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Sunday, June 10
Daily News Stuff 10 June 2018
Weekend edition, where we pick up minor items that we didn't get to during the week. (Because nothing happens on the weekend.)
Weekend edition, where we pick up minor items that we didn't get to during the week. (Because nothing happens on the weekend.)
- Vultr upgrades their cloud servers with faster Skylake Xeons. Up to 50% faster, in fact. (I use Vultr for development and testing because they have a datacenter right here in Sydney. So does Amazon, but (a) they cost at least twice as much, often more, and (b) AWS has the worst administration interface in the known universe.)
- MongoDB is about to support transactions just like a real database. Also like the TokuMX fork did five years ago. MongoDB 4.0 is available as a release candidate now.
- Microsoft buys GitHub. Despite the squeals from the hacker fringe, this is probably good news for everyone - for Microsoft, for GitHub, for their competitors GitLab (I use GitLab myself), and for developers. Techdirt rounds up some takes, including an embarrassing mess from the Guardian.
- Tyan showed off the first standard Ryzen server motherboard at Computex. This has been a noticeable hole in AMD's server offerings - they have the high-end Epyc chips (two sockets and up to 64 total cores), and embedded chips, but no low-end server offering. And Intel have been ignoring low-end servers entirely - they have 6-core laptop parts, but their low-end server CPUs are still limited to 4 cores. (Just to rub it in, they have six-core mobile Xeons for pro laptops, but not a server version.)
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Saturday, June 09
Daily News Stuff 9 June 2018
- Europe realises GDPR hasn't quite destroyed the Internet, vows to try harder. (Seriously, this proposed new law is screwed up beyond belief.)
- TSMC ramps up 7nm production. This is good news for everyone in the industry except Intel, whose 10nm process has been stuck in beta for longer than Gmail.
- ARM announces the Cortex-A76 mobile CPU which is faster than the A75, which is faster than the A73, which is faster than the A72, which is faster than the A57, which is faster than the A53, which is what I have in my phone.
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Friday, June 08
Daily News Stuff 8 June 2018
- ASMedia shows off USB 3.2. That's 20Gb per second, using the same USB-C socket and cable as USB 3.1.
- Intel announces the 8086. 40th Anniversary Limited Edition, that is; a 6-core 4.0-5.0 GHz Coffee Lake chip.
- Facebook run by idiots, massive privacy violations ensue.
- Amazon has been watching too much Doctor Who, decides to conquer Earth apparently forgetting they already have.
- Europe run by idiots, massive privacy violations ensue.
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Thursday, June 07
Daily News Stuff 7 June 2018
- AMD says "16 cores is so 2017", announces 32-core desktop CPUs coming in Q3 this year.
- Intel says "We can do that too!", announces 28-core 5GHz desktop CPU which unfortunately requires an external 1HP refrigeration unit. (No, seriously.)
- Steam tells the censors to get bent.
- Asus sticks a screen in the touchpad. Looks like a pretty nice laptop.
- Apple announces nothing. Absolutely nothing.
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Monday, June 04
Pro Tip: When Caddy Warns About Insufficient File Handles, GIVE IT MORE FILE HANDLES
We're back on the air now.
We're back on the air now.
Update: Also, the editor glitches are fixed.
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