Daily Tech News 25 September 2024

• Intel has launched its Xeon 6 server processors, boasting up to 128 cores (full-size, not "efficiency" cores) and using up to 500W of power, to compete with AMD. (Hot Hardware)
  
  Intel has been far behind AMD in this space since the first Epyc processors launched in 2017. Intel hopes to start taking back market share with these new chips, priced starting at...
  
  Well, you can't actually buy them, but when you can they'll be great. Really.
  
  
  

• California Governor Gavin Noisome has vetoed a bill that would have required browsers to allow users to tell websites not to sell their fucking personal data to every criminal organisation in the world. (Ars Technica)
  
  Even the Ars Technica commentariat didn't like that.
  
  
  
• Booting Linux on an Intel 4004. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The 4004 is running an emulator because it lacks most of the hardware (not to mention the address space) to run Linux directly, but it's real Linux on a real 4004 chip from 1971.
  
  It takes almost five days to boot, and sixteen hours to list the contents of a directory.
  
  
  
• The DOJ is suing Visa for "profound and persistent weaselry". (The Verge)
  
  Sounds about right.
  
  
  
• The world's largest banks are lining up to support nuclear power, with plans to triple the world's nuclear capacity by 2050. (Business Insider)
  
  That should drive the degrowthers into a tizzy.
  
  Also mentioned in the article is that Microsoft has tapped a well-known nuclear power plant to run its AI datacenters - namely Three Mile Island.
  
  
  
• US air traffic control systems are fucked. (The Register)
  
  That's it. That's the story.
  
  
  

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