Daily Tech News 12 October 2022

• Nvidia's RTX 4090 is here and it's every bit as expensive as we were promised. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Is it fast, though?
  
  Yes. If you play games at 4K, it's 50% faster than the 3090 Ti and 60% faster than AMD's 6950 XT. If you play games at 4K with ray tracing and AI upscaling - which you don't, because that would have been a miserable experience with any existing card - it averages four times the speed of the RTX 3080.
  
  And for compute workloads like Blender rendering it's about 80% faster than the 3090 Ti, which was previously the fastest card available for that task.
  
  The Founders' Edition would fit in my case, as it turns out - it's a triple slot card, not a four-slot monstrosity like some of the custom versions.
  
  Question is do I want to drop a monthly mortgage payment on a graphics card when I rarely play anything more demanding than Minecraft? I can justify a fast CPU because my CPU basically runs flat out fifteen hours of every day, but I think I can dial back on the GPU a notch or two. Or four, honestly.
  
  
  

• What exactly is stochastic terrorism? (Substack)
  
  Short answer:
  
  1. Person A said something I don't like.
  2. Person B did something I don't like.
  3. This is Person A's fault even though there is literally no imaginable causal connection between the two.
  
  Long answer - very long answer - is that article.
  
  
  
• Hackers stole $100 million worth of imaginary mangoes from the Solana blockchain. (P2E Analytics)
  
  Or something like that. I don't know anymore. Imaginary money went poof.
  
  
  
• The worst is yet to come for the global economy, says the IMF. (DevEx)
  
  "We're here to make sure of that", they added.
  
  
  
• Intel is looking at laying off thousands of workers due to the world economic poopage. (Bloomberg)
  
  Can't entirely blame Intel here; they've been doing better technically lately than they have for years. And AMD could be facing a similar situation.
  
  
  
• The SEC is investigating Ugly Monkey JPEG company Yuga Labs for printing funny money. (Decrypt)
  
  Or funny bond certificates, I guess. Unregistered securities.
  
  You can kind of expect the SEC to come calling when you sell seven billion dollars worth of chimp pics.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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