RachelF

Yes, Australia destroys his whole argument. They went the Swiss way with a single provider (NBN).

But then broke it badly when a major lobbyist (Rupert Murdoch) wanted to kill streaming competition for as long as possible.

Yes, at the time the Commodore drive was jokingly referred to as "the Cadillac of disk drives" - long and slow.

Age verification is just one part of this crackdown.

Device attestation is another - making sure you're using an unmodified government approved operating system and apps linked to your ID.

No, not if it involves a web browser. Most web sites today will not work on a 2012 web browser.

The PC stopped existing in isolation, for most useful tasks now, it needs an Internet connection.

In some way it is short-sited, as radio is a good backup medium for global communications in case the entire Internet ever goes down.

Vacuum tubes also aren't vulnerable to nuclear weapon electro-magnetic pulses.

However, other than ham radio enthusiasts I guess no one listens to analogue radio anymore.

Every PCIe 10G ethernet card I've seen has a heatsink on it, sometimes covering the entire card or even have little fans on the heatsink.

Expecting it to work full time in a laptop is a bit of a stretch of the heat dissipation budget.

Also, the laptop he is working has the AMD FP8 chipset - depending on how the ports are setup, he might only get 10G USB, if the ports are allocated to video instead.

Thank you for that link!

And in order to get the Windows 10 updates in the article, you need to sign up for an MS account, or pay them $30 a year not to spy on you.

The "innovation" is that everything is now attached to a watercooled block.

The rest is marketing: The Cray supercomputer were fluid cooled back in the 1980's, the entire board had an inert liquid flowing across it.

A lot of this has to do with segmenting the market into high-end and low-end products.

When they were the underdog to Intel, they gave away lots of premium features to beat Intel.

Since they got more popular, AMD has been taking away features, or not upgrading old tech, from their desktop/gaming CPUs: Their DDR5 interface is gimped, being slower than Intel now, and still limited to dual channel. Their chipset link is still PCIe 4x4 the same as two generations ago.

If you want these features now, you need a server product.

Microsoft is also doing this, Microsoft Authenticator, no longer works under GrapheneOS for corporate creds, and coming in July they will delete any Entra-related IDs from your phone.

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/03/10/microsoft-tig...

I too, liked it.

However, some apps that I need for work, like Microsoft Authenticator, no longer work under GrapheneOS.

https://www.theregister.com/on-prem/2026/03/10/microsoft-tig...

Yes, their software is terrible across CPUs and GPUs, and continues to be. So many trivial bugs just never fixed.

It has literally cost them a Trillion dollars in market cap - Nvidia's CUDA is a big reason they're so much bigger than AMD.

Me too. Many government or banking sites only work properly on Chrome. Anything with Docusign is Chrome-only.

I wonder how fast it performs on just a CPU? If the model performs say 10x on a GPU cluster, would it also perform faster on a CPU?

This could bring proper desktop AI to the average laptop user, which could be a game changer for running local models.

This sort of thing really annoys me. Part numbers are for use of engineers, not for the marketing dept. If you change the specs, change the part number.

Nice idea, but something has gone very wrong here:

Sequential throughput: ~1.3 GB/s

[on a RTX 3070 Laptop]

This RTX 3070 chip is on PCIe 4.0 x16 which should give 64GB/s. The 8GB of GDDR6 is 448GB/s.

Swapping to an NVMe drive would be twice as fast, but with higher latency.

Don't use find, use Voidtools' Everything. It finds filenames instantly, by searching the NTFS structures.

This is one of the few features that Linux file systems do not have.

I think the weak precedent here is Apple vs Palm:

Palm devices pretended to be iPods so that users could use iTunes to copy music to them. Apple threatened legal action and Palm backed down.

Yeah, modern software towers of libraries literally eat memory.

MS Teams uses around 1000MB of RAM to do exactly the same things that Microsoft Messenger could do in 8MB.

Why not just remove the antenna or SIM card from the modem?

I really battled to read his memo. The it was written in English, but a very odd style indeed.

The late 1970's were the golden age of documentaries: Connections, Cosmos, Civilization, The Ascent of Man and Attenborough's Life on Earth.

Perhaps it's just me, but modern documentaries are rather dumbed down?

As a side note: Quite ironic that he ends up pointing to a rocket propelled mostly by solid fuels.

Yeah, everything being black on modern motherboards might look cool with RGB lighting, but makes it harder to work on. I like the older green PCBs with white PCI slots.

I also lament the demise of color coded connectors at the back. I knew to plug my speakers into the green 3.5mm jack. Now everything is black, so I need to look at the manual again to see which of the 5 connectors is the right one.

Faster is only needed when you need the speed. 2.5G and 10G NICs eat power - all the ones I seen have heatsinks.

A cunning move from Anthropic, nevertheless - their system has now seen and trained on a many big organization's source code.

In the early 1980s there were actually word processors for the Apple 2 which had a 40 column display (7 pixel wide fonts default) that gave 60 columns using the a 5x5 font in graphics mode. It was a selling point.

The hardware solution was to buy an "80 column card" that gave 80 columns of proper text, if your monitor could handle it.

Another trick I've seen on LinkedIn is job applications open from 12:00 am to 12:01 am.

The employer can legally say they advertized the job and had no applicants and need an H1B employee.

It is a superb project, and a hard thing to do.

It is a pity that the apps most business people use everyday, like Word and Excel and Outlook don't work in it (Excel 2010 is the last version that has Platinum status). It is interesting that these are harder to get working than games.

Australian house transactions are also commonly used for low-million dollar money laundering operations.

Australia specifically exempts house purchases and the associated agents and their lawyers from AML laws.