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March 14, 2024

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Hello, what's this? (Liliputing)

2024 HP Pavilion Plus 14

AMD CPU: Check, 8845HS (8 cores, 5.1GHz)
High-resolution screen: Check, 2880x1800 120Hz OLED
Upgradeable RAM: No
At least 32GB then: Check
USB-C: Check, two of
USB-A: Check, two of
HDMI: Check
Headphone jack: Check
Four essential keys: Check
Micro-SD slot: No
Actually available to buy: Yes, at least in the US

It's not perfect, but close enough.

Pricing starts at $850. That's not particularly cheap, but it's $250 less than the new MacBook Air while providing twice the memory and storage.

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If an 8 core 5.1GHz laptop CPU just doesn't do it for you anymore maybe the Cerebras WSE-3 is more your speed. (Tom's Hardware)

900,000 cores. Yes, on one chip. Yes, it's a very big chip.

The chip also contains 44GB of RAM with a bandwidth of 21 petabyte per second, which is a lot.

Cerebras says you can link up to 2048 of these chips together in a single system, which would let you train a 70 billion parameter LLM in, uh, three minutes.
SpaceX has scheduled the third test flight of Starship - the most important advance in spaceflight since Robert Goddard - for March 14. (WCCFTech)

Yes, today.
Epic Games is back in court seeking a contempt order against Apple for violating its existing injunction. (Reuters)

Godspeed. You're also assholes, but to a lesser degree.
The FBI and DHS are targeting extremist gamers... In Roblox. (The Intercept)

I'm bulldozing the whole of DC into a river of lava... In Minecraft.
The M3 MacBook Air received a 5 out of 10 for repairability. (WCCFTech)

That's 5 points for not gluing the battery in place.

Some recent Apple products have received a score of 0, because you can't even open them without causing permanent damage. This might be grading on a scale, but at least it's an improvement.
Let's ban TikTok! (Tech Crunch)

Thinks of the result of 170 million delusional TikTok users infesting every other social network.

Let's ban TikTok users from the rest of the world!

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