Sunday, November 15
Daily News Stuff 15 November 2026
To Beer Or Not To Beer Edition
To Beer Or Not To Beer Edition
Top Story
- It was the router. (Yahoo News)
The ATC outage that grounded aircraft across America was due to a single flaky router.
An aggressively flaky router, but still, just one router.
Tech News
- Starship flight 15 ended in a textbook perfect catch of Starship in the Mechazilla chopsticks. (SpaceX)
Catching Starship itself for the first time; the previous demonstration of this trick was catching the booster, which they didn't attempt on this flight. Long-term the plan is to catch and re-use both parts of the rocket.
- 3d V-cache is back on the menu for AMD Epyc server processors. (The Register)
This is something that existed with Zen 4 server chips but was never produced with Zen 5. Now it's back with Zen 6, albeit with a twist: Instead of 12 chiplets with 8 cores 96MB of cache each, the new model offers 8 chiplets with 12 cores and 144MB of cache. Either way you get a total of 96 cores and 1152MB of cache, though Zen 6 is quite a bit faster.
- Intel surged to 70% of desktop market share in the most recent quarter, reversing some of the gains made by AMD of the past several years. (WCCFTech)
Though this comes together with a global decline in sales due to the insane costs of memory right now, which seems to be hitting gaming systems harder than business PCs.
- Meanwhile Nvidia's discontinued RTX 5090 has not only reappeared on store shelves but seen sharp price cuts - though still costing far more than the fantasy MSRP - just days after Jensen Huang was removed as CEO. (WCCFTech)
Almost as if the shortages were engineered to force the price increases.
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