Saturday, September 28
Daily News Stuff 28 September 2019
Don't Give Them Ideas Edition
Don't Give Them Ideas Edition
Tech News
- Me: Why not put an RGB water cooler on it while you're there?
Phone designers: Brilliant! (AnandTech)
The Nubia Red Magic 3 is the usual Snapdragon 855 with 8 or 12GB RAM, 128 ior 256GB UFS 2.1 flash, a 6.65" 2340x1080 AMOLED display, 5000mAh battery, 48MP camera, USB-C, a headphone jack... And a fan.
$479 for 8/128 and $599 for 12/256.
- Arm and TSMC demonstrated an 8 core 4GHz dual-chiplet processor. (Tom's Hardware)
LIPNCON is to CoWoS what AIB or MDIO is to EMIB.
Right. Got it.
- Older iOS devices may be unfixably jailbreakable. (Tom's Hardware)
The secure boot ROM on older devices had a flaw, and it's a true ROM - it can't be reprogrammed. It still needs a device-specific exploit on top of that, but the secure boot ROM is what is supposed to prevent device-specific exploits in the first place, so this is likely just a matter of time.
- The Adland website, covering the history of advertising, is shutting down due to a bullshit DMCA notice. (TechDirt)
Their hosting provider gave them 24 hours to move the entire site.
I get these on average every three months. When the whole of mee.nu went offline recently, it was over something similar - though in that case it was a polite request and not even a DMCA notice and had already been resolved and the ticket closed when the server got shut down.
It's insanity.
Yes, I have off-site backups.
- AMD's Navi-based Radeon 5600 and 5800 cards are on their way unless they aren't. (WCCFTech)
The 5700 and 5700 XT have 36 and 40 CUs respectively. The 5600 looks set to have 24 CUs, which should make it competitive with the RX 580. No definite numbers for the 5800 yet, except for "probably more than 40".
- A psychology study that got huge media attention when it was published but turned out to be completely and obviously wrong has been retracted. (Psychology Today)
The retracted study claimed to show that children raised in religious families were less generous, and was being cited in the media as recently as last month, and will likely continue to be cited forever or until the heat death of the Universe, whichever comes first.
Disclaimer: Cthulhu is not something that will "buff right out". You'll need a filler at the very least.
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