Daily Tech News 16 September 2024

• The Polaris Dawn mission, operated by SpaceX and funded by tech billionaire Jared Isaacman, was a huge success and an important step forward in making manned spaceflight truly practical and not just a weapon of the Cold War. (Ars Technica)
  
  Just watching the resources put into the capsule recovery was impressive, and that was one of the simpler components of the project.
  
  The communists in the Ars Technica comments are livid.
  
  And they're getting downvoted to oblivion by the mere socialists who thing spaceflight is cool.
  
  
  
• So, after a year of trying to order the Calliope Mori Hyte Y40 case here in Australia, it finally showed up for pre-order.
  
  I placed my order.
  
  It disappeared from the site.
  
  They just cancelled.
  
  I tried to order directly from Hyte despite the horrifying expense, but they no longer know where Australia is.
  
  Fuck.

• Asgard just announced the world's first DDR5-9600 CUDIMMs. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  These use a clock regenerator chip on the module to synchronise the clock signal and keep everything, um, in sync. They are compatible with regular DDR5 memory controllers in CPUs, though, assuming your CPU can run memory at 9600MHz.
  
  They also run at 1.5v, where DDR5 nominally runs at 1.1v. So that's rather a lot.
  
  
  
• There's a new model of the Lenovo Legion Y700 tablet coming out next month. (Notebook Check)
  
  Another product that will be impossible to buy.
  
  
  
• A look at the UGREEN NASync DXP480T Plus. (Liliputing)
  
  This is a little NAS/media unit. It has an Intel 1235U mobile CPU with Thunderbolt, USB, HDMI, and a headphone jack, and a 10Gb Ethernet port.
  
  On the NAS side there's an M.2 2242 drive for the operating system, and four M.2 2280 drives for storage. Since laptop chips have a limited number of PCIe lanes, those only run at PCIe 4.0 x2, so they're each limited to... About three times the maximum speed of that 10Gb Ethernet port.
  
  Probably not a problem.
  
  Liliputing found that the hardware is solid and well-designed, but the software - a custom Linux distro called UGOS - is still a bit rough.
  
  You can install your own operating system - you can even remove the operating system disk and keep it as a backup in case you make a mess - but that is not officially supported. Which is fair enough.
  
  
  
• DryMerge is an AI powered application connector, like IFTTT (If This Then That) or Xapier, only you talk to it. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Which could be a great idea if it works, but right now it mostly doesn't.
  
  
  
• Lexar has announced its new 1TB SD 8.0 memory card, that delivers transfer rates of up to 1.7GB per second in compatible devices. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  There are no compatible devices.
  
  Well, it should work in anything with a full-size SD card slot, but it will fall back to an older, slower version of the SD protocol.
  
  Also, at full speed it might melt. That can't readily be confirmed of course since no consumer product exists that can run it at full speed.

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