Daily Tech News 25 December 2023

• What kind of bubble is AI? (Locus)
  
  Obviously it's a bubble, but is it the kind that leaves some value behind after the fires die down, or is it the kind where you just have to eat your losses and maybe your children?
  
  Image-generation AI suggests the former; textual AI suggests the latter.
  
  
  

• Benchmarks have leaked for Intel's lower-end 14th generation desktop CPUs. (WCCFTech)
  
  If these are accurate, the 14100, 14400, and 14600 are quite good performers and worth a look.
  
  There are signs that the scores are not accurate.
  
  
  
• Wow, it is really pissing down out there.
  
  
  
• Ah, yep, hail.
  
  
  
• Speaking of benchmarks, the Cray-1 could reach 27 LINPACK megaFLOPs. (Roy Longbottom)
  
  Which used to be a lot.
  
  The Raspberry Pi 400 - the model I have, where it is built into the keyboard - can reach 1147.
  
  (A core i5 1135G7 - a laptop chip now three generations old - can achieve 9088.)
  
  

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