Daily Tech News 4 May 2024

• The judge in the Google antitrust trial is considering imposing sanctions over Google's practice of deliberately deleting all records of sensitive internal conversations. (Ars Technica)
  
  Having seen other big tech companies get in trouble when the DOJ went over their records, Google decided it would simply not keep any records.
  
  It's a bold strategy.
  
  
  
• Working on migrating everything to a new server given the recent issues. I'll post a notice if / when downtime is expected.

• Building a Threadripper workstation and need lots of fast memory but also want ECC? V-Color has you covered. (Serve the Home)
  
  192GB at DDR5-7200 speeds.
  
  Though you only get full speed if you have one DIMM per channel, so if you need more (and your motherboard has more than four slots) it will slow down.
  
  
  
• If you need even faster memory - like HBM - you can place your orders now for delivery in 2026. (AnandTech)
  
  Hynix's production is already sold out for 2024 and most of 2025.
  
  
  
• Google's search results, already almost useless, are getting worse. (The Register)

  "It has happened," wrote developer Arian van Putten in a social media post over the weekend. "The number one Google result was an official Pulumi documentation page that was clearly written by an LLM (it had a disclaimer that it was) and hallucinated an AWS feature that didn't exist. This is the beginning of the end."

  Pulumi, the company generating the AI results, has been very responsive to the problem, has taken down two thirds of the pages and is reviewing the remainder for incorrect answers.
  
  Google meanwhile offered the cannedest of canned replies.
  
  Bing, meanwhile... Didn't have the same problem. So score one for Microsoft.
  
  
  
• Generating 1024 bit prime numbers the hard way. (GlitchComet)
  
  The easy way is to just copy and paste. Here you go:
  
  177720646511895772991045629522972753502676425002016283330
  773868745109334356532783500581560425145704773959769930413
  789872718529515289471187735819720465888854952471427632098
  554011932730921272830418010265570121099752587584547435013
  097108422373834015070668330390239397186506619029851158511
  460040722871392491661731
  
  
  
• If you play Helldivers 2 and live in Monaco or San Marino or Andorra or any of about seventy one hundred and twenty other countries, publisher Sony says fuck you. (GamesRadar)
  
  You will now be required to sign up to the PlayStation Network to play the game on Windows. The PlayStation Network is only available in about half one third of the countries of the world.
  
  
  

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