Daily News Stuff 12 July 2026

Top Story

• SK Hynix says that 2027 will be the "worst year" for memory, predicting that the crunch will last until 2030. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  I panicked and bought half a terabyte of RAM, everything I could find at old prices (and in one case, more than old prices but better than typical new prices).
  
  I just need to baby it along for a few years.
  
  
  
• Huawei says screw you guys, we'll build our own memory! With blackjack, and hookers! (WCCFTech)
  
  The company is planning to churn out 140,000 12-inch wafers a month of 28nm DRAM. Given the nuances of DRAM scaling, I'm not sure exactly what that counts for... Hang on.
  
  Looks like it's about 5% of current production by the Big Three, but every drop in the ocean counts.

Tech News

• Vint Cerf, often called "the father of the internet", is retiring from his role at Google. (Tech Crunch)
  
  I too hope to be able to retire by the time I am 83.
  
  
  
• Cuba has been hit with a nation-wide blackout. (CNN)
  
  Unexpectedly.
  
  
  
• You can now pick up AMD's 9070 GRE graphics card for $499. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Still overpriced but not as laughably so as before.
  
  
  
• The FCC has annoyed astronomers by approving Earendil. (PC Magazine)
  
  Earendil - named after the mariner from Tolkien's Silmarillion - is an experimental mirror sixty feet on a side, deployed into orbit to reflect sunlight down to anywhere that needs a little brightening up.
  
  The plan is to launch 50,000 of these. Which used to be a lot.
  
  
  
• Communists are demanding the FCC grant them veto over space-based datacenters. (The Register)
  
  The reasoning being that if environmental groups can't set them on fire, they're bad and must be illegal.
  
  
  
• Research today: The effects of local decompactification of additional spatial dimensions on the formation of exotic ices in the abyssal depths of a water world of around 5 Earth diameters, Irish ferry timetables and fares in Galway Bay in 1911, the arms and armour of the Galatian mercenaries in the service of Nicomedes I of Bithnyia in 278 BC, and the application of scaling laws to the possible size of terrestrial nudibranchs.
  
  No catgirls died in the research of these story elements. Partly because they already went extinct.
  
  
  

Musical Interlude



Yes, I've been rewatching Is It Wrong to Try to Pick Up Girls in a Dungeon a.k.a Danmachi, prompted by its availability in full on Hidive, which I picked up a subscription to at 75% off during Amazon's Prime Day sale. This song is the closing theme for the first season.

Of course, seasons two and four left the service before I got to them, and season two is not available for streaming on other services in Australia due to the regional rights being a big ball of mud... Not available legitimately.

Oh, and I missed that the new Tenchi Galaxy series is being funded through a Kickstarter project. If you're interested, I regret to inform you that you're too late... It's already reached its goal. You have 57 days to chip in if you'd like, though.


Disclaimer: The bastards say, welcome.