• Microsoft blinked.  (AnandTech)
  
  As rumoured for the past couple of days, future versions of Edge will be based on Chromium and its Blink rendering engine.
  
  
• Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8cx aims to challenge Intel's Core i5 in laptops.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It works just fine until you want to run an x86 app, and then things rapidly become a whole lot less than fine.
  
  
• AT&T and Hulu had a bright idea: Play ads when you press the pause button.  (TechDirt)
  
  In unrelated news, the AT&T and Hulu's respective corporate offices burned to the ground tomorrow.
  
  
• AMD's new EPYC 7371 (still Naples, not Rome) is the fastest 16 core server CPU available - at half to a quarter the price of Intel's competing chips.  (Serve the Home)
  
  This is designed for Windows Server deployments, because licenses suddenly get a lot more expensive when you exceed 16 cores.  A lot more expensive.  So while AMD already offered a 24 core EPYC part - the 7401P - that is cheaper than the 7371, this higher-clocked 16 core chip provides nearly the same performance while saving $5000 per server on software licenses.
  
  
• Thank's to last-minute bipartisan support, Australia's garbage internet insecurity legislation has passed into law.  (Axios)
  
  Treacherous shitweasels, the lot of them.  (ZDNet)
  
  They pretty much said "we need to pass the bill to find out what's in it".
  
  
• The ACLU has gone the way of smallpox, but the EFF is still fighting idiotic government intrusions into free speech.  (TechDirt)
  
  In this case, the right of websites to make simple factual statements.  Yes, you guessed it, California, where truth causes cancer.
  
  
• Patreon is going on a purging spree.

Posted by: Rick C at Saturday, December 08 2018 01:48 AM (Q/JG2)

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