Tuesday, December 16
Daily News Stuff 16 November 2025
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- Merriam Webster names "slop" the word of the year. (Tech Crunch)
Good work, dictionary. Have a cookie.
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- LG has force-installed Microsoft Copilot on its smart TVs. (Tom's Hardware)
And you can't remove it.
Planning to buy Samsung instead? Same deal with their TVs and Google Gemini.
- The KTC H27P3 is a 5k monitor. (The Verge)
It covers 99% of the DCI-P3 colour space and offers 500 nits of brightness and a 2000:1 contrast ration. Only 60Hz at full resolution, but if you drop it down to 2560x1440 it can handle 120Hz. HDMI, DisplayPort, and USB-C are on offer for inputs. It nominally offers 10-bit colour but that's through PWM - it's really just a regular 8-bit panel.
All of that stuff is commonplace in semi-professional monitors, so why mention it?
According to the article (I couldn't verify this myself) it's currently discounted to $355 on Amazon.
- How the CIA lost a radioisotope thermoelectric generator. (New York Times)
The article refers to it as a "nuclear device" every single time, trying to play up the danger, citing concerns that it might break down and pollute the pristine waters of... The Ganges.
Anyway, they know exactly where it is. At the top of a mountain. Probably.
- Hard drive prices soared in the most recent quarter along with everything else. (Tom's Hardware)
By 4%.
- Searching UTF-8 text at 5GB/s using AVX-512. (Ash Vardanian)
It's an impressive trick, but mostly because Unicode (and UTF-8 in particular) is utterly insane.
- That mini-PC I just bought now costs only $40 more than the RAM it contains. The exact model and speed of RAM - 2x32GB Crucial DDR5-5600 SO-DIMMs.
Since it also contains a 1TB M.2 SSD - a pretty basic Kingston model but at least it's PCIe 4.0 - the price of the computer itself is around -$130.
It's back on sale for the same price. Well, $3 more. Close enough.
Yes, I bought another one.
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