Thursday, October 11
Daily News Stuff 11 October 2018
Tech News
- Phoronix tests application performance scaling on a 64-core AMD Epyc server.
Some applications scale better than others, which is to be expected, but some scale better than linearly - that is, going from 1 thread to 64 threads gives a more than 64x performance increase - which is not expected.
- Scientific Reports, a journal run by Nature (one of the top scientific publications in the world) ran an article promoting homeopathy for pain relief. (Ars Technica)
And that wasn't even the primary problem with the article.
Not a good month for journalism in any field.
Social Media News
- WhatsApp had a tiny bug that would let people hack your phone by calling it. (Bleeping Computer)
- Breitbart claims to have obtained a leaked Google document titled The Good Censor discussing how social media has moved from free speech to open censorship, and how to be a better censor.
I think it's legitimate - there's nothing surprising in the document if you've been following this nonsense over the last decade.
- Facebook supported the generally terrible FOSTA legislation. Now they're being sued under that same law. (TechDirt)
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