Daily Tech News 12 October 2023

• CRISPR skimmed chicken: Genetically engineering chickens to not get sick and die by the millions any time a sparrow sneezes in Mongolia. (New York Times) (archive site)
  
  There are three specific proteins that the H5N1 virus hijacks in chickens to reproduce itself, and the scientists adjusted each one slightly so that it couldn't do that.
  
  Result: Chickens that don't catch colds.
  
  Or almost. They've grown healthy chickens with any one of those genes altered, which are highly resistant to the flu, but not yet with all three genes updated; that's only been tested in cell cultures.
  
  Still great progress, and I'm expecting in five years or so we'll see these on the supermarket shelves, and shortly after that we'll be told that somehow they got pangolin genes in the mix and we all have to be buried alive for our own good.
  
  
  

• Chinese government hackers are exploiting a new zero-day exploit in Atlassian. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Do not run Atlassian products on the public internet. This is not complicated, people.
  
  
  
• AVX10/128 is dumb and should be thrown into a volcano before it angers the gods. (Chips and Cheese)
  
  AVX10 is a dumbed-down version of AVX512 because Intel couldn't get AVX512 to work. (Though AMD did just fine.)
  
  AVX10/128 is the entry-level version, minimally compatible with AVX1 and 2, but it manages to be simultaneously more complicated and less compatible than AMD's AVX implementation in its Bulldozer family of CPUs... In 2011.
  
  
  
• Russia plans to mass-produce 28nm chips by 2027. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That's rather unlikely; Russia was, last I checked, stuck at either 65nm or 90nm. They can get their hands on 28nm equipment, but getting full-size fabs set up is a different matter.
  
  Still, 28nm is a decent process; the Bulldozer chips I mentioned above were mostly produced on 28nm.
  
  
  
• Everyone involved in this story is an idiot and I feel dumber for having read it. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Do not dumb here.
  Not dumb area here.
  
  

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