Wednesday, December 11
Daily News Stuff 11 December 2019
Plundervolt And Blightning Edition
Plundervolt And Blightning Edition
Tech News
- Plundervolt is a new Intel security flaw with a dramatic name that you don't need to worry about. (ZDNet)
It works by altering the operating voltage of the embedded secure enclave in your CPU so that it's no longer working properly and then examining the errors it coughs up.
If someone is able to do that to your system, they already have all your data and have retired to Argentina.
- Amazon insists those are they droids they're looking for. (ZDNet)
Having lost the JEDI contract to Microsoft they are now suing the government arguing that the decision was retribution for the incessant lies of their house newspaper The Washington Post.
- Is $52,599 too much for the Mac Pro? Yes. (ZDNet)
Not as much too much as you might expect, based on buying the exact same configuration elsewhere, but only an idiot would buy that exact configuration if they had any choice. A system based on a Threadripper 3970X - let alone the upcoming 3990X - would be far cheaper and run rings around it the Intel-based Mac Pro.
- Western Digital's Blue SN550 is faster than the Intel 660p at about the same price - $100 per TB. (AnandTech)
It's TLC, which means it should have more consistent performance, but it's DRAMless, which will slow things down. The 660p is QLC but has a DRAM cache - but that DRAM cache is only 256MB and can only do so much.
The 1TB 660p launched August last year at $200, so prices have dropped by 50% since then.
One downside of the SN550 is that it maxes out at 1TB, where the 660p (and the new 665p) go up to 2TB.
- Apple has sued its former chief CPU designer after he left to design CPUs of his own. (Tom's Hardware)
I don't think Apple has much of a case here. Non-compete clauses are unenforceable in California.
- Intel is planning to manufacture processors at 1.4nm in 2029. (Tom's Hardware)
Oh, wait, that's a fly speck. Maybe?
They also announced 10nm+++ for 2021.
- ZedRipper is a 16 core 83 MHzZ80 laptop running CP/M.
Because why wouldn't it be?
- Things developers don't care about but users do. (Instadeq)
It's just a bullet list, but it's a good bullet list. I am guilty of ignoring many, probably most of these. Though one Reddit commented accurately described it as "A list of features where the work involved for each is larger than the rest of the entire project."
- Do you want a micro-ATX socket LGA3467 server motherboard? No? here's one anyway. (Serve the Home)
This would make far more sense if it were a low-end CPU with three channel RAM and not a high-end CPU with six channel RAM.
- Chrome 79 is here and.... Meh. (ZDNet)
I need it for testing, but I'm moving back to Firefox.
- Oh look, spam. Bah.
Disclaimer: Bah, I say.
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