Daily Tech News 21 May 2026

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AMD has released its new Epyc Sorano CPU range for low-end servers. (WCCFTech)

Where low-end now means six-channel RAM and up to 84 cores. All full Zen 5 cores too, none of this efficiency nonsense.

And 96 lanes of PCIe 5.0, all in a 225W TDP. It runs at up to 4.5GHz, which is pretty good for a server processor (and would make for a good workstation CPU), but due to thermal constraints the base clock of the 84 core model is just 1.6GHz. (The slower models are faster in that respect.)
Speaking of workstation CPUs, AMD's rumoured 10th Anniversary edition Ryzen 5800X3D is fast becoming more than a rumour. (Tom's Hardware)

It's something of a legend, since AMD killed it because it was competing to well with its own newer and more profitable models like the 7800X3D. Plus it works with DDR4 memory, so if you happened to nab of cheap 128GB of DDR4 at the end of last year just before the door slammed shut, it would make fine use of that... If it were available.

Not only has the 5800X3D been removed from sale, so has the slower 5700X3D. The 5600X3D is a Micro Center exclusive, and the 5500X3D is China-only.

But all of that looks set to change with packaging and pricing showing up ahead of release: It looks set to cost around $300, compared to $450 when it originally launched.

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Samsung has avoided a disastrous strike by memory workers at the last minute. (Tom's Hardware)

The company has promised 15% of record-breaking profits as bonuses to employees, and removed the existing cap on those bonuses.

SK Hynix is even more generous, but I don't think anyone is hurting here.

Except customers.
Speaking of Samsung and suffering customers, the company has just announced its new Odyssey G8 monitor range. (WCCFTech)

The flagship is a 32" 6k OLED panel running at 165Hz - or if you're playing professing esports after hours, 330Hz if you reduce the resolution to 3k.

No graphics card on Earth is going to drive a 6k display at 165Hz in AAA gaming titles, but if you want to show off how fast your 5090 can run stock Minecraft, this is the monitor for you.
Managed cloud provider Railway found itself stuck with a protracted outage when its account was suspended by mismanaged cloud provider Google. (The Register)

Railway moved most of its services out of Google Cloud already but kept a few unfortunately critical items running there because surely, surely what happened last time wouldn't happen again.

Then it happened.
Intel has started work on the follow-up nodes to its coming 14A - 1.4nm - process. (Tom's Hardware)

The nodes are 10A and 7A - as in, 0.7nm. Which would be impossible if this was more than a marketing term.
Seagate's CEO sparked a selloff of memory stocks when he said that, basically, building new factories is for losers. (CNBC)

Every memory, SSD, and even hard drive manufacturer is selling everything the can make right now at enormous margins, but there is real doubt whether the bubble will last, leading to a slow and measured approach to expansion even while customers die of starvation.

But you have to word it a bit better than that.
Looks like the share price bounced back the next day anyway.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: That's not a moofin!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 Morning hordesters

Posted by: Pete Bog at May 21, 2026 04:34 AM (VQOa3)

2 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at May 21, 2026 04:34 AM (Ia/+0)

3 I was there and poof

Posted by: Pete Bog at May 21, 2026 04:37 AM (VQOa3)

4 Rise and shine!

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent at May 21, 2026 04:38 AM (/HDaX)

5 Hey Skip. Long commute today?

Posted by: Pete Bog at May 21, 2026 04:38 AM (VQOa3)

6 High 90s last few days, 62 now and actually dropping a little the rest of today.

Posted by: Skip at May 21, 2026 04:39 AM (Ia/+0)

7 3 I was there and poof
Posted by: Pete Bog

NTTAWWT.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at May 21, 2026 04:39 AM (BLOW1)

8 w00t

Posted by: m at May 21, 2026 04:40 AM (6wpGE)

9 Mornin'

No graphics card on Earth is going to drive a 6k display at 165Hz in AAA gaming titles, but if you want to show off how fast your 5090 can run stock Minecraft, this is the monitor for you.

I bet Solitaire will look spectacular!!

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at May 21, 2026 04:43 AM (sAmhv)

10 Yeah, down to Philadelphia again.
No close jobs lately.

Posted by: Skip at May 21, 2026 04:45 AM (Ia/+0)

11 Thanks Pixy. It’s nice to be noticed.

Posted by: Pete Bog at May 21, 2026 04:45 AM (VQOa3)

12 Reposted from tech thread. Students boo college President as AI messes up students name at graduation. From "NY Post"

https://tinyurl.com/2tc5wjfp

I am glad that my son went to a small school and there was no bot reading the names.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 21, 2026 04:49 AM (IEV/x)

13 Guten morgen, horde.

Posted by: clarence at May 21, 2026 04:50 AM (1QT7n)

14 I've been over at the thread Republicans -- the Real Ones -- Win Big In Georgia, Sweeping the Suprme Court Races and Sending Raffensberger and His Grima Wormtounge Into Retirement, reading the comments, and they are pretty hilarious.

Posted by: m at May 21, 2026 04:53 AM (6wpGE)

15 been over at the thread
_-_
The, uh, thread?

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 21, 2026 04:57 AM (t7+TD)

16 Didn’t Georgia have primary for a Senate seat as well? I haven’t heard anything about that.

Posted by: Pete Bog at May 21, 2026 04:59 AM (VQOa3)

17 Oh, that thread. As E. Scalia said....smart but very, very vulgar.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 21, 2026 05:00 AM (t7+TD)

18 AMD will make a killing re-releasing the 5800X3D.
They're been off the market for close to two years and a lot has changed in the PC market since then.

People who need a 'budget' gaming PC these days can do no better than a 5800X3D with DDR4 and a decent current GPU to go with it.

I'd grab one myself if I was still running a 5600X.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 21, 2026 05:01 AM (6ydKt)

19 Actor David Suchet reads Psalm 148 - a psalm of praise:

https://tinyurl.com/3n379hf7

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 21, 2026 05:02 AM (uPdai)

20 I had a pleasant experience at the supermarket yesterday. There was a little blonde boy there with his grandparents . He told me that he needed a haircut and he proudly said he was two and a half and his name was Aidan. So cute!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 21, 2026 05:06 AM (uPdai)

21 Now to send some of the very, very old fossils in congress off to their multi million dollar homes in the Bahamas or where they can just disappear. They seem to want to set the record as the oldest member beating Senator Strom Thurmond who was 100. Maxine Waters (D-Calif.), 86 etc. This job wasn't suppose to be a forever job.

Posted by: Colin at May 21, 2026 05:06 AM (CiQE7)

22 Georgia Senate goes to runoff:
Collins 41%
Dooley 30%

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 21, 2026 05:09 AM (t7+TD)

23
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at May 21, 2026 05:10 AM (AMvSw)

24 Gospel singer Ce Ce Winans sings "What a friend we have in Jesus":

https://tinyurl.com/ypwc4wj3

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 21, 2026 05:12 AM (AphQx)

25 For all the wind blowing and dark skies we didn't get much rain out of it yesterday evening

Posted by: Skip at May 21, 2026 05:14 AM (Ia/+0)

26 But with Waters, age hasn't slowed her down. She's just as stupid now as she was decades ago.

Posted by: Wally at May 21, 2026 05:15 AM (0e5Te)

27 Sorry, Martha. Couldn't make it all the way through that one.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 21, 2026 05:18 AM (t7+TD)

28 26 But with Waters, age hasn't slowed her down. She's just as stupid now as she was decades ago.
****

Well, her limit break is set quite low.

Posted by: clarence at May 21, 2026 05:19 AM (1QT7n)

29 Thor's Day, Thor's Day yet again! Evening and morning, AoSHQ satellites, satraps, malcontents, and insurgents. Whassup?

"Martha and the Muffins"? Can't say I've ever heard of them or heard that song. "Martha" herself -- she shouldn't be attractive; all the parts of her face don't add up to the usual kind of comeliness. But somehow she is compelling. If I'd met her in the '80s (I presume this is when this video is from?), I'd have been drawn to her for sure. ("How you doin'?")

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

30 Got a bunch of tomato plants out yesterday morning as it was cool and wet all day. Good day to transplant. Eager to see them again in the morning. Spinach , peas, and carrots are all up. Wait, is the the gardening thread? No technology was harmed jn the writng of this comment.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 21, 2026 05:21 AM (t7+TD)

31 Woolworth's in Australia has come up with a new way to add a little meat to bagged salad lettuce:

https://youtu.be/YdBG2rP0s7E
(3m44s)

If you like a little green frog with you're salad, they've got you covered.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 21, 2026 05:21 AM (6ydKt)

32 Woman in England crochets 100th baby blanket for the maternity unit in the same hospital which saved her sight:

https://tinyurl.com/2tvdj79t

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 21, 2026 05:22 AM (n3VHW)

33 1 Morning hordesters
Posted by: Pete Bog at May 21, 2026 04:34 AM (VQOa3)

Swoopin' in for the win! Way to go, Pete Bog!

Posted by: m at May 21, 2026 05:22 AM (6wpGE)

34 Woolworth's in Australia has come up with a new way to add a little meat to bagged salad lettuce:

https://youtu.be/YdBG2rP0s7E
(3m44s)

If you like a little green frog with you're salad, they've got you covered.
Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 21, 2026

***
Woolworth's still exists somewhere in the world??

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 21, 2026 05:24 AM (wzUl9)

35 If there is something alive in your salad greens, that is a good sign. Rinse 'em iff and continue.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 21, 2026 05:25 AM (t7+TD)

36 Nanci Griffith onWoolworth's:
https://tinyurl.com/2zka4yx8

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 21, 2026 05:29 AM (t7+TD)

37 Woolworth's still exists somewhere in the world??

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 21, 2026 05:24 AM (wzUl9)

I'm not sure if it's the same "Woolworth's" as what we had here.

In the UK and Oz it's a grocery store as opposed to a department store.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at May 21, 2026 05:31 AM (6ydKt)

38 29 If I'd met her in the '80s (I presume this is when this video is from?)
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 21, 2026 05:21 AM (wzUl9)

1986 (it tells us at 4:23)

Posted by: m at May 21, 2026 05:31 AM (6wpGE)

39 Talked with my oldest friend C last night. He's doing well. But another of our junior high classmates who has been our friend for decades -- and is C's wife's uncle! -- has just had a stroke at age 73. He's in the hospital and has lost the use of the right side of his body. Apparently he will be going to rehab. His name is Patrick, so if you can include him in your prayers, it'd be appreciated.

I need to go see him. It's funny; I still see myself and my oldest friends as being thirteen, or twenty, or thirty. Reality and old age hits you in the face.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 21, 2026 05:32 AM (wzUl9)

40 Song in My Head - Martha and the Muffins

Just because there is a song in your head does not mean that you have to sing it and video it.

Posted by: m at May 21, 2026 05:34 AM (6wpGE)

41 Nanci Griffith onWoolworth's:
https://tinyurl.com/2zka4yx8
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 21, 2026

***
My gosh. She sounds just like Miss Linda!! And like comedienne Rita Rudner, too.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 21, 2026 05:34 AM (wzUl9)

42 There's nothin' like old friends.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 21, 2026 05:35 AM (t7+TD)

43 Hello M. Insomnia for the win.

Posted by: Pete Bog at May 21, 2026 05:37 AM (VQOa3)

44 sounds just like Miss Linda
_-_
Hearing her makes me miss Texas.

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 21, 2026 05:38 AM (t7+TD)

45 Good morning, everyone! The worst part of the day so far is that for some reason, my brain was convinced that today is Friday.

I'll be sulking in the corner if you need me.

Posted by: NR Pax at May 21, 2026 05:39 AM (+4yJ5)

46 27 Sorry, Martha. Couldn't make it all the way through that one.
Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 21, 2026 05:18 AM (t7+TD)

I hung in there. There was a sorta Barbra Streisand vibe.

Posted by: m at May 21, 2026 05:40 AM (6wpGE)

47 Martha was slim and in shape too -- in wild contrast to so many everyday people and even "celebrities" today. Eat like a horse, look like a horse.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 21, 2026 05:42 AM (wzUl9)

48 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at May 21, 2026 05:42 AM (2Ez/1)

49 Birdbath status?
The chair is against the wall.
John has a long mustache

Posted by: Don in SoCo at May 21, 2026 05:44 AM (t7+TD)

50 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 21, 2026 05:32 AM (wzUl9

Will pray for your friend, Patrick.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at May 21, 2026 05:46 AM (n3VHW)

51 About 76 close and unbreathable degrees here; brief rains in our forecast today and through next Wednesday.

I could go work out this morning. I really could. Will I? As Abba said, "The gods, they play at dice, their minds as cold as ice." It's up to them, I guess.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at May 21, 2026 05:47 AM (wzUl9)

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