Mark Hachman
@markhachman.bsky.social
PCWorld tech reporter, splitting time between PC tech, chips, and Microsoft. Nerd, college football and MLB fan, Domer. I like puns.
SanDisk reported Q4 revenue of $8.97 billion. A year ago, revenue was $1.9 billion. A year ago, SanDisk lost $23 million for the fourth quarter. Today, it reported Q4 profits of $6.9 billion. The stock fell. OTOH, the stock price is up 3,120 percent over the past year.
I can't remember who said it first, but someone summed up AI marketing as: "This is so powerful it will destroy the world. Imagine what it could do for your business!"
StatCounter's usually reliable. And if it is, the market share of Linux just tripled over the past couple of months to over 10 percent. www.pcworld.com/article/3207...
Hold up. Is the year of Linux actually happening?
StatCounter data shows that the market share of the Linux operating system has tripled since May, climbing to over ten percent in the United States.
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AI is a helluva drug "Revenue increased 50% year-over-year to a record $11.5 billion, driven by continued strength in our Data Center business, which represented 58% of company revenue in the quarter," said Jean Hu, AMD executive vice president, chief financial officer and treasurer."
Talk about an own goal. Doesn't Weiner have any idea how this will be received? www.kron4.com/news/politic...
Scott Wiener launches Connie Chan chatbot
SAN FRANCISCO (KRON) — As the race to succeed Nancy Pelosi in Congress heats up, State Sen. Scott Wiener has launched an AI chatbot parody of his opponent, SF Supervisor Connie Chan. The chat…
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Call me crazy, but if a Democratic president had 350 accounts closed by their bank for money laundering it’d be more than a blip in the media
In the the latest season of Dark Winds (Netflix), two things nag at me: first, Linda Hamilton shows up for a two-minute cameo and knocks it out of the park; and the characters visit a bar with a large sign on the back door that says "Discreet Rear Entrance." This is a drama.
Scott Wiener is so fucking creepy!!! making an AI chatbot of your woman opponent so she says all the things your campaign wants her to say is deeply misogynistic!!! holy shit!!!
I have no problem with people buying ICE cars because of the VROOM VROOM but this is egregious
Love 'em or hate 'em, PCs with 8GB of RAM are here to stay, Microsoft's Windows chief says, outlining the future of Windows for the remainder of 2026. www.pcworld.com/article/3203...
Windows 11's next big priority: Making 8GB PCs less painful to use
Microsoft's Windows chief took to the Internet to outline his priorities for Windows for the remainder of the year: voice, setup, family, and low-end PCs.
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Did you know Microsoft (probably) just put a new photo app on your PC, and it wants you to identify your friends and family? Meet OneDrive Photos. www.pcworld.com/article/3202...
Microsoft slipped another Photos app on my PC, and this one wants names
OneDrive Photos arrived through an update, groups the faces in your pictures, and asks you to identify them—even though Microsoft says the preview is meant for Windows Insiders.
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Microsoft Windows 11's Paint's AI slop generator still stuck in AI 1.0.
I feel like renaming it to "GNU Image Manipulator" would solve a few problems but also introduce a fun one in the form of "do you pronounce it as 'jim'"
Dems: Yay! I'd vote for a Democratic Socialist! BAH GAWD THATS JILL STEINS MUSIC
So as the NYTimes is blocked from AI scraping, Meta will now be getting news from Newsmax. What could possibly go wrong?
Bill Grueskin@bgrueskin.bsky.social · last wk.AYFKM “Meta will be able to draw upon Newsmax's significant current reporting as well as archived content to support AI queries across Meta's apps and devices.” ir.newsmax.com/news/news-de...
Remember the fuckery the FCC pulled with the consumer router industry? It's the same but a lot lot worse for the solar industry. Home solar just took a huge hit. pv-magazine-usa.com/2026/07/28/f...
From the solar community on Reddit: FCC bans foreign-produced solar inverters, grid lockout begins today
Explore this post and more from the solar community
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We're heading into back-to-school season...and I'm sending my new college student with 11 gadgets for his dorm room and backpack. Strategies and a shopping list included. www.pcworld.com/article/3193...
I’m sending my son to college with 11 tech essentials (and far too much USB-C)
This is the best college tech I'd recommend you buy: devices which are light, small, but designed to keep laptops and phones charged and ready. Keep them in your backpack and dorm room.
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I wonder if the people living next to datacenters have tried phase cancellation? Zeroing out a known frequency by projecting the opposite signal. (This is not a defense of unwanted datacenters.)
My review of the Framework Laptop 13 Pro DIY Edition is a lot longer than most, because of the complexity of the ordering process and the relative simplicity of actually assembling it. It's a great laptop, but with shipping delays and doubled memory prices...? www.pcworld.com/article/3199...
Framework's DIY laptop is easy to build. Buying one is another story
The Framework Laptop 13 Pro DIY Edition boasts fantastic battery life, a solid keyboard, and a wonderful display, but the performance of this modular, DIY laptop leaves me wanting more. Fluctuating pr...
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Facebook holds everyone hostage for fear of losing "connection" while vehemently trying to drive us all away from each other.
Want to watch some bears catch salmon on the fly? Livestream: www.youtube.com/live/J7ZrIDv...
LIVE Brooks Falls - Katmai National Park, Alaska 2026 | explore.org
YouTube video by Explore Live Nature Cams
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I didn't know that there was a (former) nuclear reactor in the Bay Area, nor what a nuclear battery was. Apparently both Voyager spacecraft use one! Pretty cool. www.pleasantonweekly.com/business/202...
Nuclear battery production facility moves into Sunol
Zeno Power, a nuclear battery development company, has established a manufacturing facility at the Vallecitos Nuclear Center in Sunol where the company said it will produce "nuclear batteries that wil...
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This is immediate impeachment-and-removal behavior for any other president and all involved cabinet secretaries (who, in any other administration, would have already resigned in disgrace)
The New Republic@newrepublic.com · 2w agoWhile this is awesome, those that care should know that Claude is listed as a contributor.
Jacob Freeman@geforce-jacobf.bsky.social · 2w agoThief: The Dark Project, originally released in 1998, now fully Path Traced thanks to RTX Remix and modder NightRaven in the RTX Remix community! Early WIP. This was one of my favorite games of all time 💚
AMD has its Advancing AI conference today, and what was once a PC processor company is now almost wholly enterprise, at least where this conference is concerned. OTOH, AI silicon is a moneymaker. 💰💰💰💲💲💲
Looking at some of the effects certain Windows settings have on your PC, with some real-world testing to back it up www.pcworld.com/article/3196...
3 Windows settings that can make or break your PC
A number of Windows settings can have meaningful impacts on well your PC runs and its productivity performance. Here are my top three, and what you need to do about them.
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Although my tenure at PCMag sort of overlapped with John Dvorak, I didn't really know him. Still, he took a cynical, skeptical, critical view of tech that was ahead of his time and necessary. RIP.
Since we're having tech press discourse. Yes they're responsible for you believing Musk was a genius because they didn't know what the hell they were looking at. Many such cases.
Coach Finstock@coachfinstock.bsky.social · 5mo agoKara Swishers book on AOL got her labeled an expert in like 1998 and if you read that book it's one big tongue bath for Steve Case. SHE WAS A STYLE AND RETAIL REPORTER FOR WAPO. And here we are 200 years later and she's still considered an expert. Lol.
