• PCIe 5.0 is on its way. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The 5.0 spec is expected out in the next two months. 3.0 has been the standard for a long time, so this rapid update is really just getting things back on track.
  
  PCIe 5.0 is likely to take some time to deploy to the consumer space, though. Where PCIe 4.0 can work on some existing motherboards, 5.0 - which is twice as fast again as 4.0 - will require new materials and layouts.
  
  
• A fascinating examination of the death of the tech industry by a writer who places the tech industry's "first era" as beginning in two thousand and fucking seven. (The Atlantic)
  
  Author Derek mentions Apple (founded in 1976) and Samsung (founded in 1938) but displays no idea that they existed prior to the iPhone and the Galaxy range.
  
  If someone told him that Nintendo has been around since the 19th century, he'd probably expire on the spot.
  
  
• Singapore is half the distance from Sydney as San Francisco, but ping times are only 6% better. Interestingly, I have better ping times to San Francisco from my home than from the virtual server I run here in Sydney, even though the virtual server is plugged straight into a ten gigabit uplink and is a couple of milliseconds away from the AU-US cable head.
  
  Someone needs to fix that speed of light thing. It's annoying.
  
  
• An AMD APU with eight Zen cores and Navi graphics?  (Computerbase.de)
  
  This is an engineering sample and looks like another semi-custom part like the on in the Subor game console.  Might be next-gen Xbox or Playstation, but it seems early for that.
  
  Speaking of that Subor game console, other Linus got his hands on a pre-release version.
  
  

• The EU is still trying to legislate unicorns into existence.
  

  The new text by the Romanians requires platforms to prevent uploads of copyrighted works, but requires next to no cooperation from rightholders! How is that supposed to work? #Article13#SaveYourInternetpic.twitter.com/8LaEoDTiui

  — Julia Reda (@Senficon) January 17, 2019

  Observers of this nonsense are unimpressed. (Tech Dirt)
  
  
• Facebook's "10 year challenge" is just a harmless meme says Facebook. (Wired)
  
  There is nothing to be alarmed about, the company added. We are not working to improve our facial recognition algorithms. We did not lie about "suspicious activity" and demand you upload a picture of yourself to reactivate your account. Nuh-uh. That totally didn't happen.
  
  
• A debate in the Swedish parliament took an unusual turn.  (CBC)
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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• Ugh. It's, like, 197 degrees here at Pixy Central and the air con keeps cutting out. I work from home most of the time so there's no escape and I'm melllllllting.
  
  
• Farewell, Cortana. Or fare poorly. Whatever. Just go away. No-one likes you. (PC Perspective)
  
  
• Nvidia is allegedly working on a GTX 1660 Ti. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The GTX designation is the key; this wouldn't have the currently useless ray tracing and AI features. The rumour also says that it would be an entirely new chip, not just an RTX 2060 with some strategic snippery. That would make sense because the RTX 2060 die is large and expensive - about 40% bigger than the chip for AMD's Radeon VII.
  
  
• WordPress plugins are the spawn of the Devil. (Tech Crunch)
  
  
• Amazon has launched AWS Backup, a backup service. (Tech Crunch)
  
  What the hell? It's not called, I don't know, Amazon Frog Farm? Or Amazon Deep Ocean Outfall? Or Amazon Psychotropic Baba Ganoush Dehumidifier 27X?  How is anyone expected to know what it does?
  
  
• Mastercard has somehow done something not evil. If you sign up for a free trial online with Mastercard merchants are now required to get your permission again before they charge you at the end of the trial period.
  
  They have still failed, however, to address reports of collusion with the global couscous cartel.
  
  
  
  
• Need more storage for your phone? Like, a lot more? Sandisk's 400GB microSD cards are currently $83.98 on Amazon.

• Don't be a journalist in Turkey. (TechDirt)
  
  Or a school teacher or an army officer or...
  
  Also, if you follow that link, remember Rule One: Don't read the comments.
  
  
• With the EU's godawful new copyright legislation looming, Google has rolled out a beta version of a compliant Google News service. (Search Engine Land)
  
  
  
  
• Free Press, an organisation that is dedicated to - and I quote - fighting for your rights to connect and communicate - turns out to have neglected to mention which side they have been fighting on all this time.
  
  

  Hateful conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is back on Facebook just a few months after the site kicked him off. Urge Facebook to ban him permanently. https://t.co/pNG2GGULt8pic.twitter.com/GvKw6jncDS

  — Free Press (@freepress) January 16, 2019

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• The game Red Dead Redemption 2, set in the Old West in the late 19th century, features a couple of characters who work for the Pinkerton Detective Agency.
  
  Which is fine and all, because Pinkerton really existed and played a role in several real-life stories of the Old West.
  
  Only problem is that Pinkerton still exists today and filed a C&D letter with Take 2 Interactive over trademark abuse.  (TechDirt)
  
  It's not clear, given the murky nature of trademark law, who is in the right here.
  
  
• The telescreen was behind the painting.  (TechDirt)
  
  Sorry, spoiler warning.
  
  
• Netflix is hiking prices for US subscribers, secure in the knowledge that they will return for such hit series as [insert name of hit series].  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Don't look at me, I already cancelled.  Netflix Australia is garbage.
  
  
• RedHat Enterprise Linux 8 comes bundled with several databases, including MySQL, MariaDB (a MySQL fork), PostgreSQL, not you MongoDB, and Redis.
  
  Because MongoDB's new open source license isn't.
  
  
• Intel still doesn't have a CEO and it's starting to become obvious.  (Network World)
  
  Looking at you, Core i9 9990XE.
  
  
• The Ada 202x Draft Reference Manual.
  
  It's no Algol 60, but it's not all bad either.
  
  
• A planned upgrade to the Ethereum network has been put on hold after security researchers found a bug in the behaviour of smart contracts that could have allowed malicuous contact owners to steal all your monies.  (ZDNet)
  
  Ethereum is fully programmable - you can actually write programs and run them on the blockchain.  This makes it extremely powerful and also a giant fucking pain.

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• Micron has bought Intel's share of their flash memory joint venture.  (AnandTech)
  
  That's still big news, though something that has been in the works for over a year.  The IMFT joint venture is the manufacturer for Intel's Optane chips, and now Micron will own it.
  
  
• How is Intel going to respond to AMD's upcoming Ryzen 3000 series?  With the Core i9-9990XE, a 14 core 255W part with a base clock of 4.0GHz and a boost clock of 5.0GHz.  (AnandTech)
  
  About that power draw:

  Motherboard vendors will have to support 420 amps on the power delivery for the chip (which at 1.3 volts would be 546 watts), and up to 30 amps per core. It will be for the socket 2066 X299 motherboards already on the market, and perhaps importantly, there is no warranty from Intel.

  Oh, and the price?  There is no price.  It will be sold only to approved system vendors by private auction.
  
  
• The Opteron whichwhat?  The Opteron X3421 is...  Oh, that's Excavator, isn't it?  (Serve the Home)
  
  Yes, Excavator.  Meh.
  
  
• Apple says Qualcomm refused to sell them modems for the latest iPhones.  (Thurrott.com)
  
  Qualcomm says Apple already owes them thirty-seven trillion dollars, so of course they didn't sell them any more chips.
  
  
• Why is my keyboard connected to the cloud?  (ZDNet)
  
  Good question, I'll ask Google.
  
  Hmm, the answer appears to be It is safe and secure.  Please remain calm and stay in your current location.
  
  
• Xapiand is a search engine designed to compete with Elasticsearch but written in nice clean C++ and not icky Java.
  
  (Or is that the other way around?)
  
  Anyway, it's clearly written around the Xapian search library, which I have used extensively and works well.  I haven't looked at it for about four years so I'm not sure if it's entirely kept up, but even at the state it was in then it's a solid foundation.
  
  Xapiand specifically is in a pre-release state and needs some love, most obviously in the documentation.  But it's all on GitHub and it's MIT licensed, so it's open to anyone who wants to help out.

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• AMD released benchmarks of Radeon VII across 25 different games showing performance gains of up to 68% over Vega 64.  (EuroGamer)
  
  Only problem, the one game that got that level of increase was Fallout 76, which doesn't exist.
  
  Also, it seems that the Radeon VII has the full compute capacity of the MI50, 6.9 TFLOPS of double precision.  If you are in the market for an affordable double precision compute card with plenty of RAM, that puts it so far ahead of Nvidia that they might as well not exist: The Nvidia Titan RTX has a peak double precision throughput of just 0.5 TFLOPS.  For single precision Nvidia is more competitive.
  
  An evenly optimised chip would deliver around 1/4 the single precision performance when calculating double precision.  The Radeon VII delivers 1/2 performance, which means it's designed for double precision at the expense of single precision.  The RTX series delivers just 1/32, because it's designed for single precision - games - with no consideration for double precision compute at all.
  
  
• Asus' ProArt PA32UCK has 1000 lighting zones with brightness ranging from 0.003 to 1200 nits.  (AnandTech)
  
  That's a lot of nits.
  
  Oh, and it's 4k, HDR, 10 bit, 98% DCI-P3, with DisplayPort, Thunderbolt, and HDMI inputs.  Price is expected to be in "Pro" territory.
  
  
• Don't host your site with GoDaddy.
  
  (Only applies to their shared hosting, not to other services.)
  
  
• Download your open source nuclear reactor today.
  
  
• The Xiaomi Redmi Note 7 has a 48 megapixel camera and starts at $150.  (Thurrott.com)
  
  Only one camera?  What is the world coming to?

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• Correction to an earlier post: It looks like the Radeon VII will still have 64 ROPs, like Vega 64.  (ExtremeTech)
  
  This makes sense given that it's a graphics version of the MI50 compute card which doesn't particularly need huge ROP throughput, but is disappointing nonetheless.  The card will only be an incremental improvement over Vega 64 after all.  When a high-end Navi card will appear is anyone's guess, but low-end Navi is still on track for 2019.  (PC Perspective)
  
  
•  AMD says no chiplet APU version of Matisse.  (AnandTech)
  
  Matisse is the codename of the interesting version of Ryzen 3000, the one that will go up to 12 or 16 cores.  There is space for a second CPU chiplet on the package, and AMD has confirmed that will happen.  But there won't be a version where the second chiplet is a GPU, at least not in the Ryzen 3000 family.
  
  Given that the Ryzen 3000 APUs have already been announced, that could simply mean that Ryzen 4000 APUs will show up early.  Or it could mean there won't be any high-end APUs until DDR5 arrives next year to provide the necessary bandwidth.
  
  The AnandTech article also notes that Ryzen 3000 will have the same TDP range as Ryzen 2000, but AMD seems to have said Ryzen 3000 will have the same TDP envelope as Ryzen 2000, which is a bit more vague.  Don't be surprised if they do nudge it up another ten or twenty watts on the high-end parts.
  
  
• Is your 11.6" notebook weighing you down?  The GPD Micro PC might be more your speed.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  6" 1280x720 display, Celeron N4100 CPU (Atom, but the good Atom), 4GB RAM, 128GB SSD, 13 ounces. (395g)  HDMI, two USB 3.0 ports, one USB-C port (which is used for charging), wired Ethernet, and a good old fashioned serial port for people who still use good old fashioned serial ports.
  
  Take that, Macbook.
  
  
• Bungie has pulled the cord and is separating from Activision to seek its own destiny.  (WCCFTech)
  
  That's a joke, because....  Never mind.
  
  
• How to redecentralise the web.
  
  Step One: Fix the speed of light.  Because as this plan is described, it will work great for people who live in San Francisco, and be a complete fucking disaster for everyone else.
  
  
• US carriers promise to stop selling customer location data after being caught selling customer location data.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  As they did in 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016 (twice), 2017, and 2018.
  
  Guys, at least raise the price.  Seriously, $12.95?
  
  The chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee has asked the FCC to provide an emergency briefing.  (ZDNet)
  
  A spokesman said the FCC is currently hibernating and won't be back until March.

• Cory Doctorow flips scooter company the bird.  (TechDirt)
  
  Bird sent Doctorow a notice that his reporting about other companies' kits to refit Bird's scooters was a violation of the DMCA's anti-circumvention section.  The factual reporting of the existence of such kits.
  
  Doctorow and the EFF fired back and didn't mince words.
  
  Also, Bird's Senior Corporate Counsel is named Linda Kwak.
  
  
• GoFundMe is in the process of pulling that build-the-wall campaign and will be issuing refunds.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  That article contains several inaccuracies, but the central fact is that if existing donors do not reaffirm their pledge in the next 90 days, their donation will be refunded.
  
  This seems to have been prompted by assertions from the organiser that the US Government would not be in a position to accept the funds "any time soon" and a complete change in how the funds would be spent.  Which is odd, because the US Government absolutely will take your money at any time.  Just send a cheque to the IRS.
  
  
• Disney CEO Bob Iger's Twitter account disappeared, reappeared with no followers, and disappeared again and no-one is saying anything.  (Laughing Place)

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• Lenovo's thin-and-light X1 Yoga is an X1 Carbon with more yoga and less carbon.  (AnandTech)
  
  It's the same hardware as the X1 Carbon but in an aluminium frame rather than carbon fibre.  That makes it a little heavier but has the advantage of being made of aluminium.
  
  Not sure why that's an advantage, actually.
  
  
• The HyperX QuadCast microphone doubles as a hurricane lamp.  (PC Perspective)
  
  Well, maybe not technically.
  
  
• With AMD's announcement of PCIe 4.0 support on Ryzen 3000 (non-boring edition) I was wondering when we'd start to see PCIe 4.0 SSDs, since we're already hitting the limits of PCIe 3.0 x4.
  
  Phison are on it.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  They're one of the few (only?) remaining independent SSD controller designers, and their engineering sample currently delivers 4GBps and 900,000 IOPS.  That will improve with faster flash, something that wasn't needed previously because existing flash could fill the PCIe 3.0 interface anyway.
  
  Which is good news because 900,000 IOPS, pfft.  Those are rookie numbers.
  
  
• Unity (which I have heard of) just nuked Improbable (which has raised $600 million in funding but which I have never heard of) over license violations relating to game streaming.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Developers got angry with Unity, but it seems that Unity had previously informed Improbable that they were in violation of the standard license and needed to negotiate a tailored license for their use case....  Over a year ago.
  
  
• Amazon is now providing DocumentDB, a service compatible with the MongoDB 3.6 API.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Not the API to MongoDB 4.0, which has multi-document transactions but has a much more restrictive license.  Whether that's due to the license (does it apply to the API or just the software?) or due to Amazon's particular implementation I don't know.
  
  MongoDB and Amazon are currently engaged in hissing at each other like two cats stuck inside due to bad weather.
  
  
• SWAGGINZZZ won Nethack.
  
  I don't think I have ever won a recent version of Nethack, though I've won at Rogue, the original Hack, and Larn.  SWAGGINZZZ cheats just a tiny bit, however - it uses a cluster of AWS servers to reverse-engineer the seed of pseudo-random number generator based on the observable dungeon and then predict the rest of the dungeon.
  
  
• It would seem that US carriers are selling your location data to anyone with the cash.  (Motherboard)
  
  And it's not even very much cash.  Via four intermediaries, anyone with $12.95 and your cell phone number can track you down in real time.
  
  Guys, if you don't want to see your industry stomped by overbearing European-style privacy regulation, stop that nonsense right now.
  
  
• ZFS doesn't work on the Linux 5.0 kernel due to changes in floating point support. (Phoronix)
  
  The response so far appears to be DONTCARE/WONTFIX.  This does not fill me with joy.

• Some US government websites' SSL certificates have been splorked by the ongoing shutdown.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  LetsEncrypt, people.  It's free and can be fully automated.  I have 7000 domains under it at my day job.
  
  
• Where there's deep-sea mud, there's brass.  (Nature)
  
  Well, not literally.  Well, maybe literally, but certainly yttrium, europium, terbium and dysprosium.
  
  
• We don't understand how brains think, not at a deep level, so we're building thinking computers - neural networks - to offer a new tool to study that process.
  
  Now we don't understand how neural networks think, so we're building a new tool to study that process.  (Quanta)
  
  It's research grants all the way down.
  
  
• Need a cheap case and a low resolution touchscreen for your Raspberry Pi 2 or 3 project?  Some random company in China has you covered.  (Scargill's Tech Blog)
  
  
• The world's largest advertising agency will offer an ad blocking service starting in July.  (Thurrott.com)
  
  And when I say offer, I mean deliver by default to about two billion users.
  
  It's not as bad as it might be because it seems to be - for now - better described as an obnoxious popup blocker which will, for example, stomp on auto-play videos.
  
  
• Germany has outlawed Amazon Dash buttons.  (PC Magazine)
  
  Identifying the real threat.  Good work.
  
  If that link doesn't work, try this one.  They do one of those stupid forced geographic redirects for Australian victims.

• LinkedIn blocked a user's content from being visible in China.  (TechDirt)
  
  This isn't a huge story, except for the slightly surprising fact that LinkedIn is visible inside China at all.  The total number of content removal requests reported by LinkedIn, worldwide, is 15.
  
  
• Google says Section 230 for me, but not for thee.  (TechDirt)
  
  Google is involved in a slow motion slap fight with TechDirt over the latter's report on the difficulty of properly moderating user-generated content.  Google's actions just keep proving TechDirt correct, but the irony is lost on them.
  
  
• The EU's execrable Article 13 is on the fast track to disaster.  (Julia Reda)
  
  In short, it makes all online platforms liable for user-generated content.  Platforms don't have to filter content, says the legislation, but are required to filter content.
  
  Yes, that's really what it says.
  
  How much filtering you are required to do depends.  On...  Stuff.
  
  Oh, and you're not allowed to block content that doesn't infringe.  And you have to be able to detect parodies and other fair use.
  

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• AMD showed off the interesting Ryzen 3000 after officially launching the boring Ryzen 3000 a few days ago. (AnandTech)
  
  More thoughts here, but short take is that it looks like a mid-range Ryzen 3000 will compete evenly with Intel's fastest mainstream desktop parts at much lower power and probably much lower price.
  
  Ian Cutress of AnandTech is writing up the Q&A session with AMD CEO Lisa Su that followed the keynote, but it won't be published for a day or two. (Twitter)
  
  Meanwhile:
  

  Lisa Su tells us don't count on 3rd Gen Ryzen to be limited to 8 cores. That extra room will be used!

  — Mark Hachman (@markhachman) January 9, 2019

  
  
• AMD also announced the Radeon VII which is the graphics card version of the Radeon Instinct MI50 accelerator card released last year. (AnandTech)
  
  60 CUs, 16GB HBM, 1TB/s bandwidth, $699.
  
  As well as twice the bandwidth and memory of Vega 64, it also has twice the ROPs (raster output pipelines) so where Vega 64 was ROP limited, this certainly won't be. Later reports say it is still limited to 64 ROPs, so performance will still be limited likewise.  That's less than ideal for AMD.  It will be up to detailed reviews to show how much difference this makes in the real world and whether this is a genuine competitor for the RTX 2080.
  
  Meanwhile the rest of use are still waiting for Navi for realistically-priced cards.  Speculation is that Navi test chips came back in September but needed another round of revisions that will push the launch back three months, so Radeon VII is just a stopgap.  None of that is confirmed, but it's from AdoredTV, the same guy who had the details of Ryzen 3 exactly right, so only a medium-sized grain of salt.
  
  
• We found the missing galaxies. Only problem is, we keep finding them. (Quanta)
  
  Computer models disagreed with observations on how many dwarf galaxies like the Magellanic Clouds should orbit the Milky Way, predicting far more than we could actually find. Now updated models and better observations have flipped the picture, with more galaxies being found than there should be.
  
  This is not currently expected to destroy the Universe and kill all life everywhere, but please check back regularly for updates.
  
  
• Thermaltake showed off water-cooled RGB-lit RAM for... I don't know who for. (AnandTech)
  
  Seriously?
  
  
• FSP showed off water-cooled power supplies just in case things weren't hazardous enough. (AnandTech)
  
  I think CES is winding down.
  
  
• Apple Death Watch: iPhone production has been cut by another 10 percent, according to the Nikkei Asian Review. (Thurrott.com)
  
  Across all the current models, including the XR which is reportedly selling relatively well. Unit sales are apparently down 20% since the same time a year ago. So to all those in the tame Apple press who offered excuses when Apple stopped reporting unit sales - surprise.
  
  
• Lenovo's Yoga S490 is another 13.9" notebook with no dedicated pgup/pgdn/home/end keys dammit. (Thurrott.com)
  
  What it does have is a camera array that would shame the Hubble Space Telescope that can detect when shady characters are trying to peek at your computer and shoot them with a 90,000 volt military-grade taser. (Optional extra.)
  
  
• Lexar has a 1TB SD card.  (AnandTech)
  
  Full size, not micro SD.  $499.99.  For which price you can get a 2TB Samsung 970 Evo, which is about 30 times faster but probably won't fit in your DSLR.

• Facebook blocked the trailer for the game Gris by Devolver Digital. (TechDirt)
  
  Okay, no big deal, rogue bot. Just appeal.
  
  They did.
  
  Facebook upheld the ban, saying they don't allow nudity on their site.
  
  There is nothing even resembling nudity in the trailer. It's kind of weird, yes, but there's no nudity.
  
  This is stupid.
  
  
  
  
• There's a teeny bug in Google search that lets people inject nonsense into search links. (Tech Crunch)
  
  That is, searching by yourself works fine, but if someone gives you a link that does a Google search, they can attach parameters that look like the normal stupid link-tracking crap but actually change the results. Like this:
  
  
  
  Try it yourself.

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• Chiplets!  Confirmed exactly as per the earlier leaks, it has an I/O die built on Global Foundries' 14nm process, a smaller version of the one on the new EPYC processors, and one of the standard 8 core CPU chiplets built on TSMC's 7nm process.
  
  
• Cores!  The chip used in the demo had one CPU chiplet and thus 8 cores, but it very clearly has room reserved for a second chiplet - CPU or GPU.  AnandTech got a good photo of the package showing that it's obviously designed for two chiplets.
  
  
• I/O!  PCIe 4.0 is confirmed.  It might even work on existing motherboards, at least for the primary PCI slot.  (Tom's Hardware)  PCIe 4.0 needs a buffer chip for board traces longer than 7 inches, but the first slot will always be well within that.
  
  The 500 generation chipsets will be PCIe 4.0 as well, so you could get 8 lanes of PCIe 3.0 off the chipset, all running at full speed.
  
  
• Speed!  On stage and off-stage, it scored within 1% of a power-unrestricted Core i9 9900K on Cinebench R15 multi-core.
  
  
• Efficiency!  It tied for performance with the 9900K while using about 40% less power.  System power was shown as around 130W vs. 180W for the 9900K, on systems matched as closely as possible.
  
  That means that the chip itself was running at 75W vs. 125W for the Intel chip.  The 9900K is rated at 95W TDP but most motherboards don't enforce that as a limit, and it runs noticeably hotter by default.

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