• There's not a lot of tech news this week so I'm going to mention another government that has fucked things up (though not destroyed the entire country): The average household energy bill in Britain is expected to soar from £1,300 to £3,300 in the space of a year.  (BBC News)
  
  That's with price controls.  The article mentions that 30 energy companies have gone broke due to soaring gas prices but doesn't say why the one would lead to the other.  But if costs go up and the price you can charge is limited by government fiat, you are going to go out of business.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile here in Australia it took our new center-left government two weeks to create an energy crisis and our own soaring prices.  And here's me moving to a much larger all-electric house in a much colder climate in the middle of winter just as electricity prices spike to new records.  Yay.

• Alibaba's new 128-core Arm server CPU is a little faster than AMD's existing 64-core chips.  (Serve the Home)
  
  If it weren't, they'd have a problem.
  
  
  
• Axie Infinity got hacked - and lost $620 million worth of Monopoly money - from a fake job offer posted by North Korea.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Oops.
  
  
  
• The Nokia T10 is a pretty solid small Android tablet except for the low-resolution screen.  (Liliputing)
  
  WHY DO THEY DO THAT?
  
  It has dual A75 cores and six A55 cores, which would make it much faster than my Lenovo Tab M8 FHD, but the screen is 1280x800.  My 2013 Nexus 7 was 1920x1200.
  
  
  
• Is the NZCT N5 Z690 a good motherboard?  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  No, not particularly.
  
  
  
  

Posted by: Incredibox Mustard at Monday, March 03 2025 01:53 PM (1roJE)

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