Daily Tech News 18 October 2023

• Under new regulations China will no longer be able to buy Nvidia's cut-down A800 and H800 AI cards or AMD's MI300 models, and China's own GPU companies will lose access to advanced processes at TSMC. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  However, Iran can now buy and sell missiles because our leaders totally have their eyes on what is most important, which is to say, their bank accounts.
  
  
  

• Intel's 14th gen desktop chips get put to the test and... Eh. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  They're fast, but (a) for gaming they are still slower than AMD's 7800X3D, (b) for productivity they're still slower than AMD's 7950X, (c) you still have the problem with having two entirely different core designs in one chip, and (d) power consumption is insane.
  
  On the Y-Cruncher benchmark, the 7950X3D uses 99W while the 14900K uses 262W, and the 7950X3D is faster.
  
  
  
• Corsair's 4TB MP600 Core XT is selling for $160. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's a DRAMless QLC drive, so not even slightly high-end, but 4TB for $160 is pretty good if you just want fast storage for video files or games.
  
  
  
• Twitter is running a trial charging $1 per year to new users for full access. (WCCFTech)
  
  Don't cough up the buck and the site is read-only.
  
  This only applies to New Zealand and the Philippines right now, but signs are they want to take it worldwide to filter out the bots and general idiocy.
  
  At worst, make the idiots a profit center.
  
  
  
• How to hack Switzerland's new e-voting system. (Schneier on Security)
  
  You still need to hack your targets' computers, but once you've done that, the carefully designed voting protocol does nothing to protect anyone.
  
  The solution is paper.
  
  
  

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