Tuesday, January 21
Daily News Stuff 21 January 2020
Paper Panther Edition
Paper Panther Edition
Tech News
- Intel's high-end Xe DG2 graphics chips will be manufactured on TSMC's 7nm process unless they won't. (WCCFTech)
That's gotta sting unless it doesn't.
- Intel also took a break from showing off oversized NUCs to leak a normal-sized NUC that you can't get. (PC Perspective)
The NUC 11 Performance model - codenamed Panther Canyon - will reportedly come with a 28W Tiger Lake U CPU with integrated Xe graphics, a PCIe 4.0 M.2 slot, HDMI 2.1, mini DisplayPort 1.4, two Thunderbolt 3 ports, three USB 3.1 ports, 2.5Gb Ethernet, and WiFi 6.
If the integrated Xe graphics are at least competent those will be nice little systems. But since Tiger Lake U is only a 4 core part, a Ryzen 4700U would thoroughly squish them.
- This explains why VMS chooses to treat the year 2000 as a leap year.
-
How to corrupt your SQLite database. (SQLite.org)
Absolute power, or running it on older versions of NFS.
- 160,000 data breach notifications have been submitted since GDPR came into effect. (ZDNet)
As best I can tell that is everyone in Europe who actually has any customer data at all, and multiple times over at that.
- LastPass is apparently suffering a partial outage affecting long-standing user accounts. (ZDNet)
Currently they don't know the cause, but it only affects accounts originally created in 2014 or earlier. Since LastPass has been around since 2008, that is not necessarily a small number.
- The PlayStation 5 will launch this October for US $499 unless it won't. (Reddit)
The leak is on Reddit via 4chan so make of it what you will. Maybe a hat, or a little boat.
- So, Google messed up their search results page by splattering favicons everywhere. I tried DuckDuckGo but it was no better, and then briefly used Bing, which provided better formatting of results - but worse results. At least on whatever the hell it was I was searching for at the time.
Turns out that if you click on the Settings dropdown on DuckDuckGo you can turns those annoying icons off, change the typeface and font size, pick a theme, and generally make it look and work exactly the way you want.
Well, that's one less Google application I'm tied to.
- 2020 AV2 is not a torrent download listing but an asteroid that resides entirely within the orbit of Venus. (EarthSky)
And is thus safe to click on except that it is probably red hot.
It is the first known asteroid that orbits entirely within the orbit of Venus, though there are a handful that cross Venus's orbit.
- Tesla says you're holding it wrong. (Tech Crunch)
And since they have detailed telemetry data they're very likely right. But then so was Audi and their sales still cratered for ten years.
Disclaimer: It is not enough merely to be proven right; you must also be seen to rub the other guy's face in it.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at
10:39 PM
| Comments (3)
| Add Comment
| Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 492 words, total size 5 kb.
1
"If the integrated Xe graphics are at least competent those will be nice little systems."
For some value of competent, they probably will be. The Iris Pro graphics in the i7-6770hq were significantly better than the base graphics, because there were nearly triple the EUs (64 vs 24, IIRC?) and the EDRAM. You could see it in faster framerates in the same game compared to a chip with the regular 24 EU graphics. At the same time, of course, it isn't in the same league as any but the wimpiest dGPUs--a Radeon R7 250 would run rings around Iris Pro. IIRC, I could get around 40fps on stock Minecraft 1.7 with Iris Pro, and maybe 20fps on regular Iris.
For some value of competent, they probably will be. The Iris Pro graphics in the i7-6770hq were significantly better than the base graphics, because there were nearly triple the EUs (64 vs 24, IIRC?) and the EDRAM. You could see it in faster framerates in the same game compared to a chip with the regular 24 EU graphics. At the same time, of course, it isn't in the same league as any but the wimpiest dGPUs--a Radeon R7 250 would run rings around Iris Pro. IIRC, I could get around 40fps on stock Minecraft 1.7 with Iris Pro, and maybe 20fps on regular Iris.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, January 22 2020 12:45 AM (Iwkd4)
2
Re LastPass: Makes me glad I use an offline pw repo.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, January 22 2020 12:48 AM (Iwkd4)
3
"Tesla also questions the validity of the petition, noting that it was submitted by a Tesla short-seller."
Apparently Musk really really hates short-sellers.
Apparently Musk really really hates short-sellers.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, January 22 2020 12:52 AM (Iwkd4)
53kb generated in CPU 0.0397, elapsed 0.1308 seconds.
58 queries taking 0.1212 seconds, 349 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.
58 queries taking 0.1212 seconds, 349 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.