Daily Tech News 22 December 2021

• Programmer encounters paperwork, film at eleven. (Hacker News)
  
  Welcome to the real world, kid. Here's a nickel.
  
  Going through this right now at my day job, but I've been there multiple times before so I know this too shall pass, just like a kidney stone.
  
  

• Threadripper Pro 5000 WX is on its way. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Trailing the Ryzen 5000 family by about 15 months.
  
  Is it finally time to grab that Asus Pro WS WRX80E-SAGE SE WIFI motherboard and build myself a high-end workstation?
  
  No.
  
  Because it's just been EOL'd.
  
  
  
• The 4GB Raspberry Pi will be back in stock by the end of... Oh. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  End of next year.
  
  
  
• 40 million IOPs over 4x100GbE. (Serve the Home)
  
  That's rather a lot.
  
  
  
• New patches to the Linux kernel support Ethernet on Yellow Carp. (Phoronix)
  
  Yellow Carp is the codename for Rembrandt. Rembrandt is the codename for the upcoming Ryzen 6000 APU.
  
  It has built-in Ethernet.
  
  So in fact do all Ryzen chips, it's mostly just not wired up to pins so you have no way to use it.
  
  
  
• Don't update your BIOS. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Dell this time, but I flinch every time anything I own tries to do a BIOS update. I've been burned before.
  
  
  
• 800,000 WordPress sites are affected by a critical security issue in a popular SEO plugin. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  SEO is a scam wrapped in a con wrapped in a swindle wrapped in a SQL injection.
  
  
  
• The FBI seized $154 million in Bitcoin. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  And in a novel twist, returned it to its rightful owner.
  
  
  
• Microsoft has acquired speech recognition company Nuance for $20 billion. (Engadget)
  
  I'm so old I remember when $20 billion was a lot of money.
  
  
  
• Stablecoin assets increased from $29 billion at the start of 2021 to $140 billion today. (The Block)
  
  I'm so old I remember when making up fake currencies was considered a bad idea.
  
  
  

• On March 1, AMD's Genoa server chips would have stuff unless they wouldn't - now pretty much all confirmed by updates to the Linux kernel to support said stuff, WASM everywhere - except it went pretty much nowhere, Alexa had 90,000 friends skills, don't plug your Macbook into a USB-C dock, and Microsoft had a patch for that horrifying NTFS bug.
  
  
  
• On March 2, Intel launched their 670p before the 665p even really reached store shelves, no USB-C PD for you, a Pi Pico carrier board with HDMI in software, fried rice was off, and fuck Apple yet again.
  
  
  
• On March 3, lots more details on how the Pi Pico generates HDMI signals in software, the Threadripper Pro hit retail, an AMD motherboard with Thunderbolt 4, the Radeon 6700XT arrived, and the US Navy was convicted of piracy.
  
  
  
• On March 4, CircuitPython was coming to town, SpaceX's Starship SN10 test flight was a complete succ... oh dear, Mozilla had concerns about India probably because they're racist, 117 patches to Grub on the wall, 117 patches to Grub, a lightweight UI toolkit with a 1.3GB SDK, and ladies and gentlemen please stand for the national anthem.
  
  
  
  
  
• On March 5, bring your own damn client, eBay banned sales of the six Dr Seuss books removed from publication because fuck you that's why, HTTPWTF, ceci n'est pas une pomme, Google gave your browser cancer, and Kiara from Hololive got her shadowban lifted whereupon YouTube deleted her last two months of content because fuck you that's why.
  
  
  
• On March 6, Rocket Lake accidentally arrived and was okay I guess (the Rocket Lake laptop chips came later and are actually pretty good), iMac Pro delenda est, and 30,000 Exchange servers got hacked.
  
  
  
• On March 7, Seagate was planning a 100TB hard drive, Solasta: Crown of the Magister was an upcoming D&D game shortly before D&D got woke and went broke - but I'll take a look at it now as it has now released and has a ton of positive reviews, everything you never wanted to know about FFMPEG, and the Ballad of Little Boolean Bobby Drop Tables True.
  
  
  
• On March 8, Humble had a Bundle, Hynix shipped 18GB 6400Mbps LPDDR5, there was no serverless, there was just nobody else's servers, how quickly we forget, Dell's XPS 15 still lacked the Four Essential Keys, Google killed Google Pay and replaced it with Google Pay, yes, really and freak bread accidents.
  
  
  
  
  
• On March 9, Epyc Milan was about to launch - and did, Lunar Lake popped up in Linux kernel patches, Ice Lake Xeons leaked, Google's UI sucks - probably deliberately, and the most efficient way to solve linear equations turned out to be guesswork.
  
  
  
• On March 10, Samsung announced the 980 Nothing edition, this was not the bear you were looking for, and there was an RCE in Git.
  
  
  
  
  
• On March 11, the Xiaomi Mi 11 was a flagship phone priced like a flagship phone, Epic Games sued Apple and Google again, the MGM lion was a paper tiger, and you really shouldn't have been browsing North Korean websites in the first place.
  
  
  
• On March 12, our main MongoDB cluster started to go to pieces at my day job - a clear sign of how the year would proceed, the Razer Blade 15 generally sucked, Alder Lake was going to have a lot of PCIe lanes, and looking inside Cooper Lake.
  
  
  
• On March 13, Rocket Lake was huge, Stronghold Warlords was more Stronghold than Warlords, SQLite 3.35 could drop columns, there were no adults at Google, and we received a warning and failed to recognise it when OVH's SGB2 datacenter burned to the ground.
  
  And Hololive EN Gen 1 celebrated their halfiversary.
  
  
  
  Prism Gen 3, Mooyu, and Nymroot all just celebrated their respective halfiversaries. March was a long long time ago.
  
  
• On March 14, Apple forced Crabhouse - a game in which you made a house for crabs - to change its name because it might mislead people, threads are better, anyhting mandatory was forbidden, and Apple wisely killed the HomePod.
  
  
  
• On March 15, Epyc Milan was here, Nvidia hacked its own drivers, WeLeakInfo did, GitLab fell over, and the LG Gram 17 was a definite if expensive maybe.
  
  On March 16, India was confused but had the right spirit, the new USPS truck looked dumb, Azure Active Directory fell over and not for the last time, and a hidden Epyc Milan gem.
  
  
  
• On March 17, Asus showed off a new Thunderbolt 4 expansion card that only worked on motherboards designed specifically with that card in mind making it entirely useless, Rocket Lake actually launched officially after accidenteally leaking out to retail over a week earlier, Apple took up the Google challenge of terrible UI design, and we discovered zombie rap electroswing fusion.
  
  
  
  
  
• On March 18, the 6700XT reached reviewers and was somewhere between pretty good and amazing depending on stuff, HP spileld the a lake of beans, which one was Van Gogh again, building SMB into the Linux kernel was a bad idea, YouTube only had your back inasmuch as they used it for target practice, and Shapecatcher was Shazam for Unicode.
  
  
• On March 19, AMD did not artificially limit crypto mining performance, AWS added Lambda to S3 for and actually useful, 19 antiviri classed uTorrent as malware, and Russia threatened to ban Twitter but still hasn't followed through.
  
  
  
• On March 20, learn science, go to jail, the PCIe 6.0 spec reached a final draft, interrupts updated, Victoria University deleted every file on every PC on their network, and alkalized water was dangerous bullshit.
  
  
  
  
  
• On March 21, we got our Pi Picos onto the internet, Asus launched their version of Intel's useless DG1, Alder Lake was going to bring DDR5, PCIe 5, and more fast, Nividia's unhackable rate limited got hacked again, the Surface Duo could double as a 2D 3DS, and Mini-Zork II was released for the Commodore 64.
  
  

  Kiara was talking about a potential outro, and her way of describing it made me laugh. She's so cute haha. So as a fun exercise, I thought I'd try to work with it! #artsofashes pic.twitter.com/KtJg9M9dsj

  — Spirit だと?! 🔎💫🏆 (@MightySpirit) March 20, 2021

  
  
  
  
• On March 22, the 32 core 3970X was 75% of a 64 core 3990X because TDP is a thing, the 6700 non-XT leaked but never showed up, fuck systemd, the worst possible case, Backblaze accidentally leaked all yourfilenames to Facebook, and it was millions of spiders.
  
  
  
• On March 23, one of the MongoDB nodes at my day job simply dropped dead, a sign of things to come, I set myself up with a Minecraft server, a sign of things not to come, Crystal hit 1.0, MangaDex went very thoroughly offline, and just Windows things.
  
  
  
• On March 24, sorr folks, canal's closed - camel out frount should've told ya, Intel is back, baby, said Intel, Google remove ClearURL because fuck you that's why, Reddit hired a known associate of rapists and paedophiles, tried to scrub all mention of her from the site, and then fired her in the space of 24 hours, and then they came for RMS and the FSF, and Cream of Bat Soup or Anthrax Leprosy Pi?
  
  
  
  
  
• On March 25, Samsung sampled 512GB DDR5 modules, Genshin Impact crossed the billion dollar mark, were you pondering what I was pondering*, and the 11700K was a waste of sand.
  
  * I think so, Brain, but where would we find five hundred gallons of lime jello and a polo pony at this time of night?
  
  
  
• On March 26, Qualcomm announced the 780G, with unspeicifed Qualcomm CPU cores because you don't need to know, that ship was still stick, two gigauwus per second, the $69 million 404, and SpaceX dusted itself off and tried again.
  
  
  
• On March 27, it was the stupid questioning the stupid in DC, which Epyc CPU is right for Factorio, and in Minecraft I found diamonds before sheep.
  
  
  
• On March 28, Dave arrived and was loaded up with the backups from the deceased Theodore, I found sheep, pigs, cows, and chickens, testing the NUC 11 as a tiny server, and Haachama's content returned, though not Haachama herself.
  
  
  
• On March 29, Haachama herself returned, there were no Nvidia cards in Australia, that ship got unstuck, I repaired that 12TB MongoDB cluster - or so I thought, octal considered harmful, PHP got hacked, and I had every colour except brown.
  
  
  
• On March 30, an RTX 3060 for ants, mining Bitcoin on a Game Boy, the database I just repaired was still work - spoke too soon, we unleashed the Pigz, and there were 30 malicious Docker images on Docker Hbu - downloaded a combined 20 million times.
  
  
  
• On March 31, Intel's 11900K was an embarrassment, we found out what mongod --repair did (not much), Arm announced Armv9, Dimgrey Cavefish leaked, TSMC outlined its plans for 4nm, and we didn't yet know the full story of the Ubiquiti hack.
  
  

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