Daily Tech News 17 October 2026

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CoreWeave, an AI company involved in... Nobody really knows what they do, it would seem... Is blaming the implosion of the planned IPO by Australian competitor Firmus (the names keep getting worse) for the fact that it is $50 billion in debt with a bond yield of 16%. (AFR) (archive site)

I think you're getting out over your oars there, CoreWeave.

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Here's the Asus ProArt P16 RTX Spark laptop, which delivers up to 128GB of unified RAM should you want such a thing. (WCCFTech)

Is it good? I guess.

Is it affordable? Decidedly not.

Does it have the Four Essential Keys? They are nowhere to be found.
Here's the HP ZBook Ultra G3a Ryzen AI Max Pro 495 laptop, which delivers up to 192GB of unified RAM should you want such a thing. (Notebook Check)

Is it good? I guess.

Is it affordable? It's an HP workstation model. Guess.

Does it have the Four Essential Keys? Shockingly, yes.
The leap second has leapt the building. (Smithsonian)

Leap seconds were introduced by astronomers to make sure that UTC time that normal people use never drifted more than a second from UT1 time that abnormal people astronomers use.

UT1 measures what time it really is based on the rotation of the Earth. The problem is that while this measure is definitive, it is not consistent: The Earth wobbles.

So after fifty years of faffing about, astronomers decided it was all more trouble than it was worth, and dropped it in favour of a leap hour, which is not expected to arise for a very long time.

Musical Interlude

It's the same song as this day last year. YouTube is playing up for me right now, so I can't easily search for a new one.

Disclaimer: But it's a good song.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at October 17, 2026 04:00 AM (odBC9)

2 I nooded first and w00ted first! A bifecta! Duofecta! Something!

Posted by: m at October 17, 2026 04:02 AM (odBC9)

3 Guten morgen, horde.

Posted by: clarence at October 17, 2026 04:03 AM (tiV+x)

4 Someone should really tell these laptop manufacturers what "essential" means.

Posted by: mikeski at October 17, 2026 04:03 AM (VHUov)

5 >>>UT1 time

I was misreading that as an initialism for

Urinary Tract 1nfection time

ewww

Posted by: m at October 17, 2026 04:12 AM (odBC9)

6 In a memo first reported by Bloomberg, CoreWeave chief executive Mike Intrator said that “factors like the weakness and delays surrounding the attempted IPOs and debt financings” were “bleeding into the narrative”.
****

Tell the world you can't deliver what you are basing your IPO on without telling the world you can't deliver.

Posted by: clarence at October 17, 2026 04:14 AM (tiV+x)

7 As far as HP is concerned, they lost me a long time ago for lack of reliability in their hardware. Have they gotten better? Don't know, don't care.

Posted by: clarence at October 17, 2026 04:19 AM (tiV+x)

8 asmongold on Shane Gillis
3:36

https://tinyurl.com/2nuhrfu6

Posted by: m at October 17, 2026 04:20 AM (odBC9)

9 asmongold on Shane Gillis
****

That sucked. Badly.

Posted by: clarence at October 17, 2026 04:24 AM (tiV+x)

10 9 asmongold on Shane Gillis
****

That sucked. Badly.
Posted by: clarence at October 17, 2026 04:24 AM (tiV+x)

How? Seriously, I'd like your opinion.

Posted by: m at October 17, 2026 04:27 AM (odBC9)

11 I worked on product development at a large company more than once in my working years. I knew the product we were developing was a bust, but being a loyal engineer, I plowed ahead with no one listening in the higher authority. Sure enough, the customers weren't buying the product and we had a meeting to decide to keep going. I could have saved the company lots and lots of money just by pulling the plug on the project, but the know it all management never listen. I wonder how often this happens in tech companies.

Posted by: Colin at October 17, 2026 04:32 AM (CiQE7)

12 Goodnight, very tired, yawns, must sleep.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at October 17, 2026 04:42 AM (Q/FnY)

13 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 17, 2026 04:42 AM (gllTv)

14 9 asmongold on Shane Gillis
****

That sucked. Badly.
Posted by: clarence at October 17, 2026 04:24 AM (tiV+x)

To be sure, asmongold is an acquired taste.
I think he's funny and has his finger on the pulse of the Hot New Stories. Like ace does.

Posted by: m at October 17, 2026 04:43 AM (odBC9)

15 Disclaimer: But it's a good song.

It is indeed. The video goes well with the song. Not sure what town in the UK was shown (Northern England somewhere) but the US shots were Western PA. Down around Aliquippa. Maybe Ambridge too.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at October 17, 2026 04:47 AM (gllTv)

16 I think you're getting out over your oars there, CoreWeave.

CoreWeave basically builds data centers for AI companies to rent/lease space at to run their models.

Since Wall St. is now getting nervous about the debt load with AI build-out and whether the debt is ever going to be paid they are pulling out of the starting side of the AI bubble.

So memory & chip manufacturers and dats center corps are getting hit hard.

The bubble is coming to an end, I believe.
Let’s just hope it’s a soft landing.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 17, 2026 04:53 AM (6ydKt)

17 That sucked. Badly.
Posted by: clarence at October 17, 2026 04:24 AM (tiV+x)

How? Seriously, I'd like your opinion.
****

The encounter in the gym is staged. If he was serious about the real world instance that he is parodying, he would do straight commentary. Then again, I dislike reaction videos generally.

Posted by: clarence at October 17, 2026 04:58 AM (tiV+x)

18 >>I wonder how often this happens in tech companies.

A lot. Was on a software project that overran time & budget badly; wound up as the third project manager with the promise that it wouldn't be a suicide mission (a promise they kept); recommended in a meeting with the company president that the project be killed because the department we were doing it for was never going to accept our work. They killed it and the pair who were the problem suffered no consequences.

Posted by: Nazdar at October 17, 2026 04:59 AM (NcvvS)

19 To be sure, asmongold is an acquired taste.
I think he's funny and has his finger on the pulse of the Hot New Stories. Like ace does.
Posted by: m at October 17, 2026 04:43 AM (odBC9)

His streams are basically funny news reviews, occasional reaction videos, and video game playing, with an occasional brilliant analysis and getting right to the heart of the matter with some Texas down-home wisdom.

I haven’t been watching as much of his videos lately because he can talk for hours but he’s usually more entertaining than a TV show.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 17, 2026 04:59 AM (6ydKt)

20 17 That sucked. Badly.
Posted by: clarence at October 17, 2026 04:24 AM (tiV+x)

How? Seriously, I'd like your opinion.
****

The encounter in the gym is staged. If he was serious about the real world instance that he is parodying, he would do straight commentary. Then again, I dislike reaction videos generally.
Posted by: clarence at October 17, 2026 04:58 AM (tiV+x)

Ok, thanks!

Posted by: m at October 17, 2026 05:00 AM (odBC9)

21 >>>CoreWeave, an AI company

Wikipedia

CoreWeave, Inc. is an American cloud-computing company based in Livingston, New Jersey.

As of 2026, the company operates 51 AI data centers, specialized data centers designed for higher parallel computing performance via heavy use of graphics processing units.

Posted by: m at October 17, 2026 05:04 AM (odBC9)

22 Asmongold, for a few months, went on a reaction to bodycam videos spree of, usually, women getting arrested and freaking out, that were hilarious. Not so much because of his reactions although he was funny about it but because I’d never seen the footage either and was laughing along with him the entire time.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 17, 2026 05:06 AM (6ydKt)

23 Yes, CoreWeave is one of the biggest reasons why a $750, mid-range GPU now costs around $1000, and why a $2000 GPU now runs around $5000.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 17, 2026 05:10 AM (6ydKt)

24 Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town

Wikipedia

Two videos were released to promote the single.

The earlier version features the group performing the song in various locations in Hebden Bridge, West Yorkshire.

The second version, released in November 1985, features the group performing at a concert while clips play featuring footage of Newcastle upon Tyne, Manchester, and Aliquippa, Pennsylvania.

Posted by: m at October 17, 2026 05:16 AM (odBC9)

25 Evening and morning, Saturday toilers and insomaniacals! It's a breezy 62 F. here this morning. That and relatively low humidity will make a workout quite pleasant, but there is a stiff 24 mph north wind to deal with. I'd rather have that than a pre-dawn heat index of 93 (which I have seen several times this year, and many many times in the past).

The original silent Nosferatu which predates the Lugosi Dracula by a few years, is on Movies! It seems very effective. The vampire is very alien and creepy.

How's your Saturday looking?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 17, 2026 05:16 AM (wzUl9)

26 22 Asmongold, for a few months, went on a reaction to bodycam videos spree of, usually, women getting arrested and freaking out, that were hilarious. Not so much because of his reactions although he was funny about it but because I’d never seen the footage either and was laughing along with him the entire time.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at October 17, 2026 05:06 AM (6ydKt)

What those videos did to my For You feed ....

Posted by: m at October 17, 2026 05:17 AM (odBC9)

27 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at October 17, 2026 05:20 AM (Ia/+0)

28 Funny, ain't it, how six hours' sleep one night is enough, and six and a half leaves me feeling worse on another.

Coffee is part of the remedy.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 17, 2026 05:21 AM (wzUl9)

29 Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town

Thanks, Pixy! Good song, good video.

Posted by: m at October 17, 2026 05:21 AM (odBC9)

30 Disclaimer: But it's a good song.

yes

Posted by: m at October 17, 2026 05:23 AM (odBC9)

31 I have nothing to add being a technological dinosaur, so I’m killing time staring at the clock radio until it flips to 5:15 CDT. At which time I get dressed and leave at 6:00 CDT for the abbreviated MoMe experience commencing at 9:00 CDT. I chickened out leaving yesterday because I was getting whelmed by the thought of being galaxies outside of my comfort zone. Next year, at least, I won’t be the new kid on the block.

Posted by: TxAnn at October 17, 2026 05:25 AM (itAg7)

32 @16/SpeakingOf: "The bubble is coming to an end, I believe.
Let’s just hope it’s a soft landing."

https://tinyurl.com/49c4utj4

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant, a Moron behind enemy lines at October 17, 2026 05:28 AM (O7YUW)

33 Dream Academy - Life In A Northern Town

Thanks, Pixy! Good song, good video.
Posted by: m at October 17, 2026

***
It is. But until now, I had no idea who sang it or what the title was. The local '80s oldies station plays it from time to time, and I say, "Who was that?" Now I'll know.

DJs in the ancient times used to front-sell or back-sell the tunes they played. That way you knew what that song you liked was called and who the artist was. You could go to the record store and ask for it. Sometime in the late '70s the practice stopped; I guess to leave more time every hour for commercial spots, because singles got longer, or both.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 17, 2026 05:29 AM (wzUl9)

34 52 degrees and think its says its not getting any warmer today

Posted by: Skip at October 17, 2026 05:29 AM (Ia/+0)

35 31 I have nothing to add being a technological dinosaur, so I’m killing time staring at the clock radio until it flips to 5:15 CDT. At which time I get dressed and leave at 6:00 CDT for the abbreviated MoMe experience commencing at 9:00 CDT. I chickened out leaving yesterday because I was getting whelmed by the thought of being galaxies outside of my comfort zone. Next year, at least, I won’t be the new kid on the block.
Posted by: TxAnn at October 17, 2026 05:25 AM (itAg7)

Yay for you, TxAnn!

Posted by: m at October 17, 2026 05:30 AM (odBC9)

36 At which time I get dressed and leave at 6:00 CDT for the abbreviated MoMe experience commencing at 9:00 CDT. I chickened out leaving yesterday because I was getting whelmed by the thought of being galaxies outside of my comfort zone. Next year, at least, I won’t be the new kid on the block.
Posted by: TxAnn at October 17, 2026

***
So the blog is likely to be light on commentary today, huh?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at October 17, 2026 05:30 AM (wzUl9)

37 >>>YouTube is playing up for me right now

wut

Posted by: m at October 17, 2026 05:33 AM (odBC9)

38 @37/m: "playing up" - a euphemism for "something isn't working right"

Posted by: Sum Ting Wong at October 17, 2026 05:36 AM (O7YUW)

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