• AMD's CES keynote was at a convenient time to watch in Australia so I did.  (AnandTech)
  
  As much of it as I could bear.  AMD CEO Lisa Su is an engineer and a good presenter who knows what her audience wants, but her guests were...  Not.
  
  
  
• Probably most significant announcement was the new ranges of mobile CPUs.  (AnandTech)
  
  They've made it as complicated as Intel.  Even more complicated than Intel.  There are two families of Zen 4 mobile chips, made at 4nm and 5nm, two ranges of existing Zen 3 mobile chips rebranded as Ryzen 7000 and made at 6nm and 7nm respectively, and for some reason Zen 2 chips respun and made at 6nm.
  
  The 7045 series is easy to explain: It's the Ryzen 7000 desktop chips in mobile format.  It is literally the Ryzen 7000 desktop chips in mobile format, with the strengths and weaknesses that implies.
  
  The 7040 series is an all-new 4nm chip with 8 Zen 4 cores and 12 RDNA3 graphics cores.  The 6000 series mobile chips had 12 RDNA2 cores so this doesn't sound like a big improvement, except that RDNA3 offers twice the raw compute capacity per core as RDNA2, so these will be quite capable of light to moderate gaming tasks.
  
  Unfortunately AMD has chose to launch the 35W high-performance models first, and those will likely come with dedicated graphics, so you'll need to wait for the 15W models to get a lightweight laptop with good battery life that can also play games.
  
  Oh, and these chips have a 12 TOPS AI engine, similar to what is being included in mobile phones now.  Useful for offloading tasks like image recognition.

• The 7045 family, codenamed Dragon Range, are for really high-end laptops.  (AnandTech)
  
  These provide up to 16 cores and clock speeds up to 5.4GHz.  They're serious mobile workstation parts, far more capable than anything we've seen in mainstream laptops before.
  
  
  
• For desktops AMD announced the Ryzen 7000 X3D lineup, with an extra 64MB cache chip.  (AnandTech)
  
  I say that advisedly because there are three models - the 7800X3D, 7900X3D, and 7950X3D, and each has one extra cache chip, though the latter two models have two CPU chiplets.
  
  All the cores can still access the extra cache, though it will be a little slower for cores in the other chiplet.  On the seventh hand, while the 5800X3D and 7800X3D ran at lower clock speeds than the regular models - because the cache chip stacked on top makes it harder to keep the CPU underneath cool - the 7950X3D has the same top speed as the regular 7950X.
  
  I think what's going on there is the off chiplet - the one without the extra cache on top - is delivering peak clock speeds, and the on chiplet - with the cache - gives better cache latency. 
  
  We'll need to see independent benchmarks to confirm but the 7950X3D looks to be the fastest mainstream desktop CPU in every category.
  
  
  
• Finally on the graphics side AMD announced the 7600M XT mobile graphics chips.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  This has 32 graphics cores compared to the 12 integrated with the mobile CPUs, plus 8GB of dedicated RAM.
  
  It's expected to be about 20% faster than the mobile 3060.
  
  Higher-end mobile GPUs will follow.
  
  
  
• OK Cloudflare I'm leaving.  (Lexx)
  
  If you look at Cloudflare's pricing it seems too good to be true.  If you read the terms of service you discover the catch: They will kick you off the platform without warning if you're not profitable for them.
  
  They have specialised plans that are a lot more expensive so that you're never unprofitable and never get kicked off the platform, but those plans are, well, a lot more expensive.
  
  
  
• 200 million Twitter users' email addresses have leaked online.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  This is nothing new; it's from a vulnerability that was fixed in 2021, and the data has been circulating ever since.
  
  
  
• With new miracle drugs the fat will simply melt away.  (Nature)
  
  Reported side effects include strong nausea, extreme fatigue, brain fog, constipation, and spontaneous human combustion, though usually not all simultaneously.
  
  
  
• Acer's new Swift Go 14 - or possibly Swift 14 Go, I'm not sure - is a bad version of HP's Pavilion Plus 14, or possibly Pavilion 14 Plus.  (Liliputing)
  
  The Swift 14 will be available in June; the Pavilion has been available for long enough that it's been on sale multiple times even in Australia and I have one.
  
  
  

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• Turns out Intel didn't want to wait for CES to officially start either, and they just announced a couple of new CPUs, for suitable large values of "couple".
  
  For a start there are sixteen new desktop processors.  (AnandTech)
  
  You can basically ignore that because there's only two you need to care about: The $134 i3-13100, and the $232 i5-13500.
  
  The 13100 is a simple but capable four core chip.  Four cores isn't a lot these days but until late 2017 it was the most Intel provided in mainstream desktop chips, not the starting point.
  
  The 13500 is a fourteen core chip, though that's six full-size Performance cores and eight half-size Efficiency cores, so effectively ten cores worth of performance.  The price is up about 15% over last year's 12500 but the multi-threaded performance is up by 50%.  It's even 30% faster than the ten core 10900K from three years ago, while being much cheaper and using much less power.
  
  The 13400 is slower without saving much money and the 13600 is more expensive without being much faster.  Neither one is bad but the 13500 is the sweet spot.
  
  
  
• Still watching Natsuki Subaru Dies a Lot.  One of the things I noticed reading the manga after season one ended was that it can get dull when Subaru isn't dying a lot.
  
  Fortunately for Subaru's mental health he gets a brief respite in episode 33.  Fortunately for keeping the story moving, in episode 34 he gets eaten by rabbits and commits suicide.
  
  Also still passing kidney stones.  Not the worst I've ever experienced, but definitely the most.  But I'll take a dozen small stones over one large one any day.  I mean, that's what 

• Intel also announced 32 new laptop chips.  (AnandTech)
  
  That's too many to even hope to track, so here are some ground rules:
  
  1. Don't buy an HX model without dedicated graphics.  This is a desktop chip running in low power mode and the integrated graphics hardware comes in either crappy or extremely crappy configurations.
  2. The H models (and the single HK model) mostly have okay graphics and are decent workhorses but power hungry.
  3. The P models all have okay graphics and are decent workhorses but still power hungry.
  4. The U models suck.
  
  
  
• Finally the N series are low end chips with only the half-size Efficiency cores.  (AnandTech)
  
  These are the new cheap and cheerful Atom chips but they are by far the best Atom chips Intel has ever produced.  If they are actually cheap - which will depend on the deals Intel provides manufacturers, because the list price is absurd - they should be perfectly fine for basic computing tasks.  I look forward to seeing some benchmarks on these.
  
  
  
• Nvidia announced the 4080 12GB edition.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  They're calling it the 4070 Ti now and they did in fact cut $100 off the price.  That makes it one of the better deals of the latest generation of graphics cards though at $799 it's not at all cheap.
  
  
  
• Dell announced a new 6K monitor.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Dell already has an 8K monitor but it costs around $4000 and is hard to find.  6K seems to be a comfortable mid-way point for high-resolution video editing - high-end video cameras target that resolution, as does Apple's Pro Display XDR.
  
  It has Thunderbolt/USB-C and DisplayPort support, a USB hub that works as a KVM switch for connecting two computers, a bundled 4K webcam - a removable 4K webcam - and built-in 2.5Gb Ethernet so it can be a all-in-one laptop dock.
  
  No price yet and no availability more specific than the first half of this year.
  
  
  
• AMD's Dragon Range laptop chips look an awful lot like their Raphael desktop chips.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Up to 16 cores and 80MB of cache, combined with just 2 graphics cores - the current Rembrandt laptop chips have 12 - means that like Intel's HX range you really don't want this in a laptop without dedicated graphics.
  
  Still, 16 core laptops.
  
  Likely of more interest will be AMD's Phoenix range of laptop chips, expected to merge Zen 4 with RDNA 3, and rumoured to deliver twice the integrated graphics performance of any current laptop chip.  AMD's keynote will be on the 5th, so more details then - or not, if the rumours were all false.
  
  
  
• Speaking of laptops, Asus announced a whole bunch.  (WCCFTech)
  
  None of them (so far as I can tell) have the Four Essential Keys, but one model in the lineup - the ROG Strix G16 - has four keys where the FEK should be so a quick application of Windows PowerToys will fix that.  It also has five bonus macro keys above the regular row of function keys, so you're not going to run out.
  
  The Zephyrus G14 in particular continues to be an annoyingly almost perfect small laptop.  (Liliputing)
  
  
  
• Ruby 3.2 is out and averages 41% faster than 3.1.  (Medium)
  
  This is something the Ruby team has spent a lot of time on.  While 41% doesn't sound like that much, invert it and think of being able to save 30% on your server bills without needing to do any work.  If you run a lot of Ruby software, anyway.  Shopify does, and reported a 39% speedup on their code.
  
  
  
• QNAP, agai...  Wait.  Et tu, Synology?  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  A maximum severity vulnerability in Synology VPN routers.  I didn't even know they made routers.
  
  
  
• Sam Bankman-Fried, disgraced CEO of crypto Ponzi scheme FTX who stole $10 billion in customer funds and set it all on fire, has pleaded not guilty to being the disgraced CEO of a crypto Ponzi scheme who stole $10 billion in customer funds and set it all on fire.  (CNBC)
  
  Since the next two most senior executives of crypto Ponzi scheme FTX have turned King's evidence he is very likely what is known in legal parlance as fucked, though we are still waiting to see whether this is merely Ghislaine Maxwell fucked or all the way Jeffrey Epstein fucked.
  
  Given that he is physically incapable of shutting up, my money is on the latter.
  
  
  
• We wish you a Merry Christmas,
  We wish you a Merry Christmas,
  We wish you a Merry Christmas,
  And please fill out this form expediting benefits for terminally ill cancer patients.  No reason.  (The Register)
  
  A British medical clinic got its wires slightly crossed when sending out 8000 season's greetings and instead told everyone they had metastatic lung cancer.
  
  
  

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• News will be kind of quiet for the next couple of days because everything is being saved up for CES starting on the 5th.
  
  
  
• Samsung does have some new monitors that it wanted to announced before the big rush.
  
  The Odyssey Neo G9 is a 57" 7680x2160 curved screen. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Basically two 32" 4K monitors stuck together, curved, and probably priced through the roof, though they haven't announced that part yet.
  
  The Odyssey OLED G9 is a 49" 5120x1440 model, again a curved screen. With that ultrawide view and OLED's colour and contrast it could be a gamer's dream, so long as said gamer is made of money.
  
  Finally the Viewfinity S9 is a conventional 5K display. (The Verge)
  
  I welcome this because - at least when I'm wearing my computer glasses - 5K is noticeably sharper than 4K.
  
  This model will presumably accommodate PCs and not just Macs; the listed inputs include not just Thunderbolt but regular USB-C, DisplayPort, and HDMI.
  
  Pricing for all three is unannounced but none of these will be cheap.
  
  
  
• Reached the new stuff in Natsuki Subaru Dies a Lot. I read some of the manga following on from the first season, and it takes a completely different route. Unless I've forgotten a lot (not impossible) what the anime explains immediately wasn't explained in the manga as far as I read.

Tech News

• Should you buy a Kingston NV2 SSD? Probably not. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  On the one hand it's cheap. On the other hand it's the slowest model tested in this review and uses the most power.
  
  On the third hand, being the slowest model tested means it can't quite hit 3 gigabytes per second, which is very, very fast.
  
  On the fourth hand, one of the reasons this model is cheap is that it isn't a model. It's just a label Kingston puts on whatever assembly of parts is currently cheapest and matches the basic specs. So you don't know what you will get - you could buy one and get a good controller and TLC flash, and be basically happy, then buy another and get a slower controller and QLC flash and run into strange problems.
  
  That's the real reason not to buy it.
  
  
  
• The strangest computer manual ever written. (Ironic Sans)
  
  I don't know if I'd agree with that title but it's a good look at the manual for the Franklin Ace, the first Apple II clone before copyright of software was settled by the courts and such things because more fraught.
  
  There's also a link to a long comment on an earlier post from the guy in charge of documentation at Franklin back in the early 80s.
  
  
  
• The sooner we replace these nematodes with ChatGPT the better. (ZDNet)
  
  Ugh.

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• Boom Supersonic has announced the unveiling of a drawing of a proposed design for a planned engine for its supersonic passenger jet.  (Space)
  
  Which is to say, they have nothing.
  
  
  
• Commenters like to press little wooden downvote buttons as a form of play, study finds.  (Ars Technica)
  
  These people make sphex wasps look like an improv comedy troupe.
  
  
  
• Pixy is currently watching Natsuki Subaru Dies a Lot.
  
  I want to get to the new stuff but it's been a few years so I'm watching from the beginning.  I'd forgotten how dark the witch cult arc of the story was.
  
  
  
• TMI: My pee has faded from high alert pink back to moderate caution yellow.  Not sure what I did to deserve this because I've managed to avoid a bad bout of kidney stones for years and I haven't changed my routine with respect to fluid intake.  This lot at least seem to be manageably small, just multitudinous.

• GeIL stands for Golden Emperor International, Limited.  (PC Perspective)
  
  I didn't know that.  Oh, and they've announced 8GHz DDR5 modules.  I'm not sure how much benefit that provides, and if you have more than two modules in your system the actual speeds will drop precipitously, but they exist.
  
  
  
• If the 4070 Ti sells for $799 it will basically be half a 4090 for half the price.  (WCCFTech)
  
  40 TFLOPs vs. 80 TFLOPs, and 12GB of RAM vs 24GB.  That makes it significantly better value than the 4080.
  
  Still costs $799 of course.  Good value doesn't necessarily mean good sense.
  
  
  
• Southwest Airlines' computer systems are crap.  (New York Times)
  
  Southwest Airlines' management?  Also crap.  You can't create a mess of that magnitude just because one piece of software fails.  Your corporate structure has to be fundamentally screwed up.
  
  
  
• The rise of monolithic software.  (IT Next)
  
  I appreciate this honesty:

  What is the solution?  I am not really offering a solution.  I wrote this article primarily to clarify why I don’t like modern software very much.

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• New industries come from crazy people. (Palladium)
  
  It's an interesting cultural point and the article discusses why so much innovation came from England and later the United States even when key scientific discoveries often happened in continental Europe.
  
  I wonder how this played out more recently in Japan and Korea.  Both countries are socially conservative and tend towards top-down structure, but both had massive social disruptions in the mid 20th century due to, uh, events.
  
  And yes, the article mentions Elon Musk, though it's from 2021 so it doesn't cover any of the recent brouhahas.
  
  
  

• Looking to build a new computer for the new year?  Supermicro has a heck of a motherboard on the way. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  This is for Intel's upcoming Sapphire Rapids workstation chips.  It has 16 DIMM slots for 512GB of cheap desktop RAM or as much as 4TB of server RAM, four M.2 slots,two U.2 ports,8 SATA ports, six full-size PCIe x16 slots - five of them PCIe 5.0, 10Gb Ethernet, separate 1Gb Ethernet for remote management, 7.1 audio, a bunch of USB, VGA output, and a serial port.
  
  It will likely cost as much as a good laptop, just for the motherboard.
  
  
  
• TSMC's 3nm node is already achieving yields above 60%.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Samsung's 3nm process is more advanced - they've gone with a transistor design called Gate All Around, where TSMC stuck with the more traditional FinFET - but at last report they were only getting yields of 20%, so their costs will be much higher until they get that fixed.
  
  
  
• Who the heck is Solidigm and are their SSDs worth buying?  (PC Perspective)
  
  Solidigm is the new brand name created after Hynix bought Intel's consumer SSD division, and yes.  The P44 Pro reviewed here falls between Samsung's 980 Pro and 990 Pro in benchmarks, which makes it very fast indeed, and at $220 for 2TB it's not particularly expensive.

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• Guests have been lunched and dinnered and lunched again, late Christmas gifts exchanged, local sights seen, and everyone packed off back home again.  There was a little difficulty on the food side of things because the two gluten-free restaurants I've actually tried here are both closed for the holidays, but we found a decent pizza place with gluten-free options.
  
  I can now sit around and relax for a few hours before I need to start fixing things so that the bugs introduced during the server move stop wriggling about and spoiling things for people.
  
  Meanwhile the year here in Australia is ending as it began: It's raining.
  
  
  
• The Lenovo YogaBook 9i is, as the name suggests, a new dual-screen 13" laptop.  (Liliputing)
  
  Dammit, guys.
  
  I can see how this would be nice as a virtual coffee table book, if it has good enough screens.  It is touch-sensitive and has pen support, so it might be nice if very much a niche product.
  
  
  
• The Bigme S6 is a 7.8" Android tablet with an 1872x1404 display, a mid-range 8 core CPU, 6GB of RAM, and 128GB of storage.  (Liliputing)
  
  The catch?  Because there's always a catch.
  
  It's e-ink.  It's a colour e-ink display, but while in black and white it's 300 dpi, in colour it's only 100 dpi.  And at around 1fps it's not useful for much beyond reading books.

• The specs for Nvidia's 4070 Ti have been officially confirmed but contain no surprises because it's the de-announced 4080 12GB model.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  There's some speculation that it might be cheaper than the original $899, but I wouldn't count on it.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile the mobile 4090 is faster than a desktop 3090.  (WCCFTech)
  
  And has a 150W TDP, one third that of the desktop edition.
  
  Which would make for a really nice desktop graphics card.
  
  
  
• AMD is closing its logistics hub in Hong Kong and moving the operation to Taiwan.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Nvidia has done the same thing.  It makes sense because both companies make their chips in Taiwan and many of the leading graphics card and motherboard makers are also based in Taiwan.
  
  
  
• It's the end of tech journalism as we know it - finally.  (ZDNet)
  
  These idiots think that AI is going to replace programmers.
  
  I've seen the results.
  
  It's not pretty.
  
  Code actually needs to be correct.  You can't just throw together something that looks cool and ship it...  Well, people do exactly that which is how we got PHP, but you can't do that in fields with product liability laws.
  
  But journalism doesn't need to be correct, which we know because it isn't.  So these termites can easily be replaced and will be, and not only will I not miss them, I'm not sure I will notice.
  
  
  
• The LG 27UP600-W is apparently $200 at Best Buy.  (AnandTech)
  
  I have the more expensive model - the 850-W - which I believe is the same display panel but adds USB-C, speakers, and a fully adjustable stand (height, tilt, and pivot).
  
  If you don't need USB-C or the fancy stand, the display panel is very impressive - sharp and colourful with a 4K resolution and 95% of the DCI-P3 colour space - and a bargain at $200.

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• Barnes and Noble is profitable, opened 16 new stores this year, and plans to open 30 more next year.  (Substack)
  
  Given the decline of brick-and-mortar retail in general and books in particular, how did they manage this?
  
  Simple: They hired a CEO who wants to sell books.

• Every planet in the Solar System is visible tonight.  (Space)
  
  Look up.  That's where they are.
  
  
  
• The Asus Zenbook 17 Fold is a dazzling new concept: A laptop that folds in the middle.  (Hot Hardware)
  
  Um.
  
  Prices start at $3499.
  
  
  
• SpaceX has launched 54 Starlink 2 satellites - the first launch of the new model - for SpaceX's 60th launch of the year.  (Space)
  
  And did the same old trick of landing on a barge.  Ho hum.

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• Where does your recycling actually end up?  Muzaffarnagar.  (Bloomberg)
  
  Gesundheit!
  
  Muzaffarnagar is a paper-making centre in northern India.  India recycles 6 million tons of paper and cardboard a year to make new paper products, but that comes with half a million tons of other crap, mostly plastic.
  
  Which they burn.

• HP's Dragonfly Elite Folio G3 is worse in every way than its predecessor from 2019.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Compared to the Dragonfly Elite G3 (not confusing at all) it's 40% heavier, has a dimmer screen, and battery life is down by five hours.
  
  Not recommended.
  
  
  
• Chinese CPU maker Loongson plans to introduce samples of a 32 core model next year.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  They give SPEC 2006 benchmark estimate.  Taking those at face value, it's about as fast per core as Intel's Xeon 1240v2 from 2012, which is not bad - for 2012.
  
  In 2023 the 32 core model will be slower than a 12 core Ryzen 7900X, and less than half the speed on single-threaded tasks.
  
  Which is not actually terrible...  But not good, either.
  
  
  
• Launch prices for MSI's B760 mid-range 13th gen Intel motherboards are cheaper than for this year's B660.  (WCCFTech)
  
  That's good.  Pair one of these soon-to-arrive boards with the soon-to-arrive i5-13500 and you'll have a very capable system for not a huge amount of money.
  
  
  
• AMD's non-X Ryzen 7000 chips are reportedly launching on January 10.  (WCCFTech)
  
  These will be 65W chips with up to 12 cores.  The current 12 core 7900X is rated at 170W, so expect this version to be a little slower.  In fact  we have a very good idea exactly how much slower because you can configure the 7900X to run a 65W if you want.
  
  The 7900 will also be cheaper, so there's that.
  
  
  
• There's an iPad Mini 7 coming in a year or so maybe.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Good, because it's the only small high-resolution tablet available outside China.  I'm still tempted to buy the Lenovo Y700 - it's not that expensive even from an Australian importer rather than AliExpress - but I'd much rather have an official version and not one where I side-load Google Play.
  
  
  
• The world is awash in chips after our betters cratered the global economy.  (WSJ)
  
  I'll ask my source about that.  Six months ago the rule was if a chip you might need was in stock, buy all you can get because it would be gone tomorrow.

• Americans lost $10 billion to Indian call centre scams in 2022.  (Deccan Herald)
  
  To put that into perspective, that's as much as they lost to civil asset forfeiture or to a single major crypto scam, or about 5% of the pork Congress added into the CHIPS Act which was 95% pork to begin with.
  
  
  

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• I accidentally ordered a Yamaha hifi system.  That is, I was checking out the post-Christmas sales, saw the hifi (which I wanted to buy earlier but was out of stock), saw it wasn't just on sale but on clearance, and hit the buy button without further thought because these days you don't know if something like that will ever come back in stock.
  
  I have a very old Yamaha micro hifi but the CD player doesn't work well, and it has a twin cassette deck that I don't need at all, and also it's buried at the bottom of the garage along with everything else.  I probably want three of these micro hifi systems around the house, and good ones are getting scarce.  The best model like this that I can find in Australia looks to be the Denon D-M41, but that's about twice as much as the Yamaha.
  
  
  
• Do AI assistants help programmers?  No.  (The Register)
  
  That is, they help programmers write code, but the code sucks.  Programmers using AI assistance are significantly more likely to introduce both obvious and subtle bugs into their code.  And also less likely to notice because they don't understand the code they just "wrote".
  
  
  
• Build your own CDN.  (GitHub)
  
  Ctrl-F Node.js.  No matches.
  
  Okay then.
  
  Uses Nginx and Lua which is a fine and sensible choice though Nginx can be fiddly to configure if you're doing anything complicated.
  
  I might do this next year, because it can be amazingly cost-effective with the right hosting provider - about 40x cheaper than something like Amazon Cloudfront.
  
  
  
• Running Windows 7 on a 5MHz CPU.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Well, not running, exactly; more like crawling Windows 7.  It takes 28 minutes to boot.

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