Daily Tech News 2 September 2023

• At least three hundred, and possibly as many as five hundred people have been with Aeromonas hydrophila after competing in a Tough Mudder event. (Ars Technica)

  Hundreds of people who participated in a recent Tough Mudder event - a very muddy obstacle course race - held in Sonoma, California, have fallen ill with pustular rashes, lesions, fever, flu-like symptoms, nerve pain, and other symptoms, local health officials and media outlets report.

  Sounds nasty. How did this happen?

  The Sonoma event was reported to include 21 obstacles on one of the race days, including a mud-soaked crawl under barbed wire, rope climbs over a muddy slope, a knee-deep mud pool to wade through, and an obstacle called the "mine shaft" that one participant said smelled like manure.

  Crawl through barbed wire and then swim in mud. Yep, that'll do it.

  "All necessary protocols were followed in preparation for, and during, the event," the spokesperson said, "except of course for not crawling through barbed wire and swimming in mud. We didn't think of that."

  Uh huh.

  "Our thoughts are with those affected and we are actively investigating to understand exactly what occurred, so long as we get to blame someone else."

  
  

• Samsung is starting production of 32Gb DDR5 memory chips this year. (AnandTech)
  
  That means 64GB modules, 128GB laptops, and 256GB desktops.
  
  Or 8GB soldered in place because manufacturers suck.
  
  
  
• Nvidia has cut the price of the 4060 Ti 16GB edition by $50 ahead of AMD's launch of the 7800 XT, which is better in every way. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Still about $100 too expensive, but it's heading in the right direction.
  
  
  
• There's another catastrophe-level vulnerability in VMWare. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  The problem is extremely subtle, but to simplify things drastically, every copy of VMWare's Aria Operations management tool has the same key.
  
  Actually, it's not subtle at all and that is precisely what happened.
  
  
  
• Lenovo has announced a glasses-free 3D 4K monitor. (Ars Technica)
  
  Neat.
  
  That costs $3000.
  
  Next!
  
  
  
• Lenovo's Legion go is an 8.8" tablet with a 2560x1600 screen for $699. (Liliputing)
  
  Which is pretty expensive but it has no competition whatsoever.
  
  It also has AMD's Z1 Extreme CPU (8 Zen 4 cores and 12 RDNA3 graphics cores), 16GB of LPDDR5X-7500 RAM, an M.2 2242 SSD, two USB4 ports, a microSD slot, a headphone jack, and two detachable game controllers - rather like a chunky version of the Nintendo switch.
  
  That screen is a 144Hz IPS model with 97% coverage of DCI-P3 colour and 500 nits max brightness, so nothing missing there either.
  
  Only problem with using this as a regular tablet - apart from the price - is that at 640 grams it's seriously chunky. Lenovo's own Legion Y700, an Android tablet with the same 8.8" screen that the company stubbornly refuses to sell outside China, weighs 375 grams.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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