Me Want Big SSD - August 11, 2023

RILEYISMYNAME · August 12, 2023

NEWS SOURCES:

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DAM, SUNG

Samsung teases “the industry’s first” 256TB SSD

https://www.anandtech.com/show/20007/samsung-teases-256-tb-ssd-3d-qlc-nand-at-its-best

Said little about when and how much, but it is meant for enterprise and consumes 1/7 the power of 8 32TB drives https://lmg.gg/3RzxI (ExtremeTech)

Showed off PBSSD architecture, “provides high scalability by varying the capacity depending on the application.” https://lmg.gg/mYE9W (Tom’s Hardware)

For normie consumers, PCIe Gen 5 x4 SSDs will offer capacities from 3.84TB to 30.72TB and have sequential read bandwidth of 16GBps https://blocksandfiles.com/2023/08/11/samsung-flash-memory-summit/

IT’S A LOT TO PROCESS

Serious flaws found in many CPUs

https://security.googleblog.com/2023/08/downfall-and-zenbleed-googlers-helping.html

What Downfall allows and examples https://lmg.gg/xKLSD (downfall.page)

Downfall affects Intel 6th Gen to 11^th Gen processors https://www.servethehome.com/intel-downfall-ultra-scary-avx2-and-avx-512-side-channel-attack-discovered/

Though Zenbleed works differently, it achieves same result https://lmg.gg/lXPV1 (Google Security Blog)

Affects all Zen 2 processors, including these popular CPUs https://lmg.gg/LrEYJ (site of bug finder)

New INCEPTION exploit for Zen 3 and 4, “could lead to information disclosure” https://lmg.gg/Kq0wj (AMD)

AMD believes it is only exploitable locally, e.g downloaded malware, recommends security best practices https://lmg.gg/x6MdX (AMD)

Everyone recommends updating firmware:

- Intel https://lmg.gg/3ciJR

- AMD for Zenbleed https://lmg.gg/kStLs

- AMD for INCEPTION https://lmg.gg/YBMjR

Also security flaw in Arc cards https://www.tomshardware.com/news/intel-discloses-hidden-security-flaw-in-latest-arc-alchemist-gpus

ARTICLES SENT TO LAKE LAOGAI

CNET deleting thousands of old articles for SEO

https://gizmodo.com/cnet-deletes-thousands-old-articles-google-search-seo-1850721475

Apparently, it’s a common advanced practice https://lmg.gg/zT3rG (Search Engine Land)

This is after site published AI-generated stories designed to boost SEO w/o telling anyone https://futurism.com/the-byte/cnet-publishing-articles-by-ai

Then laid off 10% of staff to focus on areas to increase traffic via Google Search https://lmg.gg/YMeRU (The Verge)

Google says it doesn’t work https://searchengineland.com/google-warns-against-content-pruning-as-cnet-deletes-thousands-of-pages-430509

SEO experts say it can https://lmg.gg/06hoE (Gizmodo)

And so did Google, in 2011 https://lmg.gg/sbGzk (Search Engine Land)

QUICK BITS

NOTHING WRONG WITH SECONDHAND DECK

Steam selling refurbed Decks for cheap

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/valve-are-selling-refurbished-steam-decks-and-theyre-dirt-cheap

both online and in select GameStop stores https://www.gamespot.com/articles/refurbished-steam-decks-are-now-available-at-gamestop-and-steam/1100-6516677/

Snag a 512GB model for $130 off, still includes 1-year warranty https://www.ign.com/articles/valve-steam-decks-certified-refurbished

Steam Decks well known for mod-ability, one user doubled the memory https://videocardz.com/newz/steam-deck-modded-to-support-32gb-of-lpddr5-memory

REVIEWS SAY ORCHESTRA IS AVERAGE

Pretty much everyone now agrees that LK-99 probably isn’t a superconductor

https://www.washingtonpost.com/science/2023/08/09/room-temperature-superconductor-lk99-evidence/

https://www.science.org/content/article/short-spectacular-life-viral-room-temperature-superconductivity-claim

However, theory suggests unique chemical structure COULD lead to superconductivity under different circumstances (different host structure) https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.00698 (U of CO Boulder, https://arxiv.org/abs/2307.16892 (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory)

https://qz.com/bad-news-about-that-miracle-superconductor-1850717109

BARDIC “INSPIRATION”

Google might be working on Android feature similar to Apple’s Continuity

https://www.androidauthority.com/google-link-android-devices-together-leak-3354408/

From Google news leaker Nail Sadykov (via Mishaal Rahman) https://twitter.com/MishaalRahman/status/1689713395057004544

Also taking an idea from Microsoft’s PowerPoint https://www.engadget.com/google-is-reportedly-testing-an-ai-tool-that-can-generate-news-articles-054602544.html

WILL THE REAL PS5 SLIM STAND UP?

Bunch of leaks / rumors about PS5 Slim

Video https://twitter.com/BwE_Dev/status/1690098165490548737

https://twitter.com/BwE_Dev/status/1689191551677681664

https://twitter.com/the_marmolade/status/1689961255535017984

AUG Y?