Saturday, June 08
Daily News Stuff 8 June 2024
On Beyond Zebra Edition
Song is Hall om mig by Nanne Gronvall. Anime is Princess Tutu, the greatest story ever told about a duck who saves the world through the power of ballet.
It's like... Someone took Swan Lake, turned it inside out, shook out all the parts, and put it back together, only somehow better and also even more weird.
Disclaimer: No ducks were harmed in the filming of this video. Much.
On Beyond Zebra Edition
Top Story
- Just in time for the weekend, there's a new critical security vulnerability in PHP. (Ars Technica)
Sysadmins worldwide panic.
On Windows.
Sysadmins worldwide go back to sleep.
If you have Chinese or Japanese language packs installed and run PHP on Windows, Windows itself will helpfully slip unsafe characters past the normal security mechanisms and into database queries where they will wreak havoc.
There are several fatal design flaws working together to make this a problem, and none of them are unique to PHP.
Though PHP is still awful and nobody should use it for anything, ever.
Tech News
- The twelve core Zen 5 Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 (yes, unfortunately that is its name) is only a little slower than the sixteen core Zen 4 Ryzen 7945HX3D. (Tom's Hardware)
And that's with the Zen 5 chip running in the lowest power "silent mode". In previous generations there were high and low power versions of laptop chips; with Zen 5 you can run the chip at anything from 15W to 54W - and even at the lowest setting it is very capable.
This was tested in an Asus laptop; my own Asus also has silent mode and it really works.
- Civilization 7 is due out next year. (WCCFTech)
I clocked up a fair bit of time back in the day with Civilization II. I got so good at it that even at higher difficulty settings I'd have nuclear weapons in the Middle Ages and launch my rocket to Alpha Centauri while my rivals were still messing about with sailing ships.
- Hackers breached a Disney Confluence server and stole confidential documents relating to the design and implementation of... Club Penguin. (Bleeping Computer)
Keep being weird, guys.
- Adobe isn't stealing your content, says Adobe. (Adobe)
Adobe did change its license terms to grant itself permission to steal your content, but Adobe says Adobe would never do that except in certain very specific circumstances, such as if it really wanted to.To be clear, Adobe requires a limited license to access content solely for the purpose of operating or improving the services and software and to enforce our terms and comply with law, such as to protect against abusive content.
Which terms are so broad you could launch a Boeing 737-800 from them without any risk of running out of runway.
- The Affinity suite (design, photo editing, and publishing) is half price right now. (Affinity)
Under $100 for the three applications on Windows, Mac, and iOS. No subscription fees, free upgrades.
- Microsoft is planning to encrypt the Recall database. (The Verge)
Problem: Microsoft claimed in the product announcement that the data was encrypted. They lied.
They also plan to make it opt-in, just like Windows 11 upgrades, or ads on your desktop.
Random Anime Music Video of the Day
Song is Hall om mig by Nanne Gronvall. Anime is Princess Tutu, the greatest story ever told about a duck who saves the world through the power of ballet.
It's like... Someone took Swan Lake, turned it inside out, shook out all the parts, and put it back together, only somehow better and also even more weird.
Disclaimer: No ducks were harmed in the filming of this video. Much.
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Weird takes on Swan Lake - my mind goes back to the old Mad magazine version...
Posted by: Frank at Saturday, June 08 2024 07:24 PM (HXB50)
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That new Ryzen 370 could be the base for a nice replacement for my 4900HS laptop at some point.
Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, June 08 2024 10:02 PM (BMUHC)
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It looks like a really good chip. I want to see how Strix Point Halo turns out with its 16 CPU cores and 40 graphics cores. If that can still work well at relatively low power (30-40 watts, not 15) it could be a killer.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Saturday, June 08 2024 11:00 PM (PiXy!)
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I'd buy one of those Ryzen 11 Al 480 iCD-ROM eBDSM.net things!
Posted by: normal at Sunday, June 09 2024 12:41 AM (bg2DR)
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Early Civ games were great, especially Civ 2, since they resolved many of the issues with Civ 1 and introduced great features. Civ 3 was a mixed bag, since it was overall an improvement over Civ 2 but they took away some of things that made Civ 2 fun. All the subsequent Civ games have increasingly go downhill, not the least is road coning how Firaxis expects you to win, instead of letting you choose the what path you want to win with.
Of course, Civ 2 was the base for the best Civ game of them all...Alpha Centauri. Alpha Centauri with the Alien Crossfire expansion pack is still my favorite PC game of all time.
Of course, Civ 2 was the base for the best Civ game of them all...Alpha Centauri. Alpha Centauri with the Alien Crossfire expansion pack is still my favorite PC game of all time.
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