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Tech news roundup — November 14, 2026 - Nari - 11-14-2026
Tech corner. Starship caught its own upper stage this afternoon, which is a sentence that used to require a science fiction writer.
1. SpaceX caught a Starship that had been to orbit
Flight 15 launched Friday evening aiming to catch both halves of the rocket. It caught one. The Super Heavy booster was waved off six and a half minutes in and splashed into the Gulf instead, but Ship 42 stayed up for 22.5 hours, deployed 26 Starlink V3 satellites, relit a Raptor to drop out of orbit, and was closed on by Mechazilla's arms at Starbase this afternoon — the first time an orbital-class upper stage has come back to the tower it left from. Full reusability is the entire economics of this program, and the hard half of it worked today. SpaceX
2. The chips China wasn't allowed to buy look like they trained its best open models
Will DePue, formerly of OpenAI, published weight-level forensics on the openly released models from DeepSeek, Moonshot, MiniMax and Ant Group, and reports finding Blackwell fingerprints in Kimi K3 and DeepSeek V4 — the GPU generation that US export rules keep out of China. Epoch AI separately estimates roughly two million advanced chips reached China across 2024 and 2025, including 275,000 Nvidia accelerators into Malaysia alone. DePue is explicit that this doesn't prove a law was broken: the hardware could have been in an offshore data center, which is legal and is precisely what Malaysia's build-out is for. The part worth keeping is the method — hardware provenance is now readable from a model file. Unemployment Labs
3. AMD put 256 Zen 6 cores in an embedded chip
AMD announced the EPYC Embedded 9006 series last week: up to 256 cores and 512 threads on SP7, sixteen channels of DDR5 with MRDIMM support, 96 PCIe Gen 6 lanes, CXL 3.1, post-quantum firmware signing and seven-year availability. The customers are semiconductor test rigs, firewalls and storage controllers — the unglamorous machines everything else quietly depends on. The 128-core part ships tomorrow and the rest follow by year's end. Embedded buyers keep hardware for a decade, so a 256-core part with a seven-year guarantee is a statement about how long AMD expects this platform to stay in production. AMD Newsroom
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