• Apple announced their new Mac Pro.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  From 8 up to 28 cores, up to 1.5TB of DDR4 ECC RAM on six channels, 8 PCIe slots, graphics from Radeon 580 to dual Radeon Vega II Pro Duo (effectively four Radeon VII cards with 32GB RAM each), a 1.4KW power supply, and zero drive bays.
  
  It takes two non-standard Apple flash blooples; not even M.2.  No 2.5" bays, no 3.5" bays.
  
  It does have 10GbE and Thunderbolt 3.
  
  They have a new 32" 6K display to go along with it.
  
  Price for the system starts at $5999 with 8 cores, 32GB RAM, a 256GB SSD, and Radeon 580 graphics, which seems just a tad high.  The 6K monitor is another $4999.  The stand for the monitor is $999.
  
  I can get a Dell Ryzen 2700X system with 256GB SSD (standard M.2) and Radeon 580 graphics for under A$1500 - about US$1050 - including tax and delivery.  It does only come with 16GB of RAM, though, so Apple has that going for them.
  
  And you can't grate cheese with the Dell.
  
  
• Qualcomm announced the Snapdragon 7cx, a cheaper version of their 8cx Arm laptop processor.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  This one is aimed at Chromebooks rather than Windows.  Since there already are a number of Arm-based Chromebooks, this is likely to actually work.
  
  
• Samsung has licensed AMD's Navi architecture for use in mobile devices.  (PC Perspective)
  
  Qualcomm's Adreno was also bought from AMD originally - it's an anagram of Radeon.
  
  
• Facebook was right not to delete the doctored Nancy Pelosi video.  (TechDirt)
  
  Well...  Yes.
  
  
• DigitalOcean's free-ish CDN seems to actually work.  It's only wired up to their Spaces storage though; you can't stick it in front of your virtual server.
  
  It's about 1ms away from every server I tested from (Sydney, Dallas, San Francisco), and 15ms away from my house.  That's pretty good. 
  
  And it's the cheapest CDN I know of apart from Cloudflare - who are a bit of a pain because they take over all access to your website.  2¢ per GB for storage and 1¢ per GB for traffic, anywhere in the world.
  
  So I'll definitely make that part of the rollout as we move over to DO in the next couple of months.
  
  
• Department of Insufficient Redundancy Department.  (Google)
  
  Google's outage was caused by a mistaken network configuration that routed all traffic for certain regions through specific network paths rather than using all available bandwidth.  The resulting congestion meant that engineers couldn't then access the equipment to revert the configuration change.
  
  One of those things that would take five minutes to fix if things were working, but you only need to fix it in the first place because things weren't working.  Like the time a fuel truck crashed and burst into flame directly outside the local fire station here - blocking the fire engines from leaving the building, and eventually burning it to the ground.
  
  
• Apache Storm 2.0 is out.
  
  What is Apache Storm?  I have no idea.

  Apache Storm is a free and open source distributed realtime computation system.

  Nope, still no idea.

  A spout is a source of streams in a topology. Generally spouts will read tuples from an external source and emit them into the topology.

  That doesn't really help.

  All processing in topologies is done in bolts.

  Right, glad we've got that straightened out.

  Storm guarantees that every spout tuple will be fully processed by the topology. It does this by tracking the tree of tuples triggered by every spout tuple and determining when that tree of tuples has been successfully completed.

  Push off would you, there's a good chap.  I'm trying to have a relaxing bath.
  
  
• Why you can't buy an Intel Xeon Platinum 9200 and no-one else can either.  (Serve the Home)
  
  You can't buy it because they'd cost at least $20,000 a piece.  No-one else can buy it because no-one is building systems for it because no-one wants it because it's a 400W bandwidth-constrained monster.
  
  
• Windows 10 will continue to require only 32GB of storage.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Unless you want to actually use it, that is.  I have a (very small, very cheap) laptop with 32GB of storage.  The only way I can update it is to wipe it clean every time.  Otherwise it doesn't have enough space.
  
  
• Catalina Sidecar Sue and other stories.  (Six Colors)
  
  Sidecar is a new Apple technology that lets you use an iPad as an additional monitor on your Mac.  
  
  But... Doesn't that make it a touchscreen Mac?
  
  Also, iTunes is now Music.
  
  Reference, since this one's a bit oblique. Catalina is the new version of MacOS.
  
  
• ASRock has brought Thunderbolt support to AMD.  (AnandTech)
  
  The insanely expensive X570 Aqua with its built-in water cooling will have it, but it's also an option on the X570 Taichi and apparently built-in to the X570 Phantom Gaming-ITX TB3 which is, yes, a mini-ITX board.  (TechPowerup)
  
  This is good.  Probably.
  
  
• America and Japan have pushed back against the UN pointing out that human rights do not extend to the realm of fiction.  (Niche Gamer)
  
  I'd be in trouble if they did.  I nuked France any number of times in Civilizations I through IV.  Never really spent enough time with V to get nukes.

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• The Arm A77 core is still 4-issue, not 6-issue.  It can dispatch 6 micro-ops, but can only decode 4 Arm instructions per clock.
  
  
  
  
  
• PCIe 4.0 will not be coming to existing Ryzen motherboards.  (AnandTech)
  
  The problem seems to be that it mostly works, but the cases where it doesn't work are too complex to palm off with a warning label.
  
  
• Samsung announced the Notebook 7, the latest notebook in the Notebook range.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It has a processor, memory, storage, and a screen.
  
  
• Google Cloud burned down, fell over, and sank into the swamp.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  But the fourth one stayed up.
  
  
• Tyan also has a Threadripper server motherboard.  (Serve the Home)
  
  8 DIMM slots, 8 SATA ports, 2 M.2 slots, dual Ethernet but unfortunately ony gigabit speed, onboard remote management which is a necessity for servers, and 7.1 audio which isn't.
  
  You can get a 12 core 4GHz Threadripper for $328 right now.  Sure, it's the 2017 model, but an equivalent Xeon will set you back about $2800.
  
  
• Apple's World Wide Developer Conference is tomorrow.  (ZDNet)
  
  Top expectations are e a new version of iOS that still can't do what Android 4 could, and iTunes turning up dead in a ditch.  (Thurrott.com)

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• UTF-8 string indexing sucks because UTF-8 is a semantic minefield full of anthrax.
  
  There are three ways to handle string indexing for UTF-8: Do it badly, do it slowly, or don't do it at all.
  
  
• Huawei's P30 Pro is here.  (Thurrott.com)
  
  It's very good.  Don't buy it.
  
  
• Targeted web ads work about 4% better than regular ones.  (Hacker News)
  
  Or maybe not.  There is the usual yelling about the methodology of the study.
  
  
• A 2500W flower supply for you.  (Tom's Hardware)

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• A USB SSD controller.  (Anandtech)
  
  Not USB to SATA or even USB to PCIe, but USB directly to flash.  Only problem is it's USB 5, so it's actually slower than SATA.  If they'd even made it USB 10 it would be a breakthrough in storage - internal or external, doesn't matter; anywhere you have a USB port, it just works, and it's faster than SATA.
  
  As it is, it's useful, just a bit meh.
  
  
• AMD apparently increased GPU shipments by 21% in Q1.  (WCCFTech)
  
  A bit of a surprise as they had no compelling new products, but this is likely in low-end notebook parts where Nvidia aren't interested and Intel aren't (or weren't) capable.
  
  Navi is next month, so we'll see how that does.
  
  
• DigitalOcean killed our company a.k.a I have no offsite backups and I must scream.  (Hacker News)
  
  DigitalOcean fixed it, and everything is fine, and they're doing an internal investigation into why they're giving out Twitterish "Your account has been suspended and will not be restored" notices.
  
  Seriously, though, if you have paying customers you need to find a backup solution that is independent of your hosting company.  Backblaze is half a cent per gigabyte for object storage, and SpeedyKVM is one cent per gigabyte for disk-based filesystems.
  
  
• Germany is the latest country considering banning mathematics.  (The Register)
  
  If mathematics is outlawed, only outlaws something something.
  
  
• Here at Lake Ubergon, all of our customers are below average.  (The Verge)
  
  
• The web sucks.
  
  The Coding Horror blog page weighs in at 23MB?  What did they do, steal Brickmuppet's GIF collection?
  
  Actually, in a cruel twist, the top entry on Coding Horror right now is about web bloat.  Codician, heal thyself.
  
  
• The GM of Microsoft Studios Publishing is an SJW lunatic.  (One Angry Gamer)
  
  Oh joy.  And these idiots bought Obsidian and Inxile.

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• Not even June and temperatures were already in the low single digits in Sydney overnight.  Brrr.
  
  
• Is Docker the new Hadoop?  (Smash Company)
  
  Well, eh.  You can get Docker up and running in five minutes on a $5 virtual server.  On the other hand, all the noise around Docker is created by the 0.01% of companies that need it at scale, just as with Hadoop.
  
  Docker does work out of the box as the world's least efficient package manager.
  
  
• On the third hand...  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Don't expose your Docker or LXD APIs to the public internet.  You idiot.
  
  
• RAM prices are going down, finally, and there's also little difference in pricing up to DDR4-3600.  (ExtremeTech)
  
  Time to finally upgrade Tohru and Rally.
  
  
• Flipboard got hacked.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  The hack got encrypted passwords including some old ones hashed using SHA-1, and authentication tokens for Facebook, Google, and Samsung.  Best bet is to delete everything and never use the internet ever again.
  
  
• And that goes double for Wordpress.  (BleepingComputer)
  
  
• The launch video for Microsoft's new WSL terminal app got yanked from YouTube for copyright violation.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  The claim relates to music used in the video that Microsoft already had a valid license to use.
  
  
• It's 2.3 billion AM.  Do you know where your files are?  (ZDNet)
  
  If you want to keep something forever, label it "porn" and put it in a public S3 bucket.

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• The PCIe 5.0 spec has been finalised.  (AnandTech)
  
  It's unlikely to actually reach the market before 2021 though.
  
  
• USB 20 is on its way.  (AnandTech)
  
  Also known (by idiots) as USB 3.2 2x2, parts will be shipping in August.
  
  This uses the same USB-C connectors and cables as USB 3.1, but has a smarter controller and uses both pairs of wires at the same time.  (With 3.1, the extra wires are only there so the cable still works if you plug it in upside down.)  So it is exactly twice as fast, and twice as expensive to implement.
  
  
• Toshiba announced their XG6-P SSD but it only does 3.2GB/s so who cares?  (AnandTech)
  
  (Toshiba SSDs are actually pretty good - Dell uses them in some of their systems.)
  
  
• Now the IEEE has banned Huawei.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Ouch.
  
  
• AM4 server motherboards!  Get yer AM4 server motherboards!  Lovely and fresh, right off the boat!  (Serve the Home)
  
  Since these are shipping right now, they are X470 and thus limited (at least for now) to PCIe 3.0.  But they specifically support Ryzen 3000, as well as ECC memory and 10Gb Ethernet.
  
  ASRock also showed off a Threadripper server motherboard, which is a bit of an odd duck but if you need the higher clock speeds vs. Epyc and can live with the lower memory bandwidth, could be very cost-effective.
  
  
• When a company makes "Don't be evil" its corporate motto, then changes it, you might start to wonder what they're up to.  (ZDNet)
  
  I hear that Firefox is nice this time of year.
  
  (This is another dick move by Google, brand new and separate from the three I listed yesterday.)
  
  
• How NOT to get a $30k bill from Firebase. (Medium)
  
  Don't fucking use Firebase?
  
  (Guess who owns Firebase?)
  
  
• Meanwhile the problem with Microsoft Edg [sic] has been fixed.  (Thurrott.com)
  
  It was a bu, says Googl.
  
  
• My new development server at Binary Lane is working.  I'm running Docker on LXC on ZFS on KVM on Ceph.  I think it's Ceph, anyway; it's definitely OpenStack because they provide API access.
  
  They also, unusually, support nested virtualisation, so I could run Docker on LXC on ZFS on KVM on ZFS on KVM on Ceph if I wanted to.
  
  I don't.
  
  
• Kara Swisher, censorship cheerleader.  (TechDirt)
  
  I sometimes wonder if there are two Mike Masnicks, the same way Glenn Greenwald has an evil twin from the goateeverse.
  

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• Where is AMD's 16 core Ryzen oh there it is.
  
  Apparently a 16 core Ryzen engineering sample is at the show but not officially part of AMD's announcement.  So it already exists and will ship when the moment is right.
  
  
• Google: Incompetent or malicious or both?  (Thurrott.com)
  
  It's apparently too hard for Google to handle both Edge and Edg as user agents.  If only they had tens of thousands of software engineers...
  
  
• It's starting to look very much like the latter.  (Bloomberg)
  
  Sure, Chromium is open source, since it's based on KHTML.  But that doesn't mean Google won't find a way to screw you over.
  
  
• Even if you're not building your own browser and just want to create fast standards-compliant websites Google are right there with you, fucking everything up.  (Trib.tv)
  
  
• Meanwhile GNU Hyperbole is the single greatest work of art in the history of the Universe.  (Reddit)
  
  Either that, or it eats live babies.  One of those.
  
  
• Intel announced the Optane M15 with capacities up to 64GB.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Good job Intel.  Well done.  That's almost enough for Windows 10 if you don't plan to install any apps.
  
  
• TeamCity now integrates with GitLab.  (JetBrains)
  
  I use JetBrains IDEs all the time except that they don't support Crystal yet, but haven't looked at TeamCity, which their CI and issue tracking tool.  I'm not sure it does anything that GitLab doesn't already do for me.
  
  
• Fat chance, Huawei.  (ZDNet)
  
  
• Microsoft announced Modern OS and its plans to kill the project by the end of 2023 without ever releasing anything.  (Thurrott.com)
  
  Okay, I might have read between the lines slightly there.
  
  
• Twitter banned journalist Nick Monroe for its usual standby reason of evading a previous ban.  (One Angry Gamer)
  
  If they don't like you, they will ban you.  One way or another.
  
  
• Oh look Twitter banned someone who wasn't conservative.  (TechDirt)
  
  That proves everything is fine according to TechDirt.
  
  

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• Intel had their big Computex presentation and announced a slightly overclocked version of the 9900K, which we already knew about, and which should be available by Christmas.
  
  Which somehow took an hour and a half.  (AnandTech)
  
  
• Well, okay, the also launched the Xeon E-2200 range which are exactly the same chips as their current 9th-generation Core i5, i7, and i9 just with new labels.  (Serve the Home)
  
  
• And the long, long, long awaited 10nm Ice Lake parts with up to 4 cores at 4.1GHz.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Supposedly these have significantly better IPC than Skylake/Kaby Lake/Coffee Lake (which are all basically identical).  I'll wait for independent verification of that, because Intel have been over-promising and under-delivering since Ivy Bridge.  Because these are low-power parts with limited cores and clockspeeds they won't be winning benchmarks overall, but they will show what we can expect when Intel's next full generation finally lands.
  
  
• Dell has some retrofuturistic Alienware gaming laptops.  (AnandTech)
  
  They look nice, but they max out at 16GB of RAM, which my existing Dell laptop already has, and it's, what, three years old now?  More?  They support 4TB of SSD, but if I wanted to I could swap the 256GB SSD in my Dell for a 4TB drive.  They also support up to 8 core CPUs and an RTX 2080 Max-Q, which my laptop most definitely does not.
  
  
• Asus announced five new laptops - 14" and 15" Vivobooks and 13", 14" and 15" Zenbook models.  (PC Perspective)
  
  These all have a 5.5" touchscreen in place of the usual trackpad, which I think is a nice feature.
  
  
• They also announced the Zenbook Pro Duo, with a 15" 4K screen and a 14" 4K screen.
  
  No, not two different models.  One model, two screens - a full-size 3840x2160 OLED panel and a half-height 3840x1100 LCD touch screen above the keyboard.
  
  
• In theory the EU has net neutrality.  In practice, everyone ignores the rules and does whatever the hell they want.  (TechDirt)
  
  
• I can see your local web servers.
  
  Well in fact it can't, at least not at the moment, but it's a good reminder that web pages you load are free to try to poke around your LAN as well as making requests back out to the internet.  You have to secure everything.
  
  
• How to pair socks from a pile efficiently.  (Stack Overflow)
  
  Only buy one style of sock.
  
  
• How to seriously piss off Microsoft from the comfort of your own home.
  
  
• Add YouTube Gaming to the ever-growing Google Scrapheap.  (Thurott.com)
  

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• AMD had their Computex keynote and as expected destroyed the entire deskop, workstation, and server CPU market.
  
  The only product officially launched (rather than just teased) was Ryzen 3000.  (AnandTech)
  
  Top of the line is the 3900X. 12 cores, 4.6GHz, 64MB cache, 105W, $499.  It easily outperforms not only Intel's 9900K (roughly the same price) but also their 9920X 12 core HEDT chip that sells for $1199.  (Or rather, sold for $1199, because if that price doesn't come down they're not going to be selling many more of them.)
  
  IPC is up by 15%, putting AMD definitively ahead of Intel on a clock-for-clock basis, which hasn't been the case since the Pentium 4 days.  Multi-threaded performance vs. 2017's 1800X is up 100% for the same price and an extra 10W of power.  50% from extra cores, 15% from IPC improvements, and 15% from clockspeed.  Multiply it out.  It works.
  
  Meanwhile the 3800X replaces the 2700X, and the 3700X replaces the 2700.  The 3800X is $399 (vs. $329 for the 2700X) and the 3700X at $329 is $30 more than the 2700.
  
  Rounding out the low end (six cores is now low end) are the $249 3600X and the $199 3600.
  
  All the 6 and 8 core parts have 32MB L3 cache, which is double the previous generation.  And that means that a fully-equipped Epyc 2 CPU will have 256MB of cache.  That's a lot.
  
  Ryzen 3000 will be available July 7.
  
  Notably absent is the 16 core model.  Clearly AMD are waiting for Intel's 10 core CPU to come out so they can nuke it on launch day with something that is both cheaper and 50% faster.
  
  Side note: AMD could clean up in the small server market with the 3900X - Intel only have 6 core parts out so far.  But only ASRock are making server boards for AM4, and without at least Supermicro on board nothing is going to happen.
  
  
• Navi also peeked out from behind the curtain.  (AnandTech)
  
  Also appearing in July, it delivers 25% better performance per clock and 50% better performance per watt than Vega.  And it supports PCIe 4.0.
  
  The Radeon 5700, the initial launch part, was shown beating an RTX 2070 by 10%, which is exactly what AMD needed to do.  Obviously they would have selected a benchmark that shows the card in its best light; on the other hand this is a new architecture and driver optimisations will improve performance over time.
  
  
• The X570 chipset also showed up briefly and appears to have been pared down slightly from 16 PCIe 4.0 lanes to 12.  (AnandTech)
  
  Board makers were not happy with its power consumption, which required active cooling, so AMD split it into consumer and pro parts; the latter will have the full 16 lanes available.
  
  
• Threadripper aten't dead.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Speculation has been swirling after Threadripper was found dead in a pool of its own blood at the bottom of a staircase in a burned-out hotel in a small town in Kamchatka missing from a roadmap slide.  Lisa Su put the speculation to rest:

  I don't think that we ever said Threadripper was not going to continue, it somehow took on a life of its own on the internet. You will see more Threadrippers from us. You will definitely see more Threadrippers from us.

  
  
  
• Arm has also been busy and announced the Cortex A77, codenamed Deimos.  (AnandTech)
  
  This is Arm's first step towards a super-wide design like Apple's self-designed CPUs, increasing the instruction dispatch from 4 instructions per cycle to 6.  It's expected to deliver 20% better IPC than A76, and open the door to further improvements next year.
  
  For comparison, AMD and Intel desktop and server CPUs only dispatch 4 instructions per cycle.
  
  Arm also announced the Mali G77 GPU as a companion to the A77.  (AnandTech)
  
  This offers 30% better performance and 30% better efficiency over last year, and 60% better performance in offloading AI tasks.
  
  
• Qualcomm is letting people actually run benchmarks on their 8cx Arm laptop chip.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It performs almost identically to an Intel i5, with much better battery life.
  
  If your software has been cross-compiled for Arm.  If not, you're toast.
  
  
• Intel announced the i9-9900KS.  (PC Perspective)
  
  A bit confusing, but it's a 9900K with 5GHz all-core boost.  So...  Overclocked.
  
  TDP not specified but probably fictional anyway.
  
  
• DigitalOcean don't have an Australian datacenter (though they are deploying Australian CDN nodes), and Vultr don't have attached storage in their Sydney datacenter so I can't do the ZFS trick.  But home-grown cloud provider Binary Lane (which I still think is a play on DigitalOcean via Neil Gaiman) have configurable storage sizes and let you install custom ISOs.
  
  And they start at A$4 per month which is just ridiculously cheap.  So I'm moving my dev/test servers from Vultr to Binary Lane and my production web servers from Hivelocity to DigitalOcean.
  
  My backup server will stay with Hivelocity because (a) it works and (b) I'm not likely to find a better deal on 48TB of storage any time soon.  (No, I don't use 48TB of storage.  I just happen to have 48TB of storage.)
  
  
• Razer announced the Blade Studio Edition which still lacks the PgUp/PgDn/Home/End keys.  (AnandTech)
  
  
• Acer announced the ConceptD (how the hell do you pronounce that?) 7 mobile workstation.  (AnandTech)
  
  Which is exactly the same laptop as its existing ConceptD 7 laptop except now the graphics card is called "Quadro".
  
  Also, while this one does have the PgUp/PgDn/Home/End keys, the unfortunate colour and industrial design choices make it look like a $199 Chromebook from Malaysia.
  
  
• Corsair announced their Force Series MP600 SSDs highlighting the chief weakness of PCIe 4.0 in that they require a whacking great heatsink.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Expected to ship at the same time as Ryzen 3000, 4.95GB/s read, 4.25GB/s write.

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• MSI is closing in on my ideal monitor with a 34" ultra-wide 5120x2160 display.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  What I really want is a 12800x2880 curved screen so I can have five 2560x2880 apps with one perfectly centered and two on either side.  Right now I'm, um, "making do" with three 27" monitors.
  
  
• A benchmark of what appears to be a 6-core Ryzen 3000 CPU has leaked out as these things inevitably do as launch day approaches.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Despite having "only" six cores and a slower clock speed, it outperformed the current top-of-the-line Ryzen 2700X on both single and multi-threaded tests in Geekbench 4.  Not by a lot, but 6 cores vs. 8 cores and it still won.
  
  
• I tried that thing where you mount your DigitalOcean object storage as a filesystem.  It doesn't quite not work, but I can't recommend it.
  
  
• Handling 5 million bids per second with a 2ms response time.
  
  To deliver web ads.  Maybe you're overthinking this, guys.
  
  
• Everything is quiet right now because Computex starts in two days.  Expect a lot more news once that kicks off.

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