Daily Tech News 16 May 2023

• Vice Media has filed for bankruptcy. (New York Times)
  
  Once valued at $5.7 billion by idiots, the company is being sold off to one group of creditors for $225 million, which is less than is outstanding on an existing loan from the group so they get nothing.

• If Intel's NUC is too large for your tastes, the Topton M6S is the size of... It's almost exactly the size of one of those bricks of Post-It notes, where you get five regular pads of notes in different colours. (Liliputing)
  
  It has a quad core Intel N100 CPU. This uses the "efficiency" cores from Intel's current chips, with no "performance" cores in sight. The individual cores are as fast as my desktop system I was using up to last year, though that had eight cores Still not awful for tiny system like this.
  
  That's combined 12GB of RAM and up to 2TB of storage in an M.2 2242 slot. Those are easier to come by than the smaller 2230 size, though you can buy it with an SSD preinstalled.
  
  Not expensive, either.
  
  
  
• The World Health Organisation says things would be much better all round if people would just stop being people. (WHO)
  
  Last week they were insisting that you stop drinking alcohol. This week they're saying you need to cut both sugar and artificial sweeteners out of your diet.
  
  I think I'll cut my consumption of WHO by 100%.
  
  
  
• Anti-piracy organisation ACE had its anti-piracy page taken down by anti-piracy organisation AiPlex for piracy. (TorrentFreak)
  
  Popcorn time.
  
  
  
• AMD could be launching 128 core and 192 core Zen 5 server CPUs as soon as next year. (WCCFTech)
  
  They'll fit in existing Zen 4 servers but will use up to 50% more power, so make sure your power distribution systems and water chillers are in good order.
  
  They'll be close to twice as fast as the existing servers, though, so not a bad tradeoff.
  
  They'll be competing directly against Intel's new 144 core server CPUs, if those arrive on schedule. But those chips use Intel's "efficiency" cores like the Post-It computer above and will be utterly steamrolled by Zen 5.

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