Daily Tech News 15 October 2024

• The Internet Archive is back online after the recent DDOS and data breach. (The Verge)
  
  Currently it's read-only - that is, you can look up existing data but you can't request it to save new websites. But all the existing data is intact.
  
  Work continues on restoring full functionality.
  
  
  

• A Nobel Prize winner (Geoff Hinton) has called out OpenAI for placing profits (the company is not remotely profitable) ahead of safety (what safety?) (WCCFTech)
  
  I swear, ever prominent figure in AI appears to have performed an auto-lobotomy with a grapefruit spoon.
  
  
  
• Google has signed a deal with nuclear energy developer Kairos Power to run its data centers using, well, nuclear energy. (CNBC)
  
  Specifically using nuclear energy from small modular reactors which in turn use molten salt cooling. There are currently, let's see, zero of these operating in the United States and only three in the world.
  
  The first reactor is planned to be online by 2030 but I suspect Elon Musk will have his Mars colony before that happens.
  
  
  
• I do not know why they did that: The iKOOLCORE R2 Max is a mini-PC with maxi-networking. (Liliputing)
  
  A 4 core Intel N100 or 8 core N305 CPU, up to 32GB (maybe 48GB) of RAM, two 2.5Gb Ethernet ports, two 10Gb Ethernet ports, HDMI, USB-C with DisplayPort, and two M.2 NVMe slots.
  
  Here's the catch, though: Intel's N-series CPUs don't have a lot of I/O bandwidth, and after all the network ports are catered for, the M.2 slots get just one PCIe lane each... Of PCIe 2.0.
  
  That's 500MB per second, when even a budget drive like Crucial's P3 Plus can deliver 5000MB per second.
  
  The kicker is that the 2.5Gb Ethernet ports have PCIe 3.0 connections, when they max out at 250MB per second and cannot possible use that.
  
  
  
• NASA's Europe Clipper mission is on its way to Europa - pure coincidence - courtesy of a SpaceX Falcon Heavy. (The Register)
  
  It is scheduled to arrive at Jupiter in 2030, just like everything else.
  
  
  
• If you are running Windows 10, a year from now Microsoft will finally stop bothering you with pointless updates. (Ars Technica)
  
  I bet they don't though.
  
  
  

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