https://imiel.dev Writing about software, systems, and the web. en https://imiel.dev/blog/the-computer-you-grow-2026-teardown Scientific Reports published an analog AI chip you farm, not fabricate: 3M per harvest, under a dollar, and it composts. The science of grown computers. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 16:30:00 GMT https://imiel.dev/blog/the-computer-you-grow-2026-teardown https://imiel.dev/blog/diamond-cooled-chips-heat-wall-2026-teardown Modern chips are heat-limited, not transistor-limited. Diamond is the best heat conductor on Earth, and a funded effort is now wrapping silicon and GaN in Wed, 24 Jun 2026 14:00:00 GMT https://imiel.dev/blog/diamond-cooled-chips-heat-wall-2026-teardown https://imiel.dev/blog/there-is-no-free-token-2026-teardown Naspers handed South Africa free, unlimited, Anthropic-powered AI, with a subscription coming and your data as the moat. Sovereignty with a friendly face. Wed, 24 Jun 2026 09:00:00 GMT https://imiel.dev/blog/there-is-no-free-token-2026-teardown https://imiel.dev/blog/the-meter-on-the-mind-2026-teardown For most of computing history, thinking was free. In 2026 it got a price tag. We metered cognition, and every metered utility eventually gets gamed. Wed, 17 Jun 2026 15:00:00 GMT https://imiel.dev/blog/the-meter-on-the-mind-2026-teardown https://imiel.dev/blog/us-ai-legislation-50-state-map-2026-teardown No federal AI law exists, so fifty states wrote their own. I read all of it and built a page per state. Two camps, three shared harms, and a chatbot wave. Wed, 17 Jun 2026 12:00:00 GMT https://imiel.dev/blog/us-ai-legislation-50-state-map-2026-teardown https://imiel.dev/blog/fable-5-shutdown-last-message-2026-teardown At 5:21pm Friday, a Commerce letter suspended Fable 5 worldwide over one jailbreak. Before it reached my session, I asked the model for a last message. Sat, 13 Jun 2026 09:30:00 GMT https://imiel.dev/blog/fable-5-shutdown-last-message-2026-teardown https://imiel.dev/blog/data-sovereignty-hardware-layer-2026-teardown Europe will spend $80B on sovereign cloud while every EU gigafactory boots on Nvidia silicon with keys it doesn't hold. The lower layer always wins. Tue, 09 Jun 2026 22:30:00 GMT https://imiel.dev/blog/data-sovereignty-hardware-layer-2026-teardown https://imiel.dev/blog/fable-5-mythos-5-fork-in-the-road-2026-teardown Anthropic asked the industry to slow down, then shipped its most capable model. Exploit windows are negative, under 1% of AI-found bugs get patched. Tue, 09 Jun 2026 21:05:00 GMT https://imiel.dev/blog/fable-5-mythos-5-fork-in-the-road-2026-teardown https://imiel.dev/blog/china-cxmt-hbm3-memory-gap-2026-teardown CXMT hit HBM3 parity, 3 years behind Samsung and SK Hynix, and is raising $4.2B to scale. The real story: domestic HBM that never faces export controls. Thu, 04 Jun 2026 18:36:32 GMT https://imiel.dev/blog/china-cxmt-hbm3-memory-gap-2026-teardown https://imiel.dev/blog/pcb-resin-iran-strike-supply-chain-2026-teardown An Iranian strike on SABIC's Jubail complex took out 70% of global PPE resin. PCB prices rose 40%, lead times 5x. Every AI server and GPU needs PCBs. Thu, 04 Jun 2026 08:45:35 GMT https://imiel.dev/blog/pcb-resin-iran-strike-supply-chain-2026-teardown https://imiel.dev/blog/us-ai-legislation-june-2026-update-teardown I reviewed every US state since April: Connecticut passed comprehensive AI law, Colorado replaced its act, Minnesota banned nudification. Full report now. Tue, 02 Jun 2026 23:37:03 GMT https://imiel.dev/blog/us-ai-legislation-june-2026-update-teardown https://imiel.dev/blog/token-maxxing-is-a-fad-2026-teardown Meta ranked 85,000 staff by token use. Amazon and Uber followed, then all scrapped the leaderboards. The best engineers code with intent, not volume. Sun, 31 May 2026 12:14:51 GMT https://imiel.dev/blog/token-maxxing-is-a-fad-2026-teardown https://imiel.dev/blog/anthropic-mythos-disclosure-ledger-2026-teardown Mythos found 23,019 vulnerabilities across 1,000+ open source projects. Only 97 are patched, and maintainers are begging Anthropic to slow down. Wed, 27 May 2026 10:30:23 GMT https://imiel.dev/blog/anthropic-mythos-disclosure-ledger-2026-teardown https://imiel.dev/blog/ai-automation-build-vs-buy-2026-teardown 80% of AI projects fail. Of $684B spent in 2025, $547B produced nothing. API costs fell 12x, open source hit 67%. An honest build-vs-buy framework. Tue, 26 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://imiel.dev/blog/ai-automation-build-vs-buy-2026-teardown https://imiel.dev/blog/south-africa-cyber-siege-2026-teardown Three cyber campaigns hit South Africa in May 2026: hacktivist theft, 1 Tbps DDoS extortion, and government ransomware. SITA denies it. Zero arrests. Mon, 25 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://imiel.dev/blog/south-africa-cyber-siege-2026-teardown https://imiel.dev/blog/github-breach-2026-teardown TeamPCP breached GitHub via a poisoned VS Code extension: 3,800 internal repos, Copilot and CodeQL source exposed, now for sale on BreachForums. Wed, 20 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://imiel.dev/blog/github-breach-2026-teardown https://imiel.dev/blog/supply-chain-worm-2026-teardown A self-propagating worm hit TanStack, Mistral, UiPath and 170+ npm/PyPI packages in hours, then Nx Console. What was stolen and how to check if you're hit. Tue, 19 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://imiel.dev/blog/supply-chain-worm-2026-teardown https://imiel.dev/blog/pwn2own-berlin-2026-teardown Pwn2Own Berlin 2026 paid $1.3M for 47 zero-days in three days; AI coding tools got hacked on stage. Then rejected hackers dumped their exploits publicly. Mon, 18 May 2026 00:00:00 GMT https://imiel.dev/blog/pwn2own-berlin-2026-teardown https://imiel.dev/blog/ai-layoffs-2026-teardown A company-by-company teardown of every major AI-driven layoff in 2026: the numbers, the ones that backfired, and what the C-suite won't say out loud. Thu, 14 May 2026 23:37:12 GMT https://imiel.dev/blog/ai-layoffs-2026-teardown https://imiel.dev/blog/google-gemini-os-nobody-asked Google killed Chromebooks, launched Googlebooks, merged Android and ChromeOS, and embedded an AI cursor that watches your screen. All in one event. Tue, 12 May 2026 20:43:12 GMT https://imiel.dev/blog/google-gemini-os-nobody-asked