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Matt B sent word on this delightful nugget of news on the next update to Win 11 - unavoidable AI assistance in the settings page. Since you're interacting with an AI model, you can use plain, natural language to explain what's wrong or what you're trying to do, and the feature should understand your intent and surface the relevant setting or automate the necessary steps to apply the changes.
callan gives a laptop a run for its money. But, the CPU is ARM based. I really hope this machine (and ones like it) will finally help bring about processor agnostic computing again. I think RISC V has a ways to go (but I'm still rooting for it), but this machine shows that ARM, outside of the embedded/mobile market has finally come of age, and is a credible alternative to the AMD64 instruction set market. The packaging strikes me as an all-out effort.
TSMC gives an ultra-rare video look inside its fabs. The opening sequence shows the so-called 'silver highway,' TSMC's automated material handling system (AMHS), consisting of overhead tracks transporting front-opening unified pods (FOUPs) carrying 300mm wafers. Hundreds of FOUPs are shown in motion to demonstrate meticulous logistics of wafers around the fab, something that is critical for maintaining cycle times in a high-volume manufacturing (HVM) environment. Central to the video are ASML's EUV scanners (likely the Twiscan NXE:3600D), depicted 'printing' patterns on wafers in a Christopher Nolan's Oppenheimer-style video.
Backblaze disk drive failure stats suggest the “bathtub curve” effect may be imaginary. The idea is that disk drives fail either early on in their life or after many years, and a plot of failure rate over time shows a U-shaped curve with higher rates at the start and end of working life and few or no failures between these points. However, a Backblaze blog shows that the bathtub curve effect is absent as the company builds up more lifetime failure data.
This story is a bit concerning, BitLocker reportedly auto-locks users' backup drives. The best part is that this isn't even the extent of BitLocker's overreach. We found out that BitLocker is surprisingly resource-intensive as well. In our testing, it slowed down random read/write speeds of the affected SSDs by up to 45% because it forces your CPU to encrypt and decrypt every single thing. This can genuinely slow down performance and make your PC feel sluggish.
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