AWS Outage Bricks Smart Homes; Clearwater Forest Xeon + 18A; Ryzen 9950X3D2? - Talking Heads Ep.405

Welcome to Talking Heads, your once weekly show about everything happening in the world of Homelab, Servers, craft beer and cocktails. Check out this episode in Podcast form over at https://open.spotify.com/show/31ZxkU6RwPHG8A4jQjxSG3 Support us on Patreon and get access to our exclusive Discord server. Chat with all of the hosts from Talking Heads all week long. https://www.patreon.com/CraftComputing Want to fuel Craft Computing? Parts, beer, gifts? I've got a mailbox! Craft Computing 1567 Edgewater St NW, #51 Salem, OR 97304 Follow Jeff @CraftComputing on most platforms Follow George at https://chipsandcheese.com/ or @chipsandcheesecc On tonight's show... - Tech News - AWS Outage caused millions of smart devices to no longer function https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/21/aws_outage_aftermath/?td=rt-3a https://www.dexerto.com/entertainment/aws-crash-causes-2000-smart-beds-to-overheat-and-get-stuck-upright-3272251/ Intel Clearwater Forest Xeon, Panther Lake Mobile, and Intel’s 2nm Fab https://www.theregister.com/2025/10/12/gelsingers_foundry_dream_lives_on/ https://chipsandcheese.com/p/interviewing-intels-chief-architect https://chipsandcheese.com/p/panther-lakes-reveal-at-itt-2025 AMD to launch Ryzen 9950 X3D2 with DUAL 3D V-Cache https://www.techpowerup.com/342095/amd-could-launch-16-core-ryzen-9-9950x3d2-cpu-with-192-mb-l3-cache-and-200-w-tdp GM is the latest automaker to bring Generative AI Assistants to cars https://techcrunch.com/2025/10/22/gm-is-bringing-google-gemini-powered-ai-assistant-to-cars-in-2026/