Daily Tech News 22 February 2026

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• Wikipedia has blacklisted Archive.Today for links to references because it is run by a crazy person. (Tech Crunch)
  
  It's over allegations of running DDoS attacks and modifying supposedly archive articles after the fact, and the allegations are about as well supported as the recent conspiracy theories floated by Steve from Gamer's Nexus, which is to day, almost all of it is documented by multiple sources and the guy confessed publicly.
  
  Which is a wee problem for me because those (Archive site) links I've been sprinkling through posts for the past year as more and more news sites decide they don't want anyone to read them?
  
  Well, those links point to Archive.IS, but it's the same software and the same person.
  
  I've switched to using Brave to prepare these posts, because it seems better at dodging around that problem, but it does mean that if you're using a different browser you might not be able to read the linked content.
  
  On the other hand, I always, always present the full unvarnished truth without so much as editorialising.
  
  Mostly.
  
  Sometimes.
  
  
  

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• Well, so much for that: Intel's next-generation Nova Lake desktop CPU range is likely to arrive at CES 2027. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Theories are that AMD has been planning not to launch Zen 6 until 2027 anyway, at least since they were close enough to launch to have a specific timeframe in mind. But Intel was promising Nova Lake this year as recently as January.
  
  
  
• It's not Nova Lake, but Intel's Bartlett Lake is on its way and will support up to 12 Performance cores, compared to a maximum of 8 on any current Intel mainstream desktop processor. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And it has hyperthreading, so 24 threads on that high-end model.
  
  One small problem: While it does run in the old reliable Socket 1700 (used by Intel's 12th, 13th, and 14th generation chips) it is intended for industrial customers needing guaranteed supply for the next decade, and won't be available in retail channels at all. And ASRock has already said that they won't support these chips in their motherboards, so an upgrade might be off the table.
  
  
  
• Do not eat audio equipment. (The Guardian)
  
  Got it. Thanks. What would we do without you?
  
  
  
• How far back in time can you understand English. (Dead Language Society)
  
  I've seen similar tests floating around recently, and the answer is pretty consistently 1300 AD. You have to know a few little tricks - the old long S ſ, thorn þ, and yogh ȝ characters have long fallen out of use, plus at some point u and v were merged and before that w was just two u characters.
  
  But go back further and there's more change in each of the three prior centuries than in all the years since.
  
  Handy guide to keep if the Tardis translator circuit is on the blink and you don't speak Latin.
  
  
  
• China's CXMT is at it again, selling previous-generation DDR4 memory at half the price of anyone else. (Korea Herald)
  
  CXMT was called out and sanctioned for this behaviour - at the time it was dumping new DDR4 memory on the market for less than the price of used.
  
  Now it's... Well, it's doing exactly the same thing again, but this time it's raking in the dough thanks to massive global price increases rather than depending on CCP subsidies.
  
  
  
• Xbox is dead. (The Verge)
  
  Well, that's just great.
  
  Microsoft has turfed long-time head of their gaming division, Phil Spencer, who admittedly had not been doing a great job of things lately, and also his expected successor Sarah Brand, in favour of Asha Sharma, formerly the company's President of AI Slop. And before that she was COO at Instacart.
  
  No experience with the games industry at all, but again, Spencer was a veteran in the industry and totally screwed things up anyway.