Daily Tech News 13 November 2025

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Valve has followed up on its very popular Steam Deck gaming handheld with a desktop Steam Machine and a wireless Steam Controller. (Tom's Hardware)

Like the Steam Deck, the 6" black cube called the Steam Machine is at its heart a PC built on AMD components. It has a six core Zen 4 CPU, and a 28 core RDNA3 GPU.

It comes with 16GB of RAM in two DDR5 SODIMMs, 8GB of GGDR6 RAM for the graphics card, and 512GB or 2TB of SSD in an M.2 2230 slot. There's a vacant M.2 2280 slot to add storage of your own.

On the I/O front it has HDMI, DisplayPort, one USB-C port, four USB-A ports, and somewhat disappointingly, gigabit Ethernet.

It also has four built-in antennas for wifi, Bluetooth, and the Steam Controller, and a built-in 300W power supply so you don't need an external brick. It's cooled by a single 120mm fan.

And most importantly it comes running SteamOS rather than Windows.

Give how determined Microsoft is to drive its own users away, I am looking forward to this little device. It's literally half the speed of my current desktop (which has a 12 core Zen 4 CPU and an RDNA3 graphics card with twice the graphics cores and RAM) but for something that sits quietly in the living room attached to the TV it looks ideal.

No prices yet. Shipping "early 2026".

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Trying out the latest Framework 16 laptop with the RTX 5070 graphics option. (Tom's Hardware)

It's a Framework 16 laptop with RTX 5070 graphics - which on this particular laptop are upgradeable.

The one surprise is that the graphics upgrade somehow upgraded the display from 100% sRGB to 100% DCI-P3, which is probably really just a colour profile switch.
Microsoft really wants you to use their Edge browser. (PC Magazine)

For something other than downloading Chrome.
A study commission by Apple says that when Apple cut its commissions charged to developers, the developers mostly kept the savings rather than reducing prices to customers. (Mac Rumors)

Well, yes. And?
Need a faster CPU? How about 1024 cores at 6GHz, with 24 channels of DDR5-17600 RAM and 128 lanes of PCIe 7.0? (WCCFTech)

Oh, and it runs both x86 and Arm instructions.

One small problem: It uses 1600W of power.

Oh, and it's not expected to ship before 2027.

They have shipped FPGA-based emulators to developers, so it's not entirely vaporware. Other than that, wake me in a couple of years.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Radio killed the movie star.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2025 04:01 AM (ddZuf)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 04:01 AM (RuTUS)

3 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 04:01 AM (+qU29)

4 I think officially today I am a old guy

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 04:02 AM (+qU29)

5 Just turned 29, Skip?

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 13, 2025 04:03 AM (BLOW1)

6 guten morgen, horde

Posted by: clarence at November 13, 2025 04:04 AM (cRhQI)

7 Microsoft really wants you to use their Edge browser. (PC Magazine)
-

Need to use Edge maybe once or twice a year. Otherwise only Brave. Just added Grok as my default search engine. However sometimes Grok gives me TMI for simple things in life.

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2025 04:04 AM (ddZuf)

8 Good morning. And hopefully good night. I am counting fluffy, fluffy sheep in the hope of getting to sleep.

Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at November 13, 2025 04:06 AM (zkrA4)

9 Harpo - Moviestar
I don't think I've ever heard that, even once, in my entire life.
The audience looks unmoved.

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 04:08 AM (RuTUS)

10 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at November 13, 2025 04:08 AM (XQo4F)

11 4 I think officially today I am a old guy
Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 04:02 AM (+qU29)

Happy birthday, Skip!

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 04:09 AM (RuTUS)

12 For something other than downloading Chrome.

Well, yes. And?
----

Ah, fresh snark in the morning (evening for pixy).

Posted by: clarence at November 13, 2025 04:09 AM (cRhQI)

13 9 Harpo - Moviestar
I don't think I've ever heard that, even once, in my entire life.
The audience looks unmoved.
Posted by: m

Nah, just European.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 13, 2025 04:10 AM (BLOW1)

14 8 Good morning. And hopefully good night. I am counting fluffy, fluffy sheep in the hope of getting to sleep.
Posted by: Fluffy Nuggets, Jr. at November 13, 2025 04:06 AM (zkrA4)

Maybe count some little nuggets?

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 04:10 AM (RuTUS)

15 And most importantly it comes running SteamOS rather than Windows.
----
Hmmm. Could you dual boot that?

Posted by: clarence at November 13, 2025 04:11 AM (cRhQI)

16 nugget
noun
a small lump of gold or other precious metal found ready-formed in the earth.
• a small chunk or lump of another substance: tiny nuggets of chicken and shrimp.
• a valuable idea or fact: nuggets of information.

ORIGIN
mid 19th century: apparently from dialect nug ‘lump’, of unknown origin.

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 04:12 AM (RuTUS)

17 Mornin'

That video may have brought about the rise of Motorhead! Ok, probably not.

youtu.be/q-0OQmnF1bY

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 13, 2025 04:13 AM (sAmhv)

18 Harpo recorded this song with ABBA's Anni-Frid Lyngstad on backing vocals singing the words "Moviestar Moviestar."

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 04:14 AM (RuTUS)

19 Happy Birthday, Skip. May you have a blessed day for you are a blessing to others.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2025 04:14 AM (2sfNr)

20 Meanwhile, a little koinkadinky in Berkley:

https://tinyurl.com/mspzcnsz

Obligatory Beach Boys hit:

https://youtu.be/Ve1NkLNF7o4

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2025 04:15 AM (ddZuf)

21 (Wikipedia) He was popular in Sweden and around Europe in the 1970s and is best known for his worldwide hits "Moviestar" (1975) and "Horoscope" (1976).

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 04:15 AM (RuTUS)

22 10 Birdbath status?
Posted by: Just Wondering at November 13, 2025 04:08 AM (XQo4F)

Needs tiny Zamboni.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 13, 2025 04:15 AM (yKmBH)

23 I think officially today I am a old guy

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 04:02 AM (+qU29)
-

That was you on the ONT trex cover pic with the cake?

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2025 04:16 AM (ddZuf)

24 4 I think officially today I am a old guy
Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 04:02 AM (+qU29)

Your nic says 29. Welcome to the party, pal.

Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 13, 2025 04:19 AM (yKmBH)

25 24 4 I think officially today I am a old guy
Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 04:02 AM (+qU29)

Your nic says 29. Welcome to the party, pal.
Posted by: tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 13, 2025 04:19 AM (yKmBH)

haha!

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 04:20 AM (RuTUS)

26 Restore me, Lord! Devotional on 2nd Chronicles 24:1/14

https://tinyurl.com/4thvd722

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2025 04:22 AM (Yl2Ob)

27 tcn, Pickle Queen in AK at November 13, 2025 04:19 AM (yKmBH

Good eye!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2025 04:22 AM (Yl2Ob)

28 I certainly feel like it more lately

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 04:26 AM (+qU29)

29 13 9 Harpo - Moviestar
I don't think I've ever heard that, even once, in my entire life.
The audience looks unmoved.
Posted by: m

Nah, just European.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 13, 2025 04:10 AM (BLOW1)

Dolly Parton coulda really belted that baby out!

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 04:26 AM (RuTUS)

30 Microsoft really wants you to use their Edge browser.

I use Edge and shall continue to do so for another 13 workdays.

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 04:35 AM (ExV1e)

31 *The audience looks unmoved.*
Posted by: m

As do I.

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 13, 2025 04:35 AM (XQo4F)

32 2 Republicans voted with the Marxists
6 Marxists voted with the Republicans to end the Government shutdown

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 04:36 AM (+qU29)

33 Relaxing instrumental music from hymns and Fall colors:

https://tinyurl.com/4aev57w7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2025 04:37 AM (ix8EF)

34 2 Republicans voted with the Marxists
6 Marxists voted with the Republicans to end the Government shutdown
Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 04:36 AM (+qU29)

So... all the federal workers who underwent a mild financial strain during their, ultimately, six weeks of extra paid vacation, and all the SNAPians who died from being unable to sell their benefits in order to get fancy 12 inch nails... it was all for nothing?

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 04:40 AM (ExV1e)

35
"...and all the SNAPians who died..."

*Ahem*
We prefer the term Snapanese.

Posted by: And we're hongry at November 13, 2025 04:43 AM (XQo4F)

36 Manuel gives Basil a language lesson. Fawlty Towers:

https://tinyurl.com/mrkv4xe5

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2025 04:45 AM (2sfNr)

37 I'm fascinated by this Trench Crusade game that's supposedly coming out... Not in the sense that i'm ever going to play it, just by how there's a lot that's culturally fascinating about how popular it is before it even exists, and why. Thinking about the questions "why would they build their new world like this, why is it gaining so much traction, and is this a really good sign culturally even though it's so dark and brutal and almost blasphemous on its surface". I guess it's the "meta" about it I find fascinating. Even though nobody says "the meta" anymore. But you know what I mean.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 04:45 AM (06Hmj)

38 lol@ official White House X account:

https://tinyurl.com/42rjmdjf

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2025 04:50 AM (ddZuf)

39 it was all for nothing?
.........................................
They all were able to display there very sincere pumpkin patch, for all to see. Alas, the Great Pumpkin never arrived! Oh well. Maybe the next shutdown.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 13, 2025 04:54 AM (sAmhv)

40 Hakeem Jefferies and Chuck Schumer should have paid some whiz kid to do a video with Trump wearing some stupid hat. Instead of getting offended.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2025 04:55 AM (2sfNr)

41 WAVY10 is still humping the latest Epstein hoax

Posted by: Accomack at November 13, 2025 04:55 AM (Dpv2s)

42 Better wear an extra layer:

https://youtu.be/i2jLXvD9zPs

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 13, 2025 04:57 AM (XQo4F)

43 41 WAVY10 is still humping the latest Epstein hoax
Posted by: Accomack at November 13, 2025 04:55 AM (Dpv2s)

At what point is a hoax not a hoax?

Part of being a hoax is that it's clever enough that the average person believes it because they don't really have any motivation or suspicion to not immediately believe it.

But beyond some line, you're just bullshitting and only the most thoroughly committed acolytes even pretend you're not full of shit.

For whatever reason, it's starting to feel like "hoax" isn't the right word for this kind of Public Lie anymore.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 04:59 AM (06Hmj)

44 "For whatever reason, it's starting to feel like "hoax" isn't the right word for this kind of Public Lie anymore."

Now do "climate change."

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 13, 2025 05:00 AM (XQo4F)

45

Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks, finally home to seasonal temps and weather, AKA cold windy and light snow.

As usual, may all effort from you be rewarded munificently, with grievous heartburn for the leftwit fungi.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 13, 2025 05:00 AM (vFbHf)

46 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at November 13, 2025 05:01 AM (D1kEJ)

47 WAVY10 is still humping the latest Epstein hoax
Posted by: Accomack at November 13, 2025 04:55 AM (Dpv2s)

Sure. Some folks on the right got caught up in it. No doubt, some even abandoned MAGA over it. All this stuff is done to make people emotional so that they can be manipulated to grant power to unscrupulous globohomo fuckwads.

It's not unlike the constant bitching about the DOJ "not doing anything".

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 05:02 AM (ExV1e)

48 Now do "climate change."
Posted by: Quarter Twenty at November 13, 2025 05:00 AM (XQo4F)

Heh. I think a great hypothetical example of what i'm trying to get at is if they were to come out tomorrow and say "Forget carbon dioxide, the real killer is light. We need to stop getting all these photons everywhere. Every scientist agrees."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 05:03 AM (06Hmj)

49 Looks like most of leaves are down so lots to get moved
I H8 Fall

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 05:04 AM (+qU29)

50 California mandates low-photon flashlights.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 05:05 AM (06Hmj)

51 Follow the money applies

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 05:05 AM (+qU29)

52 One photon a month ought to be enough for anybody.

Posted by: Karen McAwfl at November 13, 2025 05:09 AM (XQo4F)

53
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 13, 2025 05:09 AM (tljrc)

54 Look at a satellite image at night and tell me North Korea isn't taking photon neutrality seriously.

We should be more like them.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 05:10 AM (06Hmj)

55 So my recollection about today in history was 50 years ago I distinctly remember reading in the newspaper while at my grandmother's kitchen about the Edmund fitzgerald sinking.
As this year was exactly same calendar it was a Thursday.
Not that I couldn't be there on my birthday, and the lag of newspapers news I think that's very possible. Some years ago without knowing thought it was my 13th until saw it was 1975.

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 05:11 AM (+qU29)

56 I suppose the term I'm looking for is "Big Lie", but that's not really correct either. The Big Lie is supposed to work better the bigger it is.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 05:12 AM (06Hmj)

57
Diana's internal clock has not readjusted for the time change.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at November 13, 2025 05:12 AM (tgvbd)

58 That was one of those years when the Gales Of November came early.

Posted by: G. Lightfoot at November 13, 2025 05:14 AM (XQo4F)

59 "The Big Lie is supposed to work better the bigger it is."

This is about us, isn't it?

Posted by: Fauci and Birx at November 13, 2025 05:17 AM (XQo4F)

60 56 I suppose the term I'm looking for is "Big Lie", but that's not really correct either. The Big Lie is supposed to work better the bigger it is.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 05:12 AM (06Hmj)

"Fake News"?

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:18 AM (RuTUS)

61 A month ago decided to work a couple more years full time, at time would have be very helpful, a little bit fell through but still going to give it a couple more.
So off to work I go.
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2025 05:18 AM (+qU29)

62 "Fake News"?
Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:18 AM (RuTUS)

That's probably it.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 05:19 AM (06Hmj)

63 That was one of those years when the Gales Of November came early.
Posted by: G. Lightfoot at November 13, 2025 05:14 AM (XQo4F)

And did she reciprocate? She did not. -- The Oprah Of November

Posted by: I used to have a different nic at November 13, 2025 05:19 AM (ExV1e)

64 One small problem: It uses 1600W of power.

Sounds datacentery.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at November 13, 2025 05:19 AM (O7YUW)

65 58 That was one of those years when the Gales Of November came early.
Posted by: G. Lightfoot at November 13, 2025 05:14 AM (XQo4F)

from the Chippewa on down

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:20 AM (RuTUS)

66

Most of our leaves are down too, but still not removable due to either wet from rain or covered with the 1-2" of global warming that gets replenished when it melts.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at November 13, 2025 05:20 AM (vFbHf)

67 Good morning! Gonna be another perfect fall day here in Cowtown. Gonna hit 83 this afternoon.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at November 13, 2025 05:23 AM (3Ope8)

68 G'morning, all!

Looks like the new high tech digital heat pump system we put in back in March blew a zone control board the night before last.

But the system was smart enough to put itself in central control mode, and still maintained he house within 1 degree of set-out, even with a low of 28 degrees overnight.

And all without using supplemental heat strips to produce heat.

So...pretty pleased with it.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 13, 2025 05:24 AM (a1415)

69 62 "Fake News"?
Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:18 AM (RuTUS)

That's probably it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko

Hey. I'm sitting right here.

Posted by: Russian Collusion at November 13, 2025 05:26 AM (XQo4F)

70 Good morning!

Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2025 05:27 AM (u82oZ)

71 62 "Fake News"?
Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:18 AM (RuTUS)

That's probably it.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2025 05:19 AM (06Hmj)

redsteeze is calling it a "new cycle":

Bonchie retweeted
Stephen L. Miller
@redsteeze
17h
Replying to @ratlpolicy

If it were all truly damaging to Trump as they are running with, Biden's DOJ and Dems would have released all of this last year. This new cycle is how you know Dems are now trying to get out from under the shutdown narrative.

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:27 AM (RuTUS)

72 "news cycle" I imagine

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:28 AM (RuTUS)

73 Salty!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 13, 2025 05:28 AM (a1415)

74 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Sounds like you bought a good system, had a clean installation, and have maintained it well.

But you seem to have short half-life with some subassemblies.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2025 05:30 AM (u82oZ)

75 or "fake noise":

David Blinn
@DLBlinn61
16h

Replying to @redsteeze @bonchieredstate @ratlpolicy
That's always been my thought. They threw everything but the kitchen sink at Trump from 2021-2024. If there was dirt in the files, it would have been out last year when they could have maximized its damage. Now its just fake noise.

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:31 AM (RuTUS)

76 While "The Farmer's Almanac" is going out of business, "The Old Farmer's Almanac", founded in 1792, is still in business.

Apparently, the whippersnappers couldn't make a go of it.

Posted by: no one at November 13, 2025 05:31 AM (W7XSX)

77 m

♩ The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead ♩

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2025 05:35 AM (u82oZ)

78 hmm
Good question:

Bonchie
@bonchieredstate
19h
Tucker Carlson white-knighted for Zohran Mamdani in his newsletter again this morning.
Why?

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:35 AM (RuTUS)

79 Village Idiot's Apprentice

For once, your morning is colder than mine. We have a heat wave. It is 46 ℉.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2025 05:36 AM (u82oZ)

80 "But you seem to have short half-life with some subassemblies."

Yeh, that is a little disconcerting.

Let's hope that it was a one-off, as the zone boards do have a solid reputation for reliability and longevity.

But it is interesting with all the instrumentation that I have available to me, including energy consumption tracked and graphed in 15 minute increments from our utility provider.

I can literally see on the usage plot where the coffee pot energizes on the timer, and begins to heat up.

Interesting bits of trivia to play with, when the cats wake you up at 0415, and there is no chance of returning to sleep, so you find things to occupy the time.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 13, 2025 05:37 AM (a1415)

81 Our tax dollars at work in Great Britain:

https://tinyurl.com/mufmsnkx

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at November 13, 2025 05:37 AM (ddZuf)

82 38.3 outside, right now.

But we will return to warmer mornings within the next two days.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 13, 2025 05:38 AM (a1415)

83 I hope Gordon Lightfoot (RIP) made a bazillion (Canadian) dollars off of that. And here's a cool honor:

(Wikipedia) The Mariners' Church in Detroit (the "Maritime Sailors' Cathedral" mentioned in "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald") honoured Lightfoot the day after his death by ringing its bell a total of 30 times, 29 for each of the crewmen lost on the Edmund Fitzgerald and the final time for Lightfoot himself.

Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:40 AM (RuTUS)

84 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Your Google file must be jam-packed with info on how you are living your life at home. No wonder they need bigger data centers.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2025 05:40 AM (u82oZ)

85 83 I hope Gordon Lightfoot (RIP) made a bazillion (Canadian) dollars off of that. And here's a cool honor:

(Wikipedia) The Mariners' Church in Detroit (the "Maritime Sailors' Cathedral" mentioned in "The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald") honoured Lightfoot the day after his death by ringing its bell a total of 30 times, 29 for each of the crewmen lost on the Edmund Fitzgerald and the final time for Lightfoot himself.
Posted by: m

I recall reading about that. Very classy!

It is a great song.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at November 13, 2025 05:41 AM (sAmhv)

86 Posted by: m at November 13, 2025 05:40 AM (RuTUS)

That's neat!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2025 05:42 AM (oT1li)

87 Morning all.
Time to grind the beans.

Posted by: Don Black. Message: do not pass on 3rd and 1 at November 13, 2025 05:42 AM (AOsQT)

88 "Your Google file must be jam-packed with info on how you are living your life at home."

More than likely, yes.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 13, 2025 05:42 AM (a1415)

89 Just don't forget if you repeat a lie enough, it becomes a true story. Some scientists and politicians are very good at that.

Posted by: colin at November 13, 2025 05:42 AM (wlQdF)

90 m

Cool.

"The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald" must be one of the most overplayed songs on the oldies stations, after "The Rains Down in Africa"".

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2025 05:43 AM (u82oZ)

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