Daily Tech News 5 April 2022

• Elon Musk bought a 9.2% stake in Twitter, making him the largest individual shareholder. (CNN Business)
  
  The share price rose 27% on the news that someone who isn't a braindead doctrinaire liberal might be involved at some level in the company's decision-making process.

• AMD's Ryzen 5500 and 5600 are finally here and they are great value for money. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  While slower than the 5600X they are not a lot slower, and the 5600X until recently sold at $299, while the 5600 is priced at $199 and the 5500 at $159.
  
  The 5600 is pretty close in gaming performance to Intel's i5-12400 as well, and in 3d rendering benchmarks there's less than 0.3% difference between the two. Intel does currently have a single-threaded lead, but AMD chips scale better in multi-threaded work and catch up.
  
  
  
• There's also the 5700X. (Hot Hardware)
  
  This is a cheaper, lower-power, 8 core CPU, and depending on the benchmark is either nearly as fast as the more expensive 5800X or nearly as slow as the 6 core 5600X.
  
  Not a bad chip, but not ground-breaking.
  
  
  
• GitHub can now prevent you from accidentally committing code that contains API keys and passwords. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  The way GitHub works, once a key or password is in there, it's very hard to remove entirely. It's out in the wild and you just have to go change the password.
  
  So having it smack you with a ruler when you slip up like that is a very good thing.
  
  
  
• Hackers used MailChimps internal customer management tools to directly target crypto users receiving email notifications through the service. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  This is not a very good thing.
  
  
  
• The Realme Pad Mini is a new 8.7 inch Android tablet with ugh. (Liliputing)
  
  Decently fast A75 CPU but a disappointing 1340x800 screen, barely better than the 2012 model Nexus 7.

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