• It seems that AMD ran out of September.  Thirdripper and the 3950X will be arriving in November.  (AnandTech)
  
  The 3950X is the 16 core mainstream model; third generation Threadripper will be 24 cores and up.
  
  Given the ongoing shortages of the 3900X this shouldn't come as a surprise, though at least a paper launch of the 3950X was expected this month.
  
  This is the first official news of Thirdripper, apart from Lisa Su's statement that there would be such a thing when its absence on one slide sent rumours flying.
  
  
• A French court has said that yes, Cinderella, you can resell your Steam games.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That will be interesting.
  
  
• IBM has announced a working quantum computer with 53 qubits.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Their previous model had just 20 qubits.  That means the new one is potentially 8 billion times more powerful, because in theory the computational capacity of a quantum computer scales exponentially with the number of qubits.  We'll see how it turns out, because reality is rarely so generous.
  
  
• Network effects mean that small social networks die and large social networks suck.  (TechDirt)
  
  It doesn't help that all the major social networks are run by idiots.
  
  
• There are tens of thousands of Facebook apps?  (Tech Crunch)
  
  I mean, that still have working API access.
  
  
• YouTube CEO Susan Wojcicki says "Sorry everyone, YouTube is run entirely by idiots.".  (Tech Crunch)
  
  When a journalist pointed out that she ran YouTube she replied "What, no I don't.  You're so silly."
  
  
• Gigabyte has a slew of new motherboards on the way including at least five models for Thirdripper unless they don't.  (WCCFTech)
  
  I'm eager to see what kind of chipset AMD cooks up for Thirdripper.  It looks like they have a mid-sized four-channel I/O core, so they could repeat the trick they did with the X570 and rotate that 180° and use it as the chipset.  At the other extreme they could rely on the built-in features of the I/O die and not have a chipset at all.
  
  
• Thousands of words on the socioeconomics of healing crystals without ever addressing the fact that they don't fucking work.  (The Guardian)
  
  
• WCCFTech noted weeks ago that WeWork was a losing proposition.
  
  Investors are just starting to realise that, being rather dumber than a random tech rumour site run on a shoestring budget.
  

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