Daily Tech News 1 December 2023

• The web browser that was banned from the Google Play store because it can browse the web is back up. (Ars Technica)
  
  Google may be both evil and stupid, but apparently they still have limits.

• How come tech founders don't give a crap about sustainability. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Because nobody does. It's almost entirely a grift. And if the secondary grift interferes with the primary grift, out it goes.
  
  
  
• The weirdest bug I've seen yet. (Gusto)
  
  Not me, but the person writing the blog.
  
  Tracking down why the company's internal customer support application would crash Chrome... Sometimes.
  
  
  
• ASRock has a new mini-ITX Ryzen server motherboard. (Serve the Home)
  
  With four memory slots, dual 10Gb Ethernet ports, and remote management.
  
  Awesome. Sounds perfect for my little NAS cases. How many SATA ports does it have?
  
  Oh.
  
  Zero.
  
  
  
• Yes, Virginia, you can have too many cores. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Ampere's new Arm-based server CPUs have 192 cores. And you can put two of them on a motherboard.
  
  Only problem is the Linux Arm kernel supports a maximum of 256 cores, so with two of these chips it just won't boot.
  
  In fact, the smallest model of these chips has 136 cores, so any two-socket server will refuse to boot under Linux.

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