Daily Tech News 19 November 2023

• Starship's second test flight successfully reached space - and then went boom. (Ars Technica)
  
  Not everything went to plan, but it went a lot better than the first test, with all 33 engines in the booster working, a clean separation of the second stage of the rocket, and reaching a height of nearly 150km before the automated self-destruct system got bored and decided to join in the fun.

• The Silicon Power UD90 is one of the cheapest 4TB SSDs around. How does it perform? Poorly. (Serve the Home)
  
  It is rated for 5000MBps reads and 4500MBps writes, perfectly respectable numbers.
  
  It gets just slightly over that read speed in independent tests... And slightly over 5% of that write speed.
  
  Avoid.
  
  
  
• You can find the Team MP34 4TB for $151. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Its rated speeds are lower, but it actually delivers what it says.
  
  
  
• OpenAI's investors allegedly want the used car salesman back in charge. (Tech Crunch)
  
  OpenAI has an odd corporate structure: It's a non-profit in charge of a for-profit company. The non-profit board fired the for-profit CEO, but there are investors putting money directly into the for-profit company and they want their snake oil guy back.
  
  Fortunately companies like Mistral and Meta are working hard to make OpenAI irrelevant.
  
  
  
• AMD's previous-generation Radeon 6750 GRE comfortably beats Nvidia's RTX 4060. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  You can't buy one though; it's a China exclusive. Because reasons.
  
  

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