Daily Tech News 25 October 2024

• Intel's Arrow Lake desktop CPUs - effectively the 15th generation Core chips though they don't call them that - are finally here. Are they good? Should you buy one? No. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  They do post very good results in a couple of AI benchmarks, and generally solid results in multi-threaded productivity tasks, but on games they average 5% slower than the previous (and cheaper) generation, and are even further behind AMD's previous generation gaming-oriented chips like the 7800X3D.
  
  In fact, for games they are often behind the two-generation-old 5800X3D, sometimes behind the budget-oriented 5700X3D, running roughly even with Intel's three-generation-old 12600K. But costing four times as much.
  
  And while these new chips do use significantly less power than the 14900K blast furnace, they still use significantly more power than AMD's offerings.
  
  Intel managed to one-up AMD's Zen 5, which has been nicknamed Zen 5% for its mediocre performance gains on consumer applications, by actually going backwards.
  
  To complicate matters further, new BIOS features to improve performance that should be on by default, aren't, and when they are turned on manually they sometimes make things worse.
  
  The same goes for Windows, with the latest 24H2 update causing some games to run noticeably slower on Arrow Lake, when the same release improves performance on AMD's Zen 4 and Zen 5 chips.
  
  It's a mess.
  
  
  
• And AMD's 9800X3D is due out in two weeks. (WCCFTech)
  
  That looks like the way to go for people who play a lot of recent computer games... Whoever they are, given how poorly received recent titles have been.
  
  If you just need something that works for everyday tasks, something like the 8700G or even the previous generation's 5600GT should do the job nicely.

• Would you like to play a game? The Biden Administration - whoever the hell is actually running it these days - has ordered the Pentagon and intelligence agencies the increase their use of AI. (MSN)
  
  The risk has never been in the AI itself. The risk has always been the morons in charge of the AI.
  
  
  
• The Humane AI Pin has received a $200 price cut down to $499. (MSN)
  
  Plus a $24 monthly subscription plan.
  
  It's still completely useless.
  
  
  
• After a 15 year legal battle, the EU has dropped its anti-trust case against Intel. (Notebook Check)
  
  So there's one positive thing.
  
  
  
• OpenAI plans to release its next generation chatbot, Orion, before the end of the year. (The Verge)
  
  A preview version of Orion was proud to announce that its name is an anagram of "they are so great".
  
  No, really.
  
  
  
• The UN Trust Fund to End Violence against Women - TFEVW, pronounced tfevw, has leaked a 228GB database of victims of violence against women. (HackRead)
  
  You had one job.
  
  
  
  

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