Mark Hachman

I was wondering about this and just discovered that my coworkers have tested the RTX Spark for gaming at different memory configurations. via @michaelcrider.bsky.social www.pcworld.com/article/3268...

Hi Slack

Kind of a Halloween-themed lunch. Ahwoooo... Cc @lopatto.bsky.social

BREAKING: A hacker is attempting to breach the US Federal Election Commission's systems and that agency has had to 'temporarily shut down' its web-facing services as a result, according to an email seen by Reuters reut.rs/4zY7fwQ

OK I loled

Met Liberty Bibberty at a charity event a while back. Super humble. Incredibly funny. Did you know he's a SUNY Binghamton grad? Huge football fan though.

If you're looking for cheap PC gear there's another great place to look: your local college. Students want cheap PCs, right? Here's my story. www.pcworld.com/article/3266...

In a major divergence in strategy, Walmart will enable for AI agents to shop on behalf of customers while Amazon blocks them. Walmart wants the sales, regardless of who brings the customer. Amazon wants to avoid losing control of product discovery and the advertising revenue that comes with it.

Remember how a certain Web site basically proclaimed the Arc browser as the second coming? I never really liked it, and I can't say I'll miss it. www.pcworld.com/article/2319... And I have no idea why whoever was editing that day called Arc "beloved". I didn't. www.pcworld.com/article/2795... RIP.

PRIVATE KEY NUMBER FOUR I CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE

President Trump has pushed to move briefings out of the White House press room. Aides say he wants an indoor swimming pool instead. nyti.ms/4eoW3AV

Protestors Criticized For Looting Businesses Without Forming Private Equity Firm First https://theonion.com/protestors-criticized-for-looting-businesses-without-fo-1843735351/

A second left on the clock, DPI on the final play, and now this. Sure puts BYU in a bad light. BYU D-lineman admits yelling 'Hut!' before CJ Carr's costly fumble share.google/73NDYScxSXh9...

IRS refuses to publish report. Ahead of the midterm elections, the Trump regime is withholding detailed information that illustrates how King Trump’s One Big Beautiful Bill Act hurt millions of Americans. The data from the IRS was originally scheduled to be released in July & updated in September.

“The internet is a store but it used to be a library” hits me like a slug to the chest

Atta boy, Auburn.

Trump on Jon Husted: "I examined his ass"

This is awful and horrible and yet for a Halloween corn maze... www.kcra.com/article/dixo...

“I wish Elon Musk would stop interfering in elections.” —people buying his cars

Tired unit of measure: Scaramucci Wired unit of measure: Zacharia www.nytimes.com/2026/10/16/u...

As of last January, Telegram had given U.S. authorities data on 2,253 users, 404 Media previously reported. @josephcox.bsky.social has the latest. Read now: www.404media.co/heres-what-t...

Microsoft's Surface Laptop Ultra is a laptop, an AI workstation, and a decent gaming laptop all in one. I divided up my long review comparing it to Arm laptops (and the Mac) and asked, do we need this if gaming laptops exist? It's long and nerdy. I hope you enjoy. www.pcworld.com/article/3258...

No price, no delivery guarantee, a projected 2028 ship date and not even any guarantee about what hardware or software the new Tesla Roadster will ship with. And the original Roadster never shipped, either, right? www.businessinsider.com/buy-tesla-fl...

So Trump's Roadster "flies." How long do we have to wait for the questions about propellant, storage, safety, emissions, and so on?

Nvidia paid the most, $25 million, to find Trump's ballroom, an amount that that company wished to remain anonymous. Apple contributed another $25M, while Microsoft paid $10M. Puts all the RTX Spark and Apple smart-home news this week in a different light. www.washingtonpost.com/investigatio...

Big day for Qualcomm: they won $2 in damages from Arm. www.marketscreener.com/news/delawar...

HORNS DOWN MOVING ON UP

I am bummed that I can't see Michigander tonight in Berkeley. Just fun rock and roll the way it should be and a lot of it. youtu.be/1gTjRKvr41M?...

And then Trump gives Satya an award. And Satya accepts it.

Weirdly, the Start menu doesn't seem to be the way you'll interact with AI in Windows. It's...Search? www.pcworld.com/article/3255...

Q: You had some harsh words for Microsoft at the job of your speech, so why is Trump today awarding the nation's top tech medal to Microsoft's CEO? JD VANCE: Microsoft is a great American company. They also laid off 6,000 Americans workers while replacing them with 6,300 H-1Bs.

Hope you all were able to cash in during the Amazon Prime Big Deal Days. And if not then, the holidays. www.pcworld.com/article/3246...

The one key feature that Microsoft isn't divulging about its new AI laptop, the Surface Book Ultra, is battery life. And if people are going to be churning through AI tokens locally, in "airplane mode," on airplanes!...that matters. www.pcworld.com/article/3255...

@airlineflyer.net Do you have a good estimate of the amount of seatback power airlines provide, especially international? I can't find a consistent estimate.

I'm at the Microsoft Surface RTX Spark event, chilling for now.

Windows 11 26H2 is out, months after Microsoft pledged to fix Windows in its famous March memo. How do you think it's doing? Here are my thoughts: www.pcworld.com/article/3246...

Microsoft has several "energy recommendations" to reduce power and maximize battery life within Windows. You can turn them on with one click... so I did some testing. I was shocked at how well they worked! www.pcworld.com/article/3245...

"How can the president of peace be calling for the annihilation of an entire people?" "Because by annihilating Iran, we've created peace in the world. With Iran, I don't think you could ever have peace." time.com/article/2026...

One, this hilariously outs who all got the talking points in advance and how blatantly they parrot those. Two, Schmitt really thought today he'd launch himself to the VP nomination and with that a decent shot at the presidency down the line. Instead this is the only thing he'll be remembered for.

There's no overt consumer productivity angle here, but I wonder if this is going to reduce Docker rollouts for spinning up local AI? blogs.windows.com/windowsdevel...

Trump’s new AI website is kinda fun, it turns out.

AMD spends $8.5 billion in stock to buy World Labs and its infrastructure tools. Guess that shows what AMD now has the money to do and where its priorities are.

I lived in Silicon Valley during my post-college "I'm poor and trying to make it" dating years and even the rich dot-com people I met seemed okay, just crazy wealthy. What it is now (or at least what makes the news) is beyond words.

Microsoft is unveiling a major revamp of Copilot for the PC that includes a daily summary, the ability to code, and even organize agents. www.pcworld.com/article/3243...

Are you going to want to buy a haptic mouse? Microsoft has followed Logitech into the market with a new Surface mouse, but I'm not sure it (the haptics) makes sense from a productivity perspective. www.pcworld.com/article/3242...

"Gentlemen, our 29% approval rating is too high. Let's start take away people's health care."