Daily Tech News 14 June 2023

• Smart homes for smart people: If you haven't started your smart home yet, here's how to start — or if you have, here's how to make it better. (The Verge)

  My wife asked me why I carry a gun in the house.
  
  I looked at her and said, "Decepticons". She laughed, I laughed, the toaster laughed, I shot the toaster, it was a good time.

  It's not a quote from the article, but it should be.
  
  
  
• A tale of unwanted disruption: My week without Amazon. (Medium)
  
  In which the author tells how an Amazon delivery driver thought he heard a racist remark from a doorbell - and Amazon took action by locking the author out of his account and disabling his smart home.
  
  If Amazon can do that, I submit you have a very, very stupid home indeed.

• AMD announced its new Genoa-X server CPUs with 96 cores and 1.1GB of cache and also its Bergamo server CPUs with 128 cores but a mere 256MB of cache. (AnandTech)
  
  Which used to be a lot. Of disk. Never mind cache.
  
  
  
• PCI Express 7.0 is on track for 2025. (AnandTech)
  
  PCIe 5 is mostly a waste of time for home use: There are no mainstream PCIe 5 video cards and only a handful of PCIe 5 SSDs, which you probably don't want anyway given their downsides.
  
  PCIe 7 is for the datacenter and network switches for now, though a single lane of PCIe 7 can deliver the same bandwidth as a full-size x16 PCIe 3 slot, it could be interesting to see it in smaller devices.
  
  
  
• Reddit CEO Steve Huffman-Fried says the current blackouts plaguing the site will pass, "like a kidney stone the size of a grapefruit". (The Verge)
  
  Pipkin Pippa had a Youtube stream today where she explained what is going on with Reddit but this is Pippa and she invited her friend Kirsche on and somehow the topic devolved into, well, if you do watch it my advice is to stop the moment they start talking about bugs no matter how curious you are as to where the topic is leading.
  
  
  

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