Wednesday, October 24
Daily News Stuff 24 October 2018
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Tech News
- Qualcomm announced the mid-range Snapdragon 675. (AnandTech)
It has two fast cores and six slow cores, Adreno 612 graphics, and other usual mid-range bits, and will be fabbed by Samsung on their 11nm process.
The interesting part is those two fast cores are the brand new Arm Cortex A76, which should be a big advance over the A75 (let alone the A72 that I have). That means better, faster mid-range phones for those of us who don't want to spend A$2668 on the new iPhone.
- HP's EliteBook x360 1040 G5 is just a notebook. (AnandTech)
It doesn't do anything magical, but it does have a quad-core CPU, up to 32GB RAM and 2TB of NVMe SSD, a 14" 4K display with a 180° hinge, and dual Thunderbolt 3 ports in a 1.35kg (3lb) package.
- Oracle are offering cloud servers based on AMD Epyc at around 3¢ per core per hour. (AnandTech)
That's not bad for a top-tier dedicated core VM. You can get cheaper servers - around a quarter of that - but your dedicated CPU allowance is much less than a full core.
Oh, wait, it looks like that price is for servers, not VMs. (Serve the Home)
So it's actually $1.92 per hour for 64 cores and 512GB RAM. Which is a different proposition but still good value.
Update: It's both. VMs and bare-metal servers at 3¢ per core per hour, from 1 to 64 cores. Only the bare-metal servers are immediately available though.
- Yahoo has agreed to pay $50 million to 200 million data breach victims. (WCCFTech)
You need to claim damages; they're not just sending out cheques for 25¢. You can recover up to $375 if you can document damages or expenses incurred, and $125 otherwise.
- Jepsen has done one of their in-depth analyses of data consistency on MongoDB.
With the default settings, it can lose data written during a cluster partition. It will return that the data has been written, but when the cluster is repaired, the results can be lost.
However, if you use the recommended safe level of majority writes (which is not the default), it works as it should.
- The FCC has released bandwidth in the 3.5GHz range for 5G mobile and in the 6GHz band for WiFi in two separate decisions. (VentureBeat)
They 6GHz band spans the range from 5.925GHz to 7.125GHz, which is a ton of bandwidth.
- Sometimes squirrel burgers are unavoidable, but try not to make a habit of it.
- 400G Ethernet can really ramp your radixes. (The Next Platform)
Or... Something.
Most of the servers I look after are still stuck with 1G connections. I'm so happy when I get to do data transfers between servers that are both 10G or faster.
- Global Foundries' decision to halt development of 7nm and beyond is a potential security problem for US military contractors and aerospace companies. (SemiEngineering)
They are the only leading-edge foundry in the DoD's Trusted Foundry program. Intel presumably could join that program, but they currently aren't shipping volume parts below 14nm either. (Though Intel's 14nm process is close to other sources' 10nm.)
- Zimmer's Conjecture has been proven. (Quanta)
Unusually for this sort of thing, Zimmer is still alive; he's now president of the University of Chicago.
- Amazon may face problems if they choose to locate their second HQ in Washington DC. (Axios)
Why the hell would anyone base anything in Washington DC?
Though I'm not sure what city on the US East Coast would be better.
- The Australian government has handed the contract for real-time prescription drug monitoring to some guy named Fred. (ZDNet)
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How much bandwidth is too much? Well, when it collapses into a black hole that's probably a sign.
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