Monday, November 09
Daily News Stuff 9 November 2026
Mithril Foil Hat Edition
Mithril Foil Hat Edition
Top Story
- I didn't post this yesterday because it wasn't confirmed, but now it is: Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, the most valuable company in the world, had an affair with a Chinese spy. (Tom's Hardware)
Named Alice Huang.
The writers of this season of the simulation are just getting lazy.
Tech News
- You can get a half-way decent CPU, a half-way decent motherboard, and half the memory you need for $249 from Microcenter right now. (WCCFTech)
An AMD 5600X3D, a Gigabyte B550M motherboard, and 16GB of DDR4 RAM. Not bad for the price in these benighted days, though it still needs a graphics card.
- Diamond Foundry is finding founding diamonds. (Tom's Hardware)
200mm (8 inch) single-crystal diamond wafers for making chips.
- Connecting cars to the internet is just as good an idea as it was with supermarket freezers. (Shubs)
As in, not in any way whatsoever.
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Yeah, the Altman and Amodei stuff was testimony enough of Jensen's character that I am unsurprised.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Monday, November 09 2026 10:16 PM (6eVrQ)
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PatBuckman - Altman and Amodei have said a lot of things, and I mostly don't pay attention to them. So I don't know what you're referring to with "the Altman and Amodei stuff". Got a handy link, or a short explanation for those of us who have been living under a rock recently?
Posted by: Robin Munn at Tuesday, November 10 2026 07:31 PM (QWr8X)
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I may have been a bit too hasty, and have conflated some things in my head. I think I was thinking about Nudella's protection of Altman, but not very carefully. Altman isn't strictly an Effective Altruist, but the Effective Altruists may be very skeevy. I was inferring that a lack of marital fidelity might not be surprising if someone is very happy doing business gambles with such people. In hindsight, I sorta feel I must have been tarring with way too broad a brush.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, November 11 2026 12:25 AM (6eVrQ)
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