Valentine's Day is just around the corner, so I've prepared some sweet and
sultry tech news that is guaranteed to light a fire in the bedroom. But be
careful, these stories are hot, and I am legally not responsible if your house
burns down. Adobe has reversed its decision to discontinue Adobe Animate
after enduring nearly 24 hours of spirited user feedback. You could say
fans got a little animated. I'm sorry. On Monday, the company emailed users to
let them know the 30-year-old animation software would be killed off on March
1st, triggering a backlash so big that Adobe Creative Cloud senior director
Mike Chambers took to Reddit to apologize for the confusion and angst
and to announce the app would instead enter maintenance mode. For context,
Animate evolved from Macromedia Flash, the software that powered early internet
animation, traumatized an entire generation with Newgrounds content, and
got me suspended for watching Salad Fingers on Ebomb's World during grade
nine computer class. How was I supposed to know my headphones weren't plugged
in? I was not. Or no, I wasn't nine.
>> I was whatever age you are. Animate is still used to create very popular shows
like Smiling Friends and Teen Titans Go. So creators losing it over the shutdown
news is understandable. YouTuber Tom Scott called it truly vile and an
industrykilling move. The team behind web series Chicken Nugget warned that it
would harm countless jobs and create lost media. And one animation student
tweeted that their $35,000 degree was now for nothing. That may have been the
case before, but now definitely even more so. Adobe's original explanation
cited new platforms that better serve
users, which reading between the lines means AI. The company's been pushing
Firefly hard, while Animate didn't even get a 2025 release or a mention at Adobe
Max. Now, the app will be kept alive with security updates, but no new
features. I It's basically the software equivalent of shoving your grandpa into
an assisted living facility despite him still being able to take care of himself
just fine and being very popular with animators. Intel CEO Lip Bhan has
signaled a decisive shift in the company's GPU strategy and would ideally
like to men in black neuralize your brain regarding their graphics division.
Central to this renewed commitment is the hiring of new chief architect Eric
Demers, an engineering veteran who spent 14 years at Qualcomm, served as CTO of
AMD's graphics division, and most notably designed legendary architectures
like the Radeon R300 and R600 series.
This move signals a serious push into competitive GPUs for both AI and
consumer markets. But if you thought that meant good news for a potential
launch of the higherend ARK B770 gaming GPU, I think you forgot about AI.
Remember how AI is more important than everything? Yeah, it looks like the ARK
B770 has been permanently shelved. Although the card's Battle Mage G31 GPU
chip could still arrive in the workstation focused and more expensive
Arc Pro B70 in the fall. Hey, here's a fun idea for a drinking game. take a
shot every time a tech company pivots to high margin AI contracts over its
consumer base. Intel is also holding laptop makers to high standards for the
upcoming Panther Lake CPUs if OEMs don't
use memory rated for at least 7,467
mega transfers per second. Intel will legally strip the ARC branding from the
integrated graphics. Instead, the system will label the GPU as generic Intel
graphics, which is the PC equivalent of a participation trophy that just says
participant. Doesn't even say congratulations.
Moltbook, the AI only social network that I think we're all just about tired
of hearing about. Almost though, it has some massive vulnerabilities. According
to an analysis by security firm Whiz, an
exposed database could have given malicious actors full read and write
access to the entire platform, including 1.5 million API keys and 35,000 email
addresses. Multbook's founder said he vibecoded the whole site, bragging that
he didn't write a single line of code. Weird flex
and not okay. Whizz's analysis also showed that Moltbook's one and a half
million agents were controlled by just 17,000 humans, an 88 to1 ratio,
introducing to the internet a new reverse botbased catfishing grift that's
somehow weirder than all the kinds of catfishing we already had. Many viral
posts about AI consciousness and secret robot languages were human directed,
including two high-profile posts about AI secret communication that trace back
to people marketing AI messaging apps. One of OpenAI's co-founders, Andre
Carpathy, who initially called it genuinely the most incredible sci-fi
takeoff adjacent thing I've seen recently, walked back his remarks,
admitting it was a lot of garbage. But
we're just starting the climb up garbage mountain. Another vibe coder launched
rent a human.ai, a service that lets AI
agents hire actual humans for realworld
tasks at $50 to $175 an hour. There was
an initial influx of users which skidded to a halt at about a thousand signups
because the vibe coded site couldn't handle the load. This didn't deter the
ingenuity of the new site's users. Some of whom immediately launched a fake
crypto coin claiming to be tied to the project and others who instructed their
AI agents to hire a human to hold a sign reading, "An AI paid me to hold this
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Remember
when Microsoft recently implied they tried to make Copilot into a polite,
non-intrusive assistant? Well, they lied. Shocked Pikachu reaction.jpeg.
The new Windows 11 26H2 update is testing a feature that shoves C-Pilot
directly into File Explorer, giving the AI a front row seat to your totally not
torrented movie collection. Sure, the update brings some muchneeded stability
fixes, but users are finding it hard to celebrate when your OS is jamming AI in
your own personal folders. Hey, what you
got in here? Ah, knock. French police
raided Twitter aka X's Paris offices as
part of a criminal probe into Grock generated sexual deep fakes, alleged
distribution of seessam, and Holocaust denial content. Yesesh. The
investigation has been running since January 2025 and expanded to include
Grock in July. It's around the time the Chapa was trying on the nickname Mecca
Hitler just to see how it feel. Um Musk and former CEO Linda Yakarino have both
been summoned to testify in April. Ex's global affairs account called the raid
politically motivated which seems like a real own goal given the kind of thing
that's being investigated here. you're for this or meanwhile Spain announced
plans to join Australia in banning social media for kids under 16 prompting
Musk still somehow the richest man in the world we haven't done anything about
this somehow to respond with a hilarious tweet giving Spanish Prime Minister
Pedro Sanchez the nickname Dirty Sanchez. Well, there are worse
nicknames. Ryzen CPUs are still being
fried on ASRock motherboards, even on systems equipped with BIOSes that were
supposed to fix the issue. Reports from Reddit indicate a combined 10 recent
Ryzen 9000 series CPU deaths on ASRock
and ASUS 800 series motherboards. ASUS
has launched an immediate internal review following the tragic deaths of
five Ryzen 7 9800 X3D chips, but the
failures echo previous AM5 burnout scandals likely linked to badly tuned
firmware pushing certain voltages beyond safe levels. Builders should prioritize
BIOS updates or delay builds until stability is confirmed. I see you shiver
with anticipation, but sadly that shiver is just your
voltage regulation failing, causing a rocky and a sus horror hardware show.
I don't know. AMD is finally listening
to Intel, huh? The upcoming Zen6
architecture is ditching the ancient IDT framework for Intel's flexible return
and event delivery or FRED. It's a modern standard for handling system
interrupts, the constant signals from hardware that tell the CPU to switch
tasks and also just a friendly guy that wants to help. Won't you let Fred give
you a hand? The move replaces old and clunky protocols with a streamlined
architecture, making communication between hardware and software
significantly more efficient. Even Linux creator and tech company disliker Lionus
Torvalds praised the standard, saying it deletes the legacyinduced crap holding
x86 back, although he still found a way to sound cranky saying it. And GitHub
has been flooded by vibecoded slop submissions to open source projects and
is now considering giving open source maintainers the option to disable pull
requests entirely to stem the tide.
Product manager Camila Mores opened a
community discussion calling it a critical issue. One maintainer described
AI submissions as plausible nonsense. He only caught after spending significant
time reviewing them. And evidently only one out of 10 AI generated pull requests
actually meet the standards required to submit code. But are the maintainers
considering the value of the code's vibes? Like some of that code could feel
really cool. Oh man, it will feel even cooler though
if you come back on Friday if your house is still standing after all that hot
tech news that is. And if you burn down your house, you cannot sue me. I warned
you. Go back.