Daily Tech News 5 September 2022

• The US and Japan have agreed that nuclear power is essential to reducing global warming. (AP News)
  
  Now, set aside for the moment whether global warming is real or whether, if real, it is on balance harmful: It is absolutely true that if you want to reduce carbon outputs without destroying the global economy, you need to increase the use of nuclear power.
  
  Which is why it's so remarkable to see the head of the EPA saying this.

• Intel's next-plus-one generation Emerald Rapids server CPUs will be out late next year with up to 64 cores. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  AMD has 64 core CPUs now, with 96 core parts coming this year, and 128 cores early next year.
  
  The one thing Intel has in its favour is a full 512-bit implementation of AVX-512, but for typical commercial workloads - databases, web sites, business applications - AVX-512 is basically useless.
  
  
  
• Google has received DMCA takedown notices for 4 million unique domains. (TorrentFreak)
  
  Including the White House, the FBI, and the Vatican.
  
  
  
• LG is bringing NFTs to its smart TVs. (The Verge)
  
  Ugh.
  
  They are using the Hedera blockchain, though, which is actually the least awful blockchain I've looked at if you really must distribute NFTs for some reason.
  
  
  

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