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Daily Tech News 28 March 2025

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• Facing the failure of its latest fantastically expensive AAAAA title, Assassin's Creed XIV: The Assassining, floundering French slopmaker Ubisoft has spun off what few series it hasn't completely murdered into a new subsidiary and taken 1.16 billion euros from Tencent for a 25% stake. (WCCFTech)
  
  What does this deal leave for the parent company?
  
  Basically, nothing.

Tech News

• Asking good questions is harder than giving great answers. (Dan Cohen)
  
  Well, not quite. He's talking about assessing the intelligence of AI, and the point is that asking questions that actually assess that intelligence, rather than creating a thousand page general-knowledge quiz where everything is easily looked up, is harder than answering that poorly designed quiz assuming you are allowed to look things up.
  
  
  
• AMD's new 9600 non-X is about as fast as the 9600X while using the exact same amount of power. (Hot Hardware)
  
  Okay. Not entirely sure what the point is, though it may come bundled with a cooler (and AMD's stock coolers are not complete rubbish).
  
  
  
• Amazon has shipped my 128GB memory kit. It's on sale for $260 if anyone else wants one.
  
  You can see on that page that the equivalent 96GB kit is $230, so bumping it up to the next tier is well worth it.
  
  As I mentioned, I don't need 128GB of RAM, but the point of this build is to go a bit beyond so I can play around with things. My work laptop has 40GB of RAM and I can hit that mark without trying.
  
  The other factor is that DDR5 runs much slower if you fill up all four slots. These are pretty standard 5600MHz models, but if you fill all four slots, the memory speed drops to 3600MHz. The real world effect isn't quite that dramatic ranging from insignificant to quite noticeable, but best to avoid that fuss unless you really need more than a single dual-channel kit can provide.
  
  
  
• Developers are fighting a war with AI web crawlers. (Tech Crunch)
  
  AI web crawlers are asshoe.
  
  Even more so than regular web crawlers, and I've blocked plenty of those.
  
  
  

Musical Interlude




Musical Interlude List

For those keeping track.

28/3 Penguin Cafe Orchestra - Air a Danser
27/3 OK Go - Needing/Getting
26/3 Animals - House of the Rising Sun
25/3 Girls Generation - Dancing Queen
24/3 Led Zeppelin - Immigrant Song
23/3 Dodie Stevens - Pink Shoelaces
22/3 Rose - APT
21/3 Rolling Stones - Paint it Black
20/3 Cheap Trick - Dream Police
19/3 Doors - Light My Fire
18/3 Gangajang - Sounds of Then
17/3 Supertramp - Logical Song
16/3 Split Enz - Dirty Creature
15/3 The Kinks - Lola
14/3 Julian Lennon - Now You're In Heaven
13/3 Gerry Rafferty - Baker Street
12/3 Skyhooks - Horror Movie
11/3 White Stripes - Seven Nation Army
10/3 Orff - O Fortuna (Wrong Lyrics)
9/3 Dragon - April Sun in Cuba
8/3 Psychedelic Furs - Love My Way
7/3 Bryan Ferry - Let's Stick Together
6/3 Petula Clark - Downtown
5/3 David Bowie - Ashes to Ashes
4/3 Deborah Conway - Alive and Brilliant
3/3 Wendy Matthews - Token Angels
2/3 Elias Naslin - Stick Together (AMV)
1/3 Flowers - We Can Get Together
28/2 Choirboys - Run to Paradise
27/2 Diana Ross - Chain Reaction
26/2 Talking Heads - Road to Nowhere
25/2 Garbage - Cherry Lips
24/2 Mariya Takeuchi - Plastic Love
23/2 Mental as Anything - The Nips Are Getting Bigger
22/2 Royal Republic - Getting Along (AMV)
21/2 Kate Bush - Cloudbusting
20/2 One Republic - I Lived (AMV)
19/2 Hoodoo Gurus - Wipeout
18/2 Shocking Blue - Venus
17/2 Altered Images - I Could Be Happy
16/2 Norwegian Recycling - Six Songs Collide
15/2 Chumbawumba - Tubthumping
14/2 Joan Jett - I Love Rock N' Roll
13/2 Suzi Quatro - Devils Gate Drive
12/2 One Republic - Counting Stars (AMV)
11/2 Kate Ceberano - Brave
10/2 Big Pig - Breakaway
9/2 Traveling Wilburys - End Of The Line
8/2 First 12 Minutes of MTV
7/2 Harold Faltermeyer - Axel F (Amiga)
6/2 Creedence Clearwater Revival - Proud Mary
5/2 Art of Noise - Paranoimia
4/2 Stranglers - Golden Brown
3/2 Eddie Rabbitt - I Love a Rainy Night
2/2 Queen - Crazy Little Thing Called Love
1/2 AC/DC - Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap
31/1 Van Morrison - Brown Eyed Girl
30/1 Sara Nagare ft. Jinn - Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again (Cover)
29/1 Dire Straits - Sultans of Swing
28/1 Arcade Fire - Everything Now (AMV)
27/1 Goanna - Solid Rock
26/1 Carpenter Brut - Hairspray Hurricane (AMV)
25/1 Saint Motel - Van Horn
24/1 Good Lovelies - Crabbukkit (AMV) (Cover)
23/1 Weird Al - Tacky
22/1 TISM - Everyone Else Has Had More Sex Than Me
21/1 Gary Numan - Cars
20/1 Puretone - Addicted to Bass
19/1 Elvis Presley - A Little More Conversation
18/1 Crowded House - Weather With You
17/1 Bangles - Walk Like An Egyptian
16/1 Chris Rea - Let's Dance
15/1 Blondie - Atomic
14/1 Lucky Starr - I've Been Everywhere
13/1 Swingers - Counting the Beat
12/1 Beatles - Here Comes The Sun
11/1 Babymetal - Gimme Chocolate!!
10/1 Promises - Baby It's You
9/1 American Authors - Best Day Of My Life (AMV)
8/1 Scatman John - Scatman
7/1 TV on the Radio - Lazerray (AMV)
6/1 Wintergatan - Marble Machine
5/1 Cardigans - Lovefool
4/1 The Grid - Swamp Thing
4/1 Midas - Touch Tone Telephone (Cover)
3/1 Chantoozies - Wanna Be Up
31/12 Belle Stars - Iko Iko
31/12 Madonna - Material Girl
31/12 B-52's - Love Shack



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