• I'll have to buy more strawberry Freddos.  Or just turn the lights off and pretend I'm not home.
  
  
  
• Radeon RX 6000 is here. (AnandTech)
  
  Three initial high-end models:
  
  
• 6800 with 60 CUs for $579
• 6800 XT with 72 CUs for $649
• 6900 XT with 80 CUs for $999
  

All three models feature 128MB of cache and 16GB of 16GHz GDDR6 RAM on a 256-bit bus.

The 6800 competes evenly with the RTX 3070 (or the 2080 Ti).  It costs $80 more than the 3070 but has twice the RAM.

The 6800 XT competes evenly with the RTX 3080, is $50 cheaper, and has 16GB of RAM vs. 10GB.  It has 20% more shaders and is clocked about 10% higher than the base 6800, for just $70 extra, making it easily the best value here.

The 6900 XT competes with the 3090; it seems from AMD's benchmarks that it's not quite as fast, but on the other hand it's $500 cheaper.

All cards support ray tracing, new anti-aliasing methods, accelerate loading of textures from SSDs (like the Xbox and PS5), and, if you also have a Ryzen 5000 CPU, direct mapping of the entire VRAM address space.

Hoping to build myself a Ryzen 5900X / Radeon 6800 XT system next year. We'll see how things work out.



• Apple's A14 chip shows that 5nm is 50% denser than 7nm.  (SemiAnalysis)
  
  TSMC's earlier announcements indicated that 5nm was nearly 50% smaller than 7nm - that is, 100% denser - but the fine print noted that this only applied for logic transistors.  SRAM does not scale nearly as well to the new node.
  
  And a large part of modern chip designs is SRAM - the Radeon 6000 dedicates six billion transistors to its Infinity Cache.
  
  
  
• I violated a code of conduct.  (Fast.AI)
  
  A speaker at a tech conference took the topic of "This previous talk was wrong and here's why."
  
  He got shipped off to the re-education camp for the crime of... Making two people uncomfortable.
  
  
  
• Asteroid 16 Psyche is worth $10 quintillion.  (Observer)
  
  I think this one may have come up before, but a quick search didn't find it.  The asteroid appears to be one huge chunk of metal.  Imagine West Virginia only made entirely out of nickel.
  
  NASA is launching a mission in 2022 to claim it for the fatherland.  (JPL)  Uh, Terran Empire.  Something.
  
  
  
• Nice doggo attacks evil AI.  (Embrace the Red)
  
  If you know the image scaling algorithm used by an object detection AI, you can steganographically embed one image in another, so that after rescaling only the hidden image is visible and the AI makes comical mistakes like nuking your entire city.
  
  
  
• Old Spare Laptop has decided to start charging again.  I have no idea why.
  
  
  
• This seems significant.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• The Scottish National Party wants to criminalise "offensive" speech in private homes.
  
  Sargon has a few words.
  
  
  
  
  
• Removing §230 will remove speech from the internet.
  
  
  
  
  Really, Jack?  Fucking really?
  
  Was it removing Section 230 that locked the Twitter account of the New York Post - which account is still locked?
  
  Was it removing Section 230 that banned Twitter users from linking the Post article - which ban is still in effect contrary to your sworn testimony before Congress?
  
  Repeal Section 230.  Let the internet burn.  I don't fucking care anymore.

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