Daily Tech News 20 March 2026

• Bluesky, one-time social network and latterly psych ward for those who can't cope with the harsh truths dished out daily by CNN and whatever MSNBC is called today has raised $100 million in a new funding round. (Tech Crunch)
  
  That's million with an M. Almost enough to buy -
  
  
  
• Your new car might need 300GB of RAM. (The Register)
  
  Said US memory maker Micron, whose most recent quarterly results showed three times the revenue and nine times the profit of the same period the previous year.

• Walmart is flooded with previous generation Nvidia RTX 4000 series graphics cards. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  At reasonable prices, so as you might expect the flood has been mopped up pretty damn quickly.
  
  If you're in Australia and don't have easy access to Walmart, look around for Radeon 9070 XT cards which for some reason are steeply discounted right now, sometimes selling for less than the slower Radeon 9070.
  
  I expected shortages and price increases, and some Nvidia 5000 series cards have all but disappeared from US store shelves, but overall... Not so much.
  
  
  
• A rogue AI caused a security incident at Meta. (The Verge)
  
  Again.
  
  
  
• UK censorship agency Ofcom tried to levy fines against 4Chan again. (BBC)
  
  They got a picture of a giant hamster instead.
  
  
  
• Kitten TTS is a text-to-speech model. (GitHub)
  
  That's not remarkable, at least not in the 22nd century where we find ourselves when we're not being stupid which is rarely.
  
  Where was I?
  
  Oh, right. What's remarkable is the whole thing fits in 25MB. Megabytes with an M.
  
  
  
• Half the size of the front page of the New York Times website. (Daring Fireball)
  
  That page on Daring Fireball uses 0.1% that much bandwidth.
  
  
  
• The Verge is having another normal day. (The Verge)
  
  By which I mean they are barking at the moon.
  
  
  
• Can I run Crimson Desert? (Notebook Check)
  
  Well, probably. It runs at more than 60 fps at 1080p native using high settings on five year old midrange cards like the 3060 Ti or 6750 XT.

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