• The Eternal September is finally over after 34 years as AOL shuts down its dialup service.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Looking around and seeing the current state of the internet, I think they might have left it running a little too long.
  
  
  
• Speaking of which, how does my upgraded 500Mb internet feel?
  
  Exactly the same as before, one 100Mb, to be honest.  Moving from ADSL (I got about 16Mb down and 2Mb up) to a nominal 100/40 connection was a huge upgrade.  At least it was until I got hit by lightning and my modem exploded.
  
  Since I mostly look at (and work on) US-hosted sites, that trans-Pacific latency erases any obvious gains.  The new plan is cheaper, though, and the next step down goes all the way to 50/20 and only saves $2.
  
  

Tech News

• Maxsun has teamed up with case manufacturer Abee to produce a workstation powered by Intel CPUs and GPUs, the latter specifically being Maxsun's Arc Pro B60 48GB Turbo model.  (WCCFTech)
  
  The B60 is based on Intel's B580 gaming card, not particularly powerful compared with Nvidia's RTX 5060 or AMD's 9060 XT, but $50 cheaper at $250 and equipped with 50% more VRAM - 12GB rather than 8GB - which makes some memory-intensive titles run better even though the hardware is nominally slower.
  
  The Arc Pro B60 48GB Turbo takes two of those, doubles the memory on each, and fits them on a single card for $1200.  It's only really useful for certain specific tasks - you wouldn't buy one of these to play games - but it's a lot cheaper than any 48GB cards from AMD or Nvidia.
  
  
  
• HP has launched the ZGX Nano G1n, powered by Nvidia's GB10 chip.  (WCCFTech)
  
  What?
  
  It's an AI thing.
  
  Oh.
  
  It has 20 Arm CPU cores - 10 X925 full-size cores and 10 A725 mid-size cores, 48 graphics cores - the same as an RTX 5070 desktop graphics card, 128GB of soldered LPDDR5X memory on a 256-bit bus, and two 200Gb Ethernet ports for attaching it to more of the same.
  
  Price not announced but expect it to cost around 50% more than AMD's very similar systems based on the Ryzen AI Max 395.
  
  
  
• Food delivery robots have human names and blinking eyes. But they’re not our friends.  (CNN)
  
  I might return to this item tomorrow because the article is impressively deranged.
  
  
  
• Gmail is dropping Gmailify and POP support.  (PC World)
  
  Going forward, you will need to use an email client that supports the new IMAP standard, which came out in...  1986.
  
  
  
• A comparison of Ada and Rust.  (GitHub)
  
  Is it just me, or is Rust kind of...  Bad?

Posted by: Rick C at Monday, October 06 2025 06:27 AM (1zWbY)

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