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I've learned a little more about this: It was a spy satellite but a dead one from the 80s so it's unlikely there was anything too secretive on it. It was a test that they should have made a designated very low orbit target for but they didn't do that because it would have cost more.

Just want to add, I've talked about Kessler syndrome before and how it could be a big deal. IMO the number of satellite is a big factor, but mostly the lack of rules and competing nations is the issue. When you have multiple nations all wanting to run their own version of star link and getting mad at each other for infringing on each other orbits, things are gonna be tense.

Yea could be, but it seems pretty intentional since they launched a missile. I actually really have no idea why they would do this. The only reason I can think of is if it was some kind of spy satellite they didn't want anyone to see, but sounds like it had been up there a while so the logic of that doesn't make sense. Looks like it was a dead spy satellite + an anti satellite missile test. Makes me wonder if there was something more on that satellite than a spy camera, something they wouldn't want to be discovered like a missile. This article has more info and paints a worse situation that the article above: Decades of fallout from Russian anti-satellite weapon test COSMOSMAGAZINE.COM “Irresponsible” Russian anti-satellite weapon sends shockwaves through space community, with debris likely to cause problems for years to come.

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/up-to-64gb-of-hbm2e-memory-is-available-for-intel-sapphire-rapids-xeon-cpus.html Guess Intel is ready to compete on cache sizes. 64gbs seems kinda nuts.

Russian ASAT missile destroyed a satellite creating a debris field within the ISS's orbital path WWW.TECHSPOT.COM On Monday, Russia's space agency Roscosmos (Роскосмос) tweeted that it had astronauts in the International... This debris is directly in the ISS's path and it will have to deal with this every ~90 minutes. Whatever Russia blew up, hope it was worth it.

More than 50 vulnerabilities have been found in AMD EPYC processor and Radeon graphics drivers. (guru3d.com) Question for people on this site; I have sort of stopped seeing "security exploit found" articles as very news worthy because IMO it's a constant arms race that will never end so we can just expect new exploits to constantly be found and then patched. That said, 50+ sure seems like a lot but in general I don't think this kind of thing is all that news worthy. What do you guys think?

Anyone play BF2042 yet? I bought it on steam but just the normal edition so it's not out yet for me, but there is a 10 hour trial on game pass that you can play now so I've been playing that. I played El Alamein from BF1942 and it was amazing. Seeing the B-17 fly over and bomb stuff is so awesome, just like it was when I was a kid. I played the normal game a bit which is cool too, haven't spent a lot of time on it yet. I really hope they add more BF1942 content over time. It's kind of amazing that a game with so many options is coming from EA.

Very cool. The video in the article is pretty great too.

The company behind the global chip shortage has reportedly been identified WWW.MSN.COM The maker of your calculator could also be the maker of a worldwide technology crisis. What you need to know There has been a global semiconductor crisis ravaging technology supply chains for a large... There definitely needs to be more companies making these essential parts.

Looks like it rebounded. I'm kicking myself a little because I had set a limit before the downturn on SOFI for 21.5 that triggered and now it's gone up quite a bit from there . Still made a good profit but definitely sold too early. My knowledge of crypto is limited but based on what I know, I agree Ethereum seem like the next one to gain value, if only because it seems to be the one used most for real transactions. On that note, what crypto trading apps do you guys recommend? I have Coinbase but their trading fees seem a bit high.

Ddr5 is ecc by default. No idea about the brand.

https://www.pcmag.com/news/unity-gears-up-for-the-metaverse-by-acquiring-peter-jacksons-weta-digital?amp=true Will be really cool to see what this adds to their game dev tools and assets.

Definitely been an interesting last few days. For anyone not aware, things took a dip recent due to inflation concerns, but things has also been rising sharply for about two weeks up until this and with that recent upswing in mind things are still up overall. On one hand, stocks could recover which would be great. On the other, they could go down a bit more and become a good time to buy. I think if it does dip more I will buy into something while it's low to try to take advantage of it.

AMD Launches New GPU And EPYC CPU Right Across NVIDIA’s Bow WWW.FORBES.COM The new Instinct MI200 is groundbreaking, a multi-die chip for AI and HPC About a year ago I... There's a lot in here. Clearly AMD isn't going to give Intel or Nvidia much breathing room. They're a real force to be reckoned with.

I agree that Tesla does seem over-valued and by the same logic I think it's worth looking at other car companies that haven't really done much in the EV market yet. Tesla seems like most of their success is due to being way ahead of the competition, but I figure other car companies have got to be capable of putting some decent electric motors and batteries in a frame eventually. When they catch up, it would make sense to me if a lot of tesla's value gets redistributed to other emerging EV players, and a lot of them are pretty far behind so there are potentially pretty strong gains to be had down the road.

Funny you mention it, AMD kinda got me into investing as well. When their stock price was ~$2 a share I was still young, I think early 20s and I had no spare money to buy stocks but I knew AMD was either going to go way way up or go bankrupt and I felt it was extremely unlikely the only general cpu company other than Intel would actually go under. I tried pretty hard to convince my dad to buy AMD stock but he figured I was just some dumb 20 years old (true in a lot of ways at the time) and he didn't take it seriously. I never forget the lessons learned from that experience. As for Tesla, he's at it again just recently. I don't like Tesla stocks for the same reason you mentioned. Spot on.

You can say the same things about stocks. Plenty of stocks have gone up 6x or more in the last year. With hindsight you can look at any type of investment and think of any big movers as missed opportunities.

Yea good point. Just to play devil's advocate though, can you really blame Intel for a security flaw in an API that came out way later than the hardware in question?

This only affects the iGPU. Probably not a lot of people running dx12 on an old iGPU.

US Dept. of Energy wants to... https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/technology/us-department-of-energy-wants-to-dramatically-reduce-the-cost-of-carbon-capture-technology/ar-AAQn6Rd?ocid=mmx&PC=EMMX01&PC=EMMX01 I've always been really interested in this stuff because I've always felt that the only real solution to is technology that fixes it and here we are. Looks like the US gov is finally going to start taking carbon capture facilities seriously.

I was just taking about Microsoft stock with pio last night and this morning I came across this; https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/it-s-crystal-clear-why-microsoft-is-no-1-again/ar-AAQlZtJ?ocid=mmx&PC=EMMX01&PC=EMMX01

All these tech stocks and Ford has been one of my biggest winner lately. More than doubled in the last year (was at a low point) and has really started moving over the last month.

https://www.guru3d.com/news-story/twice-as-powerful-but-double-energy-usage-nvidia-geforce-rtx-40-video-cards.html Huge grain of salt but it sounds believable that Nvidia would go balls to the wall with RT and not really focus on power consumption at least until RT is more viable to use.

AMD's Ryzen 5000 series gets price cut in wake of Alder Lake launch WWW.TECHSPOT.COM VideoCardz reports that MicroCenter has reduced the price of some AMD Ryzen 5000 (Vermeer) processors... Love the competition.

You could have put this in the news section fyi. Sounds like windows 11 doesn't just keep letting you use it normally without being activated. https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/other/microsoft-fixes-windows-11-features-failing-due-to-an-expired-certificate/ar-AAQmXUi?ocid=mmx&PC=EMMX01&PC=EMMX01 Looks like it's been fixed.