• If you grew up watching reruns of the Thunderbirds, you owe it to yourself to seek out the restored Blu-Ray version.  They've done an amazing job.
  
  The series was shot on 35mm film and every detail is sharp.  Which means that yes, you can see the strings, but on the other hand you can see all the details of the models, which are just remarkable.
  
  
  
• How do you weed toxicity out of an online game?  (Ars Technica)
  
  Bribe the reviewers and install malware.
  
  The commenters rake the author of the piece over the coals for his nonsense.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
• Speaking of nonsense Intel's upcoming 10-core i9-10900F loses in multi-threaded benchmarks to AMD's 4900HS mobile APU.  (NotebookCheck)
  
  It does eke out a small win in single-threaded benchmarks.
  
  And yes, this is the same Intel chip that uses up to 224W at its rated boost clock.
  
  
  
• Where have all the AMD NUCs gone?
  
  Intel is up to its old tricks again.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The new A12Z used in the new iPad Pro is an A12X.  (AnandTech)
  
  As used in the old iPad Pro.  In 2018.
  
  
  
  
  It's not a bad chip.  It's actually a pretty good chip.  It's just not a new chip.
  
  
  
• Also not a new chip is the Nvidia GT 710.  (AnandTech)
  
  But Asus only want $50 for this card and it has four HDMI ports and fits in any PCIe slot down to 1x.  Perfect if you want to run 28 monitors off one PC.
  
  
  
• TSMC's CoWoS production is flat out unless it isn't.  (WCCFTech)
  
  This is the latest version of silicon interposers - using a big slab of cheap silicon as a substrate instead of a regular circuit board.  This is used (for example) in the Vega 7 to handle the thousands of pins for the HBM graphics RAM.
  
  The new process allows for interposers up to 1700mm² which is pretty big as these things go.
  
  
  
• Do you really, really want a 15GHz 6502?  Well chances are you already have one.  (Scary Beast Security)
  
  A 4.5GHz i9-9980XE coupled with dynamic translation using the open-source beebjit project delivers performance equivalent to a 12 to 15 GHz 6502.
  
  
  
• Google News to exit France in 3... 2...  (TechDirt)
  
  The French authorities are trying and failing to avoid the Spanish debacle.
  
  

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