Daily Tech News 13 November 2026

Top Story

Jensen Huang, CEO and chairman of the worlds largest company (by market capitalisation), is now neither. (Tom's Hardware)

He had an affair - confirmed - with a Chinese spy - alleged - and also affairs - alleged - with two employees at Nvidia - confirmed.

He has been CEO since the company was founded - by him - in 1993, so there isn't exactly a carefully thought-out succession plan in place.
Will he move on to run Terafab? (Tom's Hardware)

Maybe.
Will Tim Apple take Jensen Nvidia's place? (Tom's Hardware)

Less likely.

Tech News

Rust has turned 100. (Rust)

Yay?
Whoop is a new social network that is guaranteed 100% organic. (The Verge)

Aaand it's dead.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Eh.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

Comments

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 04:00 AM (odBC9)

2 >>>Whoop is a new social network

w00t

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 04:00 AM (odBC9)

3 G'Day everyone
On November 13, Felix Unger was asked to remove himself from his place of residence... Can two divorced men share an apartment without driving each other crazy?"

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2026 04:01 AM (Ia/+0)

4 Well there's my earworm for the day....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 04:02 AM (aKiSo)

5 >>>Rust has turned 100. (Rust)

"You better put some ice on that."

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 04:02 AM (odBC9)

6 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 13, 2026 04:04 AM (Xr4QU)

7 Sailor - A Glass of Champagne

…
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Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 04:06 AM (odBC9)

8 Good morning!

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

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2026 04:09 AM (98Ofx)

9 Going back to sleep.

Everyone have a serene day.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at November 13, 2026 04:09 AM (98Ofx)

10 Pixy, I believe you just purged Gordon Lightfoot from my brain. Not sure if I should thank you or not yet.

Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at November 13, 2026 04:10 AM (KaHlS)

11 Good morning, All

I'm worried about Jensen Huang's wife, hurt by her husband's infidelity. I understand her settlement will only be $81 billion.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 13, 2026 04:12 AM (2sX6p)

12 10 Pixy, I believe you just purged Gordon Lightfoot from my brain.
Posted by: InspiredHistoryMike at November 13, 2026 04:10 AM (KaHlS)

"The legend lives on from the Chippewa on down
Of the big lake they called 'Gitche Gumee.'
The lake, it is said, never gives up her dead
When the skies of November turn gloomy."

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 04:16 AM (odBC9)

13
From the last thread, the Wiki article on the Local Group has some high resolution images and other clickable stuff on our local galactic neighborhood:

https://t.ly/KBKTy

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 04:18 AM (w6EFb)

14 11 I'm worried about Jensen Huang's wife, hurt by her husband's infidelity. I understand her settlement will only be $81 billion.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 13, 2026 04:12 AM (2sX6p)

I mean, she won't necessarily leave him, right?

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 04:19 AM (odBC9)

15 Rust has turned 100. (Rust)

https://youtu.be/9SOryJvTAGs&t=229s

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 04:29 AM (l3cgK)

16 Pixy, have you heard any plausible rumors or do you have informed speculation about what blew up at Microsoft? I've read through a few of their statements and they're inscrutable. They seem to be saying this was not due to some Cyber attack but I'm not convinced of that yet.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 13, 2026 04:31 AM (3E3/c)

17 13
From the last thread, the Wiki article on the Local Group has some high resolution images and other clickable stuff on our local galactic neighborhood:

https://t.ly/KBKTy

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 04:18 AM (w6EFb)

What amazing are all the large structures of the universe seen and inferred...
Some of them 100s of millions of light-years in size...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 04:32 AM (l3cgK)

18
Well space people, today is a day that has been in our dreams for a long time.

I wish my folks were alive to see what is planned happen.

Posted by: pawn at November 13, 2026 04:35 AM (Ytebf)

19 11 I'm worried about Jensen Huang's wife, hurt by her husband's infidelity. I understand her settlement will only be $81 billion.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 13, 2026 04:12 AM (2sX6p)

I mean, she won't necessarily leave him, right?
Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 04:19 AM (odķBC9)

--‐‐----‐

She might, after being cheated on twice. She's 64, and, fortunately, eligible for social security. Let's hope she's worked long enough

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 13, 2026 04:36 AM (2sX6p)

20 She might, after being cheated on twice.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 13, 2026 04:36 AM (2sX6p)

Thrice.

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 04:37 AM (odBC9)

21 19 11 I'm worried about Jensen Huang's wife, hurt by her husband's infidelity. I understand her settlement will only be $81 billion.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 13, 2026 04:12 AM (2sX6p)

I mean, she won't necessarily leave him, right?
Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 04:19 AM (odķBC9)

--‐‐----‐

She might, after being cheated on twice. She's 64, and, fortunately, eligible for social security. Let's hope she's worked long enough

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 13, 2026 04:36 AM (2sX6p)

With a good-enough chunk of the fortune (you mentioned $81B settlement?), social security will not be a major issue for her.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 04:38 AM (l3cgK)

22 Alteria Pilgrim, there is a very interesting article at Iran International about the scope of cyber warfare by Iran. We do know that those attacks on the various water systems and the freezer hacks were Iran, so Microsoft..... maybe.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 13, 2026 04:40 AM (8Uo7a)

23 21 19 11 I'm worried about Jensen Huang's wife, hurt by her husband's infidelity. I understand her settlement will only be $81 billion.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 13, 2026 04:12 AM (2sX6p)

I mean, she won't necessarily leave him, right?
Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 04:19 AM (odķBC9)

--‐‐----‐

She might, after being cheated on twice. She's 64, and, fortunately, eligible for social security. Let's hope she's worked long enough

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 13, 2026 04:36 AM (2sX6p)

With a good-enough chunk of the fortune (you mentioned $81B settlement?), social security will not be a major issue for her.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 04:38 AM (l3cgK)

I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that JM in Illinois was snarking about Social Security.

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 04:40 AM (odBC9)

24 The timing of this Nvidia mess is peculiar. From what I've read, the Biden administration was aware of Jensen fooling around with a chicom; same goes for the Trump administration.

It's a weird mystery that this didn't blow up a long time ago. I did some poking and it appears some New York Times journalists were on to this story in 2025, maybe a bit earlier.

I find it what's that the story broke a few days after a Democrat takeover of Congress. It's like this was teed up for maximum damage. It's all just odd and after living through Russia, Russia, Russia anything's possible.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 13, 2026 04:41 AM (3E3/c)

25
The largest scale structure is known as the cosmic web. It's sort of a foam like thing. You have "holes", voids with very little matter, surrounded by a web of sheets and filaments.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 04:41 AM (w6EFb)

26 22 Alteria Pilgrim, there is a very interesting article at Iran International about the scope of cyber warfare by Iran. We do know that those attacks on the various water systems and the freezer hacks were Iran, so Microsoft..... maybe.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 13, 2026 04:40 AM (8Uo7a)

Possibilities:
Update that f'd up everything.
Hacking by bad actor (China, N. Korea, Iran, Dark Hacking groups)
HW failures
Communication failures
etc

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 04:42 AM (l3cgK)

27
Reuters
EXCLUSIVE: Former Nvidia CEO Huang had a relationship with a second employee, sources say

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 04:42 AM (odBC9)

28 I'm gonna go out on a limb and guess that JM in Illinois was snarking about Social Security.

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 04:40 AM (odBC9)

Unless JM feels that she'll lose out at court...but yes, I agree, most likely snark.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 04:43 AM (l3cgK)

29 What amazing are all the large structures of the universe seen and inferred...
Some of them 100s of millions of light-years in size...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 04:32 AM (l3cgK)

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I was happy to learn that the Andromeda galaxy and the Milky way galaxy have only a 50 percent chance of colliding in the next ten billion years. Man, I was losing sleep.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 13, 2026 04:43 AM (2sX6p)

30 27
Reuters
EXCLUSIVE: Former Nvidia CEO Huang had a relationship with a second employee, sources say

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 04:42 AM (odBC9)

Somewhere else said it was three, two of which were employees of NVIDIA

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 04:43 AM (l3cgK)

31 m, an article at ynet says he had three affairs.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 13, 2026 04:44 AM (8Uo7a)

32 29 What amazing are all the large structures of the universe seen and inferred...
Some of them 100s of millions of light-years in size...
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 04:32 AM (l3cgK)

---------

I was happy to learn that the Andromeda galaxy and the Milky way galaxy have only a 50 percent chance of colliding in the next ten billion years. Man, I was losing sleep.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 13, 2026 04:43 AM (2sX6p)

Not all collisions are equal...stars almost entirely passing by other stars...some will be tossed away eventually though.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 04:45 AM (l3cgK)

33
The cosmic web structure most closely resembles..........slime mold.

The universe is a kind of slime mold. Think about that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 04:45 AM (w6EFb)

34
AFP.com
In Taiwan, Jensen Huang's 'flawless' image damaged by affairs

So, SOME people in his orbit are surprised.

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 04:45 AM (odBC9)

35 31 m, an article at ynet says he had three affairs.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 13, 2026 04:44 AM (8Uo7a)

Like trying to find all the mistresses my 3G-Grandfather had...and my ancestor with him was NOT one of the wives...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 04:46 AM (l3cgK)

36 Does any one here have any experience with AI graphics?

Posted by: Ben Had at November 13, 2026 04:46 AM (8Uo7a)

37 Alteria Pilgrim, there is a very interesting article at Iran International about the scope of cyber warfare by Iran. We do know that those attacks on the various water systems and the freezer hacks were Iran, so Microsoft..... maybe.
Posted by: Ben Had

I've never been involved with Infrastructure to scale Microsoft operates at so it's pretty impossible for me to draw informed speculation about what happened. I do know they build in lots of redundancy and automatic failovers so something catastrophic like this is contained. It appears none of that happened which is why I'm puzzled here. Further, they seem unable to sort out what's going on; that may be the result of the complexity of the systems, which means it'll take a bit more time to sort out. Also, getting these computers back online and functioning safely and reliably, that that doesn't happen quickly. Put all this together and it's a head scratcher.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 13, 2026 04:47 AM (3E3/c)

38 33
The cosmic web structure most closely resembles..........slime mold.

The universe is a kind of slime mold. Think about that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 04:45 AM (w6EFb)

Being drawn to the Great Attractor...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 04:47 AM (l3cgK)

39 At least our neck of the universe

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 04:47 AM (l3cgK)

40 30 27
Reuters
EXCLUSIVE: Former Nvidia CEO Huang had a relationship with a second employee, sources say

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 04:42 AM (odBC9)

Somewhere else said it was three, two of which were employees of NVIDIA
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 04:43 AM (l3cgK)

Right. As I understand it:

1) the spy Alice Huang
2) the Nvidia employee Kimberly Powell
3) another, yet to be named, Nvidia employee; hence, "a second employee"

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 04:48 AM (odBC9)

41
We wouldn't notice much of a galactic collision at our little scale.

From the large scale, it looks dramatic, two clumps of stars slamming into each other. At the stellar scale, it's like two big swarms of bees merging into each other. Chances are very low any two bees would bump into each other.

It would make for a very spectacular view in the night sky some 4 billion years in the future. You'd see that spiral of Andromeda looming large in the night sky.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 04:48 AM (w6EFb)

42 31 m, an article at ynet says he had three affairs.
Posted by: Ben Had at November 13, 2026 04:44 AM (8Uo7a)

These three, it looks like (so far):

1) the spy Alice Huang
2) the Nvidia employee Kimberly Powell
3) another, yet to be named, Nvidia employee

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 04:50 AM (odBC9)

43 People are lazy. The simplest explanation for anything going wrong at a software company right now is "agentic development" being performed more like "vibe coding," without the rigor that makes the professional difference.

Posted by: SciVo at November 13, 2026 04:50 AM (ke3zm)

44 24 The timing of this Nvidia mess is peculiar. From what I've read, the Biden administration was aware of Jensen fooling around with a chicom; same goes for the Trump administration.

It's a weird mystery that this didn't blow up a long time ago. I did some poking and it appears some New York Times journalists were on to this story in 2025, maybe a bit earlier.

I find it what's that the story broke a few days after a Democrat takeover of Congress. It's like this was teed up for maximum damage. It's all just odd and after living through Russia, Russia, Russia anything's possible.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram

He was poking a ChiCom spy and the nearly all the Dems and most of the GoP are ChiCom simps.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at November 13, 2026 04:50 AM (Xr4QU)

45
Complex life on earth here has only about 1 billion years left, so we'd wouldn't see it anyway. Simple microbes and extremophiles will hang on a while longer.

And us mammals may have somewhat less than that.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 04:51 AM (w6EFb)

46
Unless JM feels that she'll lose out at court...but yes, I agree, most likely snark.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 04:43 AM (

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The divorce court, it's always a safe bet to put your money on the woman. Or put the woman on the money.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 13, 2026 04:51 AM (2sX6p)

47 41
We wouldn't notice much of a galactic collision at our little scale.

From the large scale, it looks dramatic, two clumps of stars slamming into each other. At the stellar scale, it's like two big swarms of bees merging into each other. Chances are very low any two bees would bump into each other.

It would make for a very spectacular view in the night sky some 4 billion years in the future. You'd see that spiral of Andromeda looming large in the night sky.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 04:48 AM (w6EFb)

But in 4B years time, our sun supposedly will have made Earth uninhabitable for us...the Sun being in its Red Giant phase (burning Helium as Hydrogen mostly exhausted)...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 04:52 AM (l3cgK)

48 46
Unless JM feels that she'll lose out at court...but yes, I agree, most likely snark.
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 04:43 AM (

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The divorce court, it's always a safe bet to put your money on the woman. Or put the woman on the money.
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 13, 2026 04:51 AM (2sX6p)

and also:

CNBC
Jensen and Lori Huang's Nvidia fortune is jointly controlled.

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 04:53 AM (odBC9)

49 Possibilities:
Update that f'd up everything.
Hacking by bad actor (China, N. Korea, Iran, Dark Hacking groups)
HW failures
Communication failures
etc
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

From the inscrutable Microsoft communications about all this it sort of seems they had a perfect storm of internal failures which could include a rogue update, hardware failures, bad diagnostics, and so on. What I keep getting stuck on is it seems all the redundancy and failover went South too, that's not supposed to happen and it's not because Microsoft doesn't know how to engineer, implement, and run massive compute infrastructures. Sometimes bad things just happen at scale.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 13, 2026 04:53 AM (3E3/c)

50
We'll be dead long before the red giant phase. The Sun's luminosity increases as it ages, about 10% per billion years. That's where that 1 billion year value comes from. The Sun will be way too hot by then.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 04:54 AM (w6EFb)

51 WSJ
A Mystery Businessman Introduced Jensen Huang to His Paramour. It Was Her Husband.

https://archive.is/9CxcR

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 04:55 AM (odBC9)

52 50
We'll be dead long before the red giant phase. The Sun's luminosity increases as it ages, about 10% per billion years. That's where that 1 billion year value comes from. The Sun will be way too hot by then.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 04:54 AM (w6EFb)

Even if it was in 100 years, I won't have to worry about it. Hell, if it's more than 30 or 40 years from now I won't have to worry about it.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 04:56 AM (l3cgK)

53 We'll be dead long before the red giant phase. The Sun's luminosity increases as it ages, about 10% per billion years. That's where that 1 billion year value comes from. The Sun will be way too hot by then. Posted by: publius

Great! And I was already depressed.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 13, 2026 04:56 AM (3E3/c)

54 Sometimes bad things just happen at scale.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 13, 2026 04:53 AM (3E3/c)

I can guarantee that at some point in the chain the phrase "It'll Be Fine" was uttered by someone who should not have.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 04:57 AM (aKiSo)

55 I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 13, 2026 04:57 AM (8Uo7a)

56 Whoop is a new social network that is guaranteed 100% organic. (The Verge)

Aaand it's dead

Whoop! There it was.....

Posted by: mikeski at November 13, 2026 04:58 AM (VHUov)

57 If looking at the lifespans of species, looking forward 1B years would generally mean we'd be long gone (or changed so much as not to be human for a very long time)...
Go 1B years in the past, Earf had the beginnings of life, if the scientists are to be believed.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 04:59 AM (l3cgK)

58 54 Sometimes bad things just happen at scale.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 13, 2026 04:53 AM (3E3/c)

I can guarantee that at some point in the chain the phrase "It'll Be Fine" was uttered by someone who should not have.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 04:57 AM (aKiSo)

Last place I worked at was ISO certified...found their disaster plan and read through it...they had plans for natural disasters and some unnatural disasters...but war wasn't in there, funny enough.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 05:00 AM (l3cgK)

59
Here's a NASA visualization of what the night sky would look like over a few billions of the collision and merger:
https://t.ly/1xVP7

That will eventually happen, it's just likely won't happen as soon as they thought.

"Milkomeda" (Andro-Way) will become an elliptical galaxy, the spiral arms all destroyed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 05:00 AM (w6EFb)

60 Getting snow flurries

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2026 05:01 AM (Ia/+0)

61 A Mystery Businessman Introduced Jensen Huang to His Paramour. It Was Her Husband.
Posted by: m

And also her pimp.

Posted by: mikeski at November 13, 2026 05:02 AM (VHUov)

62 50
We'll be dead long before the red giant phase. The Sun's luminosity increases as it ages, about 10% per billion years. That's where that 1 billion year value comes from. The Sun will be way too hot by then.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb)

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So much could happen in a billion years. Maybe there will be some space travel breakthroughs. I don't know, seems like speed of light is an obstacle and space distances are so vast

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 13, 2026 05:03 AM (2sX6p)

63 61 A Mystery Businessman Introduced Jensen Huang to His Paramour. It Was Her Husband.
Posted by: m

And also her pimp.
Posted by: mikeski at November 13, 2026 05:02 AM (VHUov)

I mean I guess it makes the taxes easier

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 05:04 AM (aKiSo)

64 55 I don't even buy green bananas anymore.

Posted by: Ben Had at November 13, 2026 04:57 AM (8Uo7a)

Maybe you'd like some blue ones?
https://tinyurl.com/ym6hhxjr

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 05:04 AM (l3cgK)

65
Here's a simulation of the collision (as they thought it would happen until the latest data):

https://t.ly/_3k27

Note during the first pass, how a whole bunch of stars get scattered and ejected. And then they do a little dance and finally converge into an elliptical galaxy structure.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 05:05 AM (w6EFb)

66 TGIF
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2026 05:05 AM (Ia/+0)

67 56 Whoop is a new social network that is guaranteed 100% organic. (The Verge)

Aaand it's dead

Whoop! There it was.....
Posted by: mikeski at November 13, 2026 04:58 AM (VHUov)

; )

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 05:05 AM (odBC9)

68 59
Here's a NASA visualization of what the night sky would look like over a few billions of the collision and merger:
https://t.ly/1xVP7

That will eventually happen, it's just likely won't happen as soon as they thought.

"Milkomeda" (Andro-Way) will become an elliptical galaxy, the spiral arms all destroyed.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 05:00 AM (w6EFb)

I'm sure Miklos would prefer Miklomeda...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 05:06 AM (l3cgK)

69 16 Pixy, have you heard any plausible rumors or do you have informed speculation about what blew up at Microsoft? I've read through a few of their statements and they're inscrutable. They seem to be saying this was not due to some Cyber attack but I'm not convinced of that yet.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat

Forgot about that one. Yeah, they're being deliberately oblique.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 13, 2026 05:06 AM (BLOW1)

70 59
Here's a NASA visualization of what the night sky would look like over a few billions of the collision and merger:
https://t.ly/1xVP7

That will eventually happen, it's just likely won't happen as soon as they thought.

"Milkomeda" (Andro-Way) will become an elliptical galaxy, the spiral arms all destroyed.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at

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Wow! Thanks for sharing that.

Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 13, 2026 05:06 AM (2sX6p)

71
A billion years is a long time. Elon mused that a million year species run would be pretty good. But, to that, well, Islam may be the Great Filter for us. And Wokeism.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 05:07 AM (w6EFb)

72 71
A billion years is a long time. Elon mused that a million year species run would be pretty good. But, to that, well, Islam may be the Great Filter for us. And Wokeism.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 05:07 AM (w6EFb)

Muzzie human hybrids with sheep, goats, and camels...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 05:08 AM (l3cgK)

73
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at November 13, 2026 05:10 AM (AMvSw)

74 So much could happen in a billion years. Maybe there will be some space travel breakthroughs. I don't know, seems like speed of light is an obstacle and space distances are so vast
Posted by: JM in Illinois at November 13, 2026 05:03 AM (2sX6p)

My hunch is that we're just barely beginning to scrape at gathering the observations we'll need later on to develop the next layer of our mental model of how the universe is built below (above?) what we have now. Talking about a photon being created and then zipping through the cosmos, and it went so many meters in so many seconds... and we make educated guesses at how far away and how long based on all sorts of things. But we know that's already a bit gnarly because "meters" and "seconds" aren't invariant. I really think there's more to it that we haven't even conceptualized yet, something that does for relativity what relativity did for classical mechanics. Not an invalidation, but an expansion of our understanding of just how weird this universe is.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 05:11 AM (aKiSo)

75 69 16 Pixy, have you heard any plausible rumors or do you have informed speculation about what blew up at Microsoft? I've read through a few of their statements and they're inscrutable. They seem to be saying this was not due to some Cyber attack but I'm not convinced of that yet.
Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat

Forgot about that one. Yeah, they're being deliberately oblique.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at November 13, 2026 05:06 AM (BLOW1)

Maybe this is related? Though I'm not sure exactly how:

BBC

29 Oct 2026
the Windows developer said it would offer buyouts to 60,000 workers as it looks to curb costs

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 05:12 AM (odBC9)

76
About the Great Attractor (also know as the Stacey Abrams). I'm too lazy to look up the exact figures -- it involves our peculiar velocity as well as the relative velocity between us and Stacey, but it's somewhere over 1 million mph. We're all falling toward that pretty fast.

But, the Hubble flow, the expansion of the universe will easily overcome that. We're falling toward it, but we'll never get there.

And as things look, that's the long term fate, tens and tens, hundreds of billions of year. Isolation for everything. Our local group, or what becomes of it will hold together for a while, but at some point, each galaxy will be a lone island in nothingness. Everything else expanded away beyond the local cosmological horizon.

In that far future, any sentient beings that might develop then would have no clue they were once part of this thing we call a universe. They'd have no idea just how big it was, living in a long isolated island of stars in nothingness.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 05:17 AM (w6EFb)

77 A Whoop data/social media subscription can cost you $350 a year. Nah bro, If I want to hang out with insufferable people from places like Los Angeles, Denver, or Seattle I'll just take a trip to Santa Fe. At least that way I can mock them in person and still get a good meal and go to the art museum..

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 13, 2026 05:20 AM (3E3/c)

78
In that far future, all the information about the universe will be gone from view. But how about going the other way. Was there something observable a few billion years ago that might have shed more light on just what happened, what's going on that we can't see now?

That is possible.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 05:21 AM (w6EFb)

79 I suspect one of two thing happening with the Microsoft outage.

1. Something they very badly do not want publicize, short term until it can stopped or forever.

2. It's still a mystery and they're in the position of trying to do an autopsy on a corpse while also trying to bring it back to life. If they had a couple days to just do forensics, and then bring it back up when it's found and fixed, that would avoid a lot of stress but instead they have a service down that is supposed to deliver 99.999% uptime. Every passing minute is a growing deficit to revenues in remediation, and there is still the chance they lose the customer entirely.

Posted by: Epobirs at November 13, 2026 05:21 AM (/0z9K)

80 79
... It's still a mystery and they're in the position of trying to do an autopsy on a corpse while also trying to bring it back to life.

Posted by: Epobirs at November 13, 2026 05:21 AM (/0z9K)

LOL. So a Frankenstein's Monster solution...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 05:25 AM (l3cgK)

81 Stopping for a donut today,
I deserve one

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2026 05:26 AM (YdHVy)

82 Banging cocktail waitresses 3 at a time, the players couldn't get a drink at the tables......

Posted by: Mow Green at November 13, 2026 05:26 AM (LOZbR)

83 So the universe seems to be expanding, based on how the stuff in it is moving (in general). But the things inside the universe aren't getting bigger. We don't get a 10% bigger universe with galaxies that are also 10% bigger. Skyscrapers and monkeys and protons aren't 10% bigger. It's as if the stuff within the universe isn't "made of universe". As if you glued some beads to a balloon and then inflated the balloon, and the beads all stay the same size. Why? Why should they? Why *shouldn't* they? We really don't have a firm understanding of what "is", is.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 05:26 AM (aKiSo)

84 via hacker news (news.ycombinator.com)

https://x.com/MSFT365Status

for updates

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 05:27 AM (odBC9)

85 83 So the universe seems to be expanding, based on how the stuff in it is moving (in general). But the things inside the universe aren't getting bigger. We don't get a 10% bigger universe with galaxies that are also 10% bigger. Skyscrapers and monkeys and protons aren't 10% bigger. It's as if the stuff within the universe isn't "made of universe". As if you glued some beads to a balloon and then inflated the balloon, and the beads all stay the same size. Why? Why should they? Why *shouldn't* they? We really don't have a firm understanding of what "is", is.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 05:26 AM (aKiSo)

Just imagine someone stretching a rubber sheet...the stuff on the sheet doesn't change size, but the distance from other stuff on the sheet grows. Space is expanding, and the gravitational force (or the bend in space-time) isn't enough to overcome the stretching over very large distances, but under smaller distances the expansion isn't enough to overcome the gravity wells.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 05:30 AM (l3cgK)

86 Googling the search terms Hacker News has long turned up

news.ycombinator.com

which is great. Now that same search term also turns up

https://thehackernews.com

about which I know nothing and where I don't see anything on the MS outage.

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 05:31 AM (odBC9)

87 Apple jelly filled

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2026 05:32 AM (YdHVy)

88 And its Friday 13th

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2026 05:32 AM (YdHVy)

89 The first Microsoft thing that started working for a short time was the spam email made it through before things wents south again. I found that extremely amusing.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 13, 2026 05:32 AM (3E3/c)

90 87 Apple jelly filled
Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2026 05:32 AM (YdHVy)

yum

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 05:32 AM (odBC9)

91
The "expansion of space" is really just a coordinate picture. This is General Relativity. This is well, complicated, and I only know enough about it to be really, really dangerous. We never got into that at the undergraduate level, but in my "continuing self-education" over about, well, 30 years now, I've got a dim understanding. To appreciate it, it will take a while to get your mind into the mindset it requires.

You can coordinatize the spacetime that is our universe in other ways, and it's perfectly valid to think of stuff as just flying apart in space (almost).....

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 05:33 AM (w6EFb)

92 84 via hacker news (news.ycombinator.com)

https://x.com/MSFT365Status

for updates

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 05:27 AM (odBC9)

Lots of different things went FUBAR...Outlook/Exchange, Teams, Exchange, server issues...
So either a server issue or multiple issues which would indicate to me some attack (internal or external) if different systems...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 05:34 AM (l3cgK)

93 Now I want a donut and a burrito. Fortunately, shops like that are a thing here in Las Cruces. I think they open at 5 am.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 13, 2026 05:34 AM (3E3/c)

94 88 And its Friday 13th

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2026 05:32 AM (YdHVy)

And that was comment 88! Nazi's did it!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 05:34 AM (l3cgK)

95 Good thing I don't use MS Exchange for Outlook.

Posted by: Halfhand at November 13, 2026 05:35 AM (gYco6)

96 moar info

https://status.cloud.microsoft

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 05:35 AM (odBC9)

97 Pete Hegseth gives award to soldier who told his party to be silent at the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier:

https://tinyurl.com/5acumyba

I like it!

Posted by: Fenelon at November 13, 2026 05:35 AM (JrHfD)

98 93 Now I want a donut and a burrito. Fortunately, shops like that are a thing here in Las Cruces. I think they open at 5 am.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 13, 2026 05:34 AM (3E3/c)

But do they have GOOD Apple Fritters?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 05:35 AM (l3cgK)

99 Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2026 05:26

Yes, you do, Skip. Enjoy your donut!

Posted by: Fenelon at November 13, 2026 05:37 AM (JrHfD)

100 100

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 05:37 AM (odBC9)

101 9 Going back to sleep.

Everyone have a serene day.
Posted by: NaCly Dog

Sounds like a great idea, ya'll carry on and don't pull a Microsoft with the joint. JJ would be out of sorts and the Morning report might get delayed.

Posted by: Gmac-WTF did you think was going to happen at November 13, 2026 05:39 AM (Q/FnY)

102 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers across the System! 'Tis Friday, at least on Earth -- the consummation devoutly to be wished!

I'm glad I was no longer in the work world yesterday, when MicroSquashy had its outage problems. (Or is it still having them?) Who knows what I'd have had to do to *look* like I was working when I couldn't do my primary job of composing, sending, and deleting emails??

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2026 05:40 AM (56Qyq)

103
The standard coordinates used for this are the co-moving FLRW coordinates. This is a"foliation" of the spacetime around a "geodesic congruence" of observers which represent the world lines of individual particles of matter making up the universe. It's a big picture type of thing. At the local level, local gravity modifies things.

It has many advantages, including a consistent notion of "cosmological time" and simultaneity for the universe. This is the proper time of each co-mover since the beginning, t = 0, the Big Bang. In these coordinates, the universe look homogenous and isotropic.

But again, while it has these nice properties, it's still just one of many ways to coordinatize. It's a preferred frame in a sense, but still arbitrary. Cosmologists tend to sort of forget that and treat this coordinate picture as something "real" and invariant.

It's not.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 05:41 AM (w6EFb)

104 Somewhere between 57 and 63 F. this am depending on your source and where you're located. Not much wind, too. Good workout weather . . . and I am strongly considering heading out for an omelet & hash browns at my favorite diner afterward.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2026 05:43 AM (56Qyq)

105 - @85 jim

That "space is expanding" thing and the galaxies moving with it...

There has been a study done, using publicly available data from the JWST, that gives lie to that.

https://tinyurl.com/yt7yn475

Subsequent to this vid being made "they" came up with a way to explain it away. Something like 'galaxies are getting smaller the further away they are.'

Kind of like when the first images came back. 'Galaxies must have started forming much earlier than we thought.'

Posted by: TeeJ at November 13, 2026 05:43 AM (/HR0+)

106 But do they have GOOD Apple Fritters?
Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

They do. One thing I've learned here in New Mexico is the Hispanics and the Mexicans their pastries.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 13, 2026 05:43 AM (3E3/c)

107 88 And its Friday 13th

Posted by: Skip at November 13, 2026

***
Why, that's right! Time to panic and dive under your bed!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2026 05:44 AM (56Qyq)

108 A stranger rescued her during a coffee disaster. Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/39mcfvjm

Posted by: Fenelon at November 13, 2026 05:45 AM (JrHfD)

109 Greetings and good morning, one and all. It's a cold day in the GPROMD and I have a decent day ahead of me.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 13, 2026 05:45 AM (+4yJ5)

110
I suppose I should to try to make sense of just what a "foliation" is. Consider a 2D flat plane. It has an invariant geometry. But we can coordinatize it in different ways.

Simplest is a an x-y Cartesian grid. We have a family of mutually perpendicular straight line. Or, we can do it with polar coordinates. We have a family of concentric circles intersected by rays from the origin. And we could do all sorts of crazy other curvilinear coordinates.

Those are different foliations of the invariant geometry of the plane. Now, you do that with a 4-D spacetime.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 05:48 AM (w6EFb)

111 Just read the article about Huang possibly working for Terafab. I hope Elon was serious.

Posted by: NR Pax at November 13, 2026 05:49 AM (+4yJ5)

112 Supposed to get up to about 70ºF today...rain's heading this way in a few hours...

https://tinyurl.com/35nrt5vb

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at November 13, 2026 05:51 AM (l3cgK)

113 I was looking at big black cat Stirling's paperwork last night, don't ask me why, and there's a funny discrepancy. When he was first taken in at the shelter on 4/12/22, they reported him as being about 8 weeks (2 months) old. Yet when I adopted him in mid-June, on that sheet they said he was *3* months old instead of 4. Is he a month older than I thought???!!! Horrors! Misrepresentation! Malfeasance! Who can I sue?

They also described him as "medium hair black kitten -- traits of a Maine Coon." True enough: He grew like a weed and eats everything he can!

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2026 05:51 AM (56Qyq)

114 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*

Posted by: Rosasharn at November 13, 2026 05:53 AM (PzBTm)

115 It's not.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 05:41 AM (w6EFb)

Like sticking a push-pin into a glass of water...

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 05:53 AM (aKiSo)

116 I understand what Microsoft's going through. I had a hard drive fail in my NAS last week, and had to activate the hot spare drive and then wait for everything to rebuild itself. It was brutal.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - General Lame Duck Retreat is my president at November 13, 2026 05:53 AM (3E3/c)

117 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at November 13, 2026 05:56 AM (V0/Sp)

118 - And this one starts out with how incredibly huge things are "out there" and the vast distances. Can be scrolled past but I didn't know there was a star so big that if it was where our sun is, Jupiter would practically be inside it.

But it then gets to those first JWST images. After that, some other "time problems" pointed out, if I remember correctly.

https://tinyurl.com/yt7yn475

Posted by: TeeJ at November 13, 2026 05:56 AM (/HR0+)

119 In that far future, any sentient beings that might develop then would have no clue they were once part of this thing we call a universe. They'd have no idea just how big it was, living in a long isolated island of stars in nothingness.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 05:17 AM (w6EFb)

That's a terrible thing to do to Keith Richards....

Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 13, 2026 05:59 AM (3aLWR)

120 A lot of horror movies are ultimately political movies, thematically.

... Because it's always going to be impossible to deal with monsters when you're surrounded by idiots.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 05:59 AM (aKiSo)

121 Thank you Microsoft, for not sending me any junk since about noon yesterday. Proton Mail just keeps chugging, but that is mostly personal (except Trump somehow discovered that address).

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 13, 2026 06:01 AM (n8YCx)

122 114 It's Friday, it's Friday! Happy, happy Friday!

*twirl*
Posted by: Rosasharn at November 13, 2026 05:53 AM (PzBTm)

yay!

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 06:01 AM (odBC9)

123 That's a terrible thing to do to Keith Richards....
Posted by: I am the Shadout Mapes, the Housekeeper at November 13, 2026 05:59 AM (3aLWR)

Just think. Some unfathomable civilization of future dwellers will be living under their little island sun, billions of years from now, blissfully unaware that their sky used to have stars in it, and Keith will be right there in person still collecting royalties from Sympathy For The Devil playing on the god damned radio twenty times a day.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 06:02 AM (aKiSo)

124 - Hey Publius,

There are a few vids on utube purported to be Feynman lectures.
Just a picture of him and a recording, either live or "reenacted" from notes.
Do you know if they're real? Here's one on the speed of light.

https://tinyurl.com/5t4x386f

Posted by: TeeJ at November 13, 2026 06:06 AM (/HR0+)

125 AI says:

Coordinatize: to assign numbers or coordinates to points in a space so that geometric positions can be described using algebra.

This process turns shapes and locations into numerical values, allowing you to calculate distances, slopes, and angles with formulas.

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 06:06 AM (odBC9)

126 My brother and I argued about space aliens yesterday, me taking the position that distances are so vast that it matters not if multiplanetary life exists elsewhere, they'll never get here, and he taking the position that space-time is not a flat plane and aliens might have figured out how to skip from wave to wave or maybe are multi-dimensional, and are a real possibility.

Then I had a chicken salad sandwich for lunch and I didn't call him back. Felt fine about it too. He, on the other hand, is busy keeping an eye out for UFO's over Colorado.

Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 13, 2026 06:06 AM (oe+PA)

127 Skyscrapers and monkeys and protons aren't 10% bigger. It's as if the stuff within the universe isn't "made of universe". As if you glued some beads to a balloon and then inflated the balloon, and the beads all stay the same size. Why? Why should they? Why *shouldn't* they? We really don't have a firm understanding of what "is", is.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at November 13, 2026 05:26 AM (aKiSo)

I find it easier to understand if I think of “the universe” as being a 4 dimensional electromagnetic/gravity field, existing and expanding inside an infinitely greater higher dimensional reality.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 13, 2026 06:07 AM (YOZYJ)

128 I suppose it be time for me to change, stretch, and work out.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at November 13, 2026 06:07 AM (56Qyq)

129 126 My brother and I argued about space aliens yesterday
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 13, 2026 06:06 AM (oe+PA)

What fun!

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 06:08 AM (odBC9)

130
Galaxies will pretty much hold together. Local groups will as well, and maybe some compact clusters.

There are other possibilities, not likely, but have been considered. See the "Big Rip" for instance. Scale factor would blow up in finite cosmic time, and even atoms would be ripped apart.

That's not likely at all, just a theoretical musing, really.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 06:09 AM (w6EFb)

131 126 he taking the position that space-time is not a flat plane
Posted by: Huck Follywood at November 13, 2026 06:06 AM (oe+PA)

I googled "is space-time a flat plane?" and I got this response:

No, spacetime is not a flat plane.

and lots more info

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 06:11 AM (odBC9)

132 "Then I had a chicken salad sandwich for lunch and I didn't call him back."

LOL

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at November 13, 2026 06:11 AM (JrHfD)

133 and he taking the position that space-time is not a flat plane and aliens might have figured out how to skip from wave to wave or maybe are multi-dimensional, and are a real possibility.“

Humanity has been talking about higher dimensional non-human beings appearing here since we were chasing mammoths across Doggerland. We just had different names for them.

Posted by: Tom Servo at November 13, 2026 06:12 AM (YOZYJ)

134
Those Feynman videos are AI garbage, and the creators of that ought to be....well, it's a crime really. They take his voice and put their words into his mouth.

Some of that shit may be stuff he actually wrote, but much of it is just their words in Feynman's AI generated voice.

It gives a sense of authority to words that aren't his. And they do it with others, like Roger Penrose. It's criminal.

Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 06:13 AM (w6EFb)

135 134
Those Feynman videos are AI garbage, and the creators of that ought to be....well, it's a crime really. They take his voice and put their words into his mouth.

Some of that shit may be stuff he actually wrote, but much of it is just their words in Feynman's AI generated voice.

It gives a sense of authority to words that aren't his. And they do it with others, like Roger Penrose. It's criminal.
Posted by: publius, Rascally Mr. Miley (w6EFb) at November 13, 2026 06:13 AM (w6EFb)

and it's sad.

Posted by: m at November 13, 2026 06:13 AM (odBC9)

136 G'morning, all!

I wonder if our little electric co-op uses Microsoft 365.

Power went out three hours ago for 2,500 of us, and has expanded to over 4,000, with no reason given.

And no expected restoration time either.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at November 13, 2026 06:14 AM (PKzS8)

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