News

• Raspberry Pi 4 on sale now from $35 – Raspberry Pi


• Raspberry Pi 4 B+ – PCI Express


• macOS Catalina 10.15 Beta 5 Release Notes | Apple Developer Documentation


• Has the Python GIL been slain? – By


• Python consumes a lot of memory or how to reduce the size of objects? / Habr


• Who put Python in the Windows 10 May 2019 Update? | Python


• Statement on 32-bit i386 packages for Ubuntu 19.10 and 20.04 LTS | Ubuntu


• VESA Publishes DisplayPort 2.0 Video Standard Enabling Support for Beyond-8K Resolutions, Higher Refresh Rates for 4K/HDR and Virtual Reality Applications – VESA – Interface Standards for The Display Industry


• Details about MIDI 2.0, MIDI-CI, Profiles and Property Exchange –


• PCI Express 5.0 Announced With 32GT/s Transfer Rates – Phoronix


• Password expiration is dead, long live your passwords – TechCrunch


• Microsoft Project Scarlett Xbox: 8K graphics, SSD, and ray-tracing in 2020 – The Verge


• AMD Working on a Hybrid Ray Tracing Technology (Hardware X Software)


• The AMD 3rd Gen Ryzen Deep Dive Review: 3700X and 3900X Raising The Bar


• AMD Rome Second Generation EPYC Review: 2x 64-core Benchmarked


• The AMD Radeon RX 5700 XT & RX 5700 Review: Navi Renews Competition in the Midrange Market


• Migrating Dyn Services to Oracle Cloud Infrastructure


• Rob Donoghue on Twitter: “Reminded that the Microsoft ebook store closes next week. The DRM’d books will stop working. I cannot believe that sentence. “The books will stop working.” I keep saying it and it sounds worse each time.”


• What’s new in PostgreSQL 11: built-in web search – HabraHabr.Info


• Google Chrome Hides WWW and HTTPS:// in the Address Bar Again

Olds

• Why did moving the mouse cursor cause Windows 95 to run more quickly? – Retrocomputing Stack Exchange

Don’t forget

• The Nexus TV


• International Backup Awareness Day

Music

• Freesound – “Crashing Ocean Waves (3 hours) To Relax, Sleep, or Meditate” by hansende


• Bump Foot – Releases – foot132