Daily Tech News 8 November 2024

• We've already seen AMD's latest chip, the Ryzen 9800X3D, demolish the competition (including other AMD chips) for playing games. But how does it perform for the kind of work I do, like running databases, compiling code, processing mathematical models? (Phoronix)

  For the geo mean of the more than 300 benchmarks, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D surpassed the Core i9 14900K and landed just behind the prior gen Ryzen 9 7950X and Ryzen 9 7950X3D processors. Compared to the Ryzen 7 7800X3D, the Ryzen 7 9800X3D delivered 1.34x the performance.

  This is an 8 core CPU competing against Intel chips with 24 cores. Yes, the huge Phoronix benchmark suite compares both single-threaded and multi-threaded workloads, but then I run a mix of single-threaded and multi-threaded tasks in my daily work.
  
  Its performance here is nothing short of amazing. 35% faster than the preceding generation is huge. I want one.
  
  
  
• And it's sold out. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Seems there was some pent-up demand out there; supplies are selling out as soon as they arrive in stores.

• The hate for Elon Musk has been put on hold while the crowd gathers to hate Jeff Bezos. (The Verge)
  
  Bezos has committed the unforgivable crime of being cordial to president-elect Donald Trump.
  
  
  
• Block is scaling back Tidal and shuttering TBD in favour of BTC. (Tech Crunch)
  
  I'm sure it is.
  
  
  
• A crypto CEO was kidnapped off the street in Toronto and held until a ransom of $1 million was paid. (CBC)

  Jameson Lopp, the co-founder and chief security officer of Casa, a security firm focused on protecting cryptocurrency users, has been keeping track of physical thefts designed to steal cryptocurrency for around a decade.
  
  He says Skurka's abduction is the 171st instance of suspects using physical violence to steal bitcoins, that he's aware of.

  Yay, Bitcoin is at a record high YOINK.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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