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Tuesday, February 18

Daily News Stuff 18 February 2025

Engulf And Devour Edition

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Mexico is threatening to sue Google over correctly showing the Gulf of America on its maps. (AP News)

I'm not sure what Mexico thinks it's doing here. Trying to join the EU?

I mean, they don't even speak American.

Tech News

Reviews of AMD's Strix Halo chips could be dropping tomorrow. (Tom's Hardware)

This will be interesting - possibly disappointing, but interesting - as its high-end integrated graphics offer a relatively inexpensive way to get a graphics card with 96GB of VRAM.

Still expensive, but professional cards with specs like that run into the tens of thousands of dollars, and this is merely thousands.

And given how the graphics card market is a complete train wreck right now, that offers us something to look forward to.
The game PirateFi on Steam turned out to pirate your passwords. (Bleeping Computer)

Even though it was free, it only had 1300 downloads before it was caught and forced to walk the plank.
Reddit mods need help in their fight to keep AI slop off the platform. (Ars Technica)

In the war between robots and the commies, I side with the robots.
Nvidia is working with Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix to develop a high-bandwidth memory module. (WCCFTech)

It's not clear exactly what technology it will use, just that it is planned to be fast, cheap, and user-upgradeable.
The Lenovo Thinkbook Flip has two screens. (Liliputing)

One exactly where you expect it to be, and another one on top of that, where nobody would want it.

I don't know why.
The war on DEI is a smokescreen. (The Verge) (archive site)

You see when the Republicans want to destroy DEI because it is an evil and illegal concoction of racism, sexism, and communism, in service of the Eternal Grift, what they really mean is... Exactly that.

And Democrats are pissed about it.

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Posted by: Pixy Misa at 06:18 PM | Comments (3) | Add Comment | Trackbacks (Suck)
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1 "Mexico has argued that the mapping policy violates Mexican sovereignty because the U.S. only has jurisdiction over around 46% of the Gulf. The rest is controlled by Mexico, which controls 49% and Cuba, which controls around 5%."

#1, cry harder. #2, who can't math, Mexico or the AP? #3, there's already a meme about "them" sneak attacking and renaming the big mall near me to Mall of Mexico. Which is actually pretty funny. So my statement to to Claudia Sheinbaum is "cry harder."

Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, February 19 2025 10:13 AM (NEIix)

2 It looks like Strix Halo will have soldered RAM (at least in most devices) like Apple M chips and Intel's newer mobile chips.

Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, February 19 2025 10:14 AM (NEIix)

3 I though that soldered RAM was a requirement for this generation of AMD's mobile chips, but now mini PCs have started showing up with the smaller Strix Point chips and SODIMM slots.

A motherboard with a Strix Halo and eight DIMM slots would be interesting.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at Thursday, February 20 2025 06:18 PM (PiXy!)

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