• Intel has achieved the unthinkable and shaken half a billion dollars free of the European Union's grasping claws.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  This is the interest on a billion-dollar fine levied against Intel back in 2009, and then largely overturned after a court battle lasting more than a decade.

• Will no-one rid mid of this turbulent richest man in the world?  (The Verge)  (archive site)
  
  Yet another article in the endemic genre of fascists weeping over the restoration of the Republic.

  Still, based on the events that have transpired so far, it seems the clear goal here amounts to a coup over the administrative state.

  Jane, you ignorant slut, the administrative state is a coup.

  My editor reminds me that many of you were not paying attention in civics class and so: our government's famed checks and balances system relies on Congress controlling spending.

  That's entirely backwards.
  
  The executive cannot spend money not apportioned by Congress, but (with few exceptions) it is entirely within its power not to spend money so apportioned.
  
  That's all it is doing.
  
  
  
• PNY's 1.5TB microSD card delivers 100MBps on writes and 150MBps on reads.  (Serve the Home)
  
  Which is pretty decent performance for the typical use cases of such a card, like...  What do you do with 1.5TB of microSD storage anyway?
  
  
  
• AI company Anthropic has told job applicants not to use AI when applying for jobs with Anthropic.  (404 Media)
  
  Feel free to lie everywhere else though.
  
  
  
• How to run DeepSeek R1 without expensive GPUs.  (Notebook Check)
  
  Spoiler: An AMD Epyc server CPU and 768GB of RAM.
  
  
  

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Posted by: Mauser at Wednesday, February 05 2025 02:55 PM (QE7eq)

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