Daily Tech News 12 January 2025

• Enron is promoting the Enron Egg, the first home nuclear reactor. (MSN)
  
  Which raises the question: Is it a scam if you are screaming at the top of your lungs that you are scamming people?

  Haas said that while small modular reactors do exist, they generally range from the size of a shipping container to a full-sized house. The Enron Egg, he said, is simply too small to generate power at a scale that is both economically viable and safe to operate.

  Yes. Yes it is.

• Mad King Mat Mullenweg is now terminating the WordPress accounts of people who suggest that a WordPress fork might be forthcoming. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Which is literally everybody.
  
  
  
• GMK has announced a mini-PC based on the Ryzen Max+ 395, so here's a picture of something else. (WCCFTech)
  
  Because it doesn't exist yet. The Ryzen 395 itself does - tech channels are receiving review units already - but this mini-PC is fairy dust right now.
  
  
  
• The 16GB Raspberry Pi 5 has 16GB of RAM. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  This is 8GB more than the 8GB model.
  
  The benchmark suite run here is... Worthless.
  
  
  
• We may all have AI superpowers by 2030, commonly known as "not being a complete idiot". (Big Think)

  For example, when a coworker approaches from down the hall, and you can't quite remember her name, the AI will sense your unease and a voice will ring: "Jenny from quantum computing."

  Whereupon you will say, "Hi Jerry", and then shrivel up and die.
  
  
  

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