Daily Tech News 6 May 2024

• With its player community up in arms and its reputation on fire - with 200,000 negative reviews landing in just three days - Sony has decided maybe Helldivers players on Windows don't need a PlayStation Network account after all. (MSN)
  
  This comes a day after the game was removed from sale on Steam in 177 countries and dependencies because the PlayStation Network was not available there.
  
  Which also goes to show how widely available Steam is. They don't care if you live in the Aland Islands or Andorra or Antarctica, if your credit card works you're in.
  

• The Cheyenne supercomputer has sold for $480,000, about 2% of what it cost when it was first installed. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The system includes 8,064 Xeon E5-2697 v4 CPUs with 18 cores each, and 4,890 64GB DDR4 ECC memory modules.
  
  Speaking of which, I have 40GB of DDR4 SODIMMs and 2TB of NVMe SSDs left over after after my latest round of hardware upgrades. And zero free slots to put any of those into.
  
  At least I don't have coolant leaks, unlike Cheyenne.
  
  
  
• Intel's upcoming Z890 motherboards for Arrow Lake CPUs will feature integrated Thunderbolt 4 support. (WCCFTech)
  
  Which would be even better if Intel hadn't introduced Thunderbolt 5 last year.
  
  
  
• A scroll detailing the final hours of Plato, found in a cache in a villa belonging to Julius Caesar's father-in-law in Herculaneum (near Pompeii), has now been deciphered. (The Guardian)
  
  He was not overly fond of the entertainment that evening.
  
  The scrolls - hundreds of them - are, as you might expect given what happened to Herculaneum, mere lumps of charcoal, and it is only with modern CT scanning techniques and computer-aided reconstruction that we are able to read them. In fact, it's only last year that the first words were read this way.
  
  
  
• Chinese government websites are as bad as government websites anywhere else, and probably worse. (The Register)
  
  If anyone cared enough to hack them they would likely find easy pickings.
  
  
  

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