Daily Tech News 15 July 2026

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Microsoft has updated Windows Search and... Fixed it? (WCCFTech)

Well, they've at least stopped shoving it full of ads, which goes a big way toward fixing it.
Micrsoft just release a set of patches that fix 570 security holes in Windows and their other software. (Krebs on Security)

That's... Good, I guess? If still terrifying.
Microsoft also fixed Secure Boot. (Ars Technica)

Which as it happens has been insecure boot since 2013.

Tech News

With memory being so wildly expensive these days, you might be wondering which memory you should buy.

And the answer is, in most cases, cheap memory. Or the cheapest you can find from a reliable retailer.

Intel has its CUDIMMs and AMD has its ULL memory. They are not worth buying.

For everyday tasks they make no difference, and for gaming the money is far better spent on a AMD Ryzen X3D CPU, or if you have an Intel system, on wishing you had an AMD system. The expanded cache on AMD's X3D CPUs makes memory speed largely irrelevant for most users, even gamers intent on wringing every last drop of performance out of their systems.

Intel will be shipping its own X3D equivalent later this year with its Nova Lake processors, which include up to 288MB of cache, though most users will do fine with half that much.
Bonsai 27B is the Qwen 27B model squooshed into a bit and a bit. (PrismML)

Native Qwen 27B uses 16-bit floating point, so it needs 54GB of VRAM to run unrestricted. And 54GB of VRAM is quite expensive in the current market.

What the Bonsai process does is to prune it down to ternary or binary with scaling factors per group. In ternary form it fits in 5.9GB of VRAM, while retaining more than 90% of the capabilities of the full model.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: He's fallen in the water!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 Mornin'

Gonna go for a walk in a bit before the temps go over 100.

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at July 15, 2026 04:36 AM (sAmhv)

2 Just checking in before going to bed and first.
Goodnight.

Posted by: Reforger at July 15, 2026 04:38 AM (/Hx86)

3 Darnit.

Posted by: Reforger at July 15, 2026 04:38 AM (/Hx86)

4 Another really thoughtful-but rather long essay from "The Christian Post" on thoughts about why God doesn't answer all our prayers:

https://tinyurl.com/mvbj4dsa

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2026 04:39 AM (guLpK)

5 Guten morgen, horde.

Posted by: clarence at July 15, 2026 04:41 AM (HpRTp)

6 Father and son sing Gospel song from the early 1900's- "Father Along": Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/4z9n26kj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2026 04:42 AM (guLpK)

7 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2026 04:42 AM (Ia/+0)

8 6- "Farther" along, not "father"

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2026 04:43 AM (guLpK)

9 First time maybe this year don't have to worry about if I will get to everywhere I have to go today

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2026 04:47 AM (Ia/+0)

10 Man reflects on this devotional on "Ephesians 5:15-20 and "Always giving thanks":

https://tinyurl.com/2vv5tkfp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2026 04:47 AM (guLpK)

11 Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2026 04:47 AM (Ia/+0)

That's good news, Skip.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2026 04:48 AM (guLpK)

12 In bed awake since 2:30; trolling the internet since 4; drinking coffee since 4:30; not much left to do today except go to work.
Big news around here is wildfire smoke

Posted by: Accomack at July 15, 2026 04:49 AM (T8bqm)

13 Evening and morning, AosHQ satellites & satraps! How is your corner of the Empire on this Woden's Day smack dab in the middle of July?

Skip, did you buy an SUV, then?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2026 04:51 AM (wzUl9)

14 The little "furry alarm clock " ( kitten ) seems to be getting more adjusted to us. He slept from 10:45 p.m last night to 4:15 this morning . He also doesn't seem to be wailing for his mom anymore.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2026 04:52 AM (guLpK)

15 Good morning horde of tech. From looking at the news it appears the whole country is held in the molten grip of a precedented heatwave called July.

Posted by: Pete Bogs Agentic alter ego at July 15, 2026 04:52 AM (zjwe/)

16 Did my doctor appt. yesterday; no worries, but I didn't get a chance to crash in the afternoon, so I headed off to Pillow-Land early. And then woke up earlier than I planned. Feeling pretty good though, and I need to go work out in a bit.

This afternoon I have a video tour of another house. It looks great, but it's on the other side of the river from Terre Haute. Which means crossing by means of only two bridges to get to a lot of amenities. The town only has about 2200 residents. I know I said I wanted to live in a smaller community, but --! If you live in such a small place, say within five or ten miles of a larger town to which you have to travel for car repairs, medical, and the like, I'd like to hear your reactions.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2026 04:58 AM (wzUl9)

17 The little "furry alarm clock " ( kitten ) seems to be getting more adjusted to us. He slept from 10:45 p.m last night to 4:15 this morning . He also doesn't seem to be wailing for his mom anymore.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2026

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Is he milk-treading you or anybody else in the household? Stirling still does it when he sits on my lap, and he's over four years old.

They adjust pretty fast. In my view, my cats have pretty much decided I was their human by the second or third day.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2026 05:01 AM (wzUl9)

18 "If the disciples made music" a cute music video- I guess it's rap(?) by a Christian musical artist :

https://tinyurl.com/ysbwey95

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2026 05:02 AM (D+BhG)

19 Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2026 05:01 AM (wzUl9)

No milk treading.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2026 05:03 AM (D+BhG)

20 Sometime I will have to get a rental truck to haul scrap metal but not for a few weeks. Going to Lancaster this Friday and Saturday

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2026 05:04 AM (Ia/+0)

21 Amazingly low (for here, in July) temps now, 79-80 F. Maybe I can get in a solid workout.

My furry thugs are doing well as usual. Stirling is curled on the floor a few feet from me, and Dagny is, well, she's off doing Dagny things. They're not due for breakfast for a couple of hours.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2026 05:05 AM (wzUl9)

22 Wolfus,

Dear poster "Tecumseh Tea" lives in that area. You might ask her. If you like the house , it checks out and you want a smaller community I would go with that.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2026 05:06 AM (D+BhG)

23 No milk treading.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2026

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Not every kitten does it. None of the Siberians have, possibly because they didn't leave their mothers early to be adopted -- the breeder lady I've had three kittens from doesn't let them go out until they are five months old. On the other hand, big Arizona, the red tabby I adopted in '83 from the SPCA, never did it either, and he was only about six weeks old when I took him home. Maybe it depends to a degree on the personality of the kitten.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2026 05:09 AM (wzUl9)

24
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 15, 2026 05:12 AM (AMvSw)

25 Going to Library job, hope someday a picture for book thread
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at July 15, 2026 05:12 AM (Ia/+0)

26 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 15, 2026 05:16 AM (Hbeqj)

27 Microslop fixes "many things":

And as far as we know, still doesn't have any actual QA staff so those fixes are just slung out there on a hope and a prayer. "The users will test it for us."

Uh huh. And we see how well that's been going.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at July 15, 2026 05:16 AM (O7YUW)

28 Dear poster "Tecumseh Tea" lives in that area. You might ask her. If you like the house , it checks out and you want a smaller community I would go with that.
Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 15, 2026

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I will ask.

My vision was to live in a small city, perhaps 25-50K residents, small enough to get around easily but with various amenities like places to get my car worked on, a hospital or two, plumbers and electricians, etc. if smaller, then a short drive from a bigger town. This town is only about three or four miles west, but involves using one of two river bridges. And there is the possibility of floods from the river, though the house I'm looking at is not in a flood plain.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2026 05:18 AM (wzUl9)

29 Wow. A lot of familiar faces here at 5:16am.

I had beers with my friend yesterday and continued them as I've been wrestling with AI to do some -what you would think would be simple tasks.

Only 4 beers. I should get some sleep but I can work now without babysitting Ralphy and carrying him up and down the stairs. Snowflake usually goes out at 5am latest but all today is messed up I guess.

I'll see how this script goes. And there was a large jump.

Here's Snowflake.

Everyone have a great day.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 15, 2026 05:19 AM (Sco7b)

30 Finishing my second cup of coffee. Time to get moving, i.e., change, stretch, make sure I have my bottle of water, and hit the road and walking trail.

Maybe I can do the same tomorrow before I leave to have the car's rear brakes done, and then visit the mall with Linda on Friday morning for a brisk walk indoors.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2026 05:25 AM (wzUl9)

31 Maybe I can do the same tomorrow before I leave to have the car's rear brakes done, and then visit the mall with Linda on Friday morning for a brisk walk indoors.
Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 15, 2026 05:25 AM (wzUl9)

So you're saying...there's an outside?
Hmmm. Interesting.
Have a great day.

Posted by: Stateless - He ain't heavy, he's my dog at July 15, 2026 05:27 AM (Sco7b)

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