Daily Tech News 18 July 2022

• Google is a wretched hive of scum and villainy. (EFF)
  
  Google's Manifest V3 will - the company lies - protect the privacy of browser users. It does this by breaking plugins that protect the privacy of browser users.
  
  Google is not a tech company, but an ad company. The tech these days is a coincidence, and increasingly a hindrance, to the ad business.

• The VPN industry is a wretched hive of scum and villainy. (The Verge)
  
  House and Senate Democrats are pushing the FTC to stamp on deceptive practices because (checks notes) abortion. No, really, that's what the article says, Congress and The Verge also being wretched hives of scum and villainy.
  
  
  
• Elon Musk says we'll soon see Steam-powered Teslas. (The Verge)
  
  I think that's right.
  
  
  
• AMD's Epyc Genoa looks to be the fastest slow chip around. (WCCFTech)
  
  Or the slowest fast chip. The 9654P is slated to offer 96 cores and 384MB of L3 cache, using 360W and running at a peak clock speed of... 2.15GHz.
  
  The 7950X will only have 16 cores but will hit 5.5GHz, and the 13900K (or limited edition KS) is rumoured to nudge 6GHz.
  
  So Genoa is fast, yes, but it's not fast fast. A freight train is not a Maserati.
  
  
  
• Intel's limited edition Arc A770 graphics card should compete - by the time it hits store shelves - with AMD and Nvidia's low-mid-range cards from the previous generation. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The question is not whether these cards are good (they're not) or good value (they're not), the question is whether Intel will keep doing this until they are good and good value.
  
  I'm guessing not.
  
  
  
• Intel's Core i9 13900K outperforms the 12900K in gaming benchmarks by, uh, 5%. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  I'm excited.

posted by Pixy Misa at 06:17 AM

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