Daily Tech News 23 January 2025

• The review embargo on the new RTX 5090 lifts in just a few hours. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The 5090 is the only model in Nvidia's 2025 lineup that has seen a significant improvement over its 4000-series predecessor.
  
  It's also the only model that has seen a significant price increase over its 4000-series predecessor.
  
  The rest of the range is around 10% faster than last year's refresh models and about the same price, which is underwhelming at best.
  
  Nvidia's claims of providing 4090 performance at 4070 prices are based on AI frame interpolation, or to use the vernacular, bullshit.

• Nvidia is working on generating as many as 16 fake frames for every real one, up from the current limit of 3. (WCCFTech)
  
  More of the same, piled higher and deeper.
  
  
  
• The Seven Most Influential Papers in Computer Science. (Terrible Software)
  
  A very good list, except for the last item on each of the award and honourable mention categories. One of those issued a huge sucking sound and drained a trillion dollars from the productive parts of the economy, and the other one created an entirely new type of spam.
  
  
  
• Using unhinged AVX-512 instructions to make the fastest phrase search algorithms. (GitHub)
  
  It's unhinged. It's fast. What could possibly go wrong?
  
  
  
• Trump's war on electric cars has only just begun. (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  Curiously enough, electric car manufacturers were dying like flies during Biden's administration.
  
  
  
• Anthropic CEO Dario Amodei says AI could surpass humans at "almost everything" shortly after 2027. (Ars Technica)
  
  Sure thing. Unblock my drains.
  
  
  
• The Trump administration has fired all DHS advisory boards, including the one that was fast asleep while China's "Salt Typhoon" hacking spree was breaking into US telecommunication companies. (Ars Technica)
  
  Ars Technica complains that the investigation is only half finished.
  
  Someone needs to explain to them that the hack already happened.
  
  
  
• If you want two SSDs on your Raspberry Pi 5 without sacrificing speed, you can now do that. (Liliputing)
  
  The PCIe 3.0 to Dual M.2 Hat from Seeed Studio (yes, three e's) is a... Well, it's a PCIe 3.0 to dual M.2 hat. So the name is appropriate, I guess.
  
  It costs $45 where a single M.2 slot only costs $6, because the chip on the Pi 5 only directly supports one SSD, so this board needs a chip itself to drive the second SSD.
  
  Speeds go up to about 800MBps, which is slow compared to desktop computers but still extremely fast.

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