Daily Tech News 6 Gemini 2023

• What to expect at CES 2024. (The Verge)
  
  1. Overpriced crap.
  2. Overpriced AI-infested crap.
  
  That seems to cover it.

• Include everything.
  
  What do you mean, everything?
  
  EVERYTHING. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  A new Node.js package called everything does just what it says on the tin: It includes every single package on NPM, the Node Package Manager.
  
  More than two million of them.
  
  This has the unfortunate side-effect that since you can't delete a package from NPM if it is in use by another package, nothing can now be deleted from NPM. Ever.
  
  
  
• Huawei's breakthrough 5nm CPU was not produced by Chinese manufacturer SMIC through multi-patterning in a 14nm fab. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It was produced by TSMC.
  
  In 2020.
  
  SMIC is producing "7nm" chips using 14nm tools and multi-patterning, but not "5nm" just yet.
  
  
  
• Writing GPT in 500 lines of SQL. (Explain Extended)
  
  Yes, it's terribly slow, and the results are mediocre at best, but that just makes it authentic.
  
  
  
• NASA will be rolling out the new X-59 - a quiet supersonic plane - on January 12. (Hot Hardware)
  
  Not testing it, so far as I can tell. Not flying it. Literally rolling it out of the hangar.
  
  
  

• Niklaus Wirth, creator of multiple programming languages including Pascal, Modula-2, and Oberon, has passed away. (Hackaday)
  
  He was 89.
  
  
  
• Pomu Rainpuff, Nijisanji EN's forest fairy, has announced her graduation. (Dexerto)
  
  She was 9cm tall. Which is tall for a fairy.
  
  She announced that she was leaving "to pursue other creative avenues" which I am hoping means Hololive, because Nijisanji treats its talents terribly.
  
  Her last stream will be January 20, which if you are observing the Gregorian calendar is 14 days from now.
  
  All her content will remain online.
  
  (Graduation for vtubers means the talent is leaving that company, so the personality that people know will no longer be around.
  
  This might mean they are retiring from the business entirely, like Sana from Hololive Council, who is a successful commercial artist in real life, or a familiar voice might pop up somewhere else the very next day, like Kiryu Coco or Pikamee.)

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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