• Cue is a new scripting language from Google that has more on this later.
  
  Seriously?  You're the richest corporation in the world.  That wouldn't hold up for a fourth-grade science fair.
  
  
• Intel has announced new Cooper Lake and Ice Lake server CPUs based on Socket 4189.  (AnandTech)
  
  This is starting to get out of hand.
  
  
• Avast ye 850,000 scallywags ye have been remotely disinfected.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  A bug in a remote exploit package called Retadup allowed it to be remotely exploited - and wiped out.
  
  
• China is embedding propaganda in Twitter porn accounts.  (Quartz)
  
  If you can't trust Twitter porn accounts, who can you trust?
  
  
• Should you be using web workers?  Yes, but only if your client side code actually does something.  (Medium)
  
  Also, the entire JavaScript ecosystem is garbage.
  
  
• Do not connect the BMC port directly to the internet you idiots.  (ZDNet)
  
  
• Distinguishing satire and parody from sincere nonsense is one of the hardest tasks for AI.  And also for humans.  And for whatever is running YouTube these days and just exterminated Goeppels-chan.  (One Angry Gamer)
  
  

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• Dark Patterns are tricks websites play on you to get you to do what they want.  (Dark Patterns)
  
  Their Hall of Shame ranges from amusing to irritating to horrifying.
  
  I don't know whether that Chrome setting from yesterday was a deliberate dark pattern or if Chrome is designed by morons and it just came out that way.  Hard to tell sometimes.
  
  
• Mmm.  Gluten-free dark chocolate Tim Tam clones.
  
  
• Don't count on your Ryzen 3900X hitting 4.6GHz.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Though that is the advertised boost clock, a large majority of chips only seem to reach 4.5GHz.
  
  This is based on survey results and is not authoritative, but there are enough chips failing to hit the rated boost clock to indicate a problem.
  
  
• Is Cobol holding you hostage?  (Medium)
  
  Only if you're an idiot, because the examples used in the article show that Python solves the problem better than Cobol does.
  
  
• The Radeon Pro WX 4100 is a half-height half-length single-slot card that can drive four 4K monitors.  (Serve the Home)
  
  We pit it against dual Nvidia Titan RTX cards with NVLink.  Turns out it's not as fast.

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• How to get Chrome to stop nagging you about enabling notifications for random websites.  (The Next Web)
  
  Problem is, this is stupid.  The opposite to "Ask before sending" is "Don't ask before sending", not "Don't ask, don't send".  There is no way a user would guess what turning this option off would actually do.
  
  And that's if it works as this article suggests.  If it doesn't work it's even worse.
  
  
• The problem with sneering at a senator pushing a silly bill to erase CDA 230 protections for saying that Silicon Valley is no longer innovative is that it's true.  (TechDirt)
  
  
• C4 is a self-compiling C compiler and bytecode interpreter in 528 lines.  Of C.  (GitHub)
  
  
• Wrong kind of innovation!  (Fast Company)
  
  Is Silicon Valley building a totalitarian "social credit" system - or have they already?
  
  
• Google's new privacy sandbox has nothing to do with protecting your privacy.  (EFF)
  
  Advertisers are still entirely able to track you and match up ads to purchases.  It's all about Google protecting their bottom line.

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• Linux kernel patches indicate that AMD's next-gen mobile APU will support LPDDR4X-4266.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  LPDDR4 is essentially mobile only; it requires memory to be soldered directly onto the motherboard.  Desktop APUs will have to wait for DDR5 to get an equivalent bandwidth boost.
  
  This is important because AMD's current-gen APUs are already bandwidth-limited.  They could easily add faster integrated GPUs but they wouldn't help because the integrated GPU is not the issue.  I think they currently specify DDR4-2400 for the mobile parts, so 4266 is a big jump.
  
  
• Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey's Twitter account got hacked.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Probably via a SIM-swap attack.
  
  Don't use SMS for 2FA if you're a likely target for something like this; carrier security for end users is a joke.  Use any of the one-time authenticator apps.
  
  
• LittleFS is a filesystem for microcontrollers that is safe against power-loss, provides consistent performance, automatically wear-levels flash storage, and only needs a few kilobytes of RAM.  That's not an easy combination of features to deliver.
  
  
• Intel has started sampling 10nm Agilex FPGAs to select customers.  (Serve the Home)
  
  These are high-end parts that start at the price of a second-hand car and go up from there, for use in products that cost as much as a house, that you might only sell ten or twenty of, total.  The alternative is designing a custom chip, which can easily cost millions.
  
  An interesting thing is they implement 112G transceivers, which will likely form the basis of PCIe 7.0 in, oh, 2028 or thereabouts.
  
  
• It's Reddit's turn to fall over today apparently due to AWS issues.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  It's working for me (I use it to follow stories for these updates) unless I go to my profile or inbox, and then it goes into a perpetual login redirect loop.
  
  
• Don't buy a Macbook.  (ZDNet)
  
  Well, what they say is that pen support is a must-have feature for new notebooks.  I have two notebooks with pen support but I've been so busy the last few months - and spending all my time working from home - that I've hardly used them.
  
  
• Untitled Goose Game is an Epic Game Store time exclusive I am not making this up.  (One Angry Gamer)
  
  
• Final Fantasy VIII Remastered is getting censored.  (One Angry Gamer)
  
  I don't know which is funnier, the tech company rearranging a bird's feathers for modesty, or fans carrying out geometric analysis of a character's decolletage to prove that the visual difference is not purely due to the HD textures.