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Thursday 22 October 2026

Tech Desk

Tech · Page 3

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  1. Tech5 min read

    Intel's Nova Lake-S needs the new LGA1954 socket

    Intel’s Design-In Tools store listed an ILM kit for LGA1954 NVL-S on 30 August. Nova Lake-S will not drop into today’s LGA1851 boards.
  2. Computing5 min read

    Intel put LGA1954 on the store

    An Intel Design-In Tools listing names the LGA1954 socket next to Nova Lake-S, so Arrow Lake's LGA1851 won't carry the next desktop chips.
  3. Hacking5 min read

    Microsoft named TerminalFix

    Microsoft's 28 August Threat Intelligence post names TerminalFix, a ClickFix variant that sends the paste to Windows Terminal or PowerShell.
  4. SpaceX5 min read

    Starship Booster 21 held a full-duration static fire

    SpaceX ran a full-duration, 33-engine static fire of the Super Heavy booster for Starship Flight 14 at Starbase on Friday 28 August.
  5. Tech5 min read

    Musk: Neuralink's Blindsight human implants six to 12 months out

    Elon Musk says Neuralink's Blindsight human implants are six to 12 months out. There are still no human Blindsight implants on the public record.
  6. Tech6 min read

    Neuralink's VOICE speech trial is recruiting at UT Southwestern

    Neuralink's VOICE speech trial is recruiting at UT Southwestern, with enrolment listed as six. It's a separate product from Telepathy's cursor control.
  8. Tech5 min read

    Neuralink says 21 people are now in its human trials

    Neuralink says 21 people are now in its human trials worldwide, and its Telepathy post reports zero serious device-related events.
  9. Computing6 min read

    XMG puts 240 Hz OLED on the NEO 16

    XMG's NEO 16 gaming laptop now gets the 240 Hz OLED that used to sit on the FUSION 16, with a Core Ultra 9 290HX Plus, from €3,199.
  10. Computing6 min read

    Lenovo ships SteamOS on the Legion Go 2

    Lenovo's Legion Go 2 now runs SteamOS from US$1,199, with a 22.4 cm 144 Hz OLED, Ryzen Z2 Extreme and up to 32 GB of memory.
  11. Space6 min read

    V3 Starlinks are sized for Starship’s bay

    SpaceX's Q2 2026 results say the next Starship test should put V3 Starlink satellites into an operational orbit. They're built for its cargo bay.
  12. Tesla4 min read

    Tesla's supervised FSD fleet passes 16 billion kilometres

    Tesla's Full Self-Driving (Supervised) passed about 16 billion km, or 10 billion miles, in early May. That's the figure Elon Musk named in January.
  13. Tesla6 min read

    Tesla's Brookshire Megafactory starts Megapack 3

    Tesla's Megapack 3 is rolling off the line at its new Megafactory in Brookshire, Texas, designed for 50 GWh a year. Each unit holds about 5 MWh.
  14. SpaceX6 min read

    Starlink Mobile spans 650 satellites and 22 countries

    SpaceX's Starlink Mobile, the renamed direct-to-cell service, has about 650 satellites and 16 million unique users, Starlink's Michael Nicolls says.
  15. SpaceX7 min read

    NASA slipped Crew-13 after a Dragon oxidizer leak

    NASA has delayed Crew-13 to fix an oxidizer leak in Dragon's propulsion system, found in standard prelaunch processing. There's no new date yet.
  16. Tech6 min read

    Apple opens Core AI so apps load a model like a font

    WWDC, 8 June. The inference stack behind Apple Intelligence is now a Swift API, a .aimodel file, and a public Qwen, Mistral, and SAM 3 repository.
  17. Tech7 min read

    Apple’s bigger on-device model needs 12 GB and an iPhone 17 Pro

    WWDC, 8 June. Expressive Siri and advanced dictation stay on the 12 GB phones. The base iPhone 17, at 8 GB, does not get them.
  18. Space5 min read

    Roman is on Falcon Heavy, nine months early

    NASA and SpaceX are targeting 7:26 a.m. Eastern Sunday from 39A. The readiness date was May 2027. The fairing already says Roman.
  19. Hacking4 min read

    PaperCut shipped Emergency Patch Release 2 for NG and MF

    PaperCut warned on 27 August AEST that attackers were exploiting NG and MF, then shipped Emergency Patch Release 2 on 28 August. Two CVEs are listed.
  20. SpaceX7 min read

    Forte leaves Christmas Island with Starship 40 for Starbase

    The heavy-lift ship Forte left Christmas Island on 28 August with Starship 40 on deck, bound for Starbase about 20,000 km away.
  21. Live · Breaking4 min read

    NASA and SpaceX are go for Roman at 7:26 a.m. Eastern

    NASA and SpaceX are go to launch the Roman Space Telescope on a Falcon Heavy from 39A on Sunday 30 August, with the weather odds at 50 percent.

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