Daily Tech News 2 November 2022

• For eight bucks a month you too can be a lord of the trash heap. (The Verge)
  
  Twitter under Elon Musk is changing the blue checkmark from a status symbol handed out to ideological allies (or alternately, a warning of mental retardation) to a paid service allowing long-form video and audio uploads and the other benefits of Twitter Blue, such as an edit button.
  
  CNN has already said it can't afford $8 and asked if Elon would accept leftover Halloween candy, noting that Jeffrey Toobin no longer works there so there won't be any repeats of that 2017 incident.
  
  
  
• Twitter's heads of marketing, advertising, and human resources are also out as the C-suite purge continues. (The Verge)
  
  The wheel of karma grinds on.
  
  
  

• Micron has announced LPDDRX-8500 RAM for mobile devices, embedded systems, and eventually, laptops. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Mobile devices can take advantage of this because it can use less power to run a fast narrow bus than a wider, slower one. Not inherently, but because the faster versions use newer designs and lower voltages.
  
  In laptops this could allow next-level integrated graphics. The Ryzen 6800U already has double the graphics performance of laptop chips, but memory bandwidth limits how far AMD can push that. With 8500MHz RAM (actually MT/s but whatever) AMD could potentially double the onboard graphics performance again.
  
  
  
• Use one big server. (Speculative Branches)
  
  And a hot backup at another location.
  
  I like this approach, coupled with a solution like LXC that lets you silo various parts of your application and dynamically allocate resources. A lot less work than maintaining multiple physical servers.
  
  
  
• Speaking of multiple physical servers HP has announced its new range of AMD Epyc Genoa systems. (Serve the Home)
  
  With up to 192 cores, 6TB of RAM, 60 SSDs, and 8 graphics cards.
  
  
  
• You'll never get rid of the Dane. (Archive.ph / Bloomberg)
  
  US banks paid an estimated $1.2 billion to ransomware operators in 2021.

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