Archive for 2018

I THINK SOMEONE GOT PUNKED, AND IT’S NOT O’KEEFE: According to The Daily Beast:

“One alleged Project Veritas associate, for example, has an “affinity for wearing kilts” in his stings. The site also warns to be on the lookout for people wearing unusual clothing, specifically citing lederhosen as an example.”

Lederhosen? Is that a “he’s a Nazi” dogwhistle or just barking mad?

SHE’S SO GOOD WITH HER STILETTO: Who needs a “gravity knife”? Woman stabs fellow rider with high-heel in subway brawl. “Since rape-enabling Manhattan DA Cyrus Vance Jr. seems determined to rid his borough of dangerous objects such as common pocket knives, he might want to begin a campaign against women’s shoes as well. A brawl broke out on a recent Queens-bound subway ride, and an unknown woman stabbed a stranger in the head with her high-heel shoe.”

SOMETIMES NOT EVEN THE PARANOID SURVIVE: Qualcomm Snapdragon 1000 rumored to be specifically built for PCs.

New details on the chip were obtained by Germany’s WinFuture, including that it will be able to match the performance of Intel’s Core processors. Specifically, the SDM1000 system-on-a-chip is said to be a much larger 20mm x 15mm, and use 12W of power, significantly more than a smartphone processor.

The Snapdragon 1000 is also expected to use ARM’s next-generation Cortex-A76 architecture, with a 35% speed increase, while supporting up to 16GB of RAM and two 128GB storage modules, making it clear the chip would be a threat to Intel in the notebook market.

Other rumors suggest that in the coming years Apple will move the Mac line to its own in-house designed ARM processors, which would take a small chunk out of Intel’s i5, i7, and Xeon business.