Daily Tech News 15 July 2026

• Microsoft has updated Windows Search and... Fixed it? (WCCFTech)
  
  Well, they've at least stopped shoving it full of ads, which goes a big way toward fixing it.
  
  
  
• Micrsoft just release a set of patches that fix 570 security holes in Windows and their other software. (Krebs on Security)
  
  That's... Good, I guess? If still terrifying.
  
  
  
• Microsoft also fixed Secure Boot. (Ars Technica)
  
  Which as it happens has been insecure boot since 2013.

• With memory being so wildly expensive these days, you might be wondering which memory you should buy.
  
  And the answer is, in most cases, cheap memory. Or the cheapest you can find from a reliable retailer.
  
  Intel has its CUDIMMs and AMD has its ULL memory. They are not worth buying.
  
  For everyday tasks they make no difference, and for gaming the money is far better spent on a AMD Ryzen X3D CPU, or if you have an Intel system, on wishing you had an AMD system. The expanded cache on AMD's X3D CPUs makes memory speed largely irrelevant for most users, even gamers intent on wringing every last drop of performance out of their systems.
  
  Intel will be shipping its own X3D equivalent later this year with its Nova Lake processors, which include up to 288MB of cache, though most users will do fine with half that much.
  
  
  
• Bonsai 27B is the Qwen 27B model squooshed into a bit and a bit. (PrismML)
  
  Native Qwen 27B uses 16-bit floating point, so it needs 54GB of VRAM to run unrestricted. And 54GB of VRAM is quite expensive in the current market.
  
  What the Bonsai process does is to prune it down to ternary or binary with scaling factors per group. In ternary form it fits in 5.9GB of VRAM, while retaining more than 90% of the capabilities of the full model.
  
  
  

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