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April 09, 2021

Daily Tech News 9 April 2021
— Pixy Misa

Top Story

600,000 stolen credit cards were stolen when a hacking site got hacked. (Bleeping Computer)

The data breach was apparently not reported to the European Privacy Commission as mandated by law.

What is the world coming to? If you can't trust a thief who thieves from other thieves, who can you trust?

Tech News

Yeah, the WebNX server still isn't back. Still in the queue, apparently; I saw one person got word that his server wouldn't boot and needed a rebuild, but most either have their servers working again or are waiting.

I'll be configuring my SSDNodes instance in Dallas on the weekend to give mee.nu some more headroom. While that's with a different provider to this virtual server, they're in the same physical building and ping time is measured in microseconds, making it easy to share load with a bit of VPN setup.
Intel's Sapphire Rapids server platform will ship next year. (Tom's Hardware)

There's a lot of details because engineering samples are already running outside Intel - if you're wondering what Samsung could test that 512GB DDR5 module against, well, here it is.

It will have up to 56 cores using four chiplets, allowing Intel finally to compete against AMD's Epyc Rome parts. But Rome was built in 2019, and Sapphire Rapids won't ship until 2022, by when AMD will have its 96 core Genoa parts out.
Asus has announced Ryzen 5000 NUC systems... Sort of. (Tom's Hardware)

The PN51 is an update to the Ryzen 4000-based PN50, but in theory uses the newer chips. In practice nothing has actually changed, because they use the 5300U, 5500U, and 5700U, which are all rebadged Ryzen 4000 parts.

It's still a pretty nice system if you're looking for a small form factor PC.
Intel's upcoming DG2 graphics card is rumoured to compete with Nvidia's RTX 3070. (Tom's Hardware)

Rumoured by whom, the article doesn't precisely say.

The only graphics card Intel currently produces is the DG1, which you can't buy, doesn't work in current systems, and runs slower than the integrated graphics in current laptops. So if the DG2 is anything other than complete garbage it will be noteworthy.
The Asus ROG Zephyrus M16 has the Four Essential Keys. (WCCFTech)

Well, it looks like it does; it has four keys in the right place. They could be controls for launching attack drones... Actually, I'd be fine with that.

It has a 16" 16:10 screen at up to 2560x1600, with 165Hz refresh and 100% of DCI-P3 colour. That's a great screen whether you're doing programming, business stuff, video or photo editing, or gaming.

CPU is an 8 core Tiger Lake-H, and graphics options range from the RTX 3050 Ti to the 3070. Memory and storage look like they go to 32GB and 2TB respectively; this isn't an official announcement, but taken from premature Amazon listings in China and Europe.
The GMK NucBox is a Windows desktop squished into a 2" cube. (ZDNet)

It's not particularly powerful, and you won't be playing games much more sophisticated than Minesweeper, but with up to 8GB of RAM and 512GB of storage it's no paperweight.
Data on 500 million LinkedIn users is being sold online. (CyberNews)

As far as I can tell, this is all public data that you can see for yourself on LinkedIn's site. What happened is that people painstakingly saved all the pages and filtered out the data from the HTML. Well, I say "people", but I really mean "Perl scripts".

LinkedIn goes to significant lengths to prevent this, not because the data is private - it's explicitly public - but because it's their data and you worms aren't permitted access.

Just Some Photos, Don't Mind Me

Checking that the photo popup and slide show features still work properly.

https://ai.mee.nu/images/InternalOrgans.jpg

Just Making the World's Sharpest Knife Out of a Cucumber, Don't Mind Me

If this guy ever gets together with Haachama, we're all doomed.

Disclaimer: You do, in fact, get used to it.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:42 AM | Comments (71)
Post contains 667 words, total size 6 kb.

1 Not going to add another word to this post.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at April 09, 2021 05:01 AM (PiXy!)

2 Mornin'
(on the way to work.)

Posted by: Puddleglum at April 09, 2021 05:12 AM (BSZ3Q)

3 Post contains 666 words. See, computers are the devil

Posted by: Tinfoilbaby at April 09, 2021 05:28 AM (gx6NG)

4 What happened to honor among thieves?

Posted by: Earl Schlobodowicz at April 09, 2021 05:36 AM (P7Iz+)

5 g'mornin, 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 09, 2021 05:42 AM (DUIap)

6 Hey, Pixy.
Is this the finalized format?
I find it hard to visually differentiate the comments from the footers. Boxes? Different font?

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at April 09, 2021 06:03 AM (CjFDo)

7 Thanks for the early morning techy stuff, Pixy. It's a nice calm way to start the day.

Posted by: johnd01 Â® at April 09, 2021 06:07 AM (uVQvU)

8 Thank you Pixy Misa.
Hope you are getting. enough sleep.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2021 06:16 AM (u82oZ)

9 Good morning!
Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.
A reprise from the ONT.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2021 06:18 AM (u82oZ)

10 Thank you, Pixy Misa. I am not tech savvy, but your news bits are interesting. Makes me almost want to be tech savvy.

Posted by: Appycay at April 09, 2021 06:19 AM (zGcp1)

11 I aver that with Biden's comment on the 2nd Amendment, as stupid as it is, the US of A is over. Because there is no agreeing to becoming a Fascist, Kleptocracy with Oligarchical and Totalitarian tendencies.

And they Hate cultural Americans. Them over us. And that is not my thing.

We can make our own grey boxes. I stolethe idea from Pikov Andropov.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2021 06:28 AM (u82oZ)

12 Let's try this:

Good morning! Let's smile & be happy & strike fear in the hearts of killjoy leftists everywhere.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2021 06:29 AM (u82oZ)

13 This blog ain't big enough for the two of us (ONT).

Posted by: JAS, AoSHQ addict at April 09, 2021 06:31 AM (xopIz)

14 Village Idiot's Apprentice

Top o ta mornin to ya, gov'nor.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2021 06:33 AM (u82oZ)

15 Good morning! It's Friday! Three more working days 'til Monday.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at April 09, 2021 06:35 AM (5XK0y)

16 Have a fantastic day, everyone. We are the counter culture now. Heh.

May every light turn green as you approach.

However, head on a swivel, and have a Mattis plan.

Posted by: NaCly Dog at April 09, 2021 06:36 AM (u82oZ)

17 Be safe, Salty!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2021 06:45 AM (3D/fK)

18 Is this site going to user registration in the near future?

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 09, 2021 06:46 AM (2iDSr)

19 Finally, a white shooter!

Posted by: MSNBC at April 09, 2021 06:47 AM (xEIoY)

20 "A Michigan home inspector was allegedly caught on camera pleasuring himself with an Elmo doll while on the job."

Pull the string and I'll wink at you
I'm your puppet
I'll do funny things if you want me to
I'm your puppet

Posted by: James and Bobby at April 09, 2021 06:47 AM (Tnijr)

21 Is the answer ever going to change?

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 09, 2021 06:55 AM (JUOKG)

...But Rome was built in 2019,...

I can selectively quote with the best of 'em, and while Rome wasn't built in a day, it wasn't built in 2019. 2,000 Pinocchios for Pixy. Give or take a few centuries.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 09, 2021 06:55 AM (F0YaR)

23 mornin yall

Posted by: Big V at April 09, 2021 06:57 AM (6Pqz7)

Is the answer ever going to change?
Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 09, 2021 06:55 AM (JUOKG)

Yes, for you only, the answer is now "shinebox".

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 09, 2021 06:59 AM (F0YaR)

25 As I was spending almost the entire day yesterday working on the yard, I missed Resident Biden lying to the American people about guns, and other such stuff.

Dude needs to relax. maybe watch a MLB All-Star game, or do something until the meds get balance out.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2021 06:59 AM (3D/fK)

26 I encourage everyone to remind AMD that we would really like to be able to buy the next generation of APUs without being an OEM.

Posted by: sven at April 09, 2021 07:00 AM (Lzpvj)

27 The one thing I'm interested in technology wise is Apple's move to ARM chips and the increasing power of ARM based rasberry pi's and the possibility of a Hackintosh Rasberry pi.
After all a Mac is a Unix OS with the best windows manager ever developed.
So that would be incredible to have that in a computer that's 4x3 inches.

Posted by: Thomas Bender at April 09, 2021 07:01 AM (FVrDO)

Posted by: sven at April 09, 2021 07:00 AM (Lzpvj)

AMD can suck my Rebel dick. You can quote me on that.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 09, 2021 07:03 AM (F0YaR)

29 You need a pretty good sized battery to fly a plane at 21000 mph.

Posted by: James and Bobby at April 09, 2021 07:03 AM (Tnijr)

30 Are we beginning to see the fruits of the governments hammer-like use of COVID? Interesting that guns and now racism are being called public health crisises by the CDC.

Posted by: Only Context at April 09, 2021 07:05 AM (xEIoY)

31 "You need a pretty good sized battery to fly a plane at 21000 mph. "
You can't get enough energy density out of any battery to sustain a reasonable flight time.
Gonna have to go with extension cords.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2021 07:05 AM (3D/fK)

32 "You need a pretty good sized battery to fly a plane at 21000 mph. "
You can't get enough energy density out of any battery to sustain a reasonable flight time.
Gonna have to go with extension cords.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2021 07:05 AM

Naw, build each plane around a Nuke plant, it's the only way it will work.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 09, 2021 07:06 AM (JUOKG)

33
@BNONews 4m

FLASH: PRINCE PHILIP, HUSBAND OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II, DEAD AT 99

Posted by: Tami at April 09, 2021 07:07 AM (cF8AT)

34 Oh lovely, no telling what our government will get up to while half of the country focuses on the monarchy we fought to get rid of. 'murica.

Posted by: Only Context at April 09, 2021 07:09 AM (xEIoY)

35 I actually recognize one of the anime characters! Lower right - Lina Inverse from Slayers.
*Bows* - turns - exits.

Posted by: Rosasharn at April 09, 2021 07:09 AM (yEBFM)

36 "Naw, build each plane around a Nuke plant, it's the only way it will work.

Posted by: Mister Scott"

Wouldn't you use Dilithium crystals Mr Scott

Posted by: f'd at April 09, 2021 07:10 AM (Tnijr)

37 Thanks for the thread, Pixy. As a techie I'm always interested in this kind of stuff. Good luck on the continuing efforts to revive Moo.Noo.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 09, 2021 07:10 AM (W4eKo)

Naw, build each plane around a Nuke plant, it's the only way it will work.

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 09, 2021 07:06 AM (JUOKG)

We tried that already. via wiki --

The only US aircraft to carry a nuclear reactor was the NB-36H. The reactor was never actually connected to the engines. The program was cancelled in 1958.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 09, 2021 07:10 AM (F0YaR)

39 I always liked Prince Phillip.
RIP.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2021 07:11 AM (3D/fK)

33
@BNONews 4m

FLASH: PRINCE PHILIP, HUSBAND OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II, DEAD AT 99

Posted by: Tami at April 09, 2021 07:07 AM (cF8AT)

At last, he will quit trying to drive.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 09, 2021 07:13 AM (F0YaR)

FLASH: PRINCE PHILIP, HUSBAND OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II, DEAD AT 99

Posted by:Tamiat April 09, 2021 07:07 AM

another grim milestone for the biden administration

Posted by: AltonJackson at April 09, 2021 07:14 AM (DUIap)

42 So now even Prince Phillip?
How many lives must this ghastly communist virus take before the issue is resolved?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2021 07:16 AM (3D/fK)

43 I see Intel and AMD still have interesting naming conventions for their products. Nice.

Posted by: Martini Farmer - Now a Pirate, Hoisting the Black Flag at April 09, 2021 07:19 AM (3H9h1)

44 FLASH: PRINCE PHILIP, HUSBAND OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II, DEAD AT 99

Posted by:Tamiat April 09, 2021 07:07 AM

There is Meegs and Harry material here, but I respect Prince Philip too much. Guy was a legend, frankly, and holy moly, how about his wife, The Queen? Truly the end of the Greatest Generation.

Posted by: LeftCoast Dawg at April 09, 2021 07:20 AM (sy5kK)

"You need a pretty good sized battery to fly a plane at 21000 mph. "
You can't get enough energydensity out of any battery to sustain a reasonable flight time.
Gonna have to go with extension cords.
Posted by:Village Idiot's Apprenticeat April 09, 2021 07:05 AM (3D/fK)

morning Horde. Thanks for the update and the support Pixy. I have to say i agree with your first pic...

VIA, i imagine ol sleepy joe is envisioning overhead cables the planes fly on, you know, like the trains and cable cars he loves so much...

Posted by: SturmToddler at April 09, 2021 07:20 AM (jT7YH)

46 So now that Resident Biden has put forth tha no Amendment is absolute, is it time to look at Roe-v-Wade again?
After all, that decision was supposedly based on some amendment to the Constitution.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2021 07:21 AM (3D/fK)

47 I wonder if the NY Post will go with the headline "Price Philip Beats Biden To Death".

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 09, 2021 07:22 AM (F0YaR)

48 25 As I was spending almost the entire day yesterday working on the yard, I missed Resident Biden lying to the American people about guns, and other such stuff.

Dude needs to relax. maybe watch a MLB All-Star game, or do something until the meds get balance out.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2021 06:59 AM

Unseen: The invisible demons poking Joe in the butt with pitchforks. He does nothing on his own. He is managed and motivated at a lower animal level of stimulus, like a flatworm negotiating a laboratory maze of electric shocks and sucrose gradients. Find the pupeteers.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 09, 2021 07:22 AM (2iDSr)

49 So Prince Phillip has passed away. RIP.

Posted by: Rosasharn at April 09, 2021 07:23 AM (yEBFM)

50 WTFO??

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 09, 2021 07:24 AM (yrol0)

51 Prince, dammit, not 'Price'.

Posted by: GnuBreed at April 09, 2021 07:25 AM (F0YaR)

52 49So Prince Phillip has passed away. RIP.

Posted by:Rosasharnat April 09, 2021 07:23 AM (yEBFM)

Good run 99

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 09, 2021 07:25 AM (yrol0)

53 What if lockdowns did not reduce the spread? What if masks do nothing to reduce the spread? What if we knew last year that the survival rate of everyone under 70 is 99.5%, and for those under 50 it was 99.9% What if we knew there was a cheap and incredibly effective treatment for COVID (ivermectin)? Would we have sacrificed our freedoms so easily? Would we have elected a demented old fool and his harpy? Would we have trashed our economy and accepted that businesses should be shuttered for months? Almost feels like this was the plan, doesn't it?

Posted by: IanDeal at April 09, 2021 07:25 AM (vgGyZ)

54 ffs
According to the video, the white female is a USPS postal worker and she is attacked by multiple African American women regarding "stimulus moneyâ€:

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 09, 2021 07:27 AM (yrol0)

55 The hacking site getting hacked is like Al Gore opening a Happy Chokra Massage Spa.
More coffee.

Posted by: Hairyback Guy at April 09, 2021 07:27 AM (Dx34V)

56 " Almost feels like this was the plan, doesn't it?"
Yup....almost.
Well, more than 'almost'.
But that would be crazy talk.
Right?

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2021 07:27 AM (3D/fK)

57 [...] Would we have elected a demented old fool and his harpy? [...]

Posted by: IanDeal at April 09, 2021 07:25 AM (vgGyZ)

-----
Point of order. They were not elected. They lost.

Posted by: Semi-Literate Thug at April 09, 2021 07:28 AM (2iDSr)

58 Almost feels like this was the plan, doesn't it?

Posted by: IanDeal at April 09, 2021 07:25 AM

I literally can't shake the feeling that the Kung flu was released on purpose by the Chinese working with the democrats to get rid of Trump. They do have some cozy history together.

Let's face it, no way was biden going to win, the economy was on fire unemployment was nonexistent and energy prices were the lowest in modern times. Trump was kicking the crap out of China and they hated that he was winning. And along comes biden who literally couldn't draw a crowd. No way he was going to beat Trump without everything changing.

Just sayin......

Posted by: Mister Scott (Formerly GWS) at April 09, 2021 07:30 AM (JUOKG)

59 Le NOOD
It be here

And shit!!!!!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at April 09, 2021 07:31 AM (3D/fK)

60 Hopefully, we'll get the grey boxes back soon.

Posted by: redridinghood at April 09, 2021 07:31 AM (NpAcC)

61 Grandpa Joe Says Planes Can Go 21,000 MPH â€“ Making New York to LA a 7 Minute Ride

Posted by: rhennigantx at April 09, 2021 07:31 AM (yrol0)

Almost feels like this was the plan, doesn't it?

One thing's for sure - the shameless exploitation of it was certainly on someone's agenda.

Posted by: Notorious BFD at April 09, 2021 07:32 AM (W4eKo)

63 thank you, Pixy for all you do for Ace and the Morons.

Posted by: Orange Man Bad (Rheees Be Upon Him) at April 09, 2021 07:32 AM (jV+aN)

64 FLASH: PRINCE PHILIP, HUSBAND OF QUEEN ELIZABETH II, DEAD AT 99
Because of Conservative, MAGA, gun violence!!/s
I liked Him. He seemed ok for a Royal. His generation went through a lot.

Posted by: Puddleglum at work at April 09, 2021 07:37 AM (nBngZ)

65 You got stomped, PM. I watched about 7 minutes of the cucumber video. It was good up to that point!

Posted by: m at April 09, 2021 07:58 AM (6dJKT)

66 YAY!
Keep this up, Pixy. Much appreciated!!!

Posted by: Sponge - Saying Ashli Babbitt at April 09, 2021 08:22 AM (Zz0t1)

67 I'm digging the daily Tech News thread.

Posted by: ... at April 09, 2021 08:27 AM (4pIb8)

68 Daily Tech Thread! Like! Shame about those Linkedin accounts, damn shame....

Posted by: runner at April 09, 2021 08:29 AM (KNhT6)

69 ðŸ˜

Posted by: ... at April 09, 2021 08:33 AM (4pIb8)

70 Hey, Pixy, I assume you were aware of all the problems NOAA and the NWS were having with their own servers? The ones that got wiped out by a busted water main in Silver Spring a month ago are still toast...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 09, 2021 08:47 AM (wtvvX)

71 One improvement in this new set-up is that the internal links (like "Comments") are easily clickable. I used to have to hover the cursor over a link and move the cursor slightly this way or that until I could see that the link was clickable--until the URL would show up in the lower left of the screen--and, even so, I sometimes accidentally ended up at a YouTube video that was linked somewhere else on the page.

Posted by: m at April 09, 2021 09:03 AM (6dJKT)

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