Ambient Irony

Saturday, February 16

Daily News Stuff 16 February 2019

Tech News

Newegg has those $1800 motherboards for that $3000 Xeon processor if you want one. (AnandTech)

Well, they actually don't; it's just a per-order. But they would if they did.
Sasmsung has announced the Galaxy Tab S5e. (AnandTech)

10.5" 2560x1600 AMOLED display - no 8" model unfortunately - avaialble with 4GB/64GB or 6GB/128GB. 400 grams, starting at $400.
Everyone already made the chicken jokes. (AnandTech)

Intel appears to be preparing a Core i9-9900KFC. This might be a model without graphics (there are other F parts) but with an L4 cache (there are other C parts). But all the other parts with an L4 cache had Iris Plus or Iris Pro graphics, so this would be a first.
Western Digital has uploaded their new SweRV to GitHub. (AnandTech)

Unlike most GitHub projects, this is a CPU. A RISC-V implementation to be precise. Apache licensed.
The ASUS TUF RTX 2060 is a tubby little cubby all stuffed with fluff. (PC Perspective)

I mean, look at it.
Windows 10 now runs on the Rasbperry Pi. (Tom's Hardware)

Well, it can walk on the Raspberry Pi. Crawl.

Windows 10 really needs 4GB of RAM to behave itself, and the top of the line Pi 3 B+ has 1GB. So the experience is less than stellar.
USB-C is a mess. (WCCFTech)
Samsung is planning on stealing Huawei's networking equipment market out from under them. (Reuters)

Good luck to them, I say.
If it weren't for RAM there would be 70% fewer Windows patches. (PC Gamer)

If it weren't for RAM, there would be 100% fewer Windows patches. But silly headlines aside, it's interesting how common memory-safety bugs still are.
If your wallet is too heavy for you to lift without assistance, Amazon can help you out with some 48 core bare metal server instances. (Serve the Home)
Google is fixing incognito to be incognitoer. (Bleeping Computer)

I ran into this recently - some sites are using tricks to detect that you are in incognito mode. Google is preparing to wage war on them.
Some really dumb articles were circulating this week about how scientists working at OpenAI had created a monstrous fake news generator (PC Magazine) that was too dangerous to ever unleash on the world. (Vox)

It was fake news. (ZDNet)

The articles generated are obvious nonsense - check out the weather report in the second article. That's probably why the Vox writers are so worried. If they can't get the bots to unionise, they're out of a job.

Social Media News

Tired of Europe stealing all the credit for idiotic IP laws, Japan is proposing to make all copyright infringement a criminal offense. (TechDirt)

If every artist who drew Bowsette was sent to jail, they'd need to wall off the whole of Hokkaido. (Pixiv)

Disclaimer: 40 inches of snow are expected across the lower 48 states, though some areas may get less.

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