Sunday, June 15
Daily News Stuff 15 June 2025
Wises The Muwun Edition
Wises The Muwun Edition
Top Story
- The root cause of the huge Google Cloud / Clouflare outage a couple of days ago. (Google)
A null pointer set a Google service into a boot loop when a change was applied without an appropriate policy set. The missing policy should have been caught and the update rejected, but wasn't, because everything is nightmarishly complicated.
Tech News
- PCIe 6.0 SSDs aren't likely to show up in desktop PCs for years. (Tom's Hardware)
Servers, yes. Laptops, maybe. Desktops, no.
PCIe 5.0 SSDs are twice the price of PCIe 4.0 models anyway, and PCIe 6.0 is sure to be unreasonably costly for small drives, so if you're building a desktop just go for four PCIe 4.0 drives in RAID-0.
- Korean researchers have outlined the next four generations of HBM (high-bandwidth memory) following the upcoming HBM4. (WCCFTech)
HBM8 will - eventually - deliver five times the capacity and 32 times the bandwidth of next-gen HBM4, with up to 240GB of RAM per device and 64TB per second of bandwidth.
And use 180W of power for a single HMB8 stack. HBM1 was slower, true, but it only used 4W of power.
- How scammers are using AI to steal student aid. (AP News)
The answer is they're using it a lot.An Associated Press analysis of fraud reports obtained through a public records request shows California colleges in 2024 reported 1.2 million fraudulent applications, which resulted in 223,000 suspected fake enrollments.
Because until last Friday you don't need to provide any ID to apply for student aid.
- The Browser Company - that's what it's called - unveiled Dia, its new AI-focused web browser. (Tech Crunch)
No thanks.
- Stolen iPhones are screaming at the looters who stole them. (The Economic Times) (archive site)
Oh no.
Anyway...
- They've found the second Stargate. (Phys.org)
Good news. Now they just need to find the Ancient city.
- New legislation in New York makes it illegal for AI to murder more than 100 people. (Tech Crunch)
Less than 100, no problem, but over 100 is right out.
Only the government is allowed to do that.
Musical Interlude
Song is Notice Me by Alexa Ray Joel. Anime is Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun.
Disclaimer: Tanuki?
Disclaimer: Tanuki?
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Pixy, sooner or later I gotta have faith. That video was nice.
But when will you ever say, "Ok, as of this date, this is the memory, graphics card, CPU, motherboard and whatever that you should buy if you surf the web, don't want to spend thousands, but DO want to have a rig that might play boffo games for the next 5 years?"
I know it can't be a perfect prognostication. But what would you buy? I'm talking about a desktop, and you needn't wait for the next generation PCIe or DDR memory, but would you?
But when will you ever say, "Ok, as of this date, this is the memory, graphics card, CPU, motherboard and whatever that you should buy if you surf the web, don't want to spend thousands, but DO want to have a rig that might play boffo games for the next 5 years?"
I know it can't be a perfect prognostication. But what would you buy? I'm talking about a desktop, and you needn't wait for the next generation PCIe or DDR memory, but would you?
Posted by: furball321 at Sunday, June 15 2025 09:56 PM (As8gg)
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Oh, and one more thing. Assume there is nothing you'll keep, except an
old USB exrtenal backup drive. You've got a non-4K HDMI screen and a DVI
screen. Is there a motherboard that lets you have new memeory and PCIe
and lets you drive those old screens or maybe a new 4K screen?
Posted by: furball321 at Sunday, June 15 2025 10:10 PM (As8gg)
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And, as long as I've come here and said stuff, I may as well
express that I greatly prefer your Anime cartoons and that musuc, to
your actual 80s or whatever those other music videos are. Just sayin'.
I know others (and even you) may have other opinions.
I know others (and even you) may have other opinions.
Posted by: furball321 at Sunday, June 15 2025 10:18 PM (As8gg)
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Yeah, I absolutely am not surprised about enrollment fraud at universities. Lots of indicators in other places of many problems, and substantial fraudulent enrollments are kinda expected. But, this was also not at all anything I would have thought to predict.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Monday, June 16 2025 12:26 AM (rcPLc)
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Furball: if you're not going to play AAA games, drop around $400 (maybe more due to inflation/tariffs) on pretty much any AMD mini PC you find on Amazon that has at least 16GB of RAM and 500GB of storage. Something like a 6800HS, 7735HS, 7845/8845, etc. I've been using one for a year (I did put more RAM in it) and it plays heavily Minecraft at 1440p at > 120fps. If you play indie stuff, it'll be great too.
If you want to play AAA games, then how much hardware to get depends on how high a resolution, how much graphical quality, and how high a frame rate you want.
Off the cuff, an i5-12600K, 32GB of RAM, and an RTX 4070 or RX 7700 XT, would probably be a pretty great gaming system (you can get higher-level cards and CPU if you want more power.)
If you want to play AAA games, then how much hardware to get depends on how high a resolution, how much graphical quality, and how high a frame rate you want.
Off the cuff, an i5-12600K, 32GB of RAM, and an RTX 4070 or RX 7700 XT, would probably be a pretty great gaming system (you can get higher-level cards and CPU if you want more power.)
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, June 16 2025 01:24 AM (1zWbY)
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"You've got a non-4K HDMI screen and a DVI
screen. Is there a motherboard that lets you have new memeory and PCIe
and lets you drive those old screens or maybe a new 4K screen?"
Missed this at first. Any modern motherboard or video card will support HDMI. You should be able to get adapters or cables to go from HDMI and/or DisplayPort to a DVI port on your monitor, although if you want more than 1080p at 60fps you may need what's called an active cable.
Missed this at first. Any modern motherboard or video card will support HDMI. You should be able to get adapters or cables to go from HDMI and/or DisplayPort to a DVI port on your monitor, although if you want more than 1080p at 60fps you may need what's called an active cable.
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, June 16 2025 01:28 AM (1zWbY)
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furball321 - Right now, the graphics card to get for someone who doesn't play a ton of the latest games but wants something that is able to play the latest games is the Radeon 9060 XT, 16GB version. (Definitely not the 8GB model.)
$349.
$349.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at Monday, June 16 2025 07:45 AM (PiXy!)
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Thanks, Rick and Pixy.
Posted by: furball321 at Monday, June 16 2025 10:16 AM (As8gg)
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Hell, I've killed fewer than 100 people. Tell the fuzz to leave me alone!
Posted by: normal at Monday, June 16 2025 12:39 PM (jc6Wm)
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