• Full details of Intel's new range of workstation CPUs are out.  (AnandTech)
  
  Prices start at $359 for a 6 core part, with 4 memory channels supporting up to 2TB of RAM, and 64 lanes of PCIe 5.0.  Except you can't buy that one, it's OEM-only.
  
  Price for a 16 core model is $1389 with 4 channel RAM and 64 PCIe lanes, or $1589 with 8 channel RAM and 112 PCIe lanes.  That's not a big difference but the motherboards for the latter version are likely to cost more as well.
  
  It's likely to be slower than AMD's Ryzen 7950X - clock speeds are lower by about 1GHz - but if you need lots of RAM and/or PCIe slots it could be a viable option.
  
  Benchmarks coming at the end of the month I think.
  
  The chipset only comes with 2.5Gb Ethernet, which I think is a misfire.  Workstation class systems like this should have 10GbE as standard.

• What is ChatGPT doing, and why does it work?  (Stephen Wolfram)
  
  A good but fairly technical look into how ChatGPT and related systems work - how they put together text that seems to make some kind of sense - and also what their limitations are.
  
  
  
• I'm sorry Dave, I boiled your bunny.  (Simon Willison)
  
  Bing's new AI mode is not actually psychotic.  It just puts together words in such a way that make it look psychotic.
  
  And it does that a lot.
  
  
  
• Hyundai and Kia have patched a bug that let you steal their cars with a USB cable.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  You still have to break in to the care, but once in there's a convenient USB port that let you hotwire the car and bypass all the other security measures.
  
  
  
• The collapse of ZDNet is complete.  (ZDNet)
  
  They're busy promoting obviously fake SSDs.
  
  
  
• What's wrong with Google.  (Medium)
  
  It's an ad company, not a tech company.
  
  That's it, really.

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