Daily Tech News 15 May 2024

• Qualcomm is bringing support for its upcoming Snapdragon X CPUs to Linux, and by "is bringing", I mean "has brought". (Liliputing)
  
  I hope these chips are as good as they seem on paper. They'll likely be slower than Apple's M4, but you'll be able to buy them and do whatever you want with them, without paying a 1200% markup on RAM upgrades.
  
  You can run Linux on Arm-based Macs too, but Apple's involvement in that project only goes as far as not suing the people working on it.
  
  
  

• Samsung and Hynix have stopped making DDR3 RAM, focusing instead on the far more profitable HBM3 modules for AI systems. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  I didn't know they were still actively producing DDR3 memory. It's available for sale, but since DDR4 appeared in 2014, I assumed that was just old stock they couldn't shift.
  
  
  
• VMWare's Workstation and Fusion desktop virtualisation packages are now free for personal use. (The Register)
  
  These are generally pretty good, though I don't know how much effort Broadcom will put into updating them going forward.
  
  
  
• Amazon has a trailer up for season two of its half-billion-dollar flop, The Rings of Power. (Ars Technica)
  
  Nobody knows why.
  
  
  
• Google's new Gemini Pro in Workspace Labs summarises your email so you can delete it without reading either the email or the summary. (Ars Technica)
  
  As a paid upgrade it will just lose your email automatically.

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