• Got up early to get something fixed at worked - looked like a two hour job.
  
  By the end of the day it had clearly turned into a two day job, so that was fun.
  
  
  
• Google is bringing something new to its AI-powered search: Ads.  (The Register)
  
  Ads.  Lots of ads.  On Google.
  
  The websites that Google scours for its content get nothing.
  
  
  
• Six search engines worth trying now that Google has shit not only its own bed but everyone else's bed.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  I use DuckDuckGo (have for years) and Brave.  DuckDuckGo was originally noticeably less complete than Google, but Google has fixed that by diligent strategic incompetence.

• The TanStack supply-chain breach that I noticed but did not report on here has expanded to 3800 GitHub repositories.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Vectored via a GitHub employee.  Sometimes AI isn't the worst thing.
  
  
  
• Google accidentally leaked details of an unpatched Chromium flaw.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Unpatched since December.
  
  December 2022.
  
  Chromium is the engine underlying Chrome, Edge, Brave, Vivaldi, and other browsers.
  
  
  
• AMD is ramping up production of its new 256-core Zen 6 Epyc server CPU.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's claimed to be 70% faster than existing 192-core Zen 5 models, which is plausible since it also jumps from TSMC's 4nm process to 2nm.  Server CPUs are limited by power and heat more than raw clock speeds, and 2nm uses a lot less power.
  
  
  
• Lisuan Tech's new 7G100 graphics card is...  A graphics card.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It exists.  It actually works, which requires a lot of work.  And at around $500 it's not the most expensive option.
  
  The article notes the Nvidia's previous-generation low-end RTX 4060 is 20% to 70% faster, but that's not correct.  The 7G100 actually delivers 20% to 70% of the performance of the 4060.
  
  
  
• The Flipper 1 is not one more than the Flipper 0.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The Flipper 0 is a pen-testing (security testing) multitool, a single device that can scan for security issues on a range of wired and wireless connection methods.
  
  The Flipper 1 while keeping the same multi-tool form factor is a general purpose Linux computer that you can clip to your belt.  Perfect for technicians who need to be able to plug into whatever device you have locally and figure out why it's not talking...  Whether they should be doing that or not.
  
  
  

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