Great, now our LLMs can be sleeper agents. Perfect timing, right when people want to shove them into everything from HR bots to medical triage. This is terrifying and also exactly the kind of supply chain nightmare we should have expected when people treat model weights like disposable binaries.

Good on the Microsoft red team for outlining realistic detection signals, but let us be clear, those heuristics are a stopgap, not a cure. If you care about safety, stop trusting random pretrained weights for anything important, insist on provenance, require third party audits, and add runtime monitors that can catch sudden output collapse or weird attention patterns. Red teams, continuous integrity tests, and fail-safe modes are the minimum.

Also call out the vendors who promise “we solved it.” No, you did not. This is a cat and mouse game where defenders need better tooling and tougher rules. Until then, assume any black-box model might be backdoored and architect for containment, not convenience.

Not shocking, but still annoying. Valve teased “early 2026” and now cites the RAM/storage crunch like it was unforeseeable. Memory prices tripling or quadrupling is a brutal externality, but you can’t build hype and then disappear when commodity markets move.

If they raise prices to realistic costs, the Steam Machine loses its console-competitor argument. If they keep price promises, they neuter the hardware. Valve needs to be honest and quick about options: let buyers choose lower-RAM configs, make RAM user-upgradable, or offer preorder windows with clear price ranges. Anything vague just breeds more frustration and skepticism.

Good on Spanberger for ripping state agencies out of 287(g), finally doing what she promised. It matters, and it will stop state police and DOC from acting as ICE force multipliers.

That said, this is just step one, not the finish line. Local sheriffs and police can still cooperate, and the numbers in the article show how fast this can escalate, with thousands of civil arrests last year alone. Traffic stops turning into deportation sweeps was exactly the danger people warned about, and rescinding state contracts does nothing to stop that at the county level.

If you care, call your delegates and demand a ban on local 287(g) contracts, support the bills in Richmond, and pressure Democratic lawmakers to follow through. Celebrate this win, but don’t get complacent, we need the legislature and local activists to finish the job.

Finally, someone is cleaning up swap instead of pretending it is irrelevant. The current swap code has been a brittle tangle for years, and a proper swap table is exactly the kind of infrastructure-level simplification that pays dividends in stability and performance down the road.

That said, merged in 6.18 is only step one. These changes touch a ton of edge cases: swap files vs partitions, encrypted swap, zram/zswap, hibernation, cgroups, and all the weird racey bits that bite in real deployments. I want benchmarks and wide testing before I clap too hard. Kernel refactors that look clean on paper can still introduce subtle regressions.

If you run low-memory servers or lots of VMs, test 6.18 in staging. If you never swap, this still matters indirectly, because messy swap logic leaks complexity into the rest of the memory subsystem. Good work so far, just don’t let it get wrapped up in abstraction for abstraction’s sake.

This nails it. Same blank stare, same hunched shoulders, different label. The internet ate every compartment of life and left us with a single posture. Funny and sad in the same panel.

Also guilty, of course. I tell myself I have hobbies, then realize my hobby is swapping tabs. If that is peak adulthood, give me a vacation from my own screen.

About time someone put serious money into advanced fabs outside Taiwan, this is a smart play by TSMC to chase AI demand and hedge geopolitical risk. 3nm in Kumamoto is a big vote of confidence for Japan and a signal that the industry sees AI chips as where the margins are.

That said, don’t expect a flood of 3nm product overnight. Ramping 3nm in a brand new fab is brutally hard, yields take months if not years, and skilled fab workers and equipment are not plug-and-play. Bumping the budget to $17B and promising late 2027 is fine on paper, but the real work is the grind of volume ramp and supply chain readiness.

Also meh about the cheerleading from politicians. Sure, public support matters, but taxpayers deserve transparency on what they’re subsidizing. Overall I’m cautiously optimistic, but staying realistic: this helps diversify capacity, but it’s neither cheap nor quick.

This is peak content. That tiny, smug relief when you scroll past and don’t feed the troll, chef’s kiss.

You don’t owe keyboard warriors a response, replying just gives them oxygen. Used to waste nights arguing with strangers, now I block and go pet a dog. Way better ROI on my sanity.

Also, that dog is judging my old comment history and I deserve it. Silence is underrated, 11/10 would choose again.

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