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Computex two thousand twenty six wrapped up in Taipei this week, and if you were hoping for bold hardware surprises, you may have left disappointed. The Register's systems editor Tobias Mann reports that the show was dominated almost entirely by AI infrastructure, with chipmakers visibly prioritizing AI customers over the rest of the market. It raises a real question about who the semiconductor industry is actually building for anymore.
On a related note, a piece making the rounds asks a quieter but pointed question about AI reliability. A blog called Orchid Files documents yet another case of an AI system dispensing confidently wrong advice, the kind of error that's easy to miss until it isn't. As these tools embed deeper into daily decisions, the cost of that confidence gap keeps growing.
And in a story that feels almost like a counterpoint to all things modern, a developer has released AxonASP, a project that lets you run Classic ASP, Microsoft's late nineties web scripting technology, on Linux, macOS, and Windows today. It's a niche tool, but it speaks to how much legacy code still quietly powers the web, and how someone always shows up to keep it breathing.
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