Daily Tech News 14 June 2024

• Microsoft will be launching its new range of Copilot Plus laptops minus a key feature: Spyware. (The Verge)
  
  Yes, Recall, widely considered to be one of the classic blunders right alongside never get involved in a land war in Asia and never go up against a Sicilian when death is on the line is miraculously delayed.
  
  
  
• The first retail benchmarks of the new Copilot Plus laptops - based on Qualcomm's Snapdragon X Elite chip - are disappointing. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  This is probably a nothingburger though, because the scores are exactly what you would expect if the CPU was stuck at the 2.5GHz base clock and not boosting up to 4GHz.

• Everything you ever wanted to know about the Snapdragon X Elite microarchitecture. (AnandTech)
  
  8-wide decode feeding into 6 ALU, 4 FPU, and 4 load-store pipelines.
  
  By comparison AMD's Zen 4 is a 4-wide decode.
  
  
  
• Designing a website without 404s. (Pillser)
  
  The software figures out what the closest live URL is to what you are requesting, and redirects you.
  
  Which is a great idea right up until it isn't. An incorrect URL could change content completely at any moment when an unrelated page with a slightly closer URL is created.
  
  And never mind what happens when you get scraped by a poorly-behaved web spider that finds that every nonsensical random URL is giving it useful data...
  
  
  
• If you want better graphics in your next NUC and don't care how ugly it is - seriously, what the hell - The Asus ROG NUC might be just the thing. (Serve the Home)
  
  It's a standard laptop CPU but adds a laptop RTX 4070.
  
  
  
• French courts have ordered Google, Cloudflare, and Cisco to poison their wells. (TorrentFreak)
  
  Or more precisely, the public DNS entries for certain scofflaw websites.
  
  VPNs, baby, I'm telling you.
  
  
  
• The generative AI version of Alexa isn't ready for release. (The Verge)
  
  The problem? People expect it to work, and generative AI eats flaming hot Cheetos out of a sewer dumpster out of a sewer dumpster out of a sewer dumpster.

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