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Alphane Moon

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That there is no perfect defense. There is no protection. Being alive means being exposed; it's the nature of life to be hazardous—it's the stuff of living.

  • Intel roadmap leak reveals Nova Lake, Razor Lake, Titan Lake, and Moon Lake through 2028 with Nvidia RTX GPU tile integration

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  • I am not too surprised that they are giving up on the P/E core model. AMD's approach seems much more sane where the "efficiency" cores still have full functionality of the full fat cores.

    More intense competition for AMD's X3D line is also a good thing. AMD needs more pressure for price competition and more consumer friendly product management policies.

    I am not really all too happy about the switch to Nvidia for graphical acceleration, this sounds like a state sanctioned initiative and it will only serve to reduce the minimal competition we have in the GPU market (Chinese GPUs aren't really viable where I live; I am talking about purely pragmatic reasons, ignoring broader considerations with using Chinese GPUs in this particular case).

  • Where to buy a non-Apple, non-Google smartphone

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  • You're still using a platform upon which Google has an enormous influence, including making life much more difficult for projects like GrapheneOS. And I think it's only a matter of timer before they'll take more aggressive measures.

    Btw, I am not saying one should or shouldn't use a Pixel with GrapheneOS.

  • If Apple built a $299 "Neo" desktop PC, Windows would have a real problem

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  • An interesting thought experiment, but the $300 price is not realistic for any company other than SBCs makers (let alone Apple).

    I also feel desktop computing is fundamentally a different sort of experience where there is a bigger emphasis on flexibility (both in terms of hardware and the software platform).

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    If Apple built a $299 "Neo" desktop PC, Windows would have a real problem

    www.techspot.com /news/112127-if-apple-built-299-neo-desktop-pc-windows.html
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    Researchers are using ultrasound to trigger smell directly in the brain for VR

    www.techspot.com /news/112119-researchers-using-ultrasound-trigger-smell-directly-brain-vr.html
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    Memory shortage set to run until 2027 as chipmakers focus on AI

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    AI infrastructure boom pushes AMD, Intel and Arm to new valuation heights

    www.techspot.com /news/112102-ai-infrastructure-boom-pushes-amd-intel-arm-new.html
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    AI infrastructure boom pushes AMD, Intel and Arm to new valuation heights

    www.techspot.com /news/112102-ai-infrastructure-boom-pushes-amd-intel-arm-new.html
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    Intel tops $300 billion market cap for the first time since the dot-com boom

    www.techspot.com /news/112024-intel-tops-300-billion-market-cap-first-time.html

  • South Korea moves to curb the meteoritic rise of DRAM and PC hardware prices

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  • While this is a good initiative from South Korea (recycled older devices are often good enough for basic web usage and media consumption), a much better initiative would be to investigate Samsung and SK Hynix, who are basically colluding to maintain tight supply by refusing to build more capacity.

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    South Korea moves to curb the meteoritic rise of DRAM and PC hardware prices

    www.techspot.com /news/112018-south-korea-moves-curb-meteoritic-rise-dram-pc.html
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    After Wi-Fi 7's Speed Push, Wi-Fi 8 Is Turning to Reliability

    www.techspot.com /article/3103-wifi-8/
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    The Red Magic 11 Golden Saga

    Android phone can run Windows games locally, no PC required

    www.techspot.com /news/111953-android-phone-can-run-windows-games-locally-no.html
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    AMD says it will buy Intel, completing the strangest reversal in chip history

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  • Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus Review: They Did It

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  • I missed the power consumption table, I assumed it was 120 W Max (with Turbo).

  • Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus Review: They Did It

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  • A performance and price competitive SKU from Intel! Who could have thought?

    Or is this some sort of fake launch that is meant to capitalize on lack of memory and SSDs?

  • Intel's make-or-break 18A process node debuts for data center with 288-core Xeon 6+ CPU — multi-chip monster sports 12 channels of DDR5-8000, Foveros Direct 3D packaging tech

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  • I initially (just for a brief moment) thought intel somehow add Direct3D (DirectX) support on their CPUs without turning it into an iGPU.

  • Jolla Sailfish pitches a "European phone" for users wary of Google and Apple

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  • I highly doubt banking and eGov apps will work through the compatibility layer. But that's why I want to try using both phones in parallel; to find how to best manage the transition.

  • Jolla Sailfish pitches a "European phone" for users wary of Google and Apple

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  • I am planning to buy myself a Jolla phone later this year.

    Planning to use it in parallel with my Android phone, I want to prep for switching off Android.

    Banking apps and eGovernment apps is going to be a massive issue. I am really hoping there will be a big push in Europe to adopt SailfishOS.

  • Bill Gates-backed startup aims to revive Moore's Law with optical transistors

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  • An interesting development, but it seems to be focused exclusively on parallel compute (enterprise dGPUs use cases):

    The Austin, Texas-based AI chip startup says it's developing an optical processing unit (OPU) that in theory is capable of delivering 470 petaFLOPS of FP4 / INT4 compute — about 10x that of Nvidia's newly unveiled Rubin GPUs — while using roughly the same amount of power.

    From my limited understanding for CPUs (which are arguably far more complex and less "predictable"), Moore's Law is definitely dead.

    If you look at single-thread CPU performance, gains from say ~2013 (Haswell/Ivy Bridge) are relatively modest compared to modern ~2025 era top end CPUs (9800X3D). Just compare a late 486, say the i486DX2 from 1994 to a P3/Tualatin from ~2001, there is no comparison at all.

  • TSMC Has No Choice But To Trust The Sunny AI Forecasts Of Its Customers

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  • Good point, TSMC is not just the pick axe seller in the gold rush, they are a generalized "best in class" tools seller.

    To some degree, I don't think it matter for them what they are baffing, they'll always have demand as long as they are the clear leader.

  • Tim Sweeney Tries To Clarify Grok Comments, Continues To Defend Twitter

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  • I love Sweeney's holier than thou attitude. MFer, you don't give a shit about anything other than self-enrichment and social standing among other oligarchs.

  • Qualcomm Snapdragon X2 Plus trades blows with Intel and AMD, but underperforms Apple M4

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  • It is worth noting that the benchmarked Snapdragon X2 Plus ran on a reference platform, while testers used commercially available products for the other chips. This is a key caveat, as results can vary widely depending on chip binning, cooling, power limits, SSD speed, memory latency, and installed apps.

    What this means is that performance with real devices will likely be even worse.

    With the X Elite we also had benchmark results on "reference platforms" that were never hit on real devices.

  • The FCC approves SpaceX's request to deploy an additional 7,500 Gen2 Starlink satellites, bringing the total to 15,000 satellites worldwide

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  • To hell with Starlink, it's giving money to individuals who wish you harm.

  • UPDATE: The US Commerce Department drops a plan to impose restrictions on Chinese drones to address national security concerns; FCC barred imports in December 2025

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  • The U.S. Commerce Department said on Friday it has withdrawn a plan to impose restrictions on Chinese drones to address national security concerns after an earlier crackdown on passenger cars and trucks.

    Considering the mercurial nature of US policy, I wouldn't be surprised if this plan is brought back at a later date.

  • Ukraine has become a live-fire test range for AI drones like the Bumblebee, provided by a secretive Eric Schmidt-led venture, raising alarms in Kremlin circles

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  • I am not naive enough to think it won't (I mean this in a practical way, i.e. hearing/seeing how Shaheds have evolved over the last ~3 years from my balcony).

    But I would much rather we get it to use it first and have a head start (not just usage but refinement) and maybe we'll even have a good 6-18 month lead period on somewhat semi-permanent basis.

    If one wants this technology to "disappear" [not be used], then one needs to address corruption in their own country in an outcome based manner and defend the international rules based order (by force if necessary).

    And yet we have Obama, the darling of the US centre right, calling the invasion of Crimea a "regional issue" back in 2014 or chickening out to strike Assad when he used chemical weapons (after an explicit warning that chemical weapons were a red line).

  • Ukraine has become a live-fire test range for AI drones like the Bumblebee, provided by a secretive Eric Schmidt-led venture, raising alarms in Kremlin circles

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  • I strongly disagree with this framing.

    I live in Ukraine and I am only happy to see better drone technology for fighting the russians. Every time you walk in the centre of Kyiv you see the memorial for many thousands of fallen soldiers right on the main square of the country. Any technology that saves lives and kills more russian invaders is a good thing.

    If one doesn't want this tech to be misused, then the citizens of a given country need to deal with local oligarchs, corruption and crime.

    In the case of the US (just one notable example out of many thousands), this would be arresting Mark Zuckerburg and his goons for enabling mass scale fraud that netted them $16B in 2024 alone.

    And the scam run by Meta is the tip of the iceberg. I don't support capital punishment, but for the ennoblement of the Rohingya genocide, it would be reasonable to consider an exception for Zuckerburg and other senior thugs in the Meta criminal gang.

  • Hacker Congress CCC talk by Cory Doctorow: 'A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet'

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  • I wish there was a text transcript of this, I will check the video out after the holidays though.