• Who makes the most secure CPUs, Intel or AMD?  It's AMD.  Duh.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Examining five different aspects of CPU security, AMD wins four and ties on one.
  
  
• The Asus ProArt PA32UCX is a great monitor.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It provides a 4K resolution, Rec.2020 colour, HDR 1000 with 1152 dimming zones, and costs just $3999.
  
  It's a calibrated professional display and not something the average user would want to buy; for that price you can get two complete 27" iMacs with 5K DCI-P3 displays.
  
  
• Ryzen 4000 APUs are coming early next year.  (PCGamesN)
  
  This is the Zen 2 / Navi version, which will potentially deliver 8 core mainstream laptops and / or much faster integrated graphics.
  
  This one has been surprisingly leakproof so far.  We know that it's Zen 2, Navi, and 7nm, but the rest is just speculation.
  
  
• Linux 5.5 will add support for the SGI Octane.  (Phoronix)
  
  Which came out in 1997.  Some people take LTS seriously.
  
  

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• Is the Universe flat?  Or closed?  (Quanta)
  
  Yes, probably one of those.
  
  
• Facebook and Instagram have banned fruits and vegetables.  (NicheGamer)
  
  Well, that's their entire user base gone.
  
  
• Google is run by idiots.  (Bloomberg)
  
  Seriously, who is hiring these cretins?  And is anyone keeping a list of the industries they refuse to work with?  Because at this point it seems to include anyone who actually does anything.
  
  
• Facebook has rebranded itself as FAECBOOK.  (NBC News)
  
  Did I miss a memo?  Is it the 90s again?  In which case, note to self: Sell at $3.20.
  
  
• Netflix can't keep pumping out mediocre drivel forever.  (Washington Post)
  
  So be apathetic towards it while you can.
  
  
• Ubuntu 20.04 will probably be able to boot from ZFS.  (Phoronix)
  
  It will also include zsys, a new tool for managing ZFS with a completely different command set from the existing zpool and zfs utilities.  Hooray.
  
  
• Twitter has suspended the accounts of Hamas and Hezbollah, after discovering to their surprise and dismay that these are terrorist organisations.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Twitter is also run by idiots.
  
  
• The problem with housing affordibility in California...  Is California.  (Ars Technica)
  
  If even Ars Technica is starting to work this out, in another twenty or thirty years they might figure out they maybe shouldn't keep voting for the idiots that are perpetuating this situation.
  
  

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