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Tuesday, April 29

Daily News Stuff 29 April 2025

Songbirds And Cockroaches Edition

We didn't get hacked or hit by ransomware. We didn't need to. We run Oracle. (CNBC)

45 hospitals belonging to Tennessee-based Community Health Systems lost access to all their electronic records for five days because... Oracle accidentally deleted them.

The Radeon 9070 GRE is up for pre-order in China with cards shipping May 8. (Tom's Hardware)

At a price that will excite no-one since this 12GB card costs more than the MSRP of the 16GB 9070.
PyXL is a chip that runs Python. (RunPyXL)

In hardware. Albeit at 100MHz on an FPGA.

How fast it is really is unclear but it achieves a 30x reduction in latency for simple I/O tasks common on embedded systems.

Though it's not clear how directly it runs the Python bytecode, since the notes mention that it compiled into PyXL assembly before running.
Moving away from Rust. (Dead Money)

Not because the language is bad, necessarily. If I were writing a new operating system kernel it would be a strong contender.

But most people are not writing new operating system kernels.
Writing a computer game without a game engine. (Karl Zylinski)

Caught between Unreal Engine and its problems, Unity and its license, and Godot and its absolute barking insanity? Why not try none of them!
How to soft-brick an iPhone in a perpetual boot loop and collect a $17,500 bug bounty from Apple. (rambo.codes)

Though this specific instance has been fixed - probably - and you'll need to find your own.
The Boox Mira Pro Color is a 3200x1800 25-inch e-ink colour display. (Notebook Check)

And it costs just $1899.

No, I didn't add a digit at the end there. Or at the beginning. Or in the middle.

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