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upstart writes:NASA planet-hunting satellite discovers a dying star 'switching on and off':

upstart writes:Sim City for food science takes on Listeria outbreaks:

takyon writes:Windows 11 hardware requirements made a mockery of by an Intel Pentium 4 processor

takyon writes:Apple has announced two new Arm SoCs for its upcoming MacBook Pro laptops. Both share the same CPU, but differ in GPU and RAM size.The Apple M1 SoC for Macs has 8 CPU cores: 4 performance cores and 4 efficiency cores. The newly announced M1 Pro and M1 Max have 10 cores: 8 performance cores and 2 efficiency cores. CPU performance (multi-threaded) is about 70% faster, at around a 30 Watt TDP (M1 Pro) instead of 15 Watts for the M1. The 16-core "neural engine" with 11 TOPS of machine learning performance is unchanged from the M1.While the M1 has an (up to) 8-core GPU with 2.6 TFLOPS FP32 of performance, the M1 Pro doubles that to 16 cores and 5.2 TFLOPS, and the M1 Max doubles it again to 32 cores and 10.4 TFLOPS. The M1 Pro is comparable to an Nvidia RTX 3050 Ti discrete laptop GPU, while the M1 Max is comparable to an RTX 3080 laptop GPU. These levels of performance are achieved at around 30 Watts for the M1 Pro and 60 Watts for the M1 Max, compared to around 100-160 Watts for laptops with discrete graphics.The M1 Pro has around 33.7 billion transistors fabbed on TSMC "5nm" in a 245 mm die space, while the M1 Max has 57 billion transistors at 432 mm. The M1 Pro will include up to 32 GB of LPDDR5 RAM, and the M1 Max will include up to 64 GB.Also at Wccftech.See also: Apple Announces The M1 Pro / M1 Max, Asahi Linux Starts Eyeing Their Bring-UpPreviously: Apple Has Built its Own Mac Graphics Processors

upstart writes:Credit card PINs can be guessed even when covering the ATM pad:

upstart writes:Password Auditing Tool L0phtCrack Released as Open Source:

Facebook investing millions in vr internet replacementlooorg writes:Facebook plans to hire 10,000 people in the EU to build its vision for a 'metaverse'. Facebook said it plans to create 10,000 highly-skilled jobs in the EU over the next five years. The recruitment drive is part of Facebook's ambition to create a digital world known as the "metaverse." A number of other companies, including Microsoft, Roblox and Epic are investing in their own versions of a metaverse.

Freeman writes:Best Buy’s new $200/yr membership locks PS5, hot holiday items behind sign-up"

upstart writes:Treasury defends IRS plan to track most bank accounts:

upstart writes:Confused governor says looking at webpage's HTML is criminal hacking:

upstart writes:US task force proposes adults 60 and older should not start daily aspirin to prevent heart disease or stroke:

An Anonymous Coward writes:Canon sued for disabling scanner when printers run out of ink:

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takyon writes:TSMC delivers first batch of Baikal BE-M1000 CPUs based on ARM Cortex-A57 cores

upstart writes:'Sophisticated': ancient faeces shows humans enjoyed beer and blue cheese 2,700 years ago:

upstart writes:Vienna museums launch OnlyFans account to display 'explicit' artworks:

takyon writes:Intel published a developer guide confirming details of its upcoming Alder Lake processors.Desktop "Alder Lake-S" processors will include up to 8 "Golden Cove" performance cores (P-cores), 8 "Gracemont" (Atom) efficiency cores (E-cores), and 32 graphics execution units (Gen 12.2 EUs). A smaller die will include only up to 6 P-cores and no E-cores, to be used in lower-end products such as a 6-core Intel Core i5-12400 or a quad-core i3.Mobile "Alder Lake-P" processors will include up to 6 P-cores, 8 E-cores, and 96 graphics EUs. A smaller "ultra mobile" die will include up to 2 P-cores and 8 E-cores.AVX-512 is physically present on Golden Cove cores, but disabled in Alder Lake.

upstart writes:UN declares access to a clean environment a human right:

upstart writes:Sweeping FDA guidance would drastically cut salt in American foods:

upstart writes:Ten EU countries call on Brussels to label nuclear energy as green:[...] Tapping into Europe's ongoing energy crunch, the countries make the case for nuclear energy as a "key affordable, stable and independent energy source" that could protect EU consumers from being "exposed to the volatility of prices".The letter, which was initiated by France, has been sent to the Commission with the signature of nine other EU countries, most of which already count nuclear as part of their national energy mix: Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Finland, Hungary, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Romania.Nuclear plants generate over 26% of the electricity produced in the European Union."The rise of energy prices have also shown how important is it to reduce our energy dependence on third countries as fast as possible," says the letter, as seen by Euronews.Over 90% of the EU's natural gas come from foreign importers, with Russia as the main producer. This great dependency has been credited as one of the main factors behind the rise in energy prices."Supply tensions will be more and more frequent and we have no choice but to diversify our supply. We should pay attention not to increase our dependency on energy imports from outside Europe."Original SubmissionRead more of this story at SoylentNews.

upstart writes:France to ban plastic packaging for most fruit and vegetables from January 2022:

takyon writes:PinePhone Pro Linux smartphone to feature a power-optimized Rockchip RK3399S processor

upstart writes:NASA’s Lucy mission will soon be in the sky, with a launch set for Saturday:

takyon writes:Microsoft shutting down LinkedIn in China:

upstart writes:Dead-End SF Street Plagued With Confused Waymo Cars Trying To Turn Around 'Every 5 Minutes':

upstart writes:British Medical Journal: Daily Use of CBD Oil May Be Linked to Lung Cancer Regression:

upstart writes:Photon-Phonon Breakthrough: A New Way To Combine Two Different States of Matter:

upstart writes:Rickroll Grad Prank Exposes Exterity IPTV Bug:

An Anonymous Coward writes:https://www.devuan.org/os/announce/chimaera-release-announce-2021-10-14

upstart writes:iPhone apps no better for privacy than Android, Oxford study finds:

upstart writes:Analysis | China’s Power Crisis Will Affect Industries Worldwide:

upstart writes:This Asteroid May Be the Shard of a Dead Protoplanet:

owl writes:Charter Spectrum Threatens To Ruin Potential Customers Over Debt They Don't Owe:

upstart writes:Facebook’s latest effort to curtail leaks immediately leaked:

upstart writes:China's lunar rock samples show lava flowed on the moon 2 billion years ago:

upstart writes:7-Eleven breached customer privacy by collecting facial imagery without consent:

upstart writes:Uh Oh, They Strapped a Sniper Rifle to a Robot Dog:

owl writes:http://www.e-basteln.de/computing/65f02/65f02/

[2021-10-13 20:46:32 UTC; Update: Corrected story link.--martyb]owl writes:I feel sorry for the accused.Bomb scare that led to emergency landing at LaGuardia Airport was just passenger adjusting camera: sources:

upstart writes:Android Phones Still Track You, Even When You Opt Out:

upstart writes:UK Proposes Law To Switch Off EV Home Chargers During Peak Hours:

[2021-10-13 13:26:33 UTC; Updated to removed duplicated 1st sentence.--martyb]upstart writes:Drop's new mechanical keyboards go up to $500:

takyon writes:Seven years after raising $542M at a $2B valuation, Magic Leap raises $500M at a $2B valuation

fliptop writes:IBM and Raytheon Technologies will jointly develop advanced artificial intelligence, cryptographic and quantum solutions for the aerospace, defense and intelligence industries, including the federal government, as part of a strategic collaboration agreement the companies announced today:

fliptop writes:Synthetic chemical in consumer products linked to early death, study finds:

upstart writes:Microsoft Azure fends off huge DDoS Attack:

takyon writes:Microsoft and Nvidia create 105-layer, 530 billion parameter language model that needs 280 A100 GPUs, but it's still biased

Freeman writes: Putin slashes Russia’s space budget and says he expects better results:

upstart writes:These Virtual Obstacle Courses Help Real Robots Learn to Walk:

fliptop writes:Dubbed Bernardinelli-Bernstein, it is thousands of times more massive than an average comet. Its close approach is a rare chance to learn more about how Earth and its neighbors were born: