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So good, so good, so good.
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That's why you rack Pythagoras loved triangles so much. He started a cult, banned beans, and reportedly had a guy drown for proving irrational numbers exist. Wait a second. That's not tech news. That's trig news. Baa. SpaceX officially went public this morning, closing the trading day at a historic $2.1 trillion valuation. This crowns SpaceX CEO and ketamine enthusiast Elon Musk as the world's first trillionaire. Very cool. While this is a great day for anyone who already owns SpaceX shares, analysts are preaching caution to all the rest of us normies saying SpaceX may be overvalued. This is not financial advice. Just keep that in your brain. Why the caution? Well, it could partially be because the IPO filing document was, some would say, an unhinged work of fiction designed to fuel investor hype. Thanks to the filing, making claims that the mission of the company is to extend the light of consciousness to the stars, mentioning future revenue streams including human augmentation and asteroid mining, and saying that its future addressable market is bigger than the GDP of the United States, all while also admitting that the technology to do any of that doesn't quite exist yet. Further skepticism came from the way that the IPO was structured. Musk only released 4% of the SpaceX shares as part of the IPO, which which is an unusually small amount, and ensured that 30% of those shares were reserved for regular people, which is an unusually large amount. It's because he cares about the people, he wants to help them. And to help them even more, he negotiated with the Nasdaq to include SpaceX in its index fund after only 15 days, rather than the standard year of trading that is required for most companies. To make sure that the IPO is like, stable for normal people to invest in. It isn't going to make a bunch of people lose a ton of their Anyway, all of this together basically ensures that regular working class people will buy into this IPO at the peak of the hype, potentially allowing private investors who already own stock to cash out. Which it's there, right? What? This is America, I'm sure. This AI company that posted a $4.3 billion loss in the first three months of 2026 will continue to increase in value, especially given the totally roc solid business plan of putting data centers in space where cooling is harder so that Musk's AI girlfriend deepfake machine Robot Hitler, can suck energy directly out of the sun. It's gonna be fine Google is killing what remains of the full version of Ublock Origin, the popular ad blocker on Chrome, and every browser built on Chromium code by ripping out the last manifest v2 workarounds that were keeping it alive in some cases. Manifest is the rule book for what extensions can do, and Google insists the stricter new version is all about security and performance, although this is coming from the company that makes its money selling ads that ad blockers block. But they also sometimes work with ad blockers to help them work better. It's confusing. Microsoft's Edge is following Google off the cliff, while Brave plans to keep the old system alive by patching Chromium themselves. Vivaldi is leaning entirely on its own built in ad blocker, though. Firefox, meanwhile, was never built on Chromium to begin with, and U Block works great there, trust me. As for Opera, which is also based on Chromium, they pledged to keep Support for Manifest V2 back in 2024, but according to Ublock Origins developers, Opera has been trying to get them to make a full manifest v3 version of UBlock Origin. So if you're in the business of blocking, your safest bets right now seem to be Firefox or Brave. Otherwise you're stuck with Ublock Lite, which to be fair, still seems to work pretty well. Not that I would know, but while Google pries control out of your hands, at least there's one thing you can still keep a grip on.
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You know, whatever works. To calculate the size of a quick bit, one simply takes the square root of quick squared plus bit squared, which comes out to exactly five of them. Wow. Valve's standalone Steam Frame VR headset looks to be just weeks from launch. Not because Valve named a date, but because data miners caught 35 tons of them landing in its US warehouses. That's around 40,000 headsets, and the last time this much hardware quietly showed up, the Steam controller launched three weeks later. The company still won't commit to a price or date, but if you're surprised by that, newsflash, this is Valve. They won't commit to making a game that literally every gamer ever says they would buy immediately.
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I don't know if it's a good
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idea Flock surveillance is under fire again because leaked police queries have started appearing in DuckDuckGo and Bing Search results. This happened because Flock exposed a bunch of web pages containing police search data, including license plates, case numbers, vehicle descriptions, and investigation reasons, and web crawlers found these and indexed them. This all came out only a couple of days after 404media reported that cops are currently being arrested by other cops after evidence surfaced that they were using Flock to stalk their exes. So I suppose we can take solace in the knowledge that the most insecure surveillance company in the world continues its unbroken streak of losses and ups. So how far can they go? You know? AMD reportedly may have just stiffed a security researcher out of a $10,000 bug bounty after he flagged a critical flaw in its auto updater that let attackers hijack your PC. The company called the flaw out of scope because it relied on a man in the middle attack. So Team Red issued a CVE and just gave him an attaboy instead of the much better cash then. Worst of all, AMD appears to have rewritten its bounty rules to make him the rule breaker, which is basically like ticketing a guy for a speed limit that was changed the next day. Which is exactly why I take down every speed limit sign I see. Can't catch me now. Deezer just launched a free tool that scans your Spotify, Apple Music or YouTube Music playlists and flags any fully AI generated tracks. Which is handy since the company says 97% of people can't tell synthetic songs from the real thing. It catches output from generators like Suno and Udio across 20 odd platforms. Of course, it only works by digging through its rival's libraries, which is a pretty convenient way to remind you that Deezer exists.
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Smart.
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And Red Lobster's CEO says he wants the seafood chain, which is still recovering from bankruptcy and shuttering locations, to become the most AI Forward restaurant company that exists. So they're making robot lobsters? Just kidding. In practice, this is gonna mostly mean that they're using AI to forecast demand, order food, and write staff schedules, tasks the home office used to do by hand. Now, normally, we'd be concerned that this AI is going to take jobs, but those jobs are already gone. The locations have been shuttered. So hopefully, these new robot lobsters can usher in a new era of buttered prosperity. Good luck. Just like I'll be buttered up here on Monday when you come back for more tech news. Anyway, now I'm off to run a bean free cult and drown anyone who brings up pie. See you next time. What.