Saturday, February 08
Daily News Stuff 8 February 2025
Nimitable Edition
Nimitable Edition
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- How one of the DOGE team, who are all too young to know what they are doing in taking a wrecking ball to decades of government waste, incompetence, and fraud, solved the puzzle of how to read the vitrified scrolls of Vesuvius. (Tech Crunch)
Farritor had studied Latin and was fascinated by ancient civilizations. "I always read about archaeology growing up, and it’s like, wow, now I get to actually be involved in a project with Richard Janko," he recalled, referring to the classics scholar who was a judge for the Vesuvius Challenge.
Luke Farritor and his friends won a $700,000 prize by using advanced scanners and 3D reconstruction to read scrolls from Herculaneum that were burned almost beyond recognition but otherwise physically intact.
Watching the media tie itself into knots trying to tar these young geniuses as fascists is at least briefly amusing.
Tech News
- The UK government has secretly ordered Apple to hand over encryption keys that would allow it to read any information from any Apple user anywhere in the world. (MacRumors) (archive site)
And speaking of fascists...
Apple may simply stop providing iCloud in the UK in response.
- Nothing in this article is true. (The Verge) (archive site)
The Twenty Minute Hate, screaming at the sky about the unwinding of decades of government waste, incompetence, and fraud.
- Whatever happened to the Xeon E? (Serve the Home)
The Xeon E was Intel's low-end server CPU range, based on desktop chips but with support for ECC memory.
Intel still sells them, but they've been utterly demolished by AMD. The fastest Xeon E, the eight-core E-2488, is slower than AMD's six-core 9600X. And uses more power. And is a lot more expensive.
- Intel is however reportedly preparing 52 core desktop processor. (Tom's Hardware)
That's 16 performance cores, 32 efficiency cores, and 4 low-power cores.
Which is a lot.
- Minisforum makes motherboards. (Amazon)
You wouldn't know it from their website, but they make both mini-ITX and micro-ATX boards with laptop chips embedded on them. And not any old laptop chip either, but the 16 core 7945HX, which is as fast as a 12 core desktop 9900X )on multi-threaded tasks) while using half the power.
Which is interesting because at least in Australia, the board including that CPU is cheaper than the 9900X alone.
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