Daily Tech News 24 August 2024

• Clinical trials for a new vaccine for lung cancer are under way in seven countries. (The Guardian)
  
  It's an mRNA vaccine, which have skeptics, but you don't have to give it to everyone, because it works to target cancer cells once they are detected, and to prevent the cancer from recurring.
  
  Given how hard chemotherapy is on the body, more selective tools like this, even if imperfect, are very welcome.

• The new Ryzen laptop CPUs look perfect for mini-PCs. Soyo's S9 is the first NUC to appear using the Ryzen AI 9 HX 370. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Downside: Soldered RAM, but it will be available in 16GB, 32GB, and 64GB models.
  
  Upside: With no DIMMs taking up space, it will have three M.2 slots.
  
  Other side: It's not shipping yet; the review model was a pre-production unit with a couple of hardware issues.
  
  It's not going to compete with an RTX 4090 - or even a 4070 - but if you are happy with 1080p medium settings, or you mostly play games that are a couple of years old, it does pretty well and the whole system runs on about 50W.
  
  I'm hoping to see one of these that uses CAMM2 memory so it is upgradeable - these chips don't support regular DDR5 DIMMs - but this is a good start.
  
  
  
• What's inside the Raspberry Pi Pico 2. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  A good rundown of the new hardware and the options available - or soon to be available, since it's not shipping to end users yet.
  
  Plus a couple of boards coming from Pimoroni, including one the exact same size and pinout as the standard Pi Pico 2 but with an extra 16MB of RAM.
  
  
  
• Microsoft has scheduled a security summit for September 10 to discuss what it plans to do about those idiots at Crowdstrike. (Ars Technica)
  
  Well, that's not how they worded it, but it's what they mean.
  
  
  

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