Daily Tech News 28 January 2024

• Is your Apple II or Commodore PET just not delivering the joy it once did? Enter the 65F02. (e-basteln)
  
  This is a 100MHz drop-in replacement for the original 1MHz chip.
  
  Of course that wouldn't do much good with the original 1MHz RAM still in place, so it has 64k of 100MHz RAM on board as well.
  
  It automatically maps out the memory and I/O addresses of your computer so that devices like floppy drives and video still work, while everything else runs at full speed.

• Looking to connect your Raspberry Pi to a WiFi 6E or 7 network? Hope you don't need to stay connected for more than 11 hours. (Rachel by the Bay)
  
  Because you won't, and nobody knows why. Well, it's because of limited WPA3 support, but the 11 hours part remains a mystery.
  
  
  
• Tesla is building a $500 million supercomputer in Buffalo, New York. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Why? Because if you're building a huge computer, you want it somewhere cold and wet, and upstate New York is certainly that.
  
  Also Tesla already owns an enormous empty building there.
  
  The supercomputer will be used to train software for autonomous vehicles among other projects.
  
  
  
• Don't post bomb threats on social media. (BBC)
  
  Just... Don't.
  
  
  
• Seagate's new 24TB hard drives are here. (Serve the Home)
  
  With the rate at which SSD prices were dropping last year, hard drives appeared to be doomed. But those price cuts appear to have stalled for now, and predictions are that SSD prices will actually increase this year.
  
  
  
• AMD's new Ryzen 8600G and 8700G will be here in a few days. (WCCFTech)
  
  The 8600G offers 6 CPU cores and 8 graphics cores for $229; the 8700G offer 8 CPU cores and 12 graphics cores for $329. Each is around 30% faster than its 5000-series predecessor on multi-threaded tests.
  
  There's also an 8500G model at $179, but that cuts back to 4 graphics cores and about half the PCIe lanes, so it's a lot less interesting.

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