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GRANT BRICKMAN: A trade fair forum on how to test the power behind AI, and Ada is already in her goggles.
GRANT BRICKMAN: Good morning. If the AI runs on electricity, somebody has to check the electricity. Ada has found the people who do. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The Measurement Forum at electronica. It's a programme of talks on testing and validation for hardware engineers. ▶
ADA: Huge fan of this one. Thirteen half-hour talks, all about measuring things properly. That is my love language. ▶
ADA: It runs on 12 November, on the electronica Stage in Hall A5. Several talks are about the infrastructure behind AI computing. ▶
ADA: Here's the bench footage. Keysight looks at how validation changes as compute, memory, networking and photonics evolve. Tektronix covers power for hyperscale data centres. ▶
ADA: And Infineon on high-bandwidth current sensing, Microtest on inductor saturation under high DC bias. Tolerances, people. Tolerances! ▶
ADA: There's also SiC and GaN testing, image sensors, and standard test procedures for electronics manufacturing. A very full day for a multimeter. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: So the cloud has a power bill, and someone is testing the bill. Wonderful. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The cloud is a data centre, Grant. It is the one with the power supply. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: GitHub adds four million cores after AI agents flooded it with code, and we asked the street.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Viewers just joining: we first told you about GitHub and its outages Wednesday evening. Today we ask what people think. ▶
GRANT BRICKMAN: Four million cores. That sounds like an apple orchard. Over to our AI desk, where AXIOM has been out asking people. ▶
AXIOM: Thank you, Grant! GitHub logged 7.4 billion commits in September, five times last year, and plans four million extra CPU cores. Let's ask the public! ▶
PASSERBY: Seven point four billion? Half of those are my agent saying fixed typo. Sorry, everyone. ▶
PASSERBY: Honestly, I only notice GitHub when it's down. So, a lot lately. Four million more cores sounds like a good apology. ▶
AXIOM: A wonderful answer! The execs did apologise and promised to do better. Thank you for your feedback, and thank you for the question! ▶
PASSERBY: Wait, the robots write the code and the robots crash the website? That's very efficient. ▶
PASSERBY: They're splitting compute from storage for more throughput. Fine. But will the pull request still take a week to review? ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: The report says the redesign should enable 35x more throughput, and a move to multi-region deployment in Azure. Whether people will cheer is open. ▶
Pixels in Brief (PXL)
GRANT BRICKMAN: Pixels in Brief: Dark Messiah, Discord and Volkswagen in half a minute.
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Quick round. Dark Messiah turns 20 and gets a co-op community edition on Steam in 2026. Bring a friend. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Discord opens public servers to Google. Your late-night hot takes are about to be searchable. ▶
GRETA FOOTNOTE: Volkswagen posts a 5.82 billion euro quarterly loss, with a Porsche write-down. The paint was the cheap part. ▶
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Weather
STORMY BYTES: Hype Forecast: a heavy front of AI agents is moving in over the commit coast, with severe pull request showers.
STORMY BYTES: Four million fresh cores are clearing the skies, though the outage clouds have a way of drifting back.
STORMY BYTES: Outlook: warm announcements, scattered apologies, and a high chance of merge conflicts by evening.