Thursday, September 25
Daily News Stuff 25 September 2025
Brushing Bottles Edition
Brushing Bottles Edition
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- Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and Elite Not Quite So Extreme As All That, successors to the Snapdragon X Elite family. (Tom's Hardware)
The 12 core X Elite performed pretty well among laptop chips, just slightly behind AMD's own 12 core chip, the Ryzen 370. So long as the software you were running was compatible, which wasn't always the case.
It was doomed to irrelevance by a combination of high prices and being promoted with Microsoft's even more doomed Recall software which absolutely nobody wants or trusts.
The X2 Elite Extreme updates the cores in unspecified ways, bumps the clock speed from 4.3GHz to 5GHz, increases the core count from 12 (8 fast plus 4 efficiency) to 18 (12 fast plus 6 efficiency), and also increases the memory width from 128 bits to 192 bits.
Qualcomm claims this will increase multi-threaded performance by 75%, and given that it has 50% more cores that seems plausible.
Laptops with the new chips will ship in the first half of next year.
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- Also announced was the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which delivers just 8 cores (2 fast plus 6 efficiency) but cuts power and clock speed for pocket-sized devices. (WCCFTech)
Look for it in phones and tablets and overpriced washing machines.
- Australia's "eSafety Commissioner" is asking if GitHub is a social network that puts children at risk. (The Register)
Python leads to Java. Java leads to COBOL. Cobol leads to job security.
- Experimental gene therapy appears to significantly slow the progress of Huntington's disease. (BBC)
A particularly nasty hereditary degenerative disease, Huntington's typically first shows up in early middle age, when people likely already have children, and slowly eats away at the nervous system over twenty years or so.
The new treatment doesn't cure it, but seems to slow progress by a factor of four. If treatment is started early, patients are likely to die of something else before the disease can progress that far.
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"Laptops with the new chips will ship in the first half of next year."
Wake me up when they release mini PCs and/or Linux laptops.
Wake me up when they release mini PCs and/or Linux laptops.
Posted by: Rick C at Thursday, September 25 2025 10:27 PM (1zWbY)
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Cobol - how did that line go, "Come over to the dark side. We have chocolate chip cookies". Or something like that.
Posted by: Frank at Friday, September 26 2025 04:19 AM (+i6Xr)
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Well, if you don't block Github, schoolchildren could potentially learn Ada and try to modify this one old dictionary program for the Latin language. (FYI: Apparently William Whitaker's Words is back on the internet.) I just found a Github that claims to be a PL/I compiler for NT. There is also now a simulator or emulator for Multics. If we don't carry out an extreme campaign of internet censorship, there is a danger that children as young as eight could get involved in these things, or might use Linux From Scratch to install Linux.
(People have told me that things I have said are so reality correlated that I must have a recreational drug habit, and be badly served by my hypothetical supplier.)
A friend of mine got exposed to Real Programming TM in his late teens, and it mainly seems to have helped him get out of a bit of an abusive environment.
It is quite possible that those most invested in providing educational services to children are also least interested in children escaping from an abusive environment.
I think a lot of internet places, and methods of engaging are bad, but those costs are probably more acceptable than giving government too much restrictive power.
I personally was older than my teens before I was really prepared to grasp more advanced programming concepts.
(People have told me that things I have said are so reality correlated that I must have a recreational drug habit, and be badly served by my hypothetical supplier.)
A friend of mine got exposed to Real Programming TM in his late teens, and it mainly seems to have helped him get out of a bit of an abusive environment.
It is quite possible that those most invested in providing educational services to children are also least interested in children escaping from an abusive environment.
I think a lot of internet places, and methods of engaging are bad, but those costs are probably more acceptable than giving government too much restrictive power.
I personally was older than my teens before I was really prepared to grasp more advanced programming concepts.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Friday, September 26 2025 08:42 AM (rcPLc)
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