• Researchers have created logic gates with a switching rate measured in petahertz.  (New Atlas)
  
  That's a million gigahertz.  Or a billion megahertz.  Whichever.
  
  The gates are currently completely impractical, but extremely fast.
  
  
  
• Taiwan has restricted CPUs shipped to Russia and Belarus to speeds of 25MHz.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Or 5 GFLOPs, whichever comes first.  I don't think there are any chips running at 25MHz that exceed 5 GFLOPs, but I could be wrong.
  
  25MHz, by the way, is 0.000000025 petahertz.
  
  
  
• Intel is looking to grow RISC-V to Zettascale.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  1 zettaFLOPs is 1,000,000,000,000 gigaFLOPs.

• A former product manager at OpenSea has been charged with insider trading.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Of ugly monkey JPEGs, which are a scam in the first place.
  
  
  
• Connecticut is hiring a meme analysts for $150k per year.  (Popular Science)
  
  Wonder if the artist formerly known as Kiryu Coco can fit this into her busy schedule.
  
  
  
• Qualcomm wants to buy a stake in Arm.  (Ars Technica)
  
  The purchase by Nvidia foundered on regulatory issues, but they could reappear as part of a consortium with other major Arm customers.
  
  
  
• Changes to IPv4 private address ranges could free up 400 million IP addresses and also break a whole lot of stuff.  (The Regoster_
  
  If you're using the 240/4 range as private addresses, you could be in for a bad time.

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• I got hacked and Facebook banned me.  (Emily Cordes)
  
  Well, lah-di-dah.  I fell down the stairs and landed hard enough that I was peeing blood for a while.
  
  Anyway, either delete your Facebook account or set up two-factor authentication, or bo...  No, not both, that doesn't make sense.
  
  
  

Tech News

• Intel showed off its new Sapphire Rapids Plus HBM chips, which are basically Sapphire Rapids plus HBM.  (AnandTech)
  
  The CPU includes up to 64GB of RAM wired directly to the cores.  With lots and lots of wires - 4096, I think.
  
  
  
• Over 3.6 million MySQL servers were found exposed on the internet.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Shame!
  
  No, actually, unlike Redis or MongoDB or Elasticsearch, all of which come without any password authentication set by default, MySQL makes you jump through flaming hoops to disable it.  Possibly a widely-used but rather stupid installer.
  
  
  
• SpaceX has shown off the next generation of Starlink satellites.  (Gizmodo)
  
  Starlink 2.0 satellites are five times faster and have 10 times the network capacity of the current model.
  
  Since the satellites are bigger, they need a bigger launch vehicle, which just coincidentally SpaceX also has.
  
  
  
• If you want an Apple-1, you have a chance.  (9to5Mac)
  
  If you also have half a million bucks you can set on fire.
  
  The Apple-1 is the hand-made predecessor of the massively successful Apple II, and it, well, it works, I guess.
  
  Auction runs from June 2 to June 12.
  
  

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