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December 07, 2023

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Short one this morning/afternoon/evening (delete where not applicable), rebuilding a failed 8TB MongoDB cluster. Fortunately this is a new system, so customers are waiting for it to be deployed rather than panicking because their sites are down.
AMD's Ryzen 8000 mobile CPUs are here. (AnandTech)

They are AMD's Ryzen 7000 mobile CPUs.

Literally.

The new AI core introduced last year has had a clock speed bump, but CPU cores, graphics, memory, and everything else are identical to last year's models.

Tech News

Acer has announced the Nitro V 16, a laptop with the "new" Ryzen 8845HS. (Notebook Check)

It looks like a decent laptop despite note being new in any way.
Meta has announced a new standalone AI image generator. (Tech Crunch)

So you can download and run it locally?

No.

You just don't need to log in to Facebook.

Maybe.
How AI assistants are changing the way code is written. (MIT Technology Review)

By making everything worse.

Disclaimer: And we're starting from the industry that created Node.js, so "worse" really means something.

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