Daily Tech News 25 May 2022

• Seth Green - Oz from Buffy and Dr Evil's son Scott from the Austin Powers movies - had plans for a TV series based on an NFT.
  
  

  .@SethGreen new trailer for his new show, keep your eyes peeled👀@BoredApeYC @GutterCatGang @veefriends pic.twitter.com/ZzYN87HYWA

  — FFVV1211.eth (@FFVV1211) May 21, 2022

  
  
  
  
  Then it got stolen.
  
  

  Well frens it happened to me. Got phished and had 4NFT stolen. @BoredApeYC @opensea @doodles @yugalabs please don’t buy or trade these while I work to resolve:@DarkWing84 looks like you bought my stolen ape- hit me up so we can fix it pic.twitter.com/VL1OVnd44m

  — Seth Green (@SethGreen) May 17, 2022

  
  
  Since he no longer owns the ugly monkey jpeg in question he also loses film rights and the project is toast.
  
  

  Seth if it makes you feel any better this is very funny and was completely predictable

  — angry militant kh4 fan (@mailmanbabygame) May 17, 2022

  
  
  Sometimes things do work out for the best.

• Nvidia had it's own big Computex announcement the day after AMD. If you want a server-only GPU that uses 600W and costs tens of thousands of dollars and can't actually output video, they're all over that.
  
  Not particularly interesting for you or me, but it does make them a lot of money.
  
  
  
• Asus announced a new 500Hz gaming monitor. (AnandTech)
  
  Why?
  
  
  
• Asus also announced their high-end AM5 motherboard for the upcoming Ryzen 7000 series. (AnandTech)
  
  The ROG Crosshair X670E supports two full-length PCIe 5.0 slots, plus a x4 slot running at a lower speed but I don't know what, and 5 M.2 slots two of which are also PCIe 5. Plus USB 4. Which when you add it all up requires more PCIe lanes than the CPU has available. Not sure what they've done there.
  
  
  
• Spain is investing $13 billion to upgrade the country's semiconductor industry. (AP News)
  
  I was looking around what countries had semiconductor factories and I believe Spain was on the list - they're not starting from zero. And there are worse ways to spend $13 billion, as our governments prove to us every day.
  
  I do not expect much to come of this nonetheless.

posted by Pixy Misa at 05:00 AM

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