Daily Tech News 16 August 2024

• What's next for KOSA, the Kids' Online Safety Act, that passed the Senate with overwhelming bipartisan support over the objections of critics pointing out the obvious and catastrophic second-order effects that would simply lead to banning minors from the internet entirely? (The Verge)
  
  Yeah. Dunno. It's a podcast, and there's no transcription, or even a summary.
  
  I didn't even realise it was a podcast at first because there's eight paragraphs of useless blather in the form of a story, and the linked audio starts out talking about something else entirely.
  
  Update: And the podcast is unbelievably obnoxious.

• Stop fucking monkeys. (Ars Technica)
  
  That is all.
  
  
  
• Former Google CEO Eric Schmidt gave a speech telling tech startups to just steal stuff. (The Verge)
  
  Literally.

  So, in the example that I gave of the TikTok competitor - and by the way, I was not arguing that you should illegally steal everybody's music

  That by the way was precisely what he did argue.

  - what you would do if you're a Silicon Valley entrepreneur, which hopefully all of you will be, is if it took off, then you'd hire a whole bunch of lawyers to go clean the mess up, right? But if nobody uses your product, it doesn't matter that you stole all the content.
  
  And do not quote me.

  Got it.
  
  
  
• Getting HDMI video working on the Pi Pico 2. (GitHub)
  
  No surprise that this works just like the Pi Pico.
  
  
  
• Getting HDMI video working on the Apple II. (Liliputing)
  
  Pretty neat, though you have to be pretty devoted to the Apple II to be adding a $200 video card to it.
  
  
  
• The final review of the Ryzen 9950X and 9900X, I promise. (Phoronix)
  
  This time it's testing technical applications on Linux, and shows these chips in a much more favourable light.
  
  The sixteen core 9950X is the fastest processor overall, and the twelve core 9900X lands between Intel's 24 core 13900X and 14900X.
  
  In some types of benchmark the AMD chips utterly dominate. In machine learning workloads, the 24 core Intel chips fall just behind AMD's previous generation six core chips.
  
  If you do any of this stuff, worth a look.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:08 AM

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