• TSMC says that its work towards 1.4nm technology is progressing well, with 90% yield on SRAM dies and 90% of targeted performance on logic circuits. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  1.4nm is the node after the 2nm node that we are expecting to see late this year, so it won't reach production until at least 2028.  A 90% yield this early is a good sign.
  
  
  
• AI datacenters must produce as much energy as they consume, says retarded communist and part-time Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Alexa, please repeal the laws of thermodynamics.
  
  
  
• The Zilog Z80 has turned 50. (Goliath32)
  
  As has that website.
  
  
  
• Microsoft's new Surface Laptop is here with its complement of eight whole gigabytes of RAM. (The Verge)
  
  That's plenty for Linux, and tolerable for MacOS. Running Windows 11 it's a miserable experience.
  
  
  
• The Redmagic Astra 2 tablet is here, with a 9" 185Hz OLED screen, a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 CPU, up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, and... Active cooling? (Liliputing)
  
  The one thing I want from a tablet is not to have a fan whining at me.
  
  
  
• The Lenovo Legion Y700 Infinite tablet is here, with an 8.8" OLED display, a Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 CPU, up to 24GB of RAM and 1TB of storage, and... Passive cooling, apparently. (Notebook Check)
  
  It's going the be horribly expensive and I just picked up their Gen 3 model at half price so I'm not even tempted, but at least it's silent.
  
  
  
• Beelink's new ME Pro 370 is a NAS with a Ryzen 370 12-core laptop CPU, supporting two or four 3.5" hard drives, three M.2 SSDs, and... Up to 256GB of RAM? (Notebook Check)
  
  That seems unlikely, because that amount would require four 64GB DDR5 modules, and nobody is putting four SODIMM slots in consumer equipment.
  
  I have ten DDR5 SODIMMs. Believe me, I've looked.

1 A less idiotic way of saying that thing about data centers would be to mandate that if a data center is planned to consume 1 GW, the company putting in the data center must also contract to put in a new power plant putting out 1 GW.

But very few politicians are going to say that, because new power plants = CO2 = sad Gaia. Idiots.

A while back, like a couple decades ago, I was thinking "Well, if this 'CO2 causes global warming' nonsense continues, at least it'll lead to more of a push for nuclear power". I was naive: many of the people screaming about CO2 are doing so for political power, not because of the actual issues. Who was it who accidentally said the quiet part out loud? I can't remember, but it was something like "We're not trying to sovle the climate issue, we're trying to smash capitalism". Really gave the game away.

Besides, the same people panicking about CO2 would also panic if someone proposed a nuclear plant in their area. Personally, I would be the president of the "Yes, In My Back Yard" society; I would love to see a new nuclear plant going in right across the street from me. But that's because I actually understand how they work. Which most of those NIMBYists don't.

2 P.S. Pixy, I tried to spell "naive" with an i-plus-diaresus character but got an error from line 648 of Form.py: ascii codec can't encode `0xef`. The offending line:
print('Akismet check %s in %0.3fs on %s %s %s "%s"' % ('error' if aki_err else 'accept' if aki_ok else 'reject', time.time()-taki, tags.get('form.name',''), tags.get('form.web',''), tags.get('form.mail',''), text))
You probably need to slap a (text if type(text) == 'str' else text.decode('utf-8', 'backslashreplace') at the end of that line instead of "text"; this is probably also why I couldn't use an em dash character a few days ago. (Note that I haven't tested that Python code in an actual Python file, just typed it into the text box here, so there might be errors in it. Caveat coder).