Daily Tech News 25 May 2021

• I think I've fixed the main page now. The template code somehow got mangled and was including multiple copies of posts and clogging up your browser, though the individual pages worked fine.
  
  I still get a warning from Safari about the page, but it certainly loads faster. I think Safari is just not a very good browser in general.
  
  
  
• On the plus side, if you're on MacOS, Mozilla just fixed a 21 year old problem in Firefox. (Bugzilla)
  

  Blake Ross
  Comment 5 | 21 years ago
  
  How easy/hard would this be?

  Well, I think that question got answered.

• AMD's Ryzen 5600H laptop part beats Intel's 11400H. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  By a tiny margin on single-threaded tasks, but a solid 28% on multi-threaded.
  
  The 5600H uses the latest Zen 3 cores, which is great but also really fucking annoying because the 5600U... No, wait, the 5600U is also Zen 3? So the 5700U and 5500U are Zen 2. I don't know, whatever. Chips is chips.
  
  These - the 5600H and 11400H - are 6-core parts for mid-range laptops, most likely to be found paired with something like an RTX 3060.
  
  

• No, I didn't get enough sleep last night, how did you guess?
  
  
  
• AMD's RDNA 3 and Nvidia's Lovelace family - both due next year - are expected to be more than twice as fast as the current cards that you can't get. (WCCFTech)
  
  Actually, I just checked, and my usual supplier has not only the 6700XT and 6900XT in stock, but also a small number of RTX 3060, 3070, and 3080 cards. The prices for the Nvidia cards are astronomical (and the AMD cards stratospheric), but they have them.
  
  
  
• Qualcomm has announced a developer kit for Windows on Arm. (Thurrott.com)
  
  Three years after they launched Windows on Arm, which raises the question of how the fuck they expected anything to be developed for it.
  
  It will be powered by Snapdragon 7c compute platform, which is, well... You know that cheap phone I bought recently, which had a three-year-old SOC that didn't use the latest Arm core even when it was new? The Snapdragon 7c is slower than that.
  
  
  
• Apple is looking to remove the ability to boot from an external drive. (Apple Insider)
  
  Apple seems intent on crippling third-party tools that can back up your boot volume, while their own backup utility often fails for no reason.
  
  Also, if the internal drive on your new Arm-based Mac - which is soldered in place and encrypted by a chip that is also soldered in place - if that drive dies, you can't boot, even if you have a bootable backup. You're simply fucked.
  
  
  
• China is cracking down on crypto mining. (South China Morning Post)
  
  Okay. Sure. You do that. Have fun.
  
  
  

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