• AMD and Cooler Master show off their giant air cooler for the upcoming 32 core ThreadRipper.  Water cooling is clearly a more practical choice here, but not actually required.
  
  
• AMD and ASRock show off a workstation motherboard for the existing 32 core EPYC CPUs, taking advantage of the chip's 128 PCIe lanes for 4 x16 and 3 x8 slots.
  
  
• AMD's Forrest Norrod says "We are going to crush Intel like a bug!  A bug!  Mwahahahaha!"*   Update: Bug-in-chief flees in terror.

• Europe's kill-the-internet copyright bill passes out of committee heading for a full vote in the Diet of Worms next month.
  
  
• Samsung showed off its 7nm EUV process at this year's XVLSI Symposium.  EUV is the big new thing in lithography; it saves multiple steps in production compared to older methods, but is apparently something of a bitch to work with, since you can't, for example, focus the beam with a lens of any known material.
  
  
• IMEC furthers high mobility nanowire FETs for nodes beyond 5nm or possibly makes a breakthrough in X-ray crystallography of living filoviruses, hard to tell.
  
  
• Just say NAML to YAML.
  
  
• Erlang turns 21.  Only problem is, it's still Erlang.  On the plus side, it's not PHP or JavaScript.  Or Java.  Or Go.
  
  
• Mouse devours Fox, creating world's largest ball of failure.

• Programming Ethereum contracts is like writing accounting software in 6502 assembler except that you need to hire an intern to keep turning the crank or the computer crashes and steals all your money and flees to the Bahamas with your cat.
  
  – Me
  
  
• If you need 19GB per second of I/O, Asus has you covered. You'll also need a high-end desktop - ThreadRipper or Core i9 - to have enough PCIe lanes.
  
  
• TechDirt reports on a trademark cockup.
  
  MR. REUBER: Your Honor, if I may?
  
  
  THE COURT: No. You are out of the case.
  
  
  MR. REUBER: I understand, your Honor. But I penned the brief, and there is an error that my client alerted me to this morning in the brief. Specifically, it is first one you just read, Bite Me Cocky, published in 2012. He has learned that that title may have changed as a result of the Cockygate sort of disputes. It might have been originally published as Bite Me and not Bite Me Cocky. I just wanted to point that out.
  
  
• OpenBSD has disabled hyperthreading as a security precaution. This is not a new vulnerability, but rather to preempt the discovery of new vulnerabilities.

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• The EU is busy cementing its self-assigned role as internet cancer, with YouTube an opportunistic infection.
  
  
• AMD offers old chips for new.  Swap your 8086 for a 16-core ThreadRipper!  If you have the right version of the 8086, that is.
  
  
• Humble Bundle has some book bundles that might interest my audience
  
  
• Programmable Boards (Arduino, Raspberry Pi and more)
• Manga collections (Battle Angel Alita, Seven Deadly Sins, Ghost in the Shell)
• D&D 5e Adventures  (Third party, not TSR / WotC.)
  
  
• Intel's rumoured 8 core Coffee Lake S has shown up on...  Intel's own website.  I think the rumours are pretty well confirmed at this point.
  
  AMD are widely expected to fire back next year with a 12 core mainstream Ryzen.  And so it goes.
  
  
• The Internet of Idiotic Things (IoIT) strikes again with an electronic padlock that can be unlocked by anyone with a smartphone in two seconds.
  
  Or anyone with a web browser even faster.

• Tonight we're gonna party like it's 1987 or thereabouts.
  
  
• If you're using IBM Bluemix (née SoftLayer) their file storage can automatically keep up to 50 snapshots on any mix of hourly, daily, and weekly schedules...  Until it runs out of snapshot space anyway.  (Maximum snapshot space is the same size as the disk.)
  
  
• My heater died.  My toes are cold.

• Out of news error.  Redo from start.

• Firefox is working to build a better news feed than Facebook. Possibly using lightly concussed hedgehogs.
  
  
• THT is a new language combines the elegant syntax of JavaScript with the robust semantics of PHP. Or possibly vice-versa. For people you really, really hate.
  
  
• Bird, the scooter-littering startup, has a valuation of $1 billion. Buy gold*
  
  
• Microsoft is not rewriting Office in JavaScript.
  
  Nor Skype, though given the present state of Skype that might be an improvement. As would the aforementioned hedgehogs.
  
  
• The Economist reports on an exciting technological breakthrough that would allow buildings to be constructed out of plant-based matter.
  
  
• If Niue ever gets too crowded be prepared to change your links to mee.bv.

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• Intel bitten by yet another speculative execution bug along the lines of Spectre and Meltdown. This one is called LazyFP. Looks like a good time to be an AMD investor.*
  
  
• If you work with MongoDB, dbKoda offers an administration and development front end similar to those available for SQL databases. Now in 1.0 release.
  
  
• PCIe 4.0 doesn't come without costs, mostly in terms of, um, costs. A single PCIe 4.0 x16 slot could add $25 in materials to a motherboard. PCIe 5.0 is even more expensive.
  
  On the other hand, Megtron-6 sounds like a Go Nagai series.
  
  
• 802.11ax is here, more or less. This is the successor to 802.11ac, with major speed advantages for crowded spaces with many wifi users. (Less so for single users.)
  
  Note that this is a separate and distinct standard from 802.11ad (60 GHz ultra-fast line-of-sight), 802.11ay (60 GHz medium-range), and 802.11ah (ultra low power networking for IoT).

• dbKoda 1.0 15 Jun 2018
• MongoDB 4.0.0-rc5 12 Jun 2018

• Elasticsearch 6.3 13 Jun 2018 (initial SQL query support)

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• Python 3.7rc1 12 Jun 2018  (first release candidate for Python 3.7)

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