• Sienna Cichlid could be Big Navi.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Or not.  It's an AMD GPU and drivers will be included in Linux 5.9, but other details remain elusive.
  
  
  
• PCIe 4.0 switches!  Get yer PCIe 4.0 switches!  (AnandTech)
  
  Clearly targeted at the storage market, because they make explicit note of hot-plug support.  Up to 100 lanes and 174GB per second of bandwidth.  Not likely to be cheap though.
  
  
  
• Intel's C3000 lineup offers a lot of meh for your dollar.  (PC Perspective)
  
  16 cores for under $400 and using just 24W is the good part.  The bad part is that those are Atom cores.  The other good part is 16 SATA ports and built-in 2.5 or 10GbE.  These are likely to find a home in future products from Synology and Qnap.
  
  
  
• TechDirt is drunk again.
  
  
  
• MSI's Creator 15 has Intel's brand new Core i7 10875H which is a shame because it's otherwise a rather nice laptop.  (WCCFTech)
  
  15.6" 1080p or 4K display, up to RTX 2070 Super graphics, two M.2 slots and two SODIMM slots for up to 64GB RAM, and a bevy of I/O ports including Thunderbolt, HDMI, and wired Ethernet.
  
  AMD-based designs with Thunderbolt are still far and few between, so that likely guided their choice.  Oh, and all essential keys are accounted for.
  
  
  
• An image of an Angel becomes an Angel itself.  (Android Authority)
  
  In this case at least it only bricks your phone rather than transporting you into the past to live yourself to death.

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• The Elbrus 8CB is, um, a thing.  (AnandTech)
  
  It's an 8-core 6-issue VLIW design with a peak floating point throughput of 576 GFLOPs.  A nominal 4GHz 8-core Ryzen can do 1024 GFLOPs, but considering the Ryzen is built on a 7nm process and the Elbrus is on 28nm, it's not too shabby.
  
  VLIW puts the hard work for achieving real-world performance on the compiler, though, and thus far that hasn't worked out too well.  Not even Intel could deliver, and their hardware designers and compiler writers are among the best in the world.
  
  
  
• Apple says, go buy that MSI Modern 14.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Apple is back to its old tricks, charging $200 for an 8GB memory upgrade.  No, you can't upgrade it yourself.  No, you can't bring it back to the store for an upgrade later.
  
  Because fuck you, that's why.
  
  
  
• Linux 5.7 is out.  (Kernel.org)
  
  It's 0.1 louder.
  
  
  
• Moderation transparency matters.  (ACM)
  
  Twitter and Google are notoriously opaque about their moderation and account suspension activities, when they don't outright lie.  This study shows that telling users why content was moderated produces objectively better results.
  
  
  
• A look at the Lenovo Flex 5.  (Phoronix)
  
  6-core Ryzen 5 4500U, 14" 1080p screen, 16GB of dual-channel memory, 256GB NVMe SSD, $599.
  
  Fairly standard array of ports: USB-C, two USB-A, HDMI, SD card, combo audio jack, and separate charging port.
  
  Does not have the four essential keys though, so again I'd go for the MSI Modern 14.
  
  
  
• CDA 230 doesn't apply to Australia.  (AFR)
  
  This does not seem like a good decision.  Though perhaps legally correct.
  
  
  
• The apatosaurus has reached the ISS.

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