Daily Tech News 1 July 2026

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South Korea's national and regional governments and major industrial groups have jointly committed to $1 trillion in investment to expand production of chips and bots. (Ars Technica)

$585 billion to increase chip production, with a particular focus on doubling memory production within five years.

$357 billion to construct new datacenters to, uh, use up all that extra memory.

And still more billions to expand production of robots and build 8 gigawatts of new generating capacity to power it all.

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Speaking of which, Henrico County in Virginia is asking schools to open the blinds and turn off the lights to save electricity. (404 Media) (archive site)

Henrico County has 37 datacenters and is constructing 17 more right now.
Meta - which is to say Facebook - is reusing its DDR4 memory in DDR5 servers. (Tom's Hardware)

That doesn't work, so what they've done is create a custom CXL-to-DDR4 adapter chip, which allows the servers to access memory over PCIe.
G Skill's new ultra low latency 32GB memory kits cost just $1100. (Tom's Hardware)

Thanks, but no.
For those experiencing difficulties with the latest iteration of Microsoft Notepad, there is a solution. (GitHub)

Though you will need to assemble it yourself.

It should come to about 2686 bytes and has full feature compatibility with classic Notepad.
The Redmagic Astra 2 is a large small tablet with a 2400x1504 185Hz OLED display. (Liliputing)

With its 9" screen it's really pushing the boundaries of a small tablet, but it's only about 20% heavier than the 7" Nexus 7.

It runs on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and has up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage. Pricing in China starts at $780 for the base model with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage and goes up from there.

The previous model - no longer available - started at $549, so it's gotten a lot more expensive.
The GPD Win Max 3 is a mini-laptop with, curiously enough, a 9" 2400x1504 OLED display. (Liliputing)

With a 165Hz refresh so it's the display used in the previous Redmagic Astra tablet.

Apart from that, it has up to a Ryzen 395 processor with 128GB of RAM, and M.2 2280 and 2230 slots for storage.

And a detachable 97Wh battery, which is a lot given its size.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: No, I'm good thanks.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:33 AM

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1 Hopefully on time today. Good morning!

Posted by: meh at July 01, 2026 04:33 AM (zZxsY)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 04:34 AM (Ia/+0)

3 w00t

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 04:34 AM (6wpGE)

4 Happy July 1st, Pixy!

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 04:34 AM (6wpGE)

5 Mornin'

Speaking of which, Henrico County in Virginia is asking schools to open the blinds and turn off the lights to save electricity. (404 Media) (archive site)

Henrico County has 37 datacenters and is constructing 17 more right now.

It's ok. CIA Barbie and her merry band of Marxists/Islamists will take care of it!!

Yea, we're screwed. I'm going for a walk. BBL

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2026 04:36 AM (sAmhv)

6 I'm not seeing the digital world getting any better. I'm just seeing chaos.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at July 01, 2026 04:41 AM (fkjGs)

7
Electric Six Lyrics
"Danger! High Voltage"

Fire in the disco
Fire in the taco bell
Fire in the disco
Fire in the gates of hell

Catchy!

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 04:42 AM (6wpGE)

8 I should hit that long road
See you when I get there
East bound and down

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 04:43 AM (Ia/+0)

9 Breakfast sounded good, Skip!

444 Made easy French Toast with Thomas's Swirl Bread and strawberries on top, quite filled up.
Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 04:14 AM (Ia/+0)

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 04:44 AM (6wpGE)

10 Bulldog speaks mind in public. Such funny sounds:
Faithpot site ;

https://tinyurl.com/nhk2p457

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2026 04:56 AM (Yl2Ob)

11
s0m3tH1ng wr0ng w!th tH|s d@rn data6a$e!!!!!

1t won't upd@t3!!!!!!

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 05:01 AM (XJ22o)

12 the author of this tweet (from 2022?) is re-upping it in response to someone's discussion of typos:

Benjamin Ryan V
@benryanwriter
Replying to @JLimHospMD
This is misinformation about #monkeypox. The outbreak is occurring almost entirely among men who have sex with me. Public health experts agree that sexual contact is the principle driver of transmission and have asserted that risk to kids
remains "very low*.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 05:01 AM (6wpGE)

13 Good night from the West Coast!

Posted by: SciVo at July 01, 2026 05:03 AM (Sy6m/)

14 And I had such a nice experience at the senior car center yesterday I had a Bible study on Ephesians ( which I enjoyed ) and then the Activities Director had invited me and several volunteers who do all kinds of programs there to a late luncheon, I finished up about half an hour
Too early so I walked around the building which is nicely landscaped As I turned a corner in the back I saw two spotted fawns eating grass. When the saw me they took off running in various directions. They are so funny -The way they dash off and jump. And it was very kind of the Activities Director to give us a luncheon and little gift bags as well

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2026 05:05 AM (Yl2Ob)

15 Belated BOING!

Shopping done! Soon lunchtime with Mrs. BD.

Maybe l8r. I'm completely surrounded by no decent whiskey! Will order online.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 01, 2026 05:08 AM (x8PQF)

16 Couple who has been married for 80 years shares how they did that. Such a nice, thoughtful Christian couple

https://tinyurl.com/bkv73esa

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2026 05:09 AM (Yl2Ob)

17 13 Good night from the West Coast!
Posted by: SciVo at July 01, 2026 05:03 AM (Sy6m/)

*waves*

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 05:11 AM (6wpGE)

18
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 01, 2026 05:11 AM (AMvSw)

19 Plenty of Morons saw this coming:

Open Source Intel @Osint613

Saudi Arabia first blocked U.S. use of its bases and airspace for Project Freedom, Trump's operation to keep the waterway open, halting the mission. The White House threatened to withhold missile-defense interceptors until Riyadh reversed course. It did. The rift has strained ties, with Washington now weighing a reduced military footprint in the kingdom in favor of Israel and Jordan.

Source: WSJ

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 01, 2026 05:15 AM (x8PQF)

20 So many data centers. So little useful data.

Posted by: Wally at July 01, 2026 05:15 AM (0e5Te)

21
the author of this tweet (from 2022?) is re-upping it in response to someone's discussion of typos:

Posted by: m

===============

Dear Sir or Madman, Please find attached my resume for the above-referenced position...

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 05:16 AM (XJ22o)

22
Plenty of Morons saw this coming:

Posted by: Biden's Dog

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Why in the hell would Saudi Arabia do this? They don't even like the Iranians. And they have neeq-nafsak money relative to other Arab nations.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 05:20 AM (XJ22o)

23
Welp, I'm talky to myself. Off to bed.

Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 05:21 AM (XJ22o)

24 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 01, 2026 05:21 AM (Hbeqj)

25 21
the author of this tweet (from 2022?) is re-upping it in response to someone's discussion of typos:

Posted by: m

===============

Dear Sir or Madman, Please find attached my resume for the above-referenced position...
Posted by: Blonde Morticia at July 01, 2026 05:16 AM (XJ22o)

heh

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 05:23 AM (6wpGE)

26 NPP >>>>>> Notepad

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at July 01, 2026 05:33 AM (967/Q)

27 Saudi’s have the Yemen backed Houthi on one coast and the Chinese backed Iran on the other. Oman is hooked up with Iran, too. SA will make a deal with them.
The Bosphorus to the Ganges should be glassed.

Posted by: Accomack at July 01, 2026 05:34 AM (8jVAy)

28 I really do like NPP. My favorite part is that it cashes whatever I have in unsaved tabs so I can just close it and open it right back with stuff still there. Great for scratch notes.

Posted by: meh at July 01, 2026 05:34 AM (kK7U2)

29 SA is a peninsula but they don’t control their ocean access. Their failure to control Yemen and Oman will be their downfall.

Posted by: Accomack at July 01, 2026 05:35 AM (8jVAy)

30 Morning, 'rons and 'ronettes. Somewhere in the mid 70s here at Stately Poppins Manor, with temperatures headed to the mid 90s.

I'm trying to knock off a couple of chapters of my book before the heat really kicks in.

Posted by: Mary Poppins' Practically Perfect Piercing (aka Eloquent Depression) at July 01, 2026 05:36 AM (qRla/)

31 Caches? Words are hard.

Posted by: meh at July 01, 2026 05:37 AM (kK7U2)

32 22
Plenty of Morons saw this coming:

Posted by: Biden's Dog

=============

Why in the hell would Saudi Arabia do this? They don't even like the Iranians. And they have neeq-nafsak money relative to other Arab nations.
Posted by: Blonde Morticia

Because they're Arabs. It's what they do. I'm not sure we have actual allies anymore. We have 'who is useful', until they aren't.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2026 05:38 AM (sAmhv)

33 27 Saudi’s have the Yemen backed Houthi on one coast and the Chinese backed Iran on the other. Oman is hooked up with Iran, too. SA will make a deal with them.
The Bosphorus to the Ganges should be glassed.
Posted by: Accomack at July 01, 2026 05:34 AM (8jVAy)

I entered into a google search box:

bosporus to ganges route

(the same way you might enter into a google search box: chicago to new york city route--and have google cough up a map and distances given for different modes of transportation)

and it didn't work.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 05:39 AM (6wpGE)

34 Accomack at July 01, 2026 05:34 AM (8jVAy)

The Saudis live there. They have to consider what happens if Trump declares "victory" and withdraws or if Democrats win big in the mid-terms and force withdraw, or the GOPe align with Democrats and force withdraw, or the Israelis get tired of being Trump's yo-yo and the coalition falls apart...

Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at July 01, 2026 05:39 AM (6BjcW)

35 BBC is out to get PDT

(top story)
Trump made more than $1bn from crypto in first year back in office

US Supreme Court has dealt heavy defeats to Trump, while expanding his power

(2 of 7 front-page stories)

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 05:48 AM (6wpGE)

36 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers! It's Woden's Day, the start of a new month, and the midpoint of the year, all in one swell foop!

Rain chances are higher today, and I need to go shopping for new khakis. The pair I've been wearing at home for some years, and patched during the Sniffle Scare, have finally reached the end of their useful life. Banana Republic and the Gap each have factory stores in the same shopping center with a J. Crew and an Old Navy. Convenient, if annoying that they're not closer to me.

With any luck I'll find what I need in the first store.

("Old Navy"? Hmph. Just try buying an vintage bridge coat or pea jacket there.)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2026 05:51 AM (wzUl9)

37 BBC dutifully ignoring their own faltering island. They're simply yelling 'SQUIRREL' but with a dull, Oxford, English accent.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2026 05:51 AM (sAmhv)

38 Mafe it, barely

Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 05:52 AM (sgkY8)

39 Nice story about a dad, his mustang ( car ) and his family. Good News network site:

https://tinyurl.com/32meewkp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2026 05:56 AM (RKlIw)

40 All the establishment press hates Trump, but aside from jingoistic posts on Truth Social, he seems quite content to let them control the message.

Posted by: Button Pushing Monkey at July 01, 2026 05:58 AM (6BjcW)

41 UK Prime Minister details (BBC):

A contest for a new leader of the Labour party is expected to begin next month. [July]

The winner will then become the next prime minister because the Labour Party is the biggest political party in parliament.

Mr Starmer said he will ask the Labour Party's National Executive Committee that nominations for the party's new leader open on 9 July.

He said this will be completed before the summer break, which is a week later, on 16 July.

In the case of a leadership contest, this will mean that a new leader would be in place by the time parliament returns from its summer break on 1 September.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 05:58 AM (6wpGE)

42 G'mornin' everyone!

sun's not up yet, already 74 degrees. yech.

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2026 05:58 AM (VyBeY)

43 38 Mafe it, barely
Posted by: Skip at July 01, 2026 05:52 AM (sgkY

Trying to make a pun on that typo. Not coming up with anything.

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 06:00 AM (6wpGE)

44 I guess maybe:

(Mafe)
I'm gonna live forever
I'm gonna learn how to fly (High)
I feel it coming together
People will see me and cry (Mafe)

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 06:01 AM (6wpGE)

45 Nope. I'm going to eschew politics and its attendant squabbles today. May you have a blessed day!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 01, 2026 06:01 AM (Yl2Ob)

46 G'mornin' everyone!

sun's not up yet, already 74 degrees. yech.
Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 01, 2026

***
Sounds great compared to the stinking wind from Hell that I'm facing this a.m.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 01, 2026 06:02 AM (wzUl9)

47 37 BBC dutifully ignoring their own faltering island. They're simply yelling 'SQUIRREL' but with a dull, Oxford, English accent.
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 01, 2026 05:51 AM (sAmhv)

"squhl"?

Posted by: m at July 01, 2026 06:05 AM (6wpGE)

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