Daily Tech News 17 April 2024

• The modern world depends on a handful of ships. (The Verge)
  
  Specifically, the 22 ships designed and dedicated to repairing the undersea cables that make the internet inter.
  
  It's a good article, and it covers the whole history of undersea cables and cable repair:

  Field fared no better. Twelve years after he began, he had endured severed cables, near sinkings, and had one "success": a cable laid in 1858 that prompted celebrations so enthusiastic that revelers set fire to New York City Hall. The cable failed weeks later.

  We need more of this.
  
  The only problem is that as you scroll through it, every so often it hits an image gallery and scrolls sideways.
  
  I'm impressed they found something worse than the experimental UI over at YouTube.

• Google's ethnically diverse Nazis are staging a sit-in to protest the company having a contract with Israel. (MSN)
  
  It's so helpful the way the useless idiots self-identify so that they can be fired.
  
  Google won't take the opportunity, because at this point it's idiots all the way down.
  
  
  
• Nvidia's 4070 or AMD's 7900 GRE? (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The two cards are priced within $10 of each other. The 7900 is 15% faster on non-raytraced games; the 4070 is 15% faster on raytraced games.
  
  The 7090 has more memory; the 4070 uses less power.
  
  If you're running AI workloads, the 4070 is a clear winner, running Stable Diffusion in half the time.
  
  Either card is a pretty good option though.
  
  Or just get a Radeon RX 580 which for $80 can deliver 500fps in Minecraft at 4k resolution.
  
  
  
• Samsung is to receive $6.4 billion - all direct funding, not loans - under the CHIPS Act to build a $40 billion chip factory in Texas. (AnandTech)
  
  I'm not a huge fan of government handouts, even when it's not my government and not my tax dollars, but as I've said before, almost everything the government spends its money on is worse than this.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:11 AM

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