Tuesday, April 29
Daily News Stuff 29 April 2025
Songbirds And Cockroaches Edition
Songbirds And Cockroaches Edition
Top Story
- We didn't get hacked or hit by ransomware. We didn't need to. We run Oracle. (CNBC)
45 hospitals belonging to Tennessee-based Community Health Systems lost access to all their electronic records for five days because... Oracle accidentally deleted them.
Tech News
- The Radeon 9070 GRE is up for pre-order in China with cards shipping May 8. (Tom's Hardware)
At a price that will excite no-one since this 12GB card costs more than the MSRP of the 16GB 9070.
- PyXL is a chip that runs Python. (RunPyXL)
In hardware. Albeit at 100MHz on an FPGA.
How fast it is really is unclear but it achieves a 30x reduction in latency for simple I/O tasks common on embedded systems.
Though it's not clear how directly it runs the Python bytecode, since the notes mention that it compiled into PyXL assembly before running.
- Moving away from Rust. (Dead Money)
Not because the language is bad, necessarily. If I were writing a new operating system kernel it would be a strong contender.
But most people are not writing new operating system kernels.
- Writing a computer game without a game engine. (Karl Zylinski)
Caught between Unreal Engine and its problems, Unity and its license, and Godot and its absolute barking insanity? Why not try none of them!
- How to soft-brick an iPhone in a perpetual boot loop and collect a $17,500 bug bounty from Apple. (rambo.codes)
Though this specific instance has been fixed - probably - and you'll need to find your own.
- The Boox Mira Pro Color is a 3200x1800 25-inch e-ink colour display. (Notebook Check)
And it costs just $1899.
No, I didn't add a digit at the end there. Or at the beginning. Or in the middle.
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