Daily Tech News 8 December 2023

• The FTC has filed a lawsuit to prevent Microsoft from buying Activision. (Reuters)
  
  The only problem is Microsoft has already bought Activision.
  
  The only other problem is that the FTC is making the same argument that was already thrown out by a district court back in July.
  
  So good luck with that.

• How many people lived in Middle Earth? (Medium)
  
  7.6 million.
  
  There. Now you know.
  
  That's a lot less than lived in Medieval Europe, but as we see in the movies, large parts of Middle Earth were depopulated by the time of the War of the Ring.
  
  
  
• The latest update to Systemd brings the Blue Screen of Death to Linux. (Ars Technica)
  
  Great. Thanks guys. Possibly your crowning achievement.
  
  
  
• The first benchmark results for Intel's new 144 core Sierra Forest server CPUs are here. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  They suck. The single-threaded score is only a little more than half that of AMD's 128 core Bergamo chip, and the multi-threaded score is less than half.
  
  Ignoring the fact that they used two 144 core chips to get that result, because the benchmark result barely shifted when the second chip was added.
  
  Sierra Forest uses only the low-power Efficiency cores. So does Bergamo, but AMD's equivalent to Intel's E cores - Zen 4C - is superior in every way.
  
  
  

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