Daily Tech News 15 March 2024

• Intel's 6.2GHz 24 core i9 14900KS is here. (AnandTech)
  
  Priced at $689, it's a theoretical 150W part with a 253W maximum short-term power consumption that uses 375W here in the real world.
  
  PassMark doesn't have any scores up yet but I doubt it's worth the cost and heat for most users. A 14700 will give you 75% of the performance at less than half the power consumption.

• Western Digital's SN5000 is a budget SSD that can hit read speeds of 6GB per second. (AnandTech)
  
  It's QLC and DRAMless which is a bad combination for server workloads, but if you're doing typical desktop stuff where you want to load and save files quickly rather than perform millions of tiny updates within files (the way a database does) it should be fine.
  
  Price is... Not mentioned. And whether this is worthwhile depends entirely on that price.
  
  
  
• GPT-4 can now play Doom... Very, very badly. (Hot Hardware)
  
  Likewise.
  
  
  
• Google gets one right: Every major AI except Google Gemini leaks private information. (Ars Technica)
  
  Samsung banned the use of third-party AI tools by all its employees last year after three leaks of proprietary information were traced back to, well, that.
  
  
  
• The FTC and DOJ say it should be legal to fix McDonalds' ice cream machines. (The Verge)
  
  The company that makes the machines is as notoriously litigious about third-party repairs as the machines themselves are notoriously unreliable.
  
  
  
• Let a thousand Nintendo Switch emulators bloom... Maybe. (The Verge)
  
  Nintendo sued the Yuzu emulator for "facilitating piracy", and the developers settled the suit and vanished.
  
  Since Yuzu was open source, though, there is now a swarm of clones for Nintendo to contend with.

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