Daily Tech News 10 February 2026

• Get your ass to the Moon. (Ars Technica)
  
  It may be a harsh mistress, but it's a lot closer to the shops.
  
  SpaceX is refocusing on lunar colonies as a short-term goal, and strip-mining the surface and feeding raw materials into railgun launch systems to provide the resources for the company's planned cloud of orbital datacenters and/or inconveniencing pesky bureaucrats on their holidays.
  
  SpaceX didn't mention any such thing, of course, but Eric Berger has read the classics.

• Intel's Nova Lake platform will support up to 48 PCIe lanes. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That's 16 PCIe 5.0 lanes from the CPU for slots and 8 for storage, plus up to 12 PCIe 5.0 and 12 PCIe 4.0 lanes from the chipset. Given that even an RTX 5090 is barely slowed down by only having 4 lanes of PCIe 5.0 available, that's a pretty healthy number.
  
  And 8 SATA ports and approximately 40 USB ports.
  
  There are five different chipsets planned, though the W980 offers pretty much everything including support for ECC memory... Which is not a chipset function but a CPU one, but something Intel likes to do.
  
  
  
• Linux 7.0 is almost here. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's one louder.
  
  Canonical hopes to ship it in Ubuntu 26.04 in April, which is cutting it pretty close. But that's a long-term release and perhaps they'd rather have the very latest kernel in a version they will be supporting for a decade.
  
  
  
• GitHub fell over. (GitHub Status)
  
  Because reasons.
  
  
  
• Nope. (BBC)

  The company [Rilla> has become something of a poster child for a fast-paced workplace culture known as 996, also sometimes referred to as hustle culture or grindcore.
  
  In simple terms, it puts a premium on long working hours, typically 9am to 9pm, six days a week (hence "996").
  
  For most of us, that would be gruelling. But according to Will Gao, head of growth at Rilla, its 120 employees simply don't see it that way.

  When the "head of growth" says employees don't see it that way, you can take it to the bank that they absolutely do.

  "We look for people who are like Olympian athletes, with characteristics of, you know, obsession, infinite ambition.

  Galley slaves.

  He insists that while the hours are generally long, there's no rigid structure.
  
  "If I'm like, 'Holy cow, I have a super idea I'm working on', then I'll just keep working until 2 or 3am, then I'll just roll in the next day at noon or something", he explains.

  Nope.
  
  I have to work weird hours sometimes. Comes with the job.
  
  But I have a rule that when I do need to work late, I don't clock in again for twelve hours, minimum.
  
  
   
• You'll need to verify your age on Discord by uploading government-issued photo ID if... You want to see porn. (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  Didn't Discord already get hacked and leak a whole bunch of ID documents?
  
  Why, yes. I do believe it did. (Ars Technica)
  
  Also, who the hell watches porn on Discord? That's what Twitter is for.

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