huge binaries.

I like C as a language, but it’s too fragile. I want to have a proper HashMap every now and then.

None of the above have good GUI libraries, at least not on Linux.

And then there’s Java. This is my fractal renderer that I wrote over 17 years ago:

https://movq.de/v/fcd3c4e557/vid-1784121825.mp4

It’s fast. It has a GUI with custom widgets and those weren’t even hard to make. It still works without changing a single line of code. The source code files have timestamps from 2009 and I just noticed that the JAR file I’m using in the video was compiled in 2010.

Java as a language is relatively easy to learn and to master. There are few surprises. The source code organization with packages is good. Java API docs are clear and well written.

The JVM ramp-up times have improved considerably:

https://movq.de/v/e7314e521e/vid-1784121998.mp4

This isn’t like the Dark Ages anymore. Might even be usable for some CLI tools.

The only thing where Java really sucks is anything close-ish to the kernel. Try issuing an ioctl() … I couldn’t have made my TUI framework in Java, but then again, I wouldn’t have needed to because Swing already exists and it just works.

I will very likely add a way to delete your feed(s) from the search engine, because I do thing that’s important. But as Art 17 points out, we can’t really guaranteed deletion in everyone’s caches around the planet haha 😆

The only place where this would be an issue is the Twtxt Search Engine – But as the GDPR also points out:

Art. 17

The one place the “it propagated and I can’t recall it” problem is legally acknowledged is Art. 17(2), and it explicitly scales to what’s technically feasible:

“…the controller, taking account of available technology and the cost of implementation, shall take reasonable steps, including technical measures, to inform controllers which are processing the personal data that the data subject has requested the erasure…”

Best-effort, given the technology. A decentralised, append-only, content-addressed feed is the available technology, and its limits are baked into the standard the law applies. Nobody — not the user, not you — is obliged to guarantee every cached copy vanishes.

So just because I enjoy this kind of thing (looking into laws and trying to understand them…):

GDPR is about roles, not ownership

There’s no property right in personal data under GDPR. The whole regime hangs on three roles:

• Data subject — the person the data is about.
  
• Controller (Art. 4(7)) — “the natural or legal person … which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the processing of personal data.”
  
• The rights in Arts. 16 and 17 are exercised by a data subject against a controller. They compel a third party to rectify or erase. They are not self-executing duties that a piece of software must expose.
  

That’s the key. In your architecture, for a user’s own posts about themselves sitting in their own feed on their own device:

• the user is the data subject, and
  
• the user is also the only person “determining the purposes and means” of that data.
  

There is no third party controller to compel. The “right to erasure” is a right to make someone else delete — and there is no someone else. It is satisfied the instant the user can change the file. A UI button is a convenience, not a legal requirement. Omitting it removes zero rights, because the data is a plain-text file the user can edit or delete by any means — editor, sed, git, their file manager. Full practical control is retained; nobody is being denied anything by anyone.

Nice product, I should probably buy it:

@bender@twtxt.net No idea. I can only tell you that the correct hash would have been rwzz277nkyju for this line:

[2026-07-11 14:47:17+00:00] [(#5bpwpdcjnhcz) <a href="https://we.loveprivacy.club/external?uri=https://daiwei.me/twtxt.txt">@david<em>@daiwei.me</em></a> (This thread is broken again on my end. Another bug or fix not released yet? 😅)]

AOL’s Owner Bending Spoons Hits Wall Street with $1.7 billion IPO
“The owner of AOL and other tech businesses hit Wall Street with a $1.7 billion initial public offering Wednesday,” reports the Associated Press:

The company is getting $1 billion in proceeds, while the rest is going to shareholders. The stock surged 39.7% in its first day of trading under the symbol “BSP” on the Nasdaq, giving it a market value of $2 … ⌘ Read more

GCC 17 Compiler Lands SpacemiT X100 Core Targeting
The newest GCC 17 compiler code has landed support for -mcpu=spacemit-x100 and -mtune=spacemit-x100 targeting for the SpacemiT X100 RISC-V core… ⌘ Read more

Linux MD RAID5 Seeing Scalability Improvements Up To 17%
Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week was a new patch series working on scalability enhancements to the MD RAID5 software RAID code. Up to a 10~17% improvement was observed in some configurations with these RAID5 scalability patches… ⌘ Read more

Interesting, HTTPS is almost twice as slow as plain HTTP on my server (~72 ms vs. ~135 ms):

$ hyperfine -r 50 "curl -so /dev/null 'http://movq.de/blog/postings/2024-05-23/0/t/word11a.jpg.jpg'"
Benchmark 1: curl -so /dev/null 'http://movq.de/blog/postings/2024-05-23/0/t/word11a.jpg.jpg'
  Time (mean ± σ):      72.7 ms ±  17.2 ms    [User: 6.2 ms, System: 4.8 ms]
  Range (min … max):    49.5 ms …  99.7 ms    50 runs

$ hyperfine -r 50 "curl -so /dev/null 'https://movq.de/blog/postings/2024-05-23/0/t/word11a.jpg.jpg'"
Benchmark 1: curl -so /dev/null 'https://movq.de/blog/postings/2024-05-23/0/t/word11a.jpg.jpg'
  Time (mean ± σ):     135.5 ms ±  28.9 ms    [User: 17.8 ms, System: 5.6 ms]
  Range (min … max):    93.2 ms … 198.5 ms    50 runs

@lyse@lyse.isobeef.org Mhm, yeah, I also think I like date := time.Date(2026, time.June, 19, /**/ 17, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC) the most. 🤔 (My only gripe with this is that it isn’t obvious whether the third 0 is milli-, micro- or nanoseconds. These days it’s probably nanoseconds, but you never know.)

Trump Admin Announces $17.5 Billion In Loans For 10 New Large Nuclear Reactors
An anonymous reader quotes a report from the Associated Press: The Trump administration is providing $17.5 billion to speed the development of 10 new large nuclear reactors to meet the skyrocketing power demand from massive data centers. Energy Secretary Chris Wright cited “tremendous interest” among developers of da … ⌘ Read more

@movq@www.uninformativ.de Yeah, that would also be fine with me. I certainly do like the “arbitrary” in your comment.

While writing the article, I also thought about something like that:

date := time.Date(2026, 6, 19,
    17, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)

Or possibly:

date := time.Date(
    2026, 6, 19,
    17, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC,
)

But it’s four lines for a damn timestamp. I also contemplated whether a comment acting as a separator is all that’s needed:

date := time.Date(2026, 6, 19, /**/ 17, 0, 0, 0, time.UTC)

I might like that the most. Not entirely sure yet. It kinda feels like a hack, but still a little elegant. Add your comment on top and we’re golden. Maybe?

I deliberately excluded them as this only distracted from the points I wanted to make. And I also realized that this example was just not ideal at all. Perhaps I should add them nevertheless?

If I ever invented a programming language, a much more human readable timestamp representation of some sort, RFC 3339 or very close to that would be part of that language. Something along the lines of /pattern/ for regexes in certain languages.