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Wednesday, October 08
Daily News Stuff 8 October 2025
Sold Out Edition
Sold Out Edition
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- Qualcomm has bought hobby electronics board maker Arduino for an undisclosed sum. (Ars Technica)
Well, that's the end of that then.
Sorry?
Qualcomm poisons everything it touches.
You're thinking of Broadcom.
Oh. You're right.
- The first announcement from the combined company is the Arduino Uno Q, a $44 development board featuring both a Qualcomm Dragonwing CPU running Linux and an STM32U585 microcontroller for real-time control tasks. (Arduino)
The Dragonwing is a traditional not-very-powerful Arm processor with four 2GHz A53 cores.
The STM32U585 is a microcontroller with an Arm M33 running at 160MHz, 2MB of embedded flash storage, and 786kB of RAM. (No, that's not a typo.)
The board includes 2GB of RAM and 16GB of eMMC flash storage for the Dragonwing, as well as WiFi 5 and a whole slew of low-level I/O functions.
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- Minisforum also has a NAS. (Serve the Home)
It features 5Gb and 10Gb network ports, five 3.5" drive bays, three M.2 slots (convertible to one M.2 slot and two U.2 bays), RAM expandable up to 128GB, and a Ryzen 370 CPU.
That's a 28W part with 12 Zen 5 cores and 16 graphics cores, and it's AMD's current fastest mainstream APU, six times as fast as the N150 found in certain low-end NASes we just bought.
On the other hand, it costs $1019 without any memory or drives, vs. a current price of $204 for the Beelink Me Mini, so you definitely pay for what you get.
- The 16GB RAM model of the Beelink Me Mini is now available for $284 with a 1TB Crucial SSD bundled in. (Beelink)
Well, it's available for pre-order, but so was the model I have and it was on my doorstep in rural Australia in about five days.
- Let the bubbles roll: Spending on datacenters and information processing generally contributed about 90% of US GDP growth in the first half of 2025. (Fortune)
The author notes that this spending did contribute to higher energy prices and continued high interest rates, and estimates that without all of these GDP would still have grown at around 2%:Our economy might just be three AI data centers in a trench coat.
- OpenAI has signed $1 trillion worth of deals for computing hardware and services so far this year. (MSN)
A trillion here, a trillion there...
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Tuesday, October 07
Daily News Stuff 7 October 2025
All Your Hosts Are Belong To Us Edition
All Your Hosts Are Belong To Us Edition
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- Now it's AMD's turn. (Serve the Home)
A couple of weeks ago I wrote about Nvidia's plan to invest $100 billion in OpenAI in return for OpenAI spending $100 billion on Nvidia hardware. Or some random amount - the scale is so absurd they're talking about graphics cards in gigawatts. OpenAI is buying 10 gigawatts of graphics cards.
Now AMD is sort of doing the same. OpenAI is planning to buy 6GW of AMD Instinct cards and in return AMD has issued OpenAI a warrant for up to 160 million shares of its common stock, worth about $32 billion at current prices though since some of the shares wouldn't vest until the share price reaches $600 (from $200 today) it's potentially $100 billion again if the bubble don't burst.
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- Why did Crunchyroll's subtitles just get worse? (Anime by the Numbers)
Because they fired everyone who cared about typesetting.
And you're kind of screwed, because all the other streaming services either don't care either or relicense Crunchyroll.
It sucks.
- SCOTUS to Google: Stet. (Thurrott)
Google requested a stay in the Epic Game decision, which went very, very badly for them.
The stay was denied.
Google now has two weeks to open Android up to alternate app stores and payment services, and stop even attempting to force this on developers and device makers.
And I'm all out of popcorn...
- There's a remote exploit flaw in Redis that has been lurking quietly for 13 years. (Bleeping Computer)
Redis is typically run as a local caching service, not exposed to the internet, but researchers found 33,000 instances that were so exposed.
Coupled with the recent sudo bug that could instantly give attackers root access on all those machines.
- OpenAI plans to allow developers to build apps that run inside ChatGPT. (The Verge)
There are an uncountably infinite number of ways in which this could go badly.
- There's a single-slot water-cooled version of Maxsun's Arc Pro B60 Dual 48G Turbo, just in case you want to fit seven of them inside a standard ATX case. (Hot Hardware)
And who doesn't want that?
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Monday, October 06
Daily News Stuff 6 October 2025
Never Say Never Again Edition
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Never Say Never Again Edition
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- In May, OpenAI, which has never made a profit, spent $6.5 billion to buy Jony Ive's company io, which has never made a product. The first device to ship from the partnership? Anyone's guess, they're out of ideas. (Tech Crunch) (archive site)
The FT now says that OpenAI and Ive aim to create "a palm-sized device without a screen that can take audio and visual cues from the physical environment and respond to users' requests."
A phone? I'm told those already exist.But unresolved issues around the device's "personality," how it handles privacy, and computing infrastructure might delay the launch.
Good grief, they've created the Sirius Cybernetics Corporation."Listen," said Ford, who was still engrossed in the sales brochure, "they make a big thing of the ship's cybernetics. A new generation of Sirius Cybernetics Corporation robots and computers, with the new GPP feature." "GPP feature?" said Arthur. "What's that?"
"Oh, it says Genuine People Personalities."
"Oh," said Arthur, "sounds ghastly."
A voice behind them said, "It is." The voice was low and hopeless and accompanied by a slight clanking sound. They span round and saw an abject steel man standing hunched in the doorway.
"What?" they said.
"Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through it. The irony circuits cut into his voice modulator as he mimicked the style of the sales brochure. "All the doors in this spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done."
As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did indeed have a satisfied sigh-like quality to it. "Hummmmmmmyummmmmmm ah!" it said.
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- Intel is reportedly planning to pack 12 graphics cores into its next-generation Panther Lake laptop chips. (WCCFTech)
That will give them 50% more GPU hardware than the existing Lunar Lake series, which relies on fast on-package LPDDR5X memory to keep the graphics engine fed, and delivers close to AMD levels of graphics performance.
Panther Lake will support regular DDR5 RAM so we'll see if this works or if it ends up hopelessly bandwidth-constrained.
Reminder that this is the same chip that will only have four full-size CPU cores. Up to 16 in total, but the remainder will all be either E cores (efficiency, half as fast) or LP cores (low power, even slower).
- A fire has destroyed the South Korean government's cloud storage system. They don't have a backup. (Korea JoongAng Daily)
Government workers - 750,000 of them - were encouraged to store work documents on the government-run cloud service because... Nobody has ever made an adage of putting all your eggs in one basket, right?
Just to be clear, this is for working documents for individual staff members; the usual fleet of government databases are stored separately and did not go up in smoke yet.
- How did Amazon become so rubbish, and how to fix it? (The Guardian)
It's a Cory Doctorow article, so we know the answer won't be specific antitrust action against the purported monopoly, but communism for everyone.This flywheel is the direct product of a radical legal theory that has had the world in its grip since the late 1970s. From the 1890s until the Jimmy Carter administration, US corporations' power was blunted by antitrust law, which treated large companies as threats simply because they were large.
That claim is partly true. The period from the 1930s to the 1970s was indeed marked by radical antitrust actions, leading Supreme Court Justice Potter Stewart to remark: The sole consistency that I can find [in U.S. merger law] is that in litigation under [the Clayton Act], the Government always wins.A rival - and frankly terrible – theory of antitrust law says that the only time a government should intervene against a monopolist is when it is sure that the monopolist is using its scale to raise prices or lower quality.
This is obviously the correct approach and indeed the method used in prior decades was discarded because it was inconsistent, unproductive, and unconstitutional, things Mr Doctorow doesn't appear to consider a problem.
- Opera wants you to pay $20 per month for its new AI browser. (Bleeping Computer)
No.
See how easy this is, Cory?
- You know, maybe it is a bubble after all. (MSN)
Ya think?
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Sunday, October 05
Daily News Stuff 35 September 2025
Eternal Neptember Edition
Eternal Neptember Edition
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- The Eternal September is finally over after 34 years as AOL shuts down its dialup service. (Tom's Hardware)
Looking around and seeing the current state of the internet, I think they might have left it running a little too long.
- Speaking of which, how does my upgraded 500Mb internet feel?
Exactly the same as before, one 100Mb, to be honest. Moving from ADSL (I got about 16Mb down and 2Mb up) to a nominal 100/40 connection was a huge upgrade. At least it was until I got hit by lightning and my modem exploded.
Since I mostly look at (and work on) US-hosted sites, that trans-Pacific latency erases any obvious gains. The new plan is cheaper, though, and the next step down goes all the way to 50/20 and only saves $2.
Tech News
- Maxsun has teamed up with case manufacturer Abee to produce a workstation powered by Intel CPUs and GPUs, the latter specifically being Maxsun's Arc Pro B60 48GB Turbo model. (WCCFTech)
The B60 is based on Intel's B580 gaming card, not particularly powerful compared with Nvidia's RTX 5060 or AMD's 9060 XT, but $50 cheaper at $250 and equipped with 50% more VRAM - 12GB rather than 8GB - which makes some memory-intensive titles run better even though the hardware is nominally slower.
The Arc Pro B60 48GB Turbo takes two of those, doubles the memory on each, and fits them on a single card for $1200. It's only really useful for certain specific tasks - you wouldn't buy one of these to play games - but it's a lot cheaper than any 48GB cards from AMD or Nvidia.
- HP has launched the ZGX Nano G1n, powered by Nvidia's GB10 chip. (WCCFTech)
What?
It's an AI thing.
Oh.
It has 20 Arm CPU cores - 10 X925 full-size cores and 10 A725 mid-size cores, 48 graphics cores - the same as an RTX 5070 desktop graphics card, 128GB of soldered LPDDR5X memory on a 256-bit bus, and two 200Gb Ethernet ports for attaching it to more of the same.
Price not announced but expect it to cost around 50% more than AMD's very similar systems based on the Ryzen AI Max 395.
- Food delivery robots have human names and blinking eyes. But they’re not our friends. (CNN)
I might return to this item tomorrow because the article is impressively deranged.
- Gmail is dropping Gmailify and POP support. (PC World)
Going forward, you will need to use an email client that supports the new IMAP standard, which came out in... 1986.
- A comparison of Ada and Rust. (GitHub)
Is it just me, or is Rust kind of... Bad?
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Saturday, October 04
Daily News Stuff 4 October 2025
Who What Edition
Who What Edition
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- Thwarted plot to cripple cell service in NY was bigger than first thought unless it wasn't: Sources. (ABC)
Over on the sidebar you'll find a link by CBD to an article about a planned attack against communications infrastructure in New York City, discovered and averted twelve days ago by the Secret Service.
They found 100,000 activated SIM cards and over 300 specialised (and, in the US, illegal) SIM servers set up to use them, in a handful of rented locations in the city, capable of sending out thirty million SMS messages per minute and overwhelming and crippling nearby cell towers.
The latest update us that the Secret Service has found another 200,000 SIM cards in another location nearby in New Jersey.
So they question is, who was behind this rather sophisticated plot, and what were they hoping to achieve. The Secret Service links it to China, which is probably true but only at the surface level.
Most likely this wasn't a nation-state planning a terror attack at all, but an organised crime ring using those hundreds of thousands of numbers to make scam calls. The hardware was probably smuggled from China, but not to declare war, just to make an illicit buck.
That's speculation, but what we know for sure - because it put the Secret Service on the track in the first place - is that this same network was used in swatting attacks against members of Congress in December of 2023.
And it would be foolish of a nation-state actor to allow such an elaborate plot to be foiled over such a minor and secondary objective. Though dumber things have happened.
- Second pass at today's thread because my computer decided to reboot right when I was looking for the video for the interlude and I hadn't saved yet. That'll teach me.
* Spoiler: It didn't teach them.
Tech News
- I turned the Lego Game Boy into a working Game Boy. (Natalie the Nerd)
Someone needs to get Natalie the Lego Millennium Falcon, stat.
- OpenAI is now worth $500 billion, making it the world's most valuable startup. (Yahoo)
For the first half of this year, OpenAI lost $13.5 billion on revenues of $4.3 billion.
- RedHat has announced that "an unauthorized third party had accessed and copied some data from a Red Hat Consulting-managed, dedicated GitLab instance". (The Register)
"Some data" turns out to be 28,000 Git repositories.
Quite a lot, really.
- Who would be silly enough to sign up for OpenAI's new social network when all it has to offer is an unending stream of AI slop? (The Verge) (archive site)
Oh. A writer for The Verge. Yes, that checks out.
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Friday, October 03
Daily News Stuff 3 October 2025
Twentieth Century Frog Edition
Twentieth Century Frog Edition
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- OpenAI reported a revenue of $4.3 billion for the first six months of 2025. (Tech in Asia)
Unfortunately, they spent $17.8 billion.
But they'll make it up in volume.
- Speaking of which a college student was caught after a wild and apparently drunken rampage destroying parked cars because he asked ChatGPT if the police had any way of knowing he did it. (The Smoking Gun)
The incriminating ChatGPT conversation--filled with typos--opened with Schaefer asking, "How fucked am I" and "qilll I go to jail." After the AI program "gave tips about the potential outcome of getting caught or being involved in this kind of behavior," Schaefer typed, "What if I smashed the shit outta mutlipls cars."
Oh, and his own phone placed him at the scene.
And it was all caught on security cameras.
Not too bright, this lad.
Tech News
- When did Australia join the 20th century?
Anyway, I'll be upgrading from my 100Mb internet plan this weekend to a cheaper 500Mb one with the same provider. I have a business plan for the static IP and extra support (one of which I depend on and the other I have never used), and they didn't offer the cheap fast plans that recently became available to consumers.
Now apparently they do.I could upgrade as high as 2Gb now but that costs twice as much as my current 100Mb plan (for 20x the speed) and requires a tech visit to upgrade the modem.
Update: Done. Went from 100Mb to around 250Mb, at least as measured from my laptop's WiFi.
Apparently these new plans became available just last month. Consumers automatically got the speed upgrade, but business customers had to request a plan change.
It was completely painless; even my SSH connections to work didn't hiccup. I made sure I could access all my servers through my bastion host just in case, but there was no need to worry.
- Also bought two weed eaters today because my old one went phut.
The old one was a Bosch cordless, which I bought because I have several other Bosch tools and a stockpile of batteries. It worked well until it when phut so I went onto Amazon to buy a new one and they're out of stock. Bosch sells at least three different models in Australia and Amazon has none of them.
So I found something cheap with decent reviews for about $70 with two batteries and a charger, and bought that.
Then I discovered that Bosch runs its own store on eBay, and bought their current model for about $85 without a battery.
Weeds better look out! In a week. Out here in rural Australia, same-day delivery is still a pipe dream, even if 2Gb internet is readily available.
- The Earth is getting darker and scientists are trying to find out why. (404 Media)
We've been warned about this since at least the 1970s.
Or wait, was that the other thing?
- Digital ID: The new chains of capitalist surveillance. (The Slow Burning Fuse)
Ignore this woman, she is clearly deranged.
- Everything is terrorism in Trump's America. (The Verge)
No, not everything. Just terrorism.
- Apple has removed the ICEBlock app from its App Store. (The Verge)
Like that.
- AI has already run out of training data. (Business Insider) (archive site)
With the web tapped out, developers are turning to synthetic data - machine-generated text, images, and code. That approach offers limitless supply, but also risks overwhelming models with low-quality output or AI slop.
The risk there is 100%.
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Thursday, October 02
Daily News Stuff 2 October 2025
Oops All Slop Edition
Oops All Slop Edition
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- OpenAI's new social app
Wait, let me stop you right there.
Noah, we'll need you to build another boat. No, same size as last time would be fine.
- OpenAI's new social app, Sora, is filled with horrifying Sam Altman deepfakes. (Tech Crunch)
In a video on OpenAI's new TikTok-like social media app Sora, a never-ending factory farm of pink pigs are grunting and snorting in their pens - each is equipped with a feeding trough and a smartphone screen, which plays a feed of vertical videos. A terrifyingly realistic Sam Altman stares directly at the camera, as though he’s making direct eye contact with the viewer. The AI-generated Altman asks, "Are my piggies enjoying their slop?"
I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.In the next video on Sora’s For You feed, Altman appears again. This time, he’s standing in a field of Pokémon, where creatures like Pikachu, Bulbasaur, and a sort of half-baked Growlithe are frolicking through the grass. The OpenAI CEO looks at the camera and says, "I hope Nintendo doesn’t sue us." Then there are many more fantastical yet realistic scenes, which often feature Altman himself.
Build a global network that everyone can share, they said. Make access cheap and easy, they said. What could go wrong, they said.People on Sora who generate videos of Altman are especially getting a kick out of how blatantly OpenAI appears to be violating copyright laws. (Sora will reportedly require copyright holders to opt out of their content’s use - reversing the typical approach where creators must explicitly agree to such use - the legality of which is debatable.)
Guys?
OpenAI isn't violating copyright anymore than a typewriter.
You - the people posting this drivel - are doing that.
Tech News
- Xbox Game Pass Ultimate got a 50% price hike. You won't believe what happened next. (WCCFTech)
The site where you cancel your subscription crashed.
Oh. You do believe that. Okay.
- TypePad - MovableType's answer to Blogger - est mort. (TypePad)
It has type its last pad. It has joined the bleeding choir unreadable.
The shutdown was announced a month ago, but TypePad stopped accepting new customers five years ago so this came as a surprise to absolutely nobody.
- F3 is the open virus solution for the future. (ACM)
It's supposed to be a replacement for overly-simple formats like CSV and overly-complicated formats like Apache Parquet. What it is, is weaponised idiocy:Each self-describing F3 file includes both the data and meta-data, as well as WebAssembly (Wasm) binaries to decode the data.
Oh no you don't.
- Intel and AMD on-chip secure enclaves aren't secure if the attacker has complete physical control over your server and a fortune to spend on sophisticated analog switches to selectively manipulate in-flight data in cruel and unusual ways. (Ars Technica)
Intel and AMD never claimed that the on-chip secure enclaves were secure under these conditions, and indeed said the opposite.
- The UK is still demanding the password to all of Apple's encrypted data belonging to its customers. (Ars Technica)
The UK agreed to drop this bullshit but apparently they don't know how.
- Apple's latest AirPods got reviewed by iFixit. (MacRumours)
They earned a repairability score of zero.
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Wednesday, October 01
Daily News Stuff 1 October 2025
Chainblock Edition
Chainblock Edition
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- Amazon has announced its new Kindle Scribe and Kindle Scribe Colorsoft models. (Tech Crunch)
The Kindle Scribe costs $500, or $430 for a model without a light so you can't read it.
The Kindle Scribe Colorsoft costs $630 and adds colour, though it doesn't say whether you can read that one or not.
- Amazon also announced its new operating system, Vega OS. (9to5Google)
It's Android with the serial numbers filed off and the ability to sideload apps disabled.
Roll the antitrust lawsuits.
Tech News
- Bioware developers are worried after EA's $55 billion leveraged buyout. (WCCFTech)
Worried that they might lose their jobs if they keep producing garbage like Dragon Age: The Veilguard.
Well, you can stop worrying. You're all losing your jobs.
- CISA has published an alert over a bug in the Linux sudo command which... Holy crap. (Bleeping Computer)
Yeah, don't let anyone on your systems, ever.
- We are UK of Borg. Your ass will be laminated. Resistance is futile. (Daily Express)
The UK threatened image hosting site Imgur over its (the UK's) latest insane "data protection" law.
Imgur immediately ceased to be available in the UK.
The UK continues to threaten Imgur and its parent company Medialab, even though neither is a UK company.
Because of course they do.
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Tuesday, September 30
Daily News Stuff 30 September 2025
Gardenising Edition
Gardenising Edition
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- Qualcomm's next-generation Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme looks like a strong performer. (Hot Hardware)
Given that it offers faster cores and 50% more of them when compared with the previous generation, that was expected.
It leads the chart in Geekbench, but then it's a future CPU being compared against currently available products, and Geekbench results are sometimes a bit quirky.
But it also leads the pack in BrowserBench, and in Cinebench 2024 single threaded, while losing by around 10% to Intel's 24 core 285HX and AMD's 16 core 9950HX3D.
Integrated graphics also look good - about half the speed of AMD's Ryzen 395, making them faster than any other integrated graphics solution... As long as your game actually runs which is by no means guaranteed.
Tech News
- OpenAI has announced an Instant Checkout feature for ChatGPT. (CNBC)
Etsy's share price surged 16% on the news."Our vision for ChatGPT - and a lot of the technology we create, but especially ChatGPT - is that it's not just providing you information, it is also helping you get things done in the real world," Michelle Fradin, OpenAI's product lead for ChatGPT commerce, told CNBC in an interview.
Nuke it from orbit.
Now.
- A particularly crazy person has built a working 5,087,280-parameter ChatGPT-generated AI model - in Minecraft. (Tom's Hardware)
The so-called Small Language Model, based on the TinyChat dataset, uses 439 million Minecraft blocks, and takes two hours to respond to a question even using a customised Minecraft server that runs redstone blocks and 40,000x normal speed.
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Monday, September 29
Daily News Stuff 29 September 2025
Baked Alaskan Edition
Baked Alaskan Edition
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- Intel plans production of its next-gen Panther Lake laptop chips starting in Q1 of next year on its brand new 18A (1.8nm) process node. (WCCFTech)
Chips take a good six months to make it from production start to consumer devices on store shelves, so expect these to appear in laptops in late Q3 next year.
Panther Lake will offer up to 4 performance cores, which is... Not a lot. They will pair these with up to 8 efficiency cores and 4 low-power cores, but at the moment all the models except the fastest are looking pretty anemic.
Tech News
- AMD's Strix Halo CPU has a 40 core graphics chip paired with two much smaller 8 core CPU chiplets. But those 8 core chiplets are different from the 8 core chiplets used in all socket AM4 and AM5 CPUs. (WCCFTech)
All multi-die AMD CPUs use Infinity Fabric over a high-speed serial link to wire things together. This limits the memory bandwidth for a single consumer CPU chiplet to a fair bit less than fast DDR5 RAM can offer.
Except for Strix Halo, where the 16 CPU cores have twice the write bandwidth of a 16 core 9950X.
That's because it doesn't a serial bus of any kind to connect the chiplets; the CPU dies are placed directly adjacent to the GPU die and the gap is bridged by a direct parallel connection over an advanced multilayer substrate from TSMC.
Well have to wait and see what happens with Zen 6 next year, but it's interesting that AMD was willing to spend the money on a different CPU chiplet just for Strix Halo.
- Looking for a new switch? Want two 400Gb ports, two 200Gb, eight 50Gb, and a 10GB management port? Think that would be wildly expensive? $1295 from Mikrotik. (Serve the Home)
Which is still a lot for a home network switch - gigabit switches are so cheap these days you find them as toys in the better brands of breakfast cereal - but networking is one of the few places where you can get 20x the speed for not even 20x the cost, rather than prices shooting straight into the ionosphere.
- Asus will be releasing a fix for its stuttering gaming laptops. (Hot Hardware)
Real soon now.
Anime Update
Ruri Rocks - FIN (for now). This was the last episode this season and there's no hint as to a continuation, though the manga goes nearly twice as far and is still running. But it cuts off at a perfectly suitable point in the story, and the story itself is a delight throughout, so no objections from me on that point. Highly recommended if you like to watch cute girls geeking out over some obscure point of science for half an hour each week, which everyone does.
A Wild Last Boss Appears - First episode of the first show of the new season to hit Crunchyroll, and I've seen a lot worse. Still, it's standard reincarnated-in-an-MMO fare and will likely go swiftly downhill.
A Wild Last Boss Appears - First episode of the first show of the new season to hit Crunchyroll, and I've seen a lot worse. Still, it's standard reincarnated-in-an-MMO fare and will likely go swiftly downhill.
Mathematical Interlude
If you read that story the other day about knotting numbers and said, basically, as I did, huh?, here it is physically demonstrated.
Two conjectures - unproven, but previously considered very likely to be true - said that combining two knots of a known complexity would produce a combined knot with a complexity neither less nor more than the sum of the complexity of the two individual knots.
Here Matt physically combines two knots each with a complexity of 3, and shows the combined knot has a complexity of 5.
The procedure is actually a little complicated which explains why this sat unnoticed until someone could write a Python program to try out all the possible permutations, but once you know how to do it, still simple enough to prove the counterexample really works.
Two conjectures - unproven, but previously considered very likely to be true - said that combining two knots of a known complexity would produce a combined knot with a complexity neither less nor more than the sum of the complexity of the two individual knots.
Here Matt physically combines two knots each with a complexity of 3, and shows the combined knot has a complexity of 5.
The procedure is actually a little complicated which explains why this sat unnoticed until someone could write a Python program to try out all the possible permutations, but once you know how to do it, still simple enough to prove the counterexample really works.
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