Daily Tech News 20 August 2021

• Intel spoke about their Alder Lake 12th generation desktop parts. (AnandTech)
  
  It supports DDR5 RAM up to 4800MHz, which we've seen is not much faster than DDR4 at 3200MHz (except when it is), an 16 lanes of PCIe 5.0 and 4 lanes of PCIe 4.0. Plus from the chipset up to 12 lanes of PCIe 4.0 and 16 lanes of PCIe 3.0.
  
  Which means they've done something really dumb. The one place that needs more bandwidth, and that Intel has total control over, is the interface between the CPU and the chipset. Make that 4 lanes of PCIe 5.0 and you can actually use all those downstream lanes.
  
  But that's exactly what they didn't.
  
  Oh, and it has 8 fast cores and 8 slow cores, which is basically useless on a desktop.
  
  But they are also promising a 19% improvement on IPC, which if real is definitely not useless.
  
  
  

• Intel's GPU team has gone chuunibyou. (WCCFTech)
  
  It's a Japanese term literally meaning "second year disease", referring to kids in their second year of middle school who get a little too into their hobbies.
  
  I mention this because the upcoming generations of graphics chips from Intel are named Alchemist, Battlemage, Celestial, and Druid.
  
  
  
• More collisions in Apple's NeuralHash, both artificial and natural. (Roboflow)
  
  If you look at the photos that Apple thinks are the same, you'll understand why people are worried. They say that Apple's "1 in a trillion" number for false matches is close to the mark, but that's a long way from saying there's a 1 in a trillion chance of someone being falsely accused. That number is closer to 1 in 1.
  
  
  
• Anyone can post a job opening on LinkedIn as any company. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  But that company can't take the offer down.
  
  
  
• OnlyFans is Tumblrising itself. (Bloomberg)
  
  Don't ask me. I don't know and don't want to know.
  
  
  
• TikTok plans to collect biometric data on its users. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Because of course they do.
  
  

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