Daily Tech News 24 July 2026

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AMD has announced its new Zen 6 Epyc server CPUs and we know, if anything, less about them than we did before the announcement. (WCCFTech)

Here's the problem: Zen 6 is strongly rumoured to increase the core count per chiplet from 8 to 12, and increase the L3 cache and X3D cache per chiplet by 50% to match. Which means that the raw numbers of cores and cache do nothing to confirm or deny the 12 core rumour. It doesn't help that the announced mainstream products focused on 96 core models which would have the same numbers whether that's twelve 8-core chiplets or eight 12-core chiplets.

Until you get all the way down to the bottom of the chart for Socket SP8 processors and find the 8-core Epyc with 48MB of cache which rather hints that 12 core chiplets are not a lie.

Oh, also supported (officially) are PCIe Gen 6 - probably for servers only, and 12.8GHz MRDIMMs - also probably for servers only. And up to 16 memory channels per socket, which at 12.8GHz delivers close to three times the bandwidth of Epyc Zen 5.

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Ryzen 7 has been confirmed on track for 2028, bringing with it support for DDR6 memory and the new ACE instruction set for matrix operations. (WCCFTech)

There is no spoon. As far as I can see some bugger has nicked the entire cutlery draw.
There's also the "new" X199 embedded CPU which is AMD's Ryzen AI Max+ 395 with a much more convenient name and a power budget of 55W. (Tom's Hardware)

It's competing with Intel's Panther Lake laptops chips and is unsurprisingly faster, although I'm not sure it's possible to manufacture competitively.
Patreon has laid off 20% of its workforce. (Tech Crunch)

CEO Jack Conte blamed AI and not his own malicious incompetence.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: I'm in the middle of fifteen things, all of them annoying.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 04:30 AM (faghi)

2 Disclaimer: I'm in the middle of fifteen things, all of them annoying.

Good luck, Pixy!

Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 04:31 AM (faghi)

3 !!

Posted by: clarence at July 24, 2026 04:31 AM (1QT7n)

4 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 04:35 AM (Ia/+0)

5 AMV - I'm So Classy

Whew! A lot going on, there.

Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 04:36 AM (faghi)

6 Guten morgen, horde.
****

I'm in the middle of fifteen things, all of them annoying.

*Proffers 9mm and two extra magazines.*

Posted by: clarence at July 24, 2026 04:39 AM (1QT7n)

7 Oh, I misread that as, "...fifteen things, all of them amazing."

Posted by: SciVo at July 24, 2026 04:42 AM (Sy6m/)

8 92 year old greeter brightens customers days at a Chik-Fil-A in NC. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/tbw6bh97

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 04:43 AM (xSAlF)

9 That amv sounds like it was played by the marble machine.

Posted by: clarence at July 24, 2026 04:43 AM (1QT7n)

10 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at July 24, 2026 04:46 AM (YoT4f)

11 Video was strange

Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 04:49 AM (Ia/+0)

12 Anchored in God. Devotional on Hebrews 6:17-20:
Followed by a prayer and reflection.

https://tinyurl.com/5fbyjs35

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 04:52 AM (xSAlF)

13 BOING!

Cooking in the oven today. Too lazy to go outside and grill. Is me bad?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2026 04:52 AM (D0X9e)

14 SciVo, is the "Sci" in your nick something sciencey?

(If I may.)

Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 04:53 AM (faghi)

15 And here's a lovely gospel song mentioned in the devotional, ""Anchored":

https://tinyurl.com/2v6r7k9a

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 04:58 AM (xSAlF)

16
AMV - I'm So Classy

1,143,361 views Dec 23, 2013
I'm So Classy amv edited by STICKYGAIDEN
Music - Jesse Valentine (F-777) - I'm So Classy

Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 04:58 AM (faghi)

17 Have no idea if will be able to pop in
Have a great day horde
TGIF

Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 05:01 AM (Ia/+0)

18 Little kitten was sleeping beside us in the bed last night . He's like purr machine. I would pet him and he'd start purring, and I'd stop petting him
And he'd stop purring.

And he was a very god boy at the vet, but he climbed up my arm to sit on my shoulder. It didn't hurt me.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 05:01 AM (xSAlF)

19 13 Too lazy to go outside and grill. Is me bad?
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2026 04:52 AM (D0X9e)

Your grammar is a little substandard.

Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 05:01 AM (faghi)

20 14 SciVo, is the "Sci" in your nick something sciencey?

(If I may.)
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 04:53 AM (faghi)

It's short for "knowledge devourer," since I'm practically a compulsive reader and learner.

Posted by: SciVo at July 24, 2026 05:05 AM (Sy6m/)

21 Expecting a cold night tonight at Pixy Park, well below freezing. No snow on offer though.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 24, 2026 05:10 AM (BLOW1)

22 20 14 SciVo, is the "Sci" in your nick something sciencey?

(If I may.)
Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 04:53 AM (faghi)

It's short for "knowledge devourer," since I'm practically a compulsive reader and learner.
Posted by: SciVo at July 24, 2026 05:05 AM (Sy6m/)

Thank you!

Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 05:11 AM (faghi)

23 Today I won the most satisfactory game of StarCraft I've ever played. Unfortunately I lost the replay.

Posted by: meh at July 24, 2026 05:11 AM (XeEnw)

24
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 24, 2026 05:13 AM (AMvSw)

25 Latin scientiae vorator

maybe

Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 05:14 AM (faghi)

26 Western Canada is grouching about US fires are smoking up their country. And want to know why the US is not doing anything about it. I'm sure Trump will get right on it. That last bit was sarcasm.

Posted by: Case at July 24, 2026 05:14 AM (bqIVz)

27 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at July 24, 2026 05:16 AM (V0/Sp)

28 On 𝕏, @bonchieredstate is going on hiatus.

*sad face*

Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 05:17 AM (faghi)

29 And here's one of the flowers we saw on our walk yesterday, "false sunflowers":

https://tinyurl.com/4p6f77br

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 05:19 AM (3OyJk)

30 I was hearing a raspy cry while I lay in bed. Thought maybe it was a bird in its final throes.

When I started bringing bird feeders and such out on to the deck I could hear it more clearly. There was a fox nearby.

There were no bunnies to greet my and the little dog got a light on her collar.

Posted by: fluffy at July 24, 2026 05:21 AM (V0/Sp)

31 Mornin' Horde.

@18/FenelonSpoke: Millard obviously trusts and loves you. Well done! (The shoulder-perching kitten bit made me laugh - "You'll save me from the thermometer, right? RIGHT?")

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 24, 2026 05:22 AM (O7YUW)

32 >>> On 𝕏, @bonchieredstate is going on hiatus.
*sad face*

*** even sadder face ***

Posted by: Twitchy editors at July 24, 2026 05:22 AM (V0/Sp)

33 32 >>> On 𝕏, @bonchieredstate is going on hiatus.
*sad face*

*** even sadder face ***
Posted by: Twitchy editors at July 24, 2026 05:22 AM (V0/Sp)

haha
I hadn't been there in forever.
https://twitchy.com

Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 05:26 AM (faghi)

34 Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 24, 2026 05:22 AM (O7YUW)

Yes; He didn't like the thermometer up his backside. Can't say I blame him. We have purchased pet insurance which I think will be a wise investment.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 05:30 AM (dom7w)

35 Evening and morning, satellites and satraps of the vast AoSHQ Empire! 'Tis Friday at last, the consummation devoutly to be wished!

Fen, the kitten sounds like a charmer. I recall bringing little Arizona home from the SPCA, and trying to enclose him with his food and litter box in the kitchen of our apartment by rigging up a cardboard shield in the doorway (it had no door). The next morning I woke to find a tiny bundle of red tabby fur buzzing on my pillow.

Big cat, as he grew to be, slept on my bed in one area of it or another pretty much his whole life.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 05:33 AM (wzUl9)

36 Yes; He didn't like the thermometer up his backside. Can't say I blame him. We have purchased pet insurance which I think will be a wise investment.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026

***
I've been considering pet insurance for my two furballs. What company did you go with?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 05:34 AM (wzUl9)

37 @21/Pixy Misa: "Expecting a cold night tonight at Pixy Park, well below freezing. No snow on offer though."

Work harder on that portal technology, because I'm pretty sure an open portal between you and Wolfus in New Orleans would help both of you with your mutual temperature challenges.

{ Rejoinder: You are now in the middle of sixteen things... }

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 24, 2026 05:38 AM (O7YUW)

38 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 05:34 AM (wzUl9

ASPCA

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 05:41 AM (lt7On)

39 The Razor's Edge, the 1946 version from Somerset Maugham's novel, is on Movies! Elliott Templeton, the classic snob, is the role Clifton Webb was born to play. Herbert Marshall in the Maugham role tells Elliott as the latter is dying that he will find the company in heaven to be mixed, to which Elliott replies, "On the contrary. There will be none of this confounded democracy there!"

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 05:41 AM (wzUl9)

40 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 05:33 AM (wzUl9

Awwww!🙂

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 05:42 AM (lt7On)

41 Patreon has laid off 20% of its workforce. (Tech Crunch)

“The more we have learned to use these new tools, the clearer it has become that they are not substitutes for the creativity, judgment, detail orientation, or craftsmanship that our teammates have in spades...."

The card game?

Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 05:43 AM (faghi)

42 Work harder on that portal technology, because I'm pretty sure an open portal between you and Wolfus in New Orleans would help both of you with your mutual temperature challenges.

{ Rejoinder: You are now in the middle of sixteen things... }
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 24, 2026

***
Yes! A twenty-five-degree drop in my temps and a similar rise in Pixy's would give us both about 57-60 F.!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 05:46 AM (wzUl9)

43 @34/FenelonSpoke:

https://tinyurl.com/mr28waau

Skip the next comic after that one (it's filler), but then read the four subsequent ones.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 24, 2026 05:46 AM (O7YUW)

44 I'm happy when it's cold though. Don't need to mow the lawn.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 24, 2026 05:49 AM (BLOW1)

45 Awwww!🙂
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026

***
Oh, Arizona could be difficult and prickly. He hated going to the vet, hated moving, didn't like other cats, didn't like new male visitors to his territory (he was fine with the female ones!). But from the second day, there was never any question. He was my cat, I was his human, there, that's settled. Now when's dinner?

Stirling here, though much more easygoing, has pretty much the same attitude about me.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 05:51 AM (wzUl9)

46 See if this goes

Posted by: Skip at July 24, 2026 05:56 AM (xrWSS)

47
My Win10 computer refuses to boot up. I don't know if it's a boot order problem or a impending disk failure. Got it sort of running and now I'm desperately saving my music, documents, pictures and website over to a 1 TB drive.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 05:56 AM (O0L8i)

48 My Win 7 computer is a solid performer.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 05:58 AM (qFwJc)

49 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 24, 2026 06:01 AM (Hbeqj)

50 44 I'm happy when it's cold though. Don't need to mow the lawn.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 24, 2026 05:49 AM (BLOW1)

Bundle up! In case the wind BLOWs.

Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 06:01 AM (faghi)

51 Pixy, whennish did you start being a cob-logger?

Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 06:02 AM (faghi)

52 no one of consequence, I am envious.

I have to use my phone as a hot spot to get internet and had been using Firefox as a browser. That no longer works because the computer is Win10. Brave still works.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 06:02 AM (abScH)

53 Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 05:56 AM (O0L8i)

I am sleepy. I first read that as "my wino computer."

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 06:04 AM (XvETL)

54 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 05:51 AM (wzUl9

That's nice!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 24, 2026 06:06 AM (XvETL)

55 @48/no one of any consequence:

XP and Windows 7 were the last truly good versions of windows in terms of "Fairly decent UI, and the OS gets out of the way to let you get on with using your computer the way you want to."

Microslop lost the plot with versions 8.0 and beyond.

I don't see things getting any better unless they lose a LOT of market share and are honest with themselves about all the bad decisions the company has made in recent years.

(Yeah, that's not happening.)

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 24, 2026 06:06 AM (O7YUW)

56 I am using Brave now. Some websites don't support it. Then in use Chrome.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at July 24, 2026 06:08 AM (qFwJc)

57 Tea. Earl Grey. Hot.

Rejoinder: You load sixteen tons, and what do you get?

Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea at July 24, 2026 06:15 AM (amcLV)

58 No hard workout this morning. At nine-thirty Miss Linda and I will go to the nearby mall for a mid-length (say, thirty minutes') walk.

I tried to talk to the IRS yesterday about my long-errant refund check. Both of the numbers they give on their website bring you to an automated assistant, who even with my SSN, etc., "can't find" my refund. There seems to be no way to talk to an actual human without making an in-person appointment at the only office downtown. The website has a "refund tracker" feature which gave the same info. Today I'll try it again and enter my original refund amount instead of the amended one. Maybe I'll get a new response.

I'm rapidly coming to the point of saying "I guess I'll never see that check" and consider it found money if it ever does show up.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 06:16 AM (wzUl9)

59 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*

Posted by: Rosasharn at July 24, 2026 06:16 AM (PzBTm)

60 Windows XP was great for doing fun art projects when you had Adobe programs. Ah! The old days.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 06:16 AM (abScH)

61 Windows XP was great for doing fun art projects when you had Adobe programs. Ah! The old days.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026

***
Sometimes I miss MS Word for DOS, ca. 1989.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 06:19 AM (wzUl9)

62
@twitchyteam

ICYMI: Trimming the Fat: ABC Slashes The View's Hosts’ Salaries and Wardrobe Budget, More Cuts Coming

Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 06:19 AM (faghi)

63 59 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*
Posted by: Rosasharn at July 24, 2026 06:16 AM (PzBTm)

YAY!

Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 06:20 AM (faghi)

64
It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

Yay! Just two workdays until Monday!

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 24, 2026 06:24 AM (O0L8i)

65 ICYMI: Trimming the Fat: ABC Slashes The View's Hosts’ Salaries and Wardrobe Budget, More Cuts Coming

Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 06:19 AM (faghi)
-

If that means skimpier clothing, I see put the money back in the budget!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2026 06:27 AM (T8aW9)

66 51 Pixy, whennish did you start being a cob-logger?
Posted by: m

I just looked it up. 21 April 2021 was the first day on this server, though for about three weeks before that we were limping along on a smaller server after the datacenter fire and I think I was posting then as well.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 24, 2026 06:27 AM (BLOW1)

67 Thank you, Rosasharn!

G'mornin' everyone!

50 degrees, light breeze, cloud cover indeterminate until the sun crosses the horizon ...

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 24, 2026 06:31 AM (VyBeY)

68 The hags on The View should be wearing sackcloth.

Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 06:31 AM (abScH)

69 Rejoinder: You load sixteen tons, and what do you get?
Posted by: Captain Obvious, Laird o' the Sea

Another day older and deeper in debt.

Posted by: Tuna at July 24, 2026 06:31 AM (lJ0H4)

70 65 ICYMI: Trimming the Fat: ABC Slashes The View's Hosts’ Salaries and Wardrobe Budget, More Cuts Coming

Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 06:19 AM (faghi)
-

If that means skimpier clothing, I see put the money back in the budget!
Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at July 24, 2026 06:27 AM (T8aW9)

Cancel The View, only because it sucks. Not that I want those hags canceled.

Posted by: Cow Demon at July 24, 2026 06:32 AM (8l6/L)

71 The hags on The View should be wearing sackcloth.
Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026

***
"How now, you secret, black, and midmorning hags!"
( -- Macbeth, guesting on The View)

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 24, 2026 06:33 AM (wzUl9)

72 Verifying IRGC claims of strikes keeps getting harder. Were the Amazon facilities in Bahrsin destroyed?

Posted by: Ben Had at July 24, 2026 06:34 AM (abScH)

73 66 51 Pixy, whennish did you start being a cob-logger?
Posted by: m

I just looked it up. 21 April 2021 was the first day on this server, though for about three weeks before that we were limping along on a smaller server after the datacenter fire and I think I was posting then as well.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 24, 2026 06:27 AM (BLOW1)

Thank you! I was estimating "during the pandemic" but I couldn't get closer than that. Happy 5-year anniversary plus a bit!

Posted by: m at July 24, 2026 06:34 AM (faghi)

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