Daily Tech News 13 August 2024

• The Fifth Circuit has ruled that geofence warrants - which seek to gather information on anyone within a specific area at a given time - are categorically unconstitutional. (EFF)
  
  This is pretty clear from the plain wording of the Fourth Amendment, but it's always good to see a court that can read.

• The GPD Pocket 4 has the new 12 core Ryzen AI HX 370, up to 64GB of RAM, up to 4TB of SSD (or 8TB if you install your own), a 2560x1600 144Hz touchscreen covering 97% of DCI-P3 colour, USB4, wired 2.5Gb Ethernet, HDMI, and a pressure-sensitive stylus. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Only problem is that Pocket part. The screen measures 8.8" diagonally.
  
  
  
• Memes, photos, emails, and innumerate leftwing idiots writing in The Guardian are bad for the environment. (The Guardian)
  
  What a depressingly stupid article.
  
  
  
• Intel employees in Ireland are being offered a lot of money to go somewhere else. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Seven weeks of redundancy pay for each year they've been with the company, up to half a million Euros.
  
  
  
• The GIL is optional in Python 3.13. (GeekPython)
  
  The GIL prevents multiple threads of code from using the Python interpreter simultaneously. Obviously that limits performance, so to scale up you need to run multiple separate interpreters.
  
  This change can double performance of multi-threaded code that doesn't use multiple interpreters, but everyone uses multiple interpreters at this point, so it's about twenty years late.
  
  
  

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