It was a bad day. A lot of bad stuff happened. And I'd love to forget it all. But I don't. Not ever. Because this is what I do. Every time, every day, every second, this: On five, we're bringing down the government.
Saturday, November 03
Daily News Stuff 3 November 2018
If you haven't watched the earlier episodes, this is not the best place to start. Through episode six it's largely, um, episodic, but at this point we're in the middle of an ongoing story.
Tech News
- Another day another hyperthreading side-channel attack. (Ars Technica)
Hyperthreading: Just say argh. Also speculative execution.
- Google's Pixel 3: Is it the phone for you? (AnandTech)
No.
- Need to capture 4K HDMI? Here's a thing. (PC Perspective)
- Ron Wyden (D-HippieLand) has introduced draft privacy legislation that is only mostly garbage unlike previous attempts that were entirely garbage. (TechDirt)
On the one hand, there are few things private enterprise does that are so bad that government intervention won't make them worse. On the other hand, customer privacy might be one of those things.
- In Australia? Need a pretty good gaming PC? Or assuming you're willing to shell out a couple of hundred bucks for extra memory, a good all-round PC?
Dell's 2017 AMD Inspiron Gaming system is on clearance for A$1099. (Including tax and delivery.) That's 45% off.
8 core Ryzen 1700X, 8GB RAM, 8GB Radeon RX580 graphics, 256GB SSD, 1TB HDD, DVD burner.
I haven't checked the service manual, but it's likely this only has two DIMM slots, so you'd need to remove the existing RAM to upgrade it to a more reasonable 16GB. Still a good price even so.
- Bruce Schneier, author of the classic text Applied Cryptography (a must-read for any programmer serious about computer security) has a new book out.
It's called Click Here to Kill Everybody.
I think maybe not enough people read his earlier book.
Bee and PuppyCats of the Day
If you haven't watched the earlier episodes, this is not the best place to start. Through episode six it's largely, um, episodic, but at this point we're in the middle of an ongoing story.
Start with the pilot:
Then move on with the regular episodes:
Video of the Day
This is why the TSA requires you to consume any open containers of mercury you may be carrying before boarding your flight.
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Friday, November 02
Daily News Stuff 2 November 2018
Tech News
- iPhones are allergic to helium. (iFixit)
This is bad. If you live somewhere with a helium atmosphere. Which you probably don't.
- Llamas are allergic to the flu. (RealClearScience)
The article discusses a universal flu vaccine, but that's not what's happening here. The llama antibodies provide broad but temporary immunity; you'd need to take them each year. But they would make your resistant to all strains of the flu for a year, rather than being an all-or-nothing shot at a single strain, and camelid antibodies can readily be mass-produced in bacterial cultures.
- 1500 Google employees helpfully identified themselves as dead weight that can be dumped without affecting operations. (TechCrunch)
That's probably not what they thought they were doing, but they're not very bright.
- AMD is holding a Next Horizon investor event next Tuesday. (AnandTech)
The New Horizon event in 2016 announced details of the first-generation Zen processors (that became Ryzen, Threadripper, and Epyc), so this is almost certainly an announcement of Zen 2.
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Thursday, November 01
Daily News Stuff 1 November 2018
And after approximately three and a half years, October finally draws to a close.
And after approximately three and a half years, October finally draws to a close.
Tech News
- ZTE's Nubia X is a phone phone. It does phone phone stuff. (AnandTech)
It has a 6.2" inch 2280x1080 OLED display, and a 5.1" inch 1520x720 OLED display.
That is not a typo.
It doesn't have a notch for the front-facing camera, because it doesn't have a front facing camera. Or it does, but it's on the other front. If you want to take a selfie, you turn the phone around the other way.
I'm not sure if that is brilliant or insane or a bit of both.
Dual cameras (24MP and 16MP), Snapdragon 845 CPU, and an option of 6/64GB or 8/128GB.
- While Qualcomm's latest Snapdragon CPUs are great for phones they're still crap for notebooks. (Tom's Hardware)
- AMD's EPYC 7261 has 8 cores and 64MB of cache. (Serve the Home)
That puts it in a weird spot: Only one core from each cluster of four is active, but all the L3 cache is enabled. Only a quarter of the L2 cache, though, since that is connected directly to each core.
- If you need a six core Xeon workstation with Nvidia Quadro graphics and a 4K HDR display and live in a shoebox the ThinkPad P1 might be just the thing. (Serve the Home)
Social Media News
- Facebook had a bug allowing hackers to work around security measures and potentially take over any business account.
Here's how the exploit worked:
- The hacker issues an API request to the /admins/import endpoint providing the business ID and specifying their own account as the administrator.
- That's it.
Video of the Day
I notice nobody ever bothers to rebuild New Jersey on a distant alien world.
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