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Daily Tech News 12 May 2021

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• Intel's high-end 11th generation Tiger Lake laptop parts are here - and they appear to actually be good. (AnandTech)
  
  AMD had a decisive edge in the laptop market with their eight-core processors, where Intel only went up to four cores with their newest chips. This fixes that, while retaining the new Ice Lake core and 10nm process. Tiger Lake on the desktop also goes up to eight cores but has been back-ported to the older 14nm process and as a result uses up to 300W at full load.
  
  No benchmarks just yet, so take any performance claims with a pound of salt, but current Ice Lake laptop parts do perform very well on single-core workloads.
  
  
  

Today we go back to... I don't know exactly. The original Cutie Honey aired in 1973 while the latest version, Cutie Honey Universe, came out in 2018. Cutie Honey creator Go Nagai has been writing manga longer than I've been alive.

This one in particular is from the 1995 second part of the New Cutie Honey OVA series. Oh, and fair warning, this is from 1995, before everything went to hell, so there are brief moments of partial nudity right in the opening credits.


Tech News

• Samsung's Exynos 2200 Arm processor is coming to laptops this year. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It will have Arm's latest X1 core and AMD's RDNA graphics, manufactured on Samsung's own 5nm process.
  
  If this is an even moderately open design and Samsung provides information to the Linux and BSD developers, I'm all for this. I don't criticise Apple simply because they are going to Arm-based chips, I criticise Apple because they are using that CPU switch as an opportunity to lock their devices down to the point of uselessness.
  
  And also because they run a walled app garden, prevent third party repair, and employ slave labour, all while preaching about how inclusive they are.
  
  
  
• Have you tried turning it off and on again?
  
  Negative, Houston, we're at 30,000 fucking feet. (The Register)
  
  Boing 787s, it appears, must be rebooted every 51 days to prevent "misleading data" being presented to pilots and the potential for onboard control systems to crash.
  
  Anyone with any experience in the industry - which I have come to conclude is about fifty people in the entire world - just took one look at that statement and said, Millisecond timer in an unsigned 32-bit int. Morons.
  
  
  
• Ford has patented new technology that lets your car scan billboards and display the ads right on your dashboard in case you were watching the road and needed the distraction. (Motor1)
  
  I think it was Karl Schroeder's novel Permanence where a major character had extremely illegal brain implants that basically did nothing but block ads.
  
  I should read that again. And Ventus as well.
  
  
  
• Journalists are shocked to find out that someone other than them is using propaganda. (AP)
  
  In this case, China.
  
  They're not against propaganda, mind you. This is a demarcation dispute.
  
  
  
• TVs from Chinese company Skyworth were maybe a little too aggressive in collecting your personal data. (South China Morning Post)
  
  They not only collected information on all the devices on your home network and sent it all back to a third-party company, but scanned all the WiFi access points in range and sent that back too.
  
  I wonder if there are any dumb TVs left on the market. There are large-format computer monitors, at least. Oh, there's one. Just one I can see at 4K, but several at 1080p.
  
  Oh, and the same Aussie retailer sells Skyworth sets. How ironic.
  
  
  
• US tech giants Apple, Google, and Microsoft, with a collective market cap of $5.5 trillion, are calling for government subsidies for chip production. (Reuters)
  
  Buy your own fucking chips you fucking freeloaders.
  
  
  
• Apple's developer website fell over. (9to5Mac)
  
  They had an outage for scheduled maintenance, and then an hour later the entire developer site as well as iTunes and the App Store all went down at once.
  
  Now, I feel some sympathy for the engineers involved because today I tried to migrate a critical server at work and everything worked perfectly except that the portable IP for the public interface would not port. Even though I'd just tested it with another IP from the same block.
  
  So, some sympathy. Just... Not very much.
  
  
  

Unexpectedly Apropos Hololive Music Video of the Day



Best doggo Korone has 1.5 million subscribers for a reason. She consistently shows impeccable taste in anime and video games that came out before she was born. Oh, and music too - in one of her Doom streams (so popular that the developers added an easter egg that changed the title to Doog) she started singing Lollipop by the Chordettes.

RGB Considered Harmful Video of the Day



Fake software for controlling your fancy new blinkenlights instead stole your crypto wallet. Sympathy.

Just... Not very much.


Aha, Found It Anime Openings Video of the Day




This syncs up the songs from Cutie Honey (1973), New Cutie Honey (1994), Cutie Honey Flash (1997), and Re: Cutie Honey (2004). The latest series, Cutie Honey Universe (2018) has an entirely different song.

I'd seen this before but the copy I had bookmarked has since been deleted; this is a fresh upload.

Disclaimer: Which is little short of sacrilege, to be honest.