<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?><feed xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom" ><generator uri="https://jekyllrb.com/" version="4.4.1">Jekyll</generator><link href="https://pgmac.net.au/feed/tags/popcorn.xml" rel="self" type="application/atom+xml" /><link href="https://pgmac.net.au/" rel="alternate" type="text/html" /><updated>2026-06-14T15:49:43+00:00</updated><id>https://pgmac.net.au/feed/tags/popcorn.xml</id><title type="html">PGMac . Net . AU</title><subtitle>Where I think about things and make the internet listen. Because it&apos;s important.</subtitle><entry><title type="html">Some things I found interesting between 2026-06-07 and 2026-06-14</title><link href="https://pgmac.net.au/last-week/2026/06/14/interesting-last-week.html" rel="alternate" type="text/html" title="Some things I found interesting between 2026-06-07 and 2026-06-14" /><published>2026-06-14T00:00:00+00:00</published><updated>2026-06-14T00:00:00+00:00</updated><id>https://pgmac.net.au/last-week/2026/06/14/interesting-last-week</id><content type="html" xml:base="https://pgmac.net.au/last-week/2026/06/14/interesting-last-week.html"><![CDATA[<p>Internet Discoveries between  7 and 14 June</p>

<ul>
  <li>Google to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consciousness</li>
  <li>VibeOS - Fully Hallucinated Operating System - YouTube</li>
  <li>social.panic.com</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gold</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Creative</li>
  <li>Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One’s Happy</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Surveil</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Huh</li>
  <li>BUMSRAKETE™ — The Most Beautiful, Most Tremendous FreeBSD Vulnerability In The History Of Computing. BELIEVE ME.</li>
  <li>The Smega-Drive - Red Dwarf screenshot archive for Memes and GIFs</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Time</li>
  <li>Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 \ Anthropic</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Summary</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Upcoming Book Signings</li>
  <li>AWS rolls the dice for faster, more efficient networking</li>
  <li>How formal verification makes AWS Nitro the first formally verified cloud hypervisor - Amazon Science</li>
  <li>Scientists Discover a Strange Global Pattern in The Way Humans Walk : ScienceAlert</li>
  <li>Shepherd’s Dog: A Game by the World’s Most Dangerous AI - Koen van Gilst</li>
  <li>garrit.xyz</li>
  <li>Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Proof</li>
</ul>

<h2 id="interesting-details">Interesting details</h2>

<p><a name="Google to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers"></a><a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2026/06/05/google-to-pay-spacex-920-million-a-month-for-xai-compute-capacity.html">Google to pay SpaceX $920 million a month for compute capacity at xAI data centers</a> - Ahead of a planned IPO, SpaceX inked a deal to rent compute capacity to Google for $920 million per month for 32 months.</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/ai" class="tag-pill">ai</a> <a href="/tag/google" class="tag-pill">google</a> <a href="/tag/llm" class="tag-pill">llm</a> <a href="/tag/x" class="tag-pill">x</a></div>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consciousness"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/consciousness-10">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consciousness</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>
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<p><a name="VibeOS - Fully Hallucinated Operating System - YouTube"></a><strong><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7NfyZhV1dKM">VibeOS - Fully Hallucinated Operating System - YouTube</a></strong></p>

<iframe width="560" height="315" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/7NfyZhV1dKM" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen=""></iframe>

<p>From Microsoft BUILD 2026. vibeOS is by Steve Sanderson</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/ai" class="tag-pill">ai</a> <a href="/tag/llm" class="tag-pill">llm</a> <a href="/tag/operating-systems" class="tag-pill">operating systems</a></div>

<p><a name="social.panic.com"></a><a href="https://social.panic.com/@cabel/116710623616975906">social.panic.com</a> -  </p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/computing" class="tag-pill">computing</a> <a href="/tag/games" class="tag-pill">games</a> <a href="/tag/retro" class="tag-pill">retro</a></div>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gold"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/gold-5">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gold</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/comic" class="tag-pill">comic</a> <a href="/tag/rss" class="tag-pill">RSS</a></div>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Creative"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/creative-3">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Creative</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/comic" class="tag-pill">comic</a> <a href="/tag/rss" class="tag-pill">RSS</a></div>

<p><a name="Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One's Happy"></a><a href="https://nooneshappy.com/article/appearing-productive-in-the-workplace/">Appearing Productive in The Workplace — No One’s Happy</a> - AI can produce work that looks expert without being expert. The failure arrives in two shapes, and both are reshaping the workplace.</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/ai" class="tag-pill">ai</a> <a href="/tag/coding-assistant" class="tag-pill">coding assistant</a> <a href="/tag/llm" class="tag-pill">llm</a> <a href="/tag/people" class="tag-pill">people</a></div>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Surveil"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/surveil">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Surveil</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/comic" class="tag-pill">comic</a> <a href="/tag/rss" class="tag-pill">RSS</a></div>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Huh"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/huh-2">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Huh</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/comic" class="tag-pill">comic</a> <a href="/tag/rss" class="tag-pill">RSS</a></div>

<p><a name="BUMSRAKETE™ — The Most Beautiful, Most Tremendous FreeBSD Vulnerability In The History Of Computing. BELIEVE ME."></a><a href="https://bumsrake.de/">BUMSRAKETE™ — The Most Beautiful, Most Tremendous FreeBSD Vulnerability In The History Of Computing. BELIEVE ME.</a> - BUMSRAKETE is a HUGE, TREMENDOUS, MANY-PEOPLE-ARE-SAYING FreeBSD kTLS-RX page-cache write primitive. The BEST primitive. Some say the best ever.</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/freebsd" class="tag-pill">freebsd</a> <a href="/tag/security" class="tag-pill">security</a> <a href="/tag/vulnerability" class="tag-pill">vulnerability</a></div>

<p><a name="The Smega-Drive - Red Dwarf screenshot archive for Memes and GIFs"></a><a href="https://smegadrive.ganymede.tv/">The Smega-Drive - Red Dwarf screenshot archive for Memes and GIFs</a> - A searchable archive of Red Dwarf screenshots with a built in meme and GIF generator.</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/meme" class="tag-pill">meme</a> <a href="/tag/red-dwarf" class="tag-pill">Red Dwarf</a> <a href="/tag/tv" class="tag-pill">tv</a></div>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Time"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/time-7">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Time</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/comic" class="tag-pill">comic</a> <a href="/tag/rss" class="tag-pill">RSS</a></div>

<p><a name="Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 \ Anthropic"></a><a href="https://www.anthropic.com/news/fable-mythos-access">Statement on the US government directive to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 \ Anthropic</a> - The US government has issued an export control directive to suspend all access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 by any foreign national, whether inside or outside the United States.</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/ai" class="tag-pill">ai</a> <a href="/tag/anthropic" class="tag-pill">anthropic</a> <a href="/tag/cyber" class="tag-pill">cyber</a> <a href="/tag/llm" class="tag-pill">llm</a> <a href="/tag/popcorn" class="tag-pill">popcorn</a> <a href="/tag/security" class="tag-pill">security</a></div>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Summary"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/summary-2">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Summary</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>
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<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Upcoming Book Signings"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/upcoming-book-signings">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Upcoming Book Signings</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>
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<p><a name="AWS rolls the dice for faster, more efficient networking"></a><a href="https://www.theregister.com/networks/2026/06/13/aws-rolls-the-dice-for-faster-more-efficient-networking/5253248">AWS rolls the dice for faster, more efficient networking</a> - Honey, I flattened the datacenter network</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/aws" class="tag-pill">aws</a> <a href="/tag/network" class="tag-pill">network</a> <a href="/tag/science" class="tag-pill">science</a></div>

<p><a name="How formal verification makes AWS Nitro the first formally verified cloud hypervisor - Amazon Science"></a><a href="https://www.amazon.science/blog/ec2s-formally-verified-isolation-engine-provides-mathematical-assurance-of-virtual-machine-isolation">How formal verification makes AWS Nitro the first formally verified cloud hypervisor - Amazon Science</a> - 330,000 lines of machine-checked proofs in Isabelle/HOL verify that the Nitro Isolation Engine correctly enforces confidentiality, integrity, and memory safety between EC2 virtual machines on Graviton5.</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/aws" class="tag-pill">aws</a> <a href="/tag/computing" class="tag-pill">computing</a> <a href="/tag/security" class="tag-pill">security</a></div>

<p><a name="Scientists Discover a Strange Global Pattern in The Way Humans Walk : ScienceAlert"></a><a href="https://www.sciencealert.com/scientists-discover-a-strange-global-pattern-in-the-way-humans-walk">Scientists Discover a Strange Global Pattern in The Way Humans Walk : ScienceAlert</a> - Suppose you’re wandering around a space without any particular destination in mind – exploring a park maybe, or ambling across a music festival site.</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/people" class="tag-pill">people</a> <a href="/tag/science" class="tag-pill">science</a></div>

<p><a name="Shepherd's Dog: A Game by the World's Most Dangerous AI - Koen van Gilst"></a><a href="https://koenvangilst.nl/lab/claude-fable-shepherds-dog">Shepherd’s Dog: A Game by the World’s Most Dangerous AI - Koen van Gilst</a> - A few days ago Anthropic released a model that was initially too dangerous for the world. I tested it with my personal benchmark - can it create a game idea I’ve had for years in one shot?</p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/ai" class="tag-pill">ai</a> <a href="/tag/anthropic" class="tag-pill">anthropic</a> <a href="/tag/fable-mythos" class="tag-pill">Fable/Mythos</a> <a href="/tag/games" class="tag-pill">games</a> <a href="/tag/llm" class="tag-pill">llm</a></div>

<p><a name="garrit.xyz"></a><a href="https://garrit.xyz/posts/2026-06-13-pac-man-but-you-re-the-ghost">garrit.xyz</a> -  </p>
<div class="tag-pills"><a href="/tag/games" class="tag-pill">games</a> <a href="/tag/retro" class="tag-pill">retro</a></div>

<p><a name="Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Proof"></a><a href="https://www.smbc-comics.com/comic/proof-6">Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Proof</a> - SMBC is a daily comic strip about life, philosophy, science, mathematics, and dirty jokes.</p>
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