- Ep. 28
The Loop Doesn't Close
The Godot Foundation, which maintains the open-source game engine of the same name, announced this week that it will no longer accept AI-authored code contributions, agent-submitted pull requests, or AI-generated text in contributor communications. PC Gamer wrote it up off the…
July 3, 2026
15:47
- Ep. 27
The Mechanism Is the Product
AMD silently removed a memory-encryption feature from its consumer Ryzen chips in a firmware update earlier this year. Users noticed. Users complained. Over the weekend, AMD said it would put the feature back in a July BIOS release. Dan Goodin covered the reversal at Ars…
July 1, 2026
16:48
- Ep. 26
The Pattern Is On File
The US government is now reviewing frontier AI model releases customer by customer, after pulling two Anthropic models earlier this month. OpenAI's GPT 5.6 has gone into the same limited preview limbo. TechCrunch ran a piece this morning by Russell Brandom arguing the industry…
June 29, 2026
17:53
- Ep. 25
Clippy with API Access
Microsoft has announced a new category of AI agent called Autopilot, starting with one named Scout, which sits in the background watching everything you do across Teams, Outlook, OneDrive, and SharePoint and takes action on your behalf without being prompted. It's powered by…
June 26, 2026
17:59
- Ep. 24
Despite Obvious Challenge
The latest round of underwater data centers is taking shape. Highlander Digital Technology has a 24-megawatt facility running off the coast of China, powered by an offshore wind farm. A Portland startup called Panthalassa has Peter Thiel money and a plan to put autonomous server…
June 24, 2026
18:35
- Ep. 23
Perpetual Was a Marketing Word
Tesco, the UK grocery chain, is moving forty thousand server workloads off VMware after suing Broadcom for what its legal filings call "abusive conduct." The story is straightforward in its sequence: Tesco bought perpetual licenses for VMware's vSphere Foundation and Cloud…
June 22, 2026
17:21
- Ep. 22
Plausible Isn't Good Enough
Midjourney, the AI image generation company best known for producing pictures on demand, announced on Wednesday that it is opening a medical spa in San Francisco. Guests will be lowered into a tank of golden light while three hundred fifty-eight thousand ultrasonic transducers…
June 19, 2026
17:21
- Ep. 21
It's the Bill
The AI industry is discovering, with apparent surprise, that maybe you shouldn't use more compute than you need. TechCrunch ran a piece this week on the cost-conscious turn — Brian Armstrong of Coinbase predicting eighty percent of workloads shift to ninety-nine percent cheaper…
June 17, 2026
18:05
- Ep. 20
The Tuesday
Linux kernel maintainers are floating a proposal that would let admins disable vulnerable kernel functions at runtime. The feature is called Killswitch, and the patch was submitted in early May by Sasha Levin, a distinguished engineer at Nvidia and co-maintainer of the long-term…
June 15, 2026
16:15
- Ep. 19
Same Fight, Different Language
The Python steering council has asked for development on the experimental JIT compiler to be suspended from the main branch, pending a new PEP, with a six-month deadline before the code gets removed entirely. The JIT was already in the Python 3.15 release notes, showing an…
June 12, 2026
17:09
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