• Intel announced a bunch of stuff at their innovation day.  (AnandTech)
  
  Mostly enterprise-focused, unless you're looking for a 224-core, 448-thread gaming laptop.
  
  
• 56 core Cascade Lake CPUs, previously hinted at 48.  These are two 28 core dies on a package, with 12 memory channels, and use a rather hefty 400W.
  
  No pricing announced for these, but the new Xeon Platinum 8280L with 28 cores will set you back $17,906.  Further down the line, a 16 core Xeon Silver 4216 is a rather more reasonable $1002.
  
  
• New Optane memory modules can be used as main memory (though you need at least some regular DRAM in the system) and come in capacities up to 512GB.  Oddly the top-of-the-line 56 core CPUs don't support them.
  
  
• Agilex (Intel seems to be plagued by dumb name syndrome) is a new range of Altera FPGAs with PCIe 5.0 and DDR5 support, ready for the next generation of really expensive networking equipment.
  
  
• For the consumer market, Intel is offering a small box of coffee beans.  (AnandTech)
  
  A quad-core CPU with Iris Plus graphics puts this well ahead of other NUCs except for the expensive Devil's Skull Canyon double-wide models.
  
  
• If the 4.60" x 4.40" x 2.01" size of a NUC is just too big for your apartment, the ECS Liva Q2 might be what you need.  (Tech Powerup)
  
  It weighs in at a svelte 2.75" x 2.75" x 1.3" though admittedly the Celeron N4000 and the eMMC storage will be noticeably slower than the Bean Canyon NUC's Core i7 and NVMe SSD.
  
  
• Lego's new Spike Prime robotics kit is aimed at improving STEAM* education.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  * Science, Technology, Engineering, Worthless Piece of Paper That Will Doom You To A Life in the Service Industry, and Mathematics.
  
  
• Sites need to start installing the filters that are not required for compliance with Europe's catastrophic Article 17 (nee 13) right away.  (TechDirt)
  
  
• FOSTA is doing by malicious incompetence what the CDA tried to do by malicious intent.  (TechDirt)
  
  
• Singapore's submission to the global Ministry of Truth contest that seems to have sprung up looks promising.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Internet content deemed to be false will be forcibly corrected, with fines of up to SG$1M (US$740K) applying to social networks that fail to comply.  As with all other plots by the current crop of pig-ignorant power-crazed censorious lunatics, the plan applies to the entire world.
  
  
• Don't like the web browsers currently available?  Why not build your own?  There's plenty of open source projects available, from KHTML to WebKit to Chromium to Firefox.
  
  The answer, according to Google, is because fuck you that's why.
  
  Where's the DOJ?  You can nail Google to the wall over this.
  
  
• Which Xeon is right for you?  (Serve the Home)
  
  A handy colour-coded chart will help you decide.  The previously mentioned 4216 is the same price as last year's 4116 but adds four more cores, which seems like a good deal.
  
  

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