Daily Tech News 13 July 2021

• The death toll from the massive Bat Flu outbreak that has paralysed Sydney and most of the state of New South Wales rose sharply overnight.
  
  To two.
  
  
  
• AMD's Threadripper 5000 is expected to launch in August. (WCCFTech)
  
  This upgrades the platform from Zen 2 and PCIe 3.0 to Zen 3 and PCIe 4.0, and also doubles the size of the L3 cache.
  
  This should provide a healthy performance boost for the 24 and 32 core models, but judging by the new Epyc CPUs the high-end 64 core models will be thermally constrained and won't do much better than the older parts.
  
  
  
• Speaking of being thermally constrained, my PC just overheated and crashed because it forgot to spin up its fan. So I get to type all this in again.
  
  
  

• Do not Google the term "rainbow dildo butt monkey".
  
  
  
• OpenSearch has reached 1.0. (OpenSearch)
  
  OpenSearch takes the last Apache-licensed release of Elasticsearch, fixes it, and ships it with advanced features like... Security.
  
  Elasticsearch roasted its own goat by refusing for years to include even the most basic authentication methods in their open source release, resulting in a string of massive data breaches. At one point this was happening every couple of days, all caused by one obviously stupid decision.
  
  
  
• SolarWinds has patched a critical vulnerability being actively exploited. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  No, not that one. Another one.
  
  
  
• Don't ever buy an iPhone. (ZDNet)
  
  ...
  
  ...
  
  ...
  
  In July.
  
  Oh. Don't ever buy an iPhone in July. Okay. Think I've got that covered. No worries.
  
  
  
• Plans are afoot to open a nuclear-powered Bitcoin mining facility in Pennsylvania. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Okay. Fine. Seriously, go for it.
  
  
  
• The Salton Sea could fill 40% of the world's demand for lithium. (Motherboard)
  
  For batteries, that is. There's not enough lithium in the solar system to stabilise the woke left.
  
  The advantage is that the Salton Sea - created by accident in 1905 - is already a highly toxic disaster area, so mining it for lithium is unlikely to make things much worse.
  
  
  
  
  

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