Daily Tech News 12 September 2022

• How to build a Greek temple. (Antigone Journal)
  
  In case your plans for the weekend fall through, here's a handy list for a quick DIY project.
  
  
  

• And three hundred degrees.
  
  

  #IntelTechTour : Breaking - @Intel Raptor Lake will be 6 GHz at stock

  — 𝐷𝑟. 𝐼𝑎𝑛 𝐶𝑢𝑡𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠 (@IanCutress) September 12, 2022

  
  
  Intel planned to hit 10GHz about 15 years ago, but reality declined to cooperate. Still, it's good to see some level of progress. The only 6GHz CPUs that have shipped previously were in expensive IBM servers.
  
  
  
• The flips side of more gigahertz is, of course, more cores. (Serve the Home)
  
  The article makes the point that if 128 core CPUs are readily available, it makes little sense to run servers with 4 cores that are less than 25% busy most of the time. Slice a 256 core system (two 128 core CPUs) into 256 virtual servers and you get 256 times as many customers in the same amount of rack space.
  
  Unfortunately that's also part of the entire you'll own nothing and like it mantra. It makes economic sense, but I'm going to continue running my own servers as long as it's at all feasible.
  
  
  
• A problem with the planned introduction of 2nm chips has been resolved with the help of a microwave oven. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Might have some difficulty banning the sale of those to China.
  
  
  
• Coinbase is funding a lawsuit against the treasury department over sanctions on Tornado Cash. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Tornado Cash is a cryptomixer, and cryptomixers are often used to hide stolen funds. It's online money laundering.
  
  But Tornado Cash isn't a website or a business; it's open source software. It can be used for illegal purposes, but it's hard to see how it can itself be illegal under US law.

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