Daily Tech News 23 December 2023

• Sony has decided it will not be removing Discovery Channel content that its customers had "bought" on the PlayStation Network.... Yet. (Notebook Check)
  
  Of course, if they can remove it, you haven't bought it.
  
  Streaming content licenses are rarely perpetual, which means that content "bought" on secondary platforms can vanish at any time. That's bad enough if the secondary platform offers refunds, but Sony isn't even bothering to do that.
  
  This is why the studios want to destroy physical media. Already Disney has stopped shipping Blu-Rays or DVDs to Australia.
  
  Which is no loss for Disney's current offerings, but their back catalog is a different matter.

• Font sizes make no sense. Let's make things even worse. (Tonsky)
  
  Or, you know, we could not do that.
  
  
  
• AMD will start clearly listing which of its consumer chips contain Zen 4c cores. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Zen 4c has all the features of Zen 4, but is designed to be smaller - about half the size - and runs around 20% slower. It's similar to Intel's Efficiency or E cores, which are a quarter the size of full cores and half the speed, except that the E cores also lack some features of the full cores.
  
  Zen 4c was introduced first on server parts - the 128 core Bergamo range - but things are simpler there because chips in the server lineup contains either only full-size Zen 4 or only smaller Zen 4c. Some of the latest laptop chips like the 7540U contain a mixture.
  
  
  
• Banks lend the money you deposit to other people, and if you are a demented anarcho-communist Ars reader, you may not like that, so just convert it into gold and bury it in your back yard or something. (Ars Technica)
  
  Even the comments at Ars point out that this is a stupid article.
  
  
  
• If you want to build your own compact NAS and don't want to worry about the CPU running too hot, SZBox might have the answer. (Liliputing)
  
  It's a mini-ITX motherboard with an Intel N-series CPU - one that only has the aforementioned E cores. You can choose from a 4 core N100 or an 8 core N305, which is not hugely powerful but should be fine for a file / media server.
  
  Apart from that it has two M.2 slot, six SATA ports, four 2.5Gb Ethernet ports, HDMI and DisplayPort, four USB ports, and a single memory slot for up to 32GB of RAM. There's also a PCIe x1 slot, but if you use that one of the M.2 slots stops working because honestly Intel's N-series chips kind of suck.
  
  
  
• So does Google. (Search Engine Journal)
  
  This is not news.

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