• Jensen Huang, CEO of Nvidia, says we should be full speed ahead and damn the torpedoes on AI.
  
  Hmm.
  
  
  
• In just the past six months, Nvidia has shot up from the fourth highest revenues in the semiconductor industries to take first place.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Based almost entirely on sales of high-end AI chips, which go for twenty times as much as similar chips for the gaming market.
  
  
  

Tech News

• Researchers have bypassed Windows Hello secure logins.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  All they needed to do was (checks notes) completely disassemble and rewire the laptop.
  
  Windows Hello is designed to be secure even if you do that, but that's a pretty difficult task when your partners building the CPUs, laptops, and fingerprint scanners fail to follow the specs.
  
  
  
• AMD's Ryzen 8000 laptop chips are expected to be announced early next year, likely at CES.  (WCCFTech)
  
  These are a major advance over the already very good Ryzen 7000 chips.  Although they still use Zen 4 cores, and are still limited to 8 cores, and still use RDNA3 graphics, and still only 12 graphics cores, and are still limited to DDR5 memory, and...
  
  Wait, these aren't an advance at all.  These are the same chips with the numbers changed.

Posted by: normal at Sunday, November 26 2023 12:21 PM (bg2DR)

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