Thursday, February 13
Daily News Stuff 13 February 2020
Valentine's Day Antimacassar Edition
In short, it's still not out, apparently having had to go back into the oven at least twice.
There are B550A motherboards, which use the B450X chipset... Which is the B450. The difference is not in the chipset but in the motherboard itself: These boards use the old PCIe 3.0 chipset, but are qualified for PCIe 4.0 support from the CPU, for the first PCIe slot and the first M.2 slot. That's something AMD had hoped to enable on existing boards but then pulled in the final BIOS release due to some boards not actually working.
Valentine's Day Antimacassar Edition
Tech News
- Mobile World Congress cancelled, Daily News Stuff hardest hit. (AnandTech)
I wasn't expecting that, but probably a sensible move, given the international scope and number of attendees it typically draws.
Rest assured, though, this site will report all the news on the hundreds of almost identical 6.5" 2340x1080 devices coming out this year.
- Frank's 583" TV. (AnandTech)
8K and 120Hz. Actually, if this is based on the same modules we saw previously, it would have a native resolution of 16K.
- Can you catch the Wuhan Bat Soup Death Plague from your latest electronic toy drop-shipped from China? (Tom's Hardware)
Probably not. WBSDP can survive for days on surfaces under ideal conditions, but packages shipped out by air do not get to enjoy ideal conditions. If you want to give it a quick wipe down with disinfectant that wouldn't be overkill, but no need to panic.
- A Wordpress plugin that managed that annoying "Yes, give me your damn cookies" also turned out to let hackers, well, hack. (Bleeping Computer)
This seems to be the core function of every Wordpress plugin.
- People who are born blind don't get schizophrenia. (Vice)
Or maybe they do, but researchers can't find a single case, and statistically there should be hundreds in the US alone.
- The World Health Organisation has announced the official name of Wuhan Bat Soup Death Plague. (Science Alert)
It is "COVID-19", because they are very, very bad at naming things.
Video of the Day
Everything you ever wanted to know about AMD's elusive B550 chipset.
In short, it's still not out, apparently having had to go back into the oven at least twice.
There are B550A motherboards, which use the B450X chipset... Which is the B450. The difference is not in the chipset but in the motherboard itself: These boards use the old PCIe 3.0 chipset, but are qualified for PCIe 4.0 support from the CPU, for the first PCIe slot and the first M.2 slot. That's something AMD had hoped to enable on existing boards but then pulled in the final BIOS release due to some boards not actually working.
Disclaimer: Trust the computer. The computer is your friend.
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