Daily Tech News 29 September 2023

• SpaceX now has a contract for a military version of Starlink, called Starshield. (Tech Crunch)
  
  All the whining communists calling for SpaceX to be nationalised will surely stop with their nonsense now.
  
  

• Linda Yaccarino had a tough interview at Code Conference 2023. (The Verge)
  
  Kara Swisher, who is to tech journalism what a poison arrow frog is to a petting zoo, invited former Chief of Censorship and Propaganda to speak immediately before Yaccarino, who is merely a poor choice for CEO rather than an out-and-out Stalinist.
  
  Also, this being The Verge, the article concludes with a rant about Elon Musk.
  
  
  
• Micron is sampling 32Gb DDR5 RAM chips. (AnandTech)
  
  These will allow regular desktop PC to scale up to 256GB of RAM, and laptops to 128GB. Shipping in volume next year.
  
  I thought these would take longer - which is why they started with 24Gb as an intermediate step - but things seem to be moving along pretty quickly.
  
  
  
• Food delivery robots are feeding video to the LAPD. (404 Media)
  
  I won't say that snitches get spray paint, but.
  
  
  
• There's now a 4TB model of Samsung's high-end 990 Pro SSD. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  At $345 list price it would have been a bargain less than two years ago, even for a DRAMless QLC PCIe 3.0 drive, and it's a DRAM cached TLC PCIe 4.0 drive.
  
  Worth considering if you're building a high-end PC.

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