Daily Tech News 20 July 2024

• What is CrowdStrike, and what happened? (The Verge)
  
  We were expecting Skynet, and all we got is this lousy antivirus update.
  
  
  
• Blue Screen of Death photos from around the world. (The Verge)
  
  Thank you Microsoft and CrowdStrike for bringing us all together in shared loathing.
  
  
  

• How to fix a computer affected by the CrowdStrike problem. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The problem is you need direct access to each affected computer, which is a slight problem when there are thousands of them spread through a major airport, or worse, in ATMs across an entire country.
  
  
  
• CrowdStrike's market cap has fallen by $12.5 billion. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  "Oops", said CEO George Kurtz.
  
  
  
• Russia escaped the CrowdStrike debacle unscathed, because it is not allowed to run CrowdStrike. (Yahoo)
  
  Small mercies.
  
  
  
• Tenstorrent's new Wormhole AI cards can deliver 466 FP8 teraflops at 300W. (AnandTech)
  
  That's a little over a quarter the performance of Nvidia's H100, but the H100 costs $30,000 and the Wormhole costs $1400.
  
  The big difference is that the Wormhole is built on an older 12nm process, where the H100 is built on a recent 4nm process. That makes the Wormhole more power hungry but also much cheaper to produce.
  
  
  
• If this is the real pricing for AMD's Ryzen 9000 lineup, it's good. (WCCFTech)
  
  $499 for the 9950X would make it a very attractive product, and an easy upsell over the $399 9900X.
  
  But none of this is confirmed yet. And it would price the 9950X below the launch MSRP of the 7900X, which might be too good to be true.
  
  
  

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