• Hynix announced 3.6 GHz HBM2 memory bringing bandwidth for high-end graphics cards close to 2TB per second.  (AnandTech)
  
  It's still a bit too expensive for mid-range cards.  AMD's Vega cards used it and had trouble competing on price as a result.
  
  
• There's a rumour that Intel won't not ship PCIe 4.0 after all and will instead not skip straight to PCIe 5.0.  (PC Perspective)
  
  The idea that Intel would skip an entire PCIe generation was always silly.  PCIe 4.0 doubles your available bandwidth at a stroke, and is supported by devices such as SSDs and video cards right now.  PCIe 5.0 is more complicated, more expensive, uses significantly more power, and not currently available anywhere.
  
  Intel might not qualify servers on PCIe 4.0 if they are aggressively pursuing 5.0 there, because their whole server platform is two years behind schedule anywhere.  But on the desktop?  They will absolutely go to 4.0.
  
  
• Britain is, for some unfathomable reason (actually, it's completely fathomable, it's because they're idiots) working on implementing a godawful EU content-filtering directive just minutes before the country is due to leave the EU forever.  (TechDirt)
  
  TechDirt posted complete nonsense elsewhere to balance out this article.
  
  
• An Indian bullshit sorry online counselling company filed criminal charges against a journalist who contacted them about security holes in their software.  (TechDirt)
  
  As you would.
  
  
• WordPress bought Tumblr in a deal that values Tumblr's porn stash at over $1.097 billion.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  
• Ebola is now much more effectively treatable.  (Wired)
  
  Wired says curable, but while the new treatment doubles survival rates, mortaility rates remain terrifying at 49%.
  
  
• Seven plus or minus two.
  
  That's the number of discrete identifiers humans can hold in short term memory.  Long term memory is far, far larger than that - take for example the number of distinct words used in this post so far that you had no trouble at all absorbing.
  
  But if a person is faced with an explanation of something with more than five unfamiliar terms, there's a good chance it will simply make no sense to them.  They're not stupid, or no more stupid than anyone else.  Rather, it's a bad explanation if your target audience is homo sapiens.
  
  
• Windows is falling apart, you should buy Chromebooks instead says completely trustworthy and unbiased company behind Chrome.  (ZDNet)
  
  
• EV certificates are dead following a crippling shortage of green pixels.  (ZDNet)

Posted by: Jay at Wednesday, August 14 2019 01:27 AM (mrlXS)

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