• AI is 90% marketing and 10% reality says Linus Torvalds, creator of Linux.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And Git, in much the same way Donald Knuth created TeX and Metafont to typeset his own books.
  
  Ever the optimist, is Linus.

• The (useless paperweight) 8GB iMac is no more.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The 2024 edition based on the latest M4 chip starts with 16GB.
  
  And a minuscule 256GB of SSD worth less than $10 because Apple is determined to make cheapskates suffer.
  
  Everything is soldered in place - everything is always soldered in place - so you can't upgrade it later.  And the top configuration, with all of 32GB, costs as much as a high-end gaming or workstation PC with twice as much of everything and ten times the graphics performance.
  
  
  
• Samsung's 990 EVO Plus SSD fixes most of the issues with the 990 EVO.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The new model scores pretty close the 990 Pro across a range of benchmarks.
  
  It's also priced pretty close to the 990 Pro.
  
  
  
• JPMorgan Chase has started suing customers who took advantage of an "infinite money glitch".  (CNBC)
  
  Also known as cheque fraud.

Posted by: normal at Wednesday, October 30 2024 12:28 AM (zx18t)

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