• Every country's government has its own flavour of idiocy. South Korea has made paying someone to help you increase your rank in video games a criminal offence. (Tech Dirt)
  
  
• The Qualcomm vs. Apple mess is... Well, it's a mess. (Fudzilla)
  
  One of those situations where you wish for a way that both sides could lose.
  
  
• Huawei's Nova 4 has an eyehole rather than a notch. (WCCFTech)
  
  Just the one. Probably a pirate.
  
  
• Pampy is pattern matching for Python.
  
  Nothing to do with regular expressions, though it can use regular expressions. This can answer questions like, if we have sequence 1, 2, 3, and a second sequence 1, 2, x, what is x?
  
  Okay, that seems simple and obvious, but the point is, you don't need to tell the computer what you mean or how to do it. You just say, here are two sequences of, well, anything - numbers, words, dates, other sequences - find the missing term.
  
  
• Pampy.js is pattern matching for Python for JavaScript.
  
  It's 258 lines of code with no dependencies. In the JavaScript world that deserves the Nobel Prizes for both Literature and Peace.
  
  
• A roundup of details of Intel's next platform, Sunny Cove. (The Next Platform)
  
  These new chips increase the size of physically addressable RAM to 128PB. It's 64TB on current chips, and that's actually getting to be a problem.
  
  Of more interest to most people is the new GPU architecture, which will increase the total number of EUs (European Unions) from 48 to 64 (actually 72, but it looks like only 64 will be enabled).
  
  Most current Intel chips only have 24 EUs (or even just 12); only the Iris Plus and Iris Pro parts have 48, and they only come in a limited range of configurations. The 2017 Spectre X2 I have, for example, has dual core i7 with Iris Plus, while the 2018 Elite X2 has a quad core i7 with regular UHD graphics - 24 EUs.
  
  It's expected that the higher EU count parts will be more common in the next generation, though possibly without the L4 cache found in Iris Plus (64MB) and Pro (128MB).
  
  
• Jim VandeHei and Mike Allen of Axios are morons.

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1 8GB of RAM, and, like my Mi, it'll probably aggressively kill apps 30 seconds after they get backgrounded, completely obviating the point of so much RAM (which, under Linux, would normally go to program buffers, i.e., keeping lots of programs suspended in the background.  Great job, guys!)  (Camera hole?  That's only slightly less stupid than a notch.  Just stop until you figure out how to put the camera behind the screen, and ignore twits like Ron Amadeo, the No-Bezel Emperor.
Can that JS library pattern match "anaconda, ball python, cobra, x"?
"These new chips increase the size of physically addressable RAM to 128PB."  New socket LGA-2020, coming in 2020, to handle the extra address lines!

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