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Wednesday, November 03
Daily News Stuff 3 November 2021
Power Of The Babe Edition
Power Of The Babe Edition
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- Looks like congratulations are in order for the good people of the Commonwealth of Virginia, including my friend Brickmuppet.
- Mark Zuckerberg's goal is the world of Karl Schroeder's Permanence. (Vice)
When everything is monetised, only the monets will ever... Wait, how does that go again?
- Zillow decided to use their price tracking data and clever AI to flip houses wholesale. They lost their shirts. (MarketWatch)
In fact, they lost over half a billion dollars worth of shirts, which is a lot of shirts.
What a shame.
Tech News
- Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition project and deleting all the related data. (Bleeping Computer)
Also, I have a great deal to offer on beachfront timeshares in Wyoming.
- Over 30,000 GitLab servers have a serious unpatched vulnerability. (Bleeping Computer)
GitLab is great. It's one of the best pieces of open source software out there, and I use it every day. You still need to keep it up to date.
- A deep dive into Google's new Tensor chip, powering the Pixel 6. (AnandTech)
It looks like this is similar to Samsung's Exynos 2100, but with a different CPU balance and a custom Google AI core. Which is much faster than the similar cores found in chips from Samsung and Qualcomm, but mostly on things you don't do on a phone.
Disclaimer: Who do? You do. Do what?
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Tuesday, November 02
Daily News Stuff 2 November 2021
Load Imbalancer Edition
Load Imbalancer Edition
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- An in-depth review of the Surface Pro8. (Thurrott.com
He judges it the best tablet PC you can buy, but there isn't that much competition right now. Apple doesn't make one, Dell's attempts kind of suck, and HP has a nice model but seems to hide it away where customers won't find it.
Tech News
- A new storage method can pack 500TB onto an optical disk using a technique known as notched quanta. (Tom's Hardware)
Albeit a glass disk rather than a more robust polymer like CDs, DVDs, and Blu-Rays.
Downside is it writes at CD speed, and can't be pressed in bulk like existing formats. But they're working on it.
- Nvidia's rumoured video cards only with more RAM are rumoured again. (WCCFTech)
This time it's a 3070 Ti with 16GB and a 3080 with 12GB, because... I dunno.
- MangoDB is an, um, thing. (MangoDB)
It's an interface that talks MongoDB wire protocol on one side and PostgreSQL on the other. Which is, um, useful I guess.
- Complexity is killing software developers. (InfoWorld)
The solution is to throw Node.js developers into a volcano. It may or may not appease the Volcano God, but at least you'll be rid of the Node.js guys.
- Some older MacBooks are being bricked by the MacOS whatever update. (MacRumors)
"Well, don't do that then" applies.
As bad as Windows updates can be, they generally don't destroy your computer.
Disclaimer: Generally.
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Monday, November 01
Daily News Stuff 1 November 2021
Everything Edition
Everything Edition
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- Microsoft insists on linking your Windows login to a cloud account. Now those cloud accounts are under attack. (Bleeping Computer)
Unexpectedly.
- Why everything is worse than the government is pretending.
For their part, the Federal Reserve and the Treasury Department say the weird, inflationary economy we're seeing right now is transitory. And they're probably right.
Yeah, it's going to get much worse.
Tech News
- Everything you didn't want to know about Intel's new Alder Lake CPUs and still won't know after reading the article because they haven't been announced yet but here it is anyway and were afraid to ask because you might get an answer. (Tom's Hardware)
A roundup of the announced facts pre-announcement.
- We still don't know what the hell is going on with neutrinos. (Quanta)
Devious little bastiches.
- Google Pixel 6 Pro: First impressions. (Thurrott.com)
- Google Pixel 6 Pro: Second impressions. (Thurrott.com)
It's a good camera and an okay phone. Sounds like the solution is Nova Launcher, which does for Android what Stardock does for Windows.
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