Daily Tech News 11.5

• Tech industry layoffs are a thing of the past now that the tech industry has stopped hiring altogether. (Vice)
  
  I'm not sure exactly what is going on here. Yes, the economy is doing worse than politicians or the press will admit, but not that much worse. Yes, AI is eating more jobs than it creates, but it's basically a pile of garbage so it's not doing much of anything except selling Nvidia's graphics cards.
  
  Hopefully tech journalists will be the first to go, because the analysis provided by Vice is worse than useless.
  
  

• LLMs make bad lawyers. (The Register)
  
  Because - as usual - the only thing they know is statistically what words are most likely to go together.
  
  
  
• If you're annoyed by the trend of motherboards having hardly any expansion slots anymore ASRock's WRX90 WS Evo should bring a tear to your eye. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It has seven full x16 PCIe 5.0 slots, plus two M.2 slots and two U.2 ports, and eight DIMM slots. I/O includes eight USB ports, dual 10Gb Ethernet ports, audio including optical output, and integrated WiFi.
  
  Won't be cheap though.
  
  
  
• Since there are no PCIe 5.0 graphics cards maybe you could use one of those slots for Crucial's new T700 8TB SSD. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  This is actually four 2TB T700 drives on a PCIe card, cooled by those new silent piezoelectric fans from Frore.
  
  Transfer rates can hit 42GB per second, which is a lot.
  
  
  

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