Friday, June 14
Daily News Stuff 14 June 2024
Antiantivirus Edition
Antiantivirus Edition
Top Story
- Microsoft will be launching its new range of Copilot Plus laptops minus a key feature: Spyware. (The Verge)
Yes, Recall, widely considered to be one of the classic blunders right alongside never get involved in a land war in Asia and never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line is miraculously delayed.
- The first retail benchmarks of the new Copilot Plus laptops - based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chip - are disappointing. (Tom's Hardware)
This is probably a nothingburger though, because the scores are exactly what you would expect if the CPU was stuck at the 2.5GHz base clock and not boosting up to 4GHz.
Tech News
- Everything you ever wanted to know about the Snapdragon X Elite microarchitecture. (AnandTech)
8-wide decode feeding into 6 ALU, 4 FPU, and 4 load-store pipelines.
By comparison AMD's Zen 4 is a 4-wide decode.
- Designing a website without 404s. (Pillser)
The software figures out what the closest live URL is to what you are requesting, and redirects you.
Which is a great idea right up until it isn't. An incorrect URL could change content completely at any moment when an unrelated page with a slightly closer URL is created.
And never mind what happens when you get scraped by a poorly-behaved web spider that finds that every nonsensical random URL is giving it useful data...
- If you want better graphics in your next NUC and don't care how ugly it is - seriously, what the hell - The Asus ROG NUC might be just the thing. (Serve the Home)
It's a standard laptop CPU but adds a laptop RTX 4070.
- French courts have ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to poison their wells. (TorrentFreak)
Or more precisely, the public DNS entries for certain scofflaw websites.
VPNs, baby, I'm telling you.
- The generative AI version of Alexa isn't ready for release. (The Verge)
The problem? People expect it to work, and generative AI eats flaming hot Cheetos out of a sewer dumpster out of a sewer dumpster out of a sewer dumpster.
Disclaimer: Out of a <smack> ouch.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at
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Did not browsers once (maybe still?) use a search engine to find something that looked vaguely like the website you'd fumbled and redirect you to that? Type one letter wrong, hit enter, watch in horror as the whole browser slowly starts to grab some dreadful nonsense that you never wanted, try to stop it, eventually close the browser entirely because it's taking days to load. Now using the power of AI!
Posted by: normal at Friday, June 14 2024 08:07 PM (bg2DR)
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Correction, he's just using fuzzy matching. I guess I got AI stuck in my brain.
Posted by: normal at Friday, June 14 2024 08:40 PM (bg2DR)
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