Daily Tech News 18 October 2026

• Nvidia totally isn't cancelling Nvidia's RTX 5090 says Nvidia, as 5090 prices climb into the ionosphere. (Notebook Check)
  
  Trust us, guys. When have we ever lied to you? I mean, since last time?
  
  
  
• Grab an RTX 5090 for just $5300 as part of this complete breakfast gaming PC. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Act now - this might be your last chance now that Nvidia has cancelled the RTX 5090.
  
  
  
• Protect your irreplaceable $8500 RTX 5090 by modifying it with four standard 8-pin PCI power connectors so it doesn't spontaneously combust. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  You know, I don't think anyone else believes Nvidia either.

• The RTX 5090 has disappeared from Nvidia's own store. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It ain't looking good.
  
  
  
• Anthropic says is workforce has stopped doing actual work and is spending more time in meetings. (Tech Crunch)
  
  This sounds like a good way to get your lunch eaten.
  
  
  
• Intel has confirmed work on Razor Lake AX, a high-end APU like AMD's Ryzen Max and Nvidia's Spark. (Notebook Check)
  
  It will use Nova Lake's CPU cores and Xe3P graphics cores as found in current Panther Lake chips, just more of them.
  
  Numbers of cores and clock speeds are unspecified, let alone prices, and it's not expected to appear before 2028.
  
  
  
• Hackers have stolen the personal data of millions of California students, dating back up to 20 years. (MSN)
  
  Anything to avoid using the metric system releasing the voter rolls.
  
  
  
• I found what I was looking for: Green bottlebrushes. Callistemon citrinus, to be exact. I planted a couple of white trees last year and four of the classic red ones, but I couldn't find the green ones except as seeds. Now I have a couple more in white and two in green. Just small seedlings so I'll need to take care of them, but easier than trying to grow them from seeds.
  
  Also three new kangaroo paws to replace the ones lost to the cannibal onslaught, three aca-cias, two more boronias to replace the one that didn't make it through the winter, a tea tree, and... Oh, two more westringias. That one didn't die over winter - in fact it's thriving, with masses of flowers - so I bought a couple more to keep it company.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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