Ambient Irony

It was a bad day. A lot of bad stuff happened. And I'd love to forget it all. But I don't. Not ever. Because this is what I do. Every time, every day, every second, this: On five, we're bringing down the government.

Saturday, July 18

Daily News Stuff 18 July 2026

Accidental Umpires Edition

Top Story

AWS is experiencing a wee spot of bother with its billing system. (The Register)

Speculation is that it's a unit conversion error in the cost estimation tool, but all we know for sure is that people who barely use the service are being alerted to cost estimates in the billions of dollars, and for businesses that have active applications the predicted bills run into the trillions.

AWS say they are looking into it.

Some users are nonetheless expressing mild consternation.

I tried to embed the tweets two different ways but the end result was that the editor ate the entire post, so links are all you get. Saved by my reflexive habit of Ctrl-C to capture the post content before I hit save, from back when the server glitched a lot more often than it does now.

Tech News

TSMC says that its work towards 1.4nm technology is progressing well, with 90% yield on SRAM dies and 90% of targeted performance on logic circuits. (Tom's Hardware)

1.4nm is the node after the 2nm node that we are expecting to see late this year, so it won't reach production until at least 2028. A 90% yield this early is a good sign.
AI datacenters must produce as much energy as they consume, says retarded communist and part-time Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese. (Tom's Hardware)

Alexa, please repeal the laws of thermodynamics.
The Zilog Z80 has turned 50. (Goliath32)

As has that website.
Microsoft's new Surface Laptop is here with its complement of eight whole gigabytes of RAM. (The Verge)

That's plenty for Linux, and tolerable for MacOS. Running Windows 11 it's a miserable experience.
The Redmagic Astra 2 tablet is here, with a 9" 185Hz OLED screen, a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 CPU, up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, and... Active cooling? (Liliputing)

The one thing I want from a tablet is not to have a fan whining at me.
The Lenovo Legion Y700 Infinite tablet is here, with an 8.8" OLED display, a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 CPU, up to 24GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, and... Passive cooling, apparently. (Notebook Check)

It's going the be horribly expensive and I just picked up their Gen 3 model at half price so I'm not even tempted, but at least it's silent.
Beelink's new ME Pro 370 is a NAS with a Ryzen 370 12-core laptop CPU, supporting two or four 3.5" hard drives, three M.2 SSDs, and... Up to 256GB of RAM? (Notebook Check)

That seems unlikely, because that amount would require four 64GB DDR5 modules, and nobody is putting four SODIMM slots in consumer equipment.

I have ten DDR5 SODIMMs. Believe me, I've looked.

Research

The Eighth Law already requires that every admissible alteration of the noetic field (and, by extension, every macroscopic world-line that couples to that field) lie along a null geodesic of the full 6D manifold that satisfies the 2T-gauge conditions. Ordinary 3+1 orbital motion is the projection of such a higher-dimensional geodesic. Spin-orbit locking therefore cannot be a purely 3-spatial mechanical equilibrium; it must also be consistent with the hidden

t_2

and

x^4

components of the geodesic. In practice this appears observationally as an additional, apparently arbitrary ceiling on how tightly a world can remain synchronized: once the integrated "geodesic resistance”

\mathcal{I}(\gamma)

exceeds a threshold set by the unknown couplings

\beta

\kappa

and the noetic tensor, further dissipative evolution is forbidden even if ordinary tidal torque remains. The result is that perfect, permanent 1:1 locking may be rarer or more fragile than in 3+1 physics, and residual libration or slow drift in the relative orientation of the permanent day/night hemispheres can persist.

This actually makes complete sense given the context, and solves the problem, but even so gives me a headache.

All I wanted to do was make the sky blue.

I've also been tinkering with Fable as well as Grok, and while it's impressive, I don't trust it. It heaped effusive praise on what I consider one of the weakest points of the plot of the story I'm working on.

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Disclaimer: Do not eat the dark snow.

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1 A less idiotic way of saying that thing about data centers would be to mandate that if a data center is planned to consume 1 GW, the company putting in the data center must also contract to put in a new power plant putting out 1 GW.

But very few politicians are going to say that, because new power plants = CO2 = sad Gaia. Idiots.

A while back, like a couple decades ago, I was thinking "Well, if this 'CO2 causes global warming' nonsense continues, at least it'll lead to more of a push for nuclear power". I was naive: many of the people screaming about CO2 are doing so for political power, not because of the actual issues. Who was it who accidentally said the quiet part out loud? I can't remember, but it was something like "We're not trying to sovle the climate issue, we're trying to smash capitalism". Really gave the game away.

Besides, the same people panicking about CO2 would also panic if someone proposed a nuclear plant in their area. Personally, I would be the president of the "Yes, In My Back Yard" society; I would love to see a new nuclear plant going in right across the street from me. But that's because I actually understand how they work. Which most of those NIMBYists don't.

Posted by: Robin Munn at Saturday, July 18 2026 06:15 PM (HcJvv)

2 P.S. Pixy, I tried to spell "naive" with an i-plus-diaresus character but got an error from line 648 of Form.py: ascii codec can't encode `0xef`. The offending line:
print('Akismet check %s in %0.3fs on %s %s %s "%s"' % ('error' if aki_err else 'accept' if aki_ok else 'reject', time.time()-taki, tags.get('form.name',''), tags.get('form.web',''), tags.get('form.mail',''), text))
You probably need to slap a (text if type(text) == 'str' else text.decode('utf-8', 'backslashreplace') at the end of that line instead of "text"; this is probably also why I couldn't use an em dash character a few days ago. (Note that I haven't tested that Python code in an actual Python file, just typed it into the text box here, so there might be errors in it. Caveat coder).

Posted by: Robin Munn at Saturday, July 18 2026 06:20 PM (HcJvv)

3 Let me test a fix: naïve

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Posted by: Pixy Misa at Sunday, July 19 2026 09:35 AM (PiXy!)

6 I think it's fixed.

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Friday, July 17

Daily News Stuff 17 July 2026

Dwarves Are Back On The Menu Edition

Top Story

TSMC has committed another $100 billion for four new leading-edge 2nm fabs in Arizona. (Tom's Hardware)

I'm not sure exactly why they chose Arizona apart from the fact that China is unlikely to successfully invade, but that seems like a good enough reason.

Tech News

India has fined Hewlett Packard 1.4 billion rupees for price fixing. (Ars Technica)

About tree fiddy in real money.
AMD's Ryzen 7700X3D is the company's latest though not newest CPU with what they term "3D-Vcache" - an additional 64MB cache chip stacked on top of the CPU die. (Tom's Hardware)

The problem is that it's not much faster than the existing 7700X unless you're specifically using it to play games, and not much faster than the existing 7600X3D if you are playing games, and both of those chips are around $100 cheaper than the 7700X3D's $329.
1Password now lets Claude use your passwords - without giving it access to the passwords themselves. (Nerds.xyz)

Claude sends a request to 1Password, the user approves it, and Claude ends up with access to the desired service without ever seeing the password. It's a pretty elegant solution to a situation set up mostly by crazy people.
Why is OpenAI selling a ChatGPT basketball? (Tech Crunch)

Good question. Next question.

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Disclaimer: Roast loin of... What?

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Thursday, July 16

Daily News Stuff 16 July 2026

Disclaimer-Free Edition

Top Story

The latest scandal of a fatal failure of Tesla's FSD (full self-driving) system turns out to have been another case of PTTMCDISEH-STTW. (Tech Crunch)

Pedal-to-the-metal controlled driving into someone else's house - straight through the wall.

Funny how often things turn out that way.

Tech News

Contrary to what I was saying yesterday, Asus reports that DDR5 memory from China's CXMT is slower and less reliable than that from, for example, South Korea's SK Hynix. (Tom's Hardware)

Underlining precisely what I said, this only matters at all if you are trying to overclock your memory, which I don't recommend in the current market.
Just what the PC gaming ecosystem needs: Cartridges. (Tom's Hardware)

The "cartridges" are actually repurposed old 2.5" hard drives, and it specifically works for Steam games on Linux, but it works.
There's likely to be a shortage of the new MacBook Neo. (WCCFTech)

Because - as predicted the moment it was announced - Apple has run out of its limited supply of defective A18 Pro iPhone CPUs, and is now running short of functional A18 Pro chips.
Google's legal settlement with the Epic Games Store has been withdrawn. Here's why that's a good thing. (Ars Technica)

Third-party app stores are now coming to Android, making the existing settlement moot.
There is still no release date for Ananta.

Danmaching

So I got through the tournament arc in Season 2, and it wasn't too much of a slog - from set up to denouement it was only four episodes.

I had started watching fansubs on YouTube because seasons 2 and 4 just left Hidive in Australia - or that's what they claimed - but now I've tracked it down.

Season 1 isn't there, but if you click on season 4 it available via a season menu masquerading as season 4, and if you select season 5 it is available as season 1.

Season 2 is also hiding under season 4, but it's actually selected by default.

Season 3 is also hiding under season 4, but you can't watch it unless you have a Crunchyroll subscription via Amazon Prime. But where previously they only had the season 3 OVA, they now have the full season 3 TV as well.

Season 4 is actually under season 4, but if you click on season 4 it takes you to season 2, so you have to use the dropdown to get to season 4.

Season 5 is actually season 5, and also season 1.

And Sword Oratoria is what it is.

Hope you've been taking notes because there'll be a short quiz next period.

Musical Interlude

It's not Frieren without a closing theme by Milet.

Disclaimer: I lied.

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1 I am utterly puzzled by how they managed to screw that up this badly. Man, if that's what hoops you have to jump through to watch a show "legitimately", it's no wonder sites like Nyaa are flourishing.

I am reminded of Louis Rossmann's video rant from... a few months ago? A year or two? Something like that. He was ranting about Netflix, and how they just would not serve him a 1080p stream on his Linux box (and forget about 4K); it was limited to 720p at most. His theme, as I recall, was that when the companies delivering the "legitimate" product deliberately downgrade the product, piracy becomes morally justified. And even if it weren't morally justified, it's practical. Many people who would be willing to pay for a quality product are turning to the pirate sources because it's the only way for them to get the quality product they would like to pay for. Or... the product that they already paid for, but that somebody (whose name might, perhaps, rhyme with pony) has taken away from them.

Posted by: Robin Munn at Friday, July 17 2026 12:37 AM (HcJvv)

2 I should add that starting where I said "And even if it weren't morally justified, it's practical", I was expressing my own opinions. Until that sentence, I was quoting Rossmann's video. But Rossmann didn't talk about the practical aspects of torrenting (that the pirate sources are delivering a higher-quality product than the legitimate ones); that was me saying that.

Posted by: Robin Munn at Friday, July 17 2026 12:46 AM (HcJvv)

3 On the one hand, I'm in favour of "piracy" because once it's out there, it's out there, and screw you for trying to prosecute people for watching movies. On the other hand, it's just mindless consumption of drivel that drives most of it, and getting all worked up about being legally or technologically restricted from getting the maximum bang from your cat-shit dollar is a bit silly to me. On the gripping hand: copying rights, intellectual property, and such business are absurd legal fictions created to extract as much value from inherently worthless items as possible, and the practitioners should be reviled by all sane people.

Posted by: normal at Friday, July 17 2026 03:15 AM (LADmw)

4 I can't agree with the wholesale condemnation of all intellectual-property laws. They do serve a useful purpose, though it's also true that their purpose has been much abused over the years, usually due to the love of money. ("For the love of money is the root of all kinds of evil", 1 Timothy 6:10). But the original purpose, to allow people to make enough money to live off of from writing books, creating beautiful art, making movies that many people would be willing to pay money to see, and so on -- that purpose is still a useful one. All of those things: fiction books, beautiful pictures, fun movies, all of them are inherently worthless, as you pointed out, at least from one point of view. They serve no purpose except to entertain, to give people a break from a boring routine. And yet... that has inherent worth, too. Not economic worth per se, and certainly not from the perspective of putting food on the table or clothes on your back. Reading a book won't fill your stomach or satisfy your hunger. (Though reading the Redwall series can actually make you hungry; man, does that guy write good feasting scenes!) But good art can lift your spirits or satisfy your soul. There's value in that.

There's more I could write, but I have an appointment coming up, and this would turn into an essay if I let it. So I'll leave it at that: that there should be ways to encourage artists to create, to let them make money off of their creation. I'm very glad that Patreon exists, for example. But also, there was a baby somewhere in the flood of bathwater that modern intellectual property law has become. Let's not throw the entire thing out wholesale; let's be more cautious than that.

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Wednesday, July 15

Daily News Stuff 15 July 2026

Red Fish Blue Fish Edition

Top Story

Microsoft has updated Windows Search and... Fixed it? (WCCFTech)

Well, they've at least stopped shoving it full of ads, which goes a big way toward fixing it.
Micrsoft just release a set of patches that fix 570 security holes in Windows and their other software. (Krebs on Security)

That's... Good, I guess? If still terrifying.
Microsoft also fixed Secure Boot. (Ars Technica)

Which as it happens has been insecure boot since 2013.

Tech News

With memory being so wildly expensive these days, you might be wondering which memory you should buy.

And the answer is, in most cases, cheap memory. Or the cheapest you can find from a reliable retailer.

Intel has its CUDIMMs and AMD has its ULL memory. They are not worth buying.

For everyday tasks they make no difference, and for gaming the money is far better spent on a AMD Ryzen X3D CPU, or if you have an Intel system, on wishing you had an AMD system. The expanded cache on AMD's X3D CPUs makes memory speed largely irrelevant for most users, even gamers intent on wringing every last drop of performance out of their systems.

Intel will be shipping its own X3D equivalent later this year with its Nova Lake processors, which include up to 288MB of cache, though most users will do fine with half that much.
Bonsai 27B is the Qwen 27B model squooshed into a bit and a bit. (PrismML)

Native Qwen 27B uses 16-bit floating point, so it needs 54GB of VRAM to run unrestricted. And 54GB of VRAM is quite expensive in the current market.

What the Bonsai process does is to prune it down to ternary or binary with scaling factors per group. In ternary form it fits in 5.9GB of VRAM, while retaining more than 90% of the capabilities of the full model.
Research today: Megatides on microplanets, imaginative uses for fireworks, the appropriate gratuities for Irish railway porters in 1911, and imagine you won the war and they didn't know what to do with you so they busted you down to cadet...

Oh. That's where I stole that one from. It's different enough, though.

Into Each Season A Little Tournament Arc Must Fall

So I rewatched season one of Danmachi and moved on to season two, taking advantage of a 75% off Hidive subscription I picked up on Prime day. They did have all of it on offer but then seasons two and four disappeared before I could get to them, but now season two is back only it's called season four so I don't know what they're doing and it's pretty clear neither do they. And season three is only on Crunchyroll, probably. Apparently the Australian regional rights are a big ball of mud.

Anyway, season two sucks. At the outset, at least; a scan of the episode titles suggest I only need to suffer through two more episodes of bilge before it gets back to a story.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: He's fallen in the water!

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Tuesday, July 14

Daily News Stuff 14 July 2026

The Origin Of Croissants Edition

Top Story

Big Three SK Hynix memory maker may achieve just one sixth of its planned increases in capacity by 2028. (WCCFTech)

How surprising that a company massively benefiting from a shortage is slow to resolve that shortage.
SK Hynix is also planning to invest its new round of US share sales into, uh, South Korean government bonds. (WCCFTech)

I don't think they're convinced the shortage is here to stay.
Meta is expanding its planned Hyperion AI supercluster in Louisiana to 5GW of capacity at a cost of $50 billion. (Tom's Hardware)

Meta has had many major wins with customers signing up for its AI services, such as, uh, nobody.

Tech News

Astronomers have found sugar among the stars. (AP News)

I was wondering where I left that.
Hundreds of economists say we must act now to avert disruption from AI. (AP News)

They provided thousands of different theories of what must be done, with only one factor in common: Providing more funding to economists.
Linux 7.2 may be dropping support for the Intel 80486, but it's getting fresh driver updates for the Sega Dreamcast. (Tom's Hardware)

Good to hear for everyone who wants to keep their dreams alive.
If you don't have a Dreamcast, don't worry, you can run Linux on a Sega 32X. (GitHub)

No surprise; the 32X runs a Hitachi SH2 CPU, very similar to but much slower than the SH4 chip used in the Dreamcast.
Social media bans are coming for children right across Europe. (The Verge)

Because they're communists.
China, Russia, and Iran are working to inflame tensions over AI datacenters in the US. (New York Times) (archive site)

Because they're communists.
55% of Americans have stopped regular use of social media. (PC Magazine)

Because they're tired of dealing with communists.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Lares to the left of me, lares to the right of me...

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Monday, July 13

Daily News Stuff 13 July 2026

Seven Ate Nine Edition

Top Story

Apple's upcoming M7 processor, destined for a full rollout with Pro, Max, and Ultra models, is expected to support as much as 1.5TB of RAM for local AI and other massively intensive workloads. (WCCFTech)

Which will cost $37,500. For the RAM. The rest of the computer will be... Actually relatively inexpensive.
Apple is already working on the next-generation M8 chip, which will use a 1.4nm process. (WCCFTech)

TSMC plans initial production of 1.4nm chips in 2028, so this is likely three years away.

Tech News

AMD's latest graphics driver update brings ray regeneration (improved ray tracing), radiance caching, and multi-frame generation. (WCCFTech)

Frame generation is a sore spot for many games. It uses AI to generate in-between frames to smooth out game graphics, much the same way upscaling generates in-between pixels to make each frame of graphics look better.

The problem is that the overhead of frame generation makes the game run slower rather than faster, while it looks smoother. The imbalance can be jarring.
If Apple's Lisa - now available in an FPGA for for $350 - is too fancy for you, why not go seriously old school with an Apple I? (Tom's Hardware)

Apart from the fact that it costs as much as a house.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Revenge of the Norns!

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Sunday, July 12

Daily News Stuff 12 July 2026

The Court Of King Galacticus Edition

Top Story

SK Hynix says that 2027 will be the "worst year" for memory, predicting that the crunch will last until 2030. (Tom's Hardware)

I panicked and bought half a terabyte of RAM, everything I could find at old prices (and in one case, more than old prices but better than typical new prices).

I just need to baby it along for a few years.
Huawei says screw you guys, we'll build our own memory! With blackjack, and hookers! (WCCFTech)

The company is planning to churn out 140,000 12-inch wafers a month of 28nm DRAM. Given the nuances of DRAM scaling, I'm not sure exactly what that counts for... Hang on.

Looks like it's about 5% of current production by the Big Three, but every drop in the ocean counts.

Tech News

Vint Cerf, often called "the father of the internet", is retiring from his role at Google. (Tech Crunch)

I too hope to be able to retire by the time I am 83.
Cuba has been hit with a nation-wide blackout. (CNN)

Unexpectedly.
You can now pick up AMD's 9070 GRE graphics card for $499. (Tom's Hardware)

Still overpriced but not as laughably so as before.
The FCC has annoyed astronomers by approving Earendil. (PC Magazine)

Earendil - named after the mariner from Tolkien's Silmarillion - is an experimental mirror sixty feet on a side, deployed into orbit to reflect sunlight down to anywhere that needs a little brightening up.

The plan is to launch 50,000 of these. Which used to be a lot.
Communists are demanding the FCC grant them veto over space-based datacenters. (The Register)

The reasoning being that if environmental groups can't set them on fire, they're bad and must be illegal.
Research today: The effects of local decompactification of additional spatial dimensions on the formation of exotic ices in the abyssal depths of a water world of around 5 Earth diameters, Irish ferry timetables and fares in Galway Bay in 1911, the arms and armour of the Galatian mercenaries in the service of Nicomedes I of Bithnyia in 278 BC, and the application of scaling laws to the possible size of terrestrial nudibranchs.

No catgirls died in the research of these story elements. Partly because they already went extinct.

Musical Interlude

Yes, I've been rewatching Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon a.k.a Danmachi, prompted by its availability in full on Hidive, which I picked up a subscription to at 75% off during Amazon's Prime Day sale. This song is the closing theme for the first season.

Of course, seasons two and four left the service before I got to them, and season two is not available for streaming in Australia due to the regional rights being a big ball of mud... Not available legitimately.

Oh, and I missed that the new Tenchi Galaxy series is being funded through a Kickstarter project. If you're interested, I regret to inform you that you're too late... It's already reached its goal. You have 57 days to chip in if you'd like, though.

Disclaimer: The bastards say, welcome.

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Saturday, July 11

Daily News Stuff 11 July 2026

Ship Aisle And Edition

Top Story

Commies to the left of me, commies also to the left of me: Meta faces fines in the trillions of dollars from Europe and a cartel of US states unless they make their platform worse. (Ars Technica)

These people need meteor strikes. Now:
That figure is likely uncomfortably "close to Meta’s market capitalization of around $1.5 trillion," Reuters noted. But California Attorney General Rob Bonta seems to agree it's appropriate, alleging in a statement to Reuters that "Meta has prioritized profits over the safety of kids and fueled the mental health crisis we see impacting a generation of American children."
What generation of American children? The ones you didn't manage to murder or mutilate?
As Meta seemingly continues treading water - pointing to screen-time notifications that kids can easily dismiss or default settings that may be changed - the financial pressure to do more to protect kids could threaten its AI ambitions at a crucial time.
Everything not forbidden is forbidden. Everything not compulsory is compulsory.
Don't you tilt your head at me! (The Register)

We see you! Don't think we don't just because we're passed out in the gutter blitzed on fentanyl!

Tech News

Taiwanese Nanya, the fourth or fifth of the Big Three memory makers, is planning to hike capital investment to $6.2 billion next year. (Tom's Hardware)

That's four times the amount allocated for this year, which was in turn four times the amount spent last year.

Supporting this are modest increases in quarterly revenue and profits year-on-year... A mere 684% and 1324% respectively.

70% of Nanya's sales are still of older DDR4 RAM, but in this market every bit helps.
New Japanese chipmaker Rapidus is looking to hit the ground running next year as well with the launch of its 2nm fabs. (Tom's Hardware)

Until a consortium of Japanese companies joined forces to create Rapidus in 2022, the country's leading chip factories were using a creaky 40nm process - great for high-volume low-cost automotive microcontrollers but paleolithic compared to modern laptop and phone chips.

Rather than merely trying to pick up the pace, they have chosen to leapfrog the past two decades entirely.
If you always wanted an Apple Lisa but weren't haunting the right landfill in 1989 when thousands of unsold units were dumped, now is your chance. (The Register)

A complete FPGA-emulated Lisa motherboard is now available for $350.

And the operating system is free. Apple released that as almost open source in 2023.
Nvidia's off again-off again 5000 Super series is... On? (WCCFTech)

Not soon and not cheap, but not not.

Not At All Tech News

The game behind the anime series that launched a thousand nice boat memes, School Days, is receiving a new English language dub.

Among the voice talents are Mint Fantome and Phoebe Chan of idol group Densetsu.EXE, formerly known as Nijisanji's Pomu Rainpuff and Prism Project's little blue forg Ami Amami respectively.
Meanwhile there's yet another new Tenchi Muyo outing, Tenchi Galaxy, on the way, with the dub cast adding the talents of Hololive English Advent's devilish diva, Nerissa Ravencroft.
Today's victims: Catgirls spared further embarrassment, but the Galatians were all but wiped out by disease before they could rendevous with Nicomedes.

The story background is... Complicated.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: No, it definitely says "forg".

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Friday, July 10

Daily News Stuff 10 July 2026

Slop Story Edition

Top Story

Nvidia's share price is down by 15% - from a recent peak of $117 squintillion - as it succumbs to the memory price hikes it caused for everybody else. (Tech Crunch)

Good work, Jensen.
Meanwhile new ULL - ultra-low latency - memory for AMD systems offers up to a 4% speed boost. (Tom's Hardware)

For only double the price.
Turns out you can upgrade the RAM in your PlayStation - and it's not even expensive. (Notebook Check)

That only gets from from 2MB to 16MB.

Yes, of course we're talking about the PlayStation One.

Tech News

AMD has confirmed it will be launching its new Zen 6 processor family this month, at an event on July 22 and 23. (WCCFTech)

Launching, not selling. And the event will be exclusively for server chips, with a likely six month delay before we see them for the desktop. But performance of the server versions will give us a very good idea of what to expect in consumer models, because the core designs - and even the chiplets - are identical. The server versions just wire up more chiplets.
While we wait for Zen 6, AMD has raised the shuddering zombie of Zen 2 to keep us entertained. (Tom's Hardware)

The 4700LE is a 4700G without the G - the integrated graphics.

I don't know why; it just is.
OpenAI's Atlas browser on the other hand is not. (Tech Crunch)

Launched in October, the candle that burned half as bright was promptly cancelled.
AMD has also announced eleven new Zen 4 laptop parts. (WCCFTech)

New as in that precise marketable configuration; there is nothing new about the technology. But I'm writing this on a Zen 3 chip and Zen 4 is markedly better.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: No, never.

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Thursday, July 09

Daily News Stuff 9 July 2026

Tanuki And Kitsune Go To Market Edition

Top Story

John Deere tractor owners and third party repair centers have been granted the same ability to repair the devices as the company's own service technicians under a 10 year agreement with the FTC. (AP News)

Doesn't mean they're repairable, just means the company can't forbid you to try.
Speaking of settling Elon Musk has done so with the SEC over his purchase of Twitter back in the late Bronze Age. (Tech Crunch)

He was fined $1.5 million, which represents approximately thruppence in comparison to my own bank account.

Tech News

Microsoft's share of the global desktop operating system market has fallen to just 56.5%. (Linuxiac)

Coming in second at around 20% is... Apparently something called "This survey is garbage".
Grok 4.5 is here. (x.ai)

I noticed Grok having a stroke recently; no data lost but it had to reload all my documents and restart the conversation. That may have been the model switch.

Anyway, Grok is now smarter than Claude Opus but still not quite as smart as Claude Fable.
AMD's upcoming Zen 6 10-core CPU squishes existing 10-core laptop models like the Ryzen 365. (WCCFTech)

But there's something a little odd here. The results show two core clusters, with four cores in the main cluster and six in the second cluster.

That would still be a laptop chip, because the 10-core desktop chips we're expecting will have a single core cluster. Given that, the performance increase of 29% single-threaded and 22% multi-threaded is more than respectable.
Astronomers have discovered a potentially habitable exoplanet orbiting a start about 25 light years away. (Notebook Check)

Bit of a commute but it's in a good neighbourhood.

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Disclaimer: And it's right off the freeway!

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