Daily Tech News 23 November 2022

• So you're building a PC and you just want a basically decent video card that doesn't cost three arms and a leg and require its own substation. What about the new Radeon 6700 (non-XT). Is that any good? Yes. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's cheaper than Nvidia's RTX 3060, and if you're not playing with ray tracing turned on it's 25% faster. If you are using ray tracing it's 10% slower, so there is a tradeoff to consider.
  
  
  
• Hololive EN and ID are streaming Minecraft again. I've missed that. Other games tend to be too distracting to have on while I work, but Minecraft is mostly building and chatting, or gathering resources and chatting, or dying horribly in the Nether and chatting.
  
  
  
• Twitter is still not dead.

• If you want to pack 768 cores and 24TB of RAM into a single 2U system, Gigabyte has what you need. (Serve the Home)
  
  That's a four node blade system rather than a single shared-memory server, so you'd want to connect it with 800GbE and run some flavour of clustering.
  
  
  
• Bullshit projects, bullshit jobs, bullshit industries. (Earthly)
  
  Been there, done that, currently wearing the t-shirt.
  
  
  
• HP is planning to lay off 6000 workers over the next 3 years. (Thurrott.com)
  
  HP (this is just the consumer products company; the enterprise and engineering divisions are separate entities now) has over 50,000 employees, so over three years that would be less than normal staff turnover anyway.
  
  
  
• WSL is out of beta. (Phoronix)
  
  I haven't done anything hugely taxing with it recently, but I use it every day, and it's very handy. Greatly reduces the need to run a conventional Linux virtual machine.
  
  
  
• The bankruptcy proceedings for collapsed Ponzi scheme FTX have been moved from the Bahamas to Delaware. (CNBC)
  
  It sounds like the Bahamian government was happy to wash its hands of the mess.
  
  
  
• A look inside how news sausages are made. (Semafor)
  
  By gibbering imbeciles, it would appear:

  I can't imagine a US intelligence official would be wrong on this

  Thanks for WWIII fellas.
  
  
  
• Genesis, a sister company of Grayscale in the Digital Currency Group, is reportedly considering filing for bankruptcy. (WCCFTech)
  
  The company supposedly has assets of $2.8 billion and a $35 million exposure from the current crypocalypse, so it would seem that somebody is lying about something.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile, TSMC, one of those stodgy old fashioned companies that actually makes stuff, is looking to invest $32 billion in a 1nm chip factory. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Better mark where you put it, guys, or you'll never find it again.

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