Daily Tech News 1 May 2022

• Intel sees chip shortages easing by the end of... 2024. (WCCFTech)
  
  Oh, good.
  
  
  
• But at least you can build an AMD gaming PC while you wait. (Tom's hardware)
  
  The new Ryzen 5800X3D CPU and the high-end Radeon 6900 XT are both selling at MSRP.
  
  
  

• From Another Anon:

  My understanding of BlockChain is that a new entry, or a Block, has to be calculated based on every other Block in the history of the Chain to validate that it is cryptographically correct and thus valid. Basically, do the math on previous blocks ("N") to confirm the next block ("N+1") is accurate and true.
  
  That said, does this mean that BlockChain is, by design, a victim of the "Schlemiel the Painter's algorithm"? IE: The painter paints X feet of lines on a road the first day, 4/5ths of X feet on day two, 2/5ths of X day, and then worse... because it takes him longer and longer to get to the paint bucket that he left at the very start of all the lines? (Joke being that said painter never picked up and carried the bucket with him, at all.)

  Every implementation I know of is smart enough to move the bucket - that is, it can verify new transactions based on previous verifications. Blockchains do rely on having multiple nodes verify transactions though - it's possible for a bad node to verify a transaction that later gets rejected, or vice versa.
  
  
  
• From MadItalian:

  Anyway to stop the link hijacking ads? I click on more info / read more and it opens in a new tab for the story at Ace Comments and then redirects the original tab to the ad.
  
  I know ad revenue is in the toilet but that action is frustrating.

  Anyone else seeing this? That's a pretty minimal piece of JavaScript that shouldn't be doing anything like that.
  
  
  

Triangular USB connectors were soon abandoned after some users complained of needing to rotate them up to six times before successful insertion. pic.twitter.com/FpxjHcFb8S

— Dana Sibera (@NanoRaptor) April 6, 2021

• Snap has a new camera drone called Pixy. (ZDNet)
  
  I should sue.
  
  AIC: COUGH.
  
  Never mind.
  
  
  
• China, India, and Russia didn't sign on to that worthless declaration on the future of the internet. (ZDNet)
  
  Oh no.
  
  
  
• Support for EPUB format is coming to Kindle, finally. (Liliputing)
  
  But support for MOBI - the original native Kindle format - is ending, which means if you have a library of ebooks outside of Amazon you'll be forced to convert them all. Or just choose another reader.
  
  
  
• Sony Music Japan is taking over management and production for vtuber agency Prism Project. (Anime Corner)
  
  Prism is my favourite of the smaller agencies; they have some sold talent and a great fan community, but it's tough competing with the two giants (Nijisanji and Hololive). Sony already has its own roster of five vtubers under the VerseN label, so Prism's twelve agents will be a big expansion.
  
  They also have a big launch on the way for their Vee project but so far there's been nothing announced of what or who or when.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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