Daily Tech News 27 August 2024

• If you play games on Windows and have a new system using a Ryzen 9000 chip you're not going to want to miss the Windows 11 24H2 update. (WCCFTech)
  
  No, seriously. It's an average of 11% faster across a broad range of games, and up to 35% in the case of Gears 5.
  
  This is great news if you just got a new AMD system and were disappointed with the performance gains over the previous generation.
  
  If you have a previous generation Ryzen 7000 (or 8000) system, unfortunately it only brings... An average of 10% better performance and a peak of 32% in Gears 5 again.
  
  Reportedly it also provides better performance on Ryzen 5000, though Hardware Unboxed hasn't had time to run all those tests yet.
  
  What doesn't gain huge performance benefits from this update is anything running on chips from Intel... Except for some reason Gears 5 again, where the 14600K showed a 25% performance gain.
  
  It's not clear exactly what's been going on, because this suggests that Windows has been inadvertently tanking AMD performance for years. The update was focused on the new branch prediction features in Zen 5, but somehow it improved the prior two Zen generations as well.

• Microsoft is planning to remove the last traces of the Control Panel from Windows. (The Register)
  
  It's been there since Windows 1.0. Time for it to enjoy a long vacation somewhere warm.
  
  
  
• Or, y'know, not. (Ars Technica)
  
  Microsoft's communications strategy is to confuse everyone to the point that they can never be sued because nobody knows what anything means.
  
  
  
• The FBI's secure data storage facility is just piles of hard drives lying around in a warehouse. (The Register)
  
  Top men.
  
  
  
• The Lenovo Legion Go is getting a dock and a joystick wedge. (The Verge)
  
  I don't want a Lenovo Legion Go (which is an 8" Windows tablet). I want a Lenovo Legion Tab (which is an 8" Android tablet).
  
  Which has finally been released outside China, and is not available to buy anywhere so far as I can tell.
  
  What I can get is an NEC Lavie T9, which... Is a Lenovo Legion Tab.
  
  
  
• The French government has said the French government is not involved in any way with the French government's arrest of the CEO of Telegram. (Politico)
  
  That makes sense.
  
  
  
• Russian military communications are reportedly in disarray because they were heavily reliant on... Telegram. (Politico)
  
  Look, it is Politico, so take that with a grain of salt. In fact almost everything about the article is weird, including the corrections:

  This article has been updated to correct Margarita Simonyan's function. She is a Kremlin propagandist.

  Well, okay then.
  
  
  
• SpaceX's Polaris Dawn private mission is scheduled for launch... Originally 22 minutes ago, now about this time tomorrow. (Tech Crunch)
  
  A ground-side helium leak was detected a few hours ago and the launch was pushed back by 24 hours.

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