• Details have leaked of AMD's upcoming Epyc Turin server CPUs.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  These will have up to 128 full-size Zen 5 cores, or 192 of the slower (by about 20%) Zen 5c cores.
  
  This is not great news for Intel, which only just announced its latest 64 core server chips.
  
  They'll ship next year.
  
  
  

Tech News

• The Wikipedia entry for the Ship of Theseus has now been edited so many times that none of the original content remains.  (Twitter)
  
  On the plus side we may have deciphered the world's oldest "walks into a bar" joke.
  
  
  
• AI customer service is probably not a good idea just yet.  (Twitter)
  
  Amazing at clearing old inventory though.
  
  
  
• Linux has removed support for Intel's Carillo Ranch line of motherboards.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Partly because they're 17 years old, but mostly because they don't exist.
  
  Support was added in 2006, but the boards just...  Never showed up.
  
  
  
• Google is moving to end geofence warrants, after it created the blasted things with its overzealous data hoarding.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Apple received 13 geofence warrants in 2022, but already stopped keeping data that could relate to them.
  
  Google stopped releasing details of how many geofence warrants it was receiving annually after 2020, when the number reached 11,554.
  
  Which is a lot more than 13.

Posted by: normal at Tuesday, December 19 2023 08:47 AM (bg2DR)

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