Daily Tech News 18 December 2024

• What happened to ChatGPT the other day? It wasn't DNS, but it wasn't not DNS either. (Try Parity)
  
  OpenAI deployed a new system that had been running happily on their test servers for some time. About twenty minutes in, things started going horribly wrong, with the monitoring system that reports on all things production taking over and then taking out the production servers, because it had a hidden scaling problem that never showed up on the smaller test environment.
  
  And with the monitoring process eating up all the bandwidth on the control network, the simple changes they needed to make to fix the problem couldn't be done because OpenAI's internal DNS was down.
  
  Lesson of the day: Hard code all your IP addresses in your software.*

• Nvidia has made its Jetson Orin Nano robotics development kit half the price and also up to twice as fast. (Serve the Home)
  
  If you already have one, you can download the speed upgrade. Which is odd, because it doubles your memory bandwidth, which is a hardware function.
  
  
  
• AMD's Strix Halo laptop chip, with 16 Zen 5 CPU cores and 40 RDNA3.5 graphics cores, is coming soon to the Asus ROG Flow Z13... Tablet. (Hot Hardware)
  
  Which is not as surprising as it seems because the current model of the Z13 can include dedicated a Nvidia RTX 4060, so a Strix Halo tuned to the lower power end of its spectrum would not use any more power than the current CPU and GPU combination.
  
  
  
• The Minisforum MGA1 is an external graphics card / dock thingy that dramatically speeds up laptops and mini-PCs except. (Notebook Check)
  
  It's about as fast as a laptop version of the RTX 3080, but can only be connected via OCuLink. If your laptop or mini-PC doesn't have OCuLink - and most don't - it's a paperweight.
  
  OCuLink is pure external PCI Express, so it's simpler, cheaper, and faster than Thunderbolt, but also a lot less common.

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