Daily Tech News 17 March 2026

• Nvidia held its keynote address at its annual GPU Technology Conference, where it showed off a preview of its new DLSS 5 software, two months after DLSS 4.5 was released at CES. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  DLSS 5 goes all-in on AI, changing game graphics into the AI developer's idea of game graphics. It's... Not great.
  
  It uses face detection to overlay what it thinks faces should look like on your game's graphics, adding twenty years to the age of characters while leaving their clothes untouched and sometimes leaving random items looking like they've just been dragged backwards through an industrial recycling facility.
  
  And it achieves all this in real time using the power of your own graphics card... Assuming you have dual RTX 5090s, which you don't.

• Encyclopedia Britannica has sued OpenAI for "stealing our shit". (Engadget)
  
  They may not have used precisely those words.
  
  
  
• "Investors" on Polymarket have threatened to murder an Israeli reporter for reporting stories that ran against their "investments". (Times of Israel)
  
  They "invested" in predicting that an Iranian missile would be intercepted; instead it crashed in empty land outside Jerusalem so that they lost their "investments".
  
  Yes, they are gamblers trying to nobble a horse, only the horse is a person and the nobbling would be fatal.
  
  
  
• The cast of Firefly are looking for funds to reboot the series in animated form. (Hollywood Reporter)
  
  Uh... Maybe? It was a great series cut off far too early, and it's probably been too long for them to reprise their roles in a live action series. Also one of the characters is canonically dead.
  
  But animated? Anything can happen in an animated series.
  
  
  
• Micron has begun volume production of 36GB HBM4 modules, 28Gbps PCIe 6.0 SSDs, and 192GB SOCAMM2 laptop memory modules. (WCCFTech)
  
  You can't have any. Not unless your name is Nvidia.
  
  
  
• Dell has introduced its new Pro Max desktop with an Nvidia GB300 CPU and 696GB of LPDDR5X memory. (Notebook Check)
  
  They did not list a price, for obvious reasons.
  
  
  

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