Daily News Stuff 24 February 2022

• Today has been a shitty day for the world in general. Also I have to move out of my home for the past decade since I'm renting and the owner is putting it on the market.
  
  Might be looking to buy this time. Move to a less expensive area with worse transport, as long as it has good internet access.
  
  Didn't think I could necessarily swing the deposit but I had completely forgotten about certain financial reserves that have just been sitting there while I've been working 48 hours a day. So... I can swing the deposit on a reasonable place.
  
  (You forgot you had how much money? Yeah, I've been busy. Also it's not exactly liquid.)
  
  
  
• JJ and Ace will be along with the serious news later, so I'll be sticking to purely tech stuff. Or at least...
  
  
  
• Russia may attempt using cryptocurrency to evade the worst of the incoming sanctions. (New York Times)
  
  I can see the headline now: Ruble falls to new low of 40 trillion to the dollar as Russia's crypto reserves drained by bot network Weed_Slut_420.

• Intel is working on a new chip aimed at beating Apple's M1 in all respects. (9to5Mac)
  
  9to5Mac being Tame Apple Press calls this "too late" but the only way to get an M1 is to buy completely into Apple's ecosystem, and the company, frankly, sucks ass.
  
  The new Arrow Lake mobile chips won't have more CPU cores but will have a much faster integrated GPU. (WCCFTech)
  
  Still 14 cores on the low-to-midrange laptop parts, but 320 (and possibly 384) graphics cores, up from a current maximum of 96.
  
  It will be built on Intel's 20A process node - a nominal 2nm, but as always that's just marketing.
  
  Arrow Lake desktop parts meanwhile will have 8 performance cores and as many as 32 low-power cores. Since the low-power cores are about half the speed of the performance ones, that's effectively 24 full cores on a mainstream desktop processor. If the low-power cores also get a design and/or clock upgrade as they surely will, that will be a powerhouse.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile Intel has also officially announced their 12 generation mobile parts, due next Month. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Up to 14 CPU cores (6 performance and 8 low-power) and up to 96 graphics cores at a base power of 28W. That provides a significant upgrade over the 11th generation chips which maxed out at 4 cores in that power range.
  
  
  
• TPG aims for 4G and 5G wireless internet out outgrow wired broadband. (ZDNet)
  
  Yeah, about that. I'm with TPG (not willingly, they bought iiNet) and right now my ping times to 8.8.8.8 are on the order of TWO SECONDS.
  
  Around 8 milliseconds on my late lamented fiber link.
  
  
  
• And that is called paying the Dane-geld;
  But we've proved it again and again,
  That if once you have paid him the Dane-geld
  You never get rid of the Dane. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  If only someone had warned us.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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