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AWS is experiencing a wee spot of bother with its billing system. (The Register)

Speculation is that it's a unit conversion error in the cost estimation tool, but all we know for sure is that people who barely use the service are being alerted to cost estimates in the billions of dollars, and for businesses that have active applications the predicted bills run into the trillions.

AWS say they are looking into it.

📣 Service Update: AWS Billing Console

We are investigating issues with Cost Explorer reflecting inaccurate estimated billing data.

📊 Track status: https://t.co/6qSnkuEzc4 #AWS #AWSSupport
— AWS Support (@AWSSupport) July 17, 2026

Some users are nonetheless expressing mild consternation.
Wait...

Did I just accidentally buy America? https://t.co/8RVfe4Cc5Q pic.twitter.com/G37bmFaNR5
— NOBUNAGA🇯🇵🏯_夏樹蒼依 (@japan_nobunaga) July 17, 2026

Tech News

TSMC says that its work towards 1.4nm technology is progressing well, with 90% yield on SRAM dies and 90% of targeted performance on logic circuits. (Tom's Hardware)

1.4nm is the node after the 2nm node that we are expecting to see late this year, so it won't reach production until at least 2028. A 90% yield this early is a good sign.
AI datacenters must produce as much energy as they consume, says retarded communist and part-time Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese. (Tom's Hardware)

Alexa, please repeal the laws of thermodynamics.
The Zilog Z80 has turned 50. (Goliath32)

As has that website.
Microsoft's new Surface Laptop is here with its complement of eight whole gigabytes of RAM. (The Verge)

That's plenty for Linux, and tolerable for MacOS. Running Windows 11 it's a miserable experience.
The Redmagic Astra 2 tablet is here, with a 9" 185Hz OLED screen, a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 CPU, up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, and... Active cooling? (Liliputing)

The one thing I want from a tablet is not to have a fan whining at me.
The Lenovo Legion Y700 Infinite tablet is here, with an 8.8" OLED display, a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 CPU, up to 24GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, and... Passive cooling, apparently. (Notebook Check)

It's going to be horribly expensive and I just picked up their Gen 3 model at half price so I'm not even tempted, but at least it's silent.
Beelink's new ME Pro 370 is a NAS with a Ryzen 370 12-core laptop CPU, supporting two or four 3.5" hard drives, three M.2 SSDs, and... Up to 256GB of RAM? (Notebook Check)

That seems unlikely, because that amount would require four 64GB DDR5 modules, and nobody is putting four SODIMM slots in consumer equipment.

I have ten DDR5 SODIMMs. Believe me, I've looked.

Research

The Eighth Law already requires that every admissible alteration of the noetic field (and, by extension, every macroscopic world-line that couples to that field) lie along a null geodesic of the full 6D manifold that satisfies the 2T-gauge conditions. Ordinary 3+1 orbital motion is the projection of such a higher-dimensional geodesic. Spin-orbit locking therefore cannot be a purely 3-spatial mechanical equilibrium; it must also be consistent with the hidden

t_2

and

x^4

components of the geodesic. In practice this appears observationally as an additional, apparently arbitrary ceiling on how tightly a world can remain synchronized: once the integrated "geodesic resistance"

\mathcal{I}(\gamma)

exceeds a threshold set by the unknown couplings

\beta

\kappa

and the noetic tensor, further dissipative evolution is forbidden even if ordinary tidal torque remains. The result is that perfect, permanent 1:1 locking may be rarer or more fragile than in 3+1 physics, and residual libration or slow drift in the relative orientation of the permanent day/night hemispheres can persist.

This actually makes complete sense given the context, and solves the problem, but even so gives me a headache.

All I wanted to do was make the sky blue.

I've also been tinkering with Fable as well as Grok, and while it's impressive, I don't trust it. It heaped effusive praise on what I consider one of the weakest points of the plot of the story I'm working on.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Do not eat the dark snow.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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