The NVIDIA Rabbit Hole
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Greta Thunberg Laughs at Climate Activists: “They Still Do That? Cut!”
November 14th, 2026“How dare you!”
7 years after “How dare you!”, Greta Thunberg is laughing her ass off at the climate movement. https://t.co/jyj9esrYuc
— ColdJack (@TheColdJack) November 11, 2026
SpaceX Catches Starship for First Time
November 14th, 2026Mechazilla catches Starship! Congratulations to the entire SpaceX team on this incredible achievement! https://t.co/YJzmGUZb2B
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 14, 2026
Via: Space.com:
SpaceX caught the upper stage of its Starship megarocket for the first time ever today (Nov. 14), a landmark achievement that could unlock the giant vehicle’s immense potential.
Starship launched on its 15th test flight on Friday evening (Nov. 13), rising into the sky from SpaceX’s Starbase site in South Texas. The mission plan called for bringing both of the vehicle’s stages back to Starbase and catching them with the launch tower’s “chopstick” arms — an unprecedented total recovery of an orbital rocket.
That didn’t happen; Starship’s Super Heavy booster diverted to a Gulf of Mexico splashdown on Friday after experiencing a low-fuel alarm. But Ship succeeded in its attempt, notching a huge milestone for SpaceX and its dream of full rocket reuse.
Inside San Francisco’s Deadly Fentanyl Crisis
November 14th, 2026Via: Nick Shirley:
FAA National Ground Stop, Thousands of Flights Canceled, Delayed
November 13th, 2026Via: Newsweek:
The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has lifted a national ground stop on Friday night after a telecommunications outage grounded air traffic to a standstill for over four hours heading into the weekend.
Air space reopened at 8:15 p.m. ET, Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy said in a press briefing Friday night. “It’s going to take us some time to unwind what’s happened this afternoon.” He said that he believes air travel will resume to normal in time for the Thanksgiving blitz.
Instability was first noticed at 3:36 p.m. for radar and communications in centers, Duffy said. He added that when the ground stop was initiated, over 3,500 planes were in the air. Duffy said not all radar and communications were lost during the instability.
“What we have is an incredibly old air-traffic control system,” Duffy added. He said the switches and routers got “overloaded” with data and then started giving inconsistent information.
Massive Microsoft Outage
November 13th, 2026lol!
LibreOffice actually works 365 days a year. Just saying.
— LibreOffice (@LibreOffice) November 13, 2026
Via: The Register:
Microsoft is struggling to restore many of its cloud services after a core process running on some servers became “overwhelmed” and its attempts to fix the problem failed.
The incident started at around 18:00 UTC on November 12, and meant services including Exchange Online, Teams, Copilot 365, and Defender for Office 365 became unavailable. Admins trying to figure out what was wrong couldn’t access tools like Intune or the Microsoft 365 Apps Admin Center – they went down, too.
On its X feed, Microsoft blamed “a problem that’s causing servers to fail automated health checks and become unavailable.”
The Downfall of Jensen Huang: NVIDIA’s Greed & Corruption
November 13th, 2026Via: Gamers Nexus:
Mossad Chief Meets With CIA Director In DC
November 13th, 2026Via: ZeroHedge:
Clearly, Israel’s Netanyahu has not given up on efforts to lobby Washington into “finishing the job” in Iran.
Axios reports Friday, “The director of the Israeli spy agency Mossad is in Washington Friday for talks with senior Trump administration officials about the war in Iran, according to three sources with knowledge of the matter.”
“The visit by Roman Gofman, one of Benjamin Netanyahu’s closest confidants, comes as the Israeli prime minister is pressing President Trump to resume the war against Iran,” the report adds. And more:
Mossad Director Gofman is meeting CIA Director Ratcliffe and is expected to travel to Miami to meet White House envoy Witkoff.
Alice Huang-Linked Firm Procured Banned Nvidia Chips in China
November 13th, 2026Via: ZeroHedge:
Alice Huang, the suspected Chinese spy, was a former Megaspeed International executive, and a new Bloomberg News report finds how Alice potentially obtained restricted Nvidia chips that ended up at a Shanghai data center.
The report traces 22 Dell Technologies servers containing Nvidia H800 chips purchased by Singapore-based Aperia Cloud Services that ended up at Shanghai’s Yangtze River Delta Project, despite US restrictions on exporting those chips to China.
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A subsidiary of Shanghai Longteng Intelligent Computing, which Alice (also known as Haung Le in corporate filings) founded, listed the Dell equipment among 193 servers pledged as collateral for financing in January 2025. The equipment was valued at about $73 million, and included 52 Super Micro Computer servers containing restricted Nvidia H100 or H200 chips.
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Bloomberg also noted, “In addition to the Dell servers, it included 52 units manufactured by US-based Super Micro Computer Inc. and containing either Nvidia’s H100 or H200 chips — both restricted from sale to China without a US license.”
Want Cheaper Starlink? Try Asking Its Grok AI-Based Customer Support
November 12th, 2026Signing up for Starlink using my affiliate link is a powerful way to support Cryptogon. As of today, when you sign up for Starlink using this link, I will receive about US$95 in service credit. You will also receive a credit (the amount varies by country).
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I tried asking for the discount in the Starlink app and it worked for me. The prompt I used was: “Do I have a new discount for my account?” I found that prompt circulating somewhere on Facebook, but other prompts are working for people.
You are able to prove that it worked by going to Billing and then “Preview Next Invoice.” In my case, it showed the discount applied to the upcoming invoice right away.
SpaceX is very mercurial with their Starlink offerings and pricing. Everything varies by country, region and especially how many Starlink users are located in your service area. Starlink has moved to a “Dynamic pricing” model, which means that your Starlink bill could rise or fall from what it had been previously. Where I live, cows and sheep outnumber people, so that might be why the discount worked for me.
This trick may or may not work for you. Your mileage may vary. Batteries not included. Etc. Whatever the situation is today, it will likely be different in a few months.
Via: PC Magazine:
As Starlink pursues a new round of potential price hikes, some existing users are getting discounts by asking the company’s AI-powered customer support bot.
