Daily Tech News 4 November 2021

• Gen Z isn't going to solve your tech skills crisis. (ZDNet)
  
  Our most recent hires have been Gen X because, yeah, Gen Z can't code for shit.

• Australia is preparing for the launch of two lunar rovers. (The Conversation)
  
  One in a partnership with Japanese and Canadian companies, for launch in 2024, and one in partnership with NASA, for launch in 2026.
  
  The automated rovers will be tasked with searching the lunar soil for indicators of water. We know it's there, but we don't know much about how it is distributed.
  
  
  
• Minisforum has a new mini-PC based on the AMD 4700S. (WCCFTech)
  
  This chip is a recycled PlayStation 5 processor with failed graphics cores, and... It's not completely terrible. Memory is soldered onto the motherboard though, because the PS5 has no provision for anything else.
  
  
  
• Start11 is out of beta. (Thurrott.com)
  
  You still probably don't want to upgrade to Windows 11, but if you buy a new system new may be stuck with it.
  
  
  
• AMD's Zen 4, Zen 4D, and Zen 5 are on their way. (WCCFTech)
  
  Zen 4 is the big update due at the end of next year, with the new socket, and DDR5 and PCIe 5 support. Zen 4D is an alternate version of Zen 4 that packs 16 cores onto each chiplet rather than the current 8, at the expense of cache size. Which might mean a 32-core chip for standard desktops, but might also find its way only into servers.
  
  Zen 5 is the next big iteration after that, and will come in a mix-and-match configuration - one Zen 5 die and one Zen 4D die. So 8 of the fastest cores available and 16 cores that are merely very good.
  
  Zen 5 is expected at the end of 2023 - a much shorter schedule than Zen 4. There was originally planned to be a Zen 3+ out around now, but most versions of that got cancelled to focus resources on Zen 4 and Zen 5.
  
  
  
• The McRib is now an NFT. (Yahoo)
  
  Can't eat NFTs. Well, I have celiac so I can't eat McRibs either, so for me there's not a whole lot of difference.
  
  
  

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