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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I think operating systems (and hypervisors) will just have to gang schedule all the hardware threads to a single process--if the process doesn't have enough threads, the hardware thread just will have to be idle.
Posted by: Kayle at Saturday, November 03 2018 04:14 PM (TtvMc)
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I believe that AWS runs without hyperthreading, and other cloud providers are likely to follow suit. There have just been too many problems.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, November 03 2018 04:30 PM (PiXy!)
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