Daily Tech News 9 May 2021

• AMD's upcoming Rembrandt APU will feature 8 Zen 3+ cores and 12 RDNA2 GPU cores with support for PCIe 4.0, USB 4, and DDR 5 on TSMC's 6nm process unless it doesn't. (WCCFTech)
  
  The two big changes are the much faster integrated GPU, and the much faster DDR5 memory support to match. One isn't really much good without the other. AMD hasn't released PCIe 4.0 for laptop parts yet because of the increased power consumption, so this will be the first part with that as well.
  
  These are expected to arrive early next year for both laptops and desktops, with the updated Zen 4 desktop CPUs coming later in the year. Both will require new motherboards, because DDR5 memory uses a different socket. (Not unreasonable since it runs twice as fast.)
  
  Straight Zen 3+ CPUs have reportedly been cancelled, but this will combine Zen 3 CPU cores with RDNA 2 graphics for the first time. The new Xbox and PlayStation consoles have RDNA 2 graphics but use the older Zen 2 cores.
  
  

• We've reached peak web, and started going backwards. (Datagubbe)
  
  And the trend is accelerating.
  
  
  
• How to do things to stuff. (KalkiCode)
  
  A helpful and pretty comprehensive collection of datastructures and algorithms, with code examples for each one in 10 programming languages plus PHP and JavaScript.
  
  
  
• I guess a quad-core Arm computer with 1GB of RAM is enough to reboot another computer. (Serve the Home)
  
  It's a Raspberry Pi turned into a remote KVM adaptor - which is pretty handy if you have non-standard hardware without it built in. We run some Threadripper nodes remotely that don't have motherboard KVM and it's kind of annoying if we have to open a support ticket just for a reboot.
  
  We'll be replacing those this year with Epyc servers, once they finish rebuilding the datacenter. Because, yes, they're there in Utah.
  
  
  
• And a pound of sugar, and a spoon.
  
  

  you’d be surprised . a lady ordered this in person with a completely straight face 😐 pic.twitter.com/2OuTuN3Hti

  — baby velociraptor (@tunafishpro) May 3, 2021

  
  
  
  
• Colonial Pipeline, which apparently distributes 45% of the fuel for the US east coast, is offline following a cyberattack. (ZDNet)
  
  That's gonna suck.
  
  
  
  

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