Daily Tech News 26 January 2023

• The new M2 Mac Mini is twice as fast as the Mac Pro for a fraction of the price... In single-threaded benchmarks. (WCCFTech)
  
  Which means nothing because even when the Mac Pro was new - back in 2019, shortly after the Laurentide Ice Sheet receded - the Intel Xeon chips had unimpressive single-threaded performance and were easily beaten by much cheaper desktop chips and even some laptop chips.
  
  Actually, those Intel Xeon chips kind of sucked and Apple would have been much better off with AMD Threadrippers, but they probably couldn't get the production guarantees that Intel could provide.
  
  

• Speaking of Intel Xeons that kind of suck, the new W9-3945X has been benchmarked and it does. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  This is Intel's latest and greatest 56 core workstation chip and it's slower on single-threaded tests than AMD's existing Zen 3 Threadrippers, never mind the upcoming Threadripper 4 models.
  
  Meh.
  
  
  
• OpenJourney is an open-source version of AI image generator Midjourney, more or less. (GitHub)
  
  Instead of paying Midjourney $30 a month for unlimited images you can download it and run it yourself... On a $5000 computer.
  
  
  
• Welcome to the Podcast Applefornia. (Substack)
  
  You can never leave, but you also can't check out. If you host your podcast with Apple, you're basically fucked.
  
  
  
• All the code for Yandex - Russia's version of Google - has been leaked. (Hacker News)
  
  40GB of it.

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