• Get your Pi Pico on the internet.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Since there's not really an operating system to hack, this is probably relatively safe.
  
  
  
• Asus is launching an Intel Xe DG1 graphics card.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Like Intel's previous announcement, this only works with certain CPUs and chipsets; in fact, the Asus version only works with Asus motherboards using those CPUs and chipsets.
  
  This is not likely to present a problem, because there's no reason you'd want to buy one.
  
  
  
• Intel's Alder Like brings DDR5, PCIe 5.0, and up to 2x better multi-threaded performance unless it doesn't.  (WCCFTech)
  
  The last should raise an eyebrow, but typical of Intel they don't specify 2x better in what, or compared to what.  They are fond of comparing performance with their own three year old chips that customers are likely to upgrading from.  Which in this case would mean....  Six cores.  Alder Lake has sixteen cores, though half of those are Atom.
  
  
  
• TP-Link has two new 10Gb switches which aren't too expensive but also don't seem to be available anywhere yet.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The 5 port version is passively cooled and runs around $275, and the 8 port model is fan-cooled and costs around $450.
  
  
  
• Nvidia's unhackable mining throttling thing is well and truly hacked.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  You need an 8x PCIe slot and a $6 dummy HDMI plug.
  
  
  
• Flatpak considered harmful.  (Flatkill)
  
  I don't use Flatpak but I am forced to use Snap which is quite bad enough, with its insane practice of creating a new and visible filesystem for every single installed package.
  
  
  
• Western Digital's SN850 is fast.  (AnandTech)
  
  Up to twice as fast as the SN750 I got recently.  Also twice as expensive.
  
  
  
• The Surface Duo can now double as a 3DS.  (Thurrott.com)
  
  Without the 3D, but easier to expense.
  
  
  
• Mini-Zork II has been released for the Commodore 64.  (Vintage is the New Old)
  
  Mini-Zork was released back in the day, a cut-down version of Zork that fit in 64k of RAM and could be distributed on tape, though I shudder to think of the loading time.
  
  Mini-Zork II was largely complete but abandoned and eventually buried, but the source code has been rediscovered and it's now available for download if you somehow have a C64 connected to the internet.

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• Kiara didn't have an outro animation.  She described what she had in mind, and a fan immediately made it for her.  It meets her specifications perfectly.
  
  
  
  

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