Daily Tech News 13 November 2021

• We're #1! Australia leads the world in coal emissions per capita. (Bloomberg)
  
  Part of the reason is there's little hydro capacity here. Part of it is the inexplicable refusal to build nuclear power, in a country that is geologically stable, has ample space to safely dispose of the waste, and has some of the worlds largest uranium reserves.

• A roundup of 50 DDR5 Z690 motherboards. (AnandTech)
  
  Slightly pointless because there's almost no DDR5 memory available, but if you want to splash out $2000 on the Asus ROG Maximum Z690 Extreme Glacial which is watercooled and has built-in LED and OLED displays and 5 M.2 slots you can't because it's also out of stock.
  
  
  
• Leaked benchmarks of Intel's upcoming 12700H laptop chip mark it as slower than the existing 11800H on all single-threaded tests. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's faster on multi-threaded tests, probably because it has 14 total cores instead of 8, but that does need you to get 6 fast cores and 8 slow ones all working together at full load.
  
  Not sure what the single-threaded regression signifies; it might just be an early sample that wasn't configured properly. Also, this is Geekbench, which kind of sucks anyway.
  
  
  
• The upcoming Snapdragon 898 has eight Kryo 780 cores. (WCCFTech)
  
  One of these is a Cortex X2, three are Cortex A710 cores, and four are Cortex A510.
  
  Qualcomm names them all Kryo 780 because they're jackasses.
  
  
  
• QBot returns for a new wave of infections using Squirrelwaffle. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Nobody doesn't like Squirrelwaffles.
  
  
  
• Managers aren't worried about keeping IT workers happy. (ZDNet)
  
  By curious coincidence, job dissatisfaction in IT fields is at a record high, with 70% of workers intending to leave their jobs within 12 months.

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