Daily Tech News 10 March 2022

• I've found the home I want, it's well within my price range, and most importantly given the situation in eastern Australia right now, it's 3000 feet above sea level.
  
  Only thing I'm concerned about is noise since it's close to the center of town and not off on a quiet side street. But it's old solid brick construction (13' ceilings and all that) and it's not going to be anything like where I am right now where neighbours' cars drive in and out directly outside my bedroom window.
  
  
  
• The NSF is going to be funding open source projects. (OpenSource)
  
  Just $21 million, but given that some critical pieces of software used by basically the entire internet are maintained by some guy in his spare time, some carefully allocated cash could go a long way.
  
  I expect most of this to go straight down the drain.

• Some more realistic benchmarks of Apple's new M1 Ultra CPU. (WCCFTech)
  
  (Not MKUltra. That's something different. Probably.)
  
  This puts it about 10% slower than Intel's i9-12900k on single-threaded tasks, but 25% faster on multi-threaded tasks, because it has 16 large cores compared to just 8.
  
  Against AMD it's 40% faster single-threaded and a little slower multi-threaded than the previous-generation 32-core 3970X. There's no regular Threadripper with the newer Zen 3 cores and the new Threadripper Pro is only available from OEMs, so AMD is falling behind in a market it dominated very recently.
  
  Of course, unless you want to run MacOS and Mac applications, the M1 Ultra is basically useless.
  
  
  
• cPanel 102 will bring with it support for Ubuntu 20.04. (Phoronix)
  
  cPanel has been CentOS-only since forever, and IBM has killed CentOS, so it's about time this happened. cPanel is doing its best to kill its own product with price increases, though, so it might all be a bit late.
  
  
  
• Australia's Orwellian anti-trolling bill has drawn fire from human rights advocates for... Not being abusive enough. (ZDNet)
  
  Fuck.
  
  
  
• Congress has gotten serious about returning to the Moon, adding literally dozens of dollars to NASA's funding. (The Verge)
  
  Elon Musk, just go ahead and do whatever. If the EPA complains, drop rocks on their heads.
  
  
  
• Apple's new 5k display will work with Thunderbolt-equipped Windows PCs too. (9to5Mac)
  
  Including the built-in high-resolution webcam. And hopefully with decent software brightness and colour controls.
  
  Given how few 5k displays there are on the market, this is at least something.
  
  
  

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