Daily Tech News 25 September 2025

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Qualcomm has announced the Snapdragon X2 Elite Extreme and Elite Not Quite So Extreme As All That, successors to the Snapdragon X Elite family. (Tom's Hardware)

The 12 core X Elite performed pretty well among laptop chips, just slightly behind AMD's own 12 core chip, the Ryzen 370. So long as the software you were running was compatible, which wasn't always the case.

It was doomed to irrelevance by a combination of high prices and being promoted with Microsoft's doomed Recall software which absolutely nobody wants or trusts.

The X2 Elite Extreme updates the cores in unspecified ways, bumps the clock speed from 4.3GHz to 5GHz, increased the core count from 12 (8 fast plus 4 efficiency) to 18 (12 fast plus 6 efficiency), and also increases the memory with from 128 bits to 192 bits.

Qualcomm claims this will increase multi-threaded performance by 75%, and given that it has 50% more cores that seems plausible.

Laptops with the new chips will ship in the first half of next year.

Tech News

Also announced was the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5, which delivers just 8 cores (2 fast plus 6 efficiency) but cuts power and clock speed for pocket-sized devices. (WCCFTech)

Look for it in phones and tablets and overpriced washing machines.
Australia's "eSafety Commissioner" is asking if GitHub is a social network that puts children at risk. (The Register)

Python leads to Java. Java leads to COBOL. Cobol leads to job security.
Experimental gene therapy appears to significantly slow the progress of Huntington's disease. (BBC)

A particularly nasty hereditary degenerative disease, Huntington's typically first shows up in early middle age, when people likely already have children, and slowly eats away at the nervous system over twenty years or so.

The new treatment doesn't cure it, but seems to slow progress by a factor of four. If treatment is started early, patients are likely to die of something else before the disease can progress that far.

Musical Interlude

Song is Livin' La Vida Loca by Ricky Martin. Anime is Little Witch Academia. In fact most of that comes from a single episode of Little Witch Academia. The series comes with the highest of recommendations (mine) but it does get a little weird in parts.

Disclaimer: Mushroom mushroom!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at September 25, 2025 04:31 AM (aURVT)

2 guten morgen, horde

Posted by: clarence at September 25, 2025 04:31 AM (D/P27)

3 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at September 25, 2025 04:32 AM (XQo4F)

4 G'Day everyone
Can it just be Friday yeti?

Posted by: Skip at September 25, 2025 04:34 AM (+qU29)

5 Disclaimer: Mushroom mushroom!

pizza, pizza!!

Posted by: clarence at September 25, 2025 04:36 AM (D/P27)

6 It's an even bet, most days-

Pixy's up or Skip's breakfast

Pixy never mentions breakfast, though

Kinda makes you wonder

Posted by: Miklos is content regardless at September 25, 2025 04:37 AM (EPmva)

7 vida loca

Where is she on the hot/crazy matrix, I wonder!

Posted by: m at September 25, 2025 04:38 AM (aURVT)

8 G'morning, all!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 25, 2025 04:39 AM (a1415)

9 It's always Friday chez Miklos.

Except Sundays, when the likka Sto be closed.

Posted by: Miklos prepares, like they taught in Boy Scouts at September 25, 2025 04:40 AM (EPmva)

10 Australia’s eSafety Commissioner is Julie Inman Grant, an American with Australian citizenship.

So sorry about that, Ozzies.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at September 25, 2025 04:45 AM (6ydKt)

11 Australia’s eSafety Commissioner is Julie Inman Grant, an American with Australian citizenship.

So sorry about that, Ozzies.
Posted by: SpeakingOf

delegate her to Papua New Guinea

Posted by: Miklos so proposes at September 25, 2025 04:46 AM (EPmva)

12 ~~delegate~~ Air-drop* her to Papua New Guinea

* Suggested edit

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 25, 2025 04:48 AM (a1415)

13 Experimental gene therapy appears to significantly slow the progress of Huntington's disease. (BBC)

Yay!

Posted by: m at September 25, 2025 04:50 AM (aURVT)

14 I am stuck at this long commute north

Posted by: Skip at September 25, 2025 04:50 AM (+qU29)

15 Well I am off
Have a great day horde

Posted by: Skip at September 25, 2025 04:54 AM (+qU29)

16 Mornin'

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at September 25, 2025 04:55 AM (sAmhv)

17 Drive safe, Skip!

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 25, 2025 04:59 AM (a1415)

18 >>>Ricky Martin

Golly, he's only 53 years old. He sounds like he's from an earlier generation--in a good way.

Posted by: m at September 25, 2025 05:04 AM (aURVT)

19 Good morning everyone.

Good night everyone.

I go to try to get some sleep now.

Hopefully Wolfus is doing ok on his daywalker walkabout.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at September 25, 2025 05:11 AM (gHSfI)

20 Morning all

Posted by: rickb223 at September 25, 2025 05:13 AM (+kZdQ)

21
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at September 25, 2025 05:14 AM (tljrc)

22 Mornin' Horde.

@m: Grats on the first. May you get the 'C' as well.

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 25, 2025 05:14 AM (O7YUW)

23 It's an even bet, most days-

Pixy's up or Skip's breakfast

Pixy never mentions breakfast, though

Kinda makes you wonder

Posted by: Miklos

It's 7:15 pm in Pixyland. Steak time! 🥩

Posted by: rickb223 at September 25, 2025 05:15 AM (+kZdQ)

24 uh-oh

Adam πόλεως
@AlasdairAdam
6h
@S_A_L_T_Y_M_A_N
12h
Whats the most vague retarded thing one could write on a bullet to generate a great amount of d i s c o u r s e ?

@RegressiveBard
6h
Replying to @AlasdairAdam
"anime is sin"

Posted by: m at September 25, 2025 05:21 AM (aURVT)

25 "anime is sin"
Posted by: m

The joy of our great nation is you can be absolutely wrong on something and still say it. -:-)

Posted by: NR Pax at September 25, 2025 05:23 AM (svLOV)

26 Time for the morning walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at September 25, 2025 05:37 AM (a1415)

27 Badger Badger Badger Badger ....

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 25, 2025 05:45 AM (06Hmj)

28 LB
@beyondreasdoubt
6h
I spent nine hours traveling today and while I did some work, unfortunately, I spent a lot of that time scrolling twitter.

Someone was murdered today (again) and we’ve all become so desensitized to senseless violence that it immediately became a political hot potato, with people needing to have the first or hottest take, or the best dunk on someone else’s take.

Twitter’s net returns for me are simply diminishing.

Undoubtedly, I’m addicted to this place and it won’t be easy or fast, but I am genuinely going try and spend time less time here. xo

Posted by: m at September 25, 2025 05:45 AM (aURVT)

29 @27/Warai-otoko: "Badger Badger Badger Badger ...."

Mushroom Mushroom!

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 25, 2025 05:46 AM (O7YUW)

30

Good morning, good people from my carefully designed computer nook where on this decidedly chilly morning it is toasty warm, all is within easy reach and I have an entire day with no one in my grille for a change.

And that probably ruined it.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at September 25, 2025 05:48 AM (vFbHf)

31 27 Badger Badger Badger Badger ....
Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 25, 2025 05:45 AM (06Hmj)

... Swing!

Posted by: m at September 25, 2025 05:48 AM (aURVT)

32 She made Ricky take his clothes off then go dancin' in the rain.
It was a test to see if Ricky was gay. He wanted to dance. He was gay.

Posted by: Wally at September 25, 2025 05:52 AM (uUulH)

33 If i was going to have a split personality, i'd want them to live on the other side of the planet, too.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at September 25, 2025 05:53 AM (06Hmj)

34 God our trustworthy refuge -Psalm 118:5-14

Devotional is followed by some questions and insights for those interested:

https://tinyurl.com/bdrnjdrj

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 25, 2025 05:58 AM (IYIYn)

35
She'll make you take your clothes off and go dancing in the rain
She'll make you live her crazy life, but she'll take away your pain

Posted by: m at September 25, 2025 05:59 AM (aURVT)

36 During a stressful day, man writes on the gift of laughter -1 Corinthians 10:10-13

https://tinyurl.com/yhxccef9

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 25, 2025 06:01 AM (IYIYn)

37 Hopefully, raccoon on a truck will make you laugh:

https://tinyurl.com/yj8dehrp

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 25, 2025 06:04 AM (IYIYn)

38 Evening and morning, late toilers and early risers across the vast AosHQ Empire! (". . . vaster than empires and more slow . . .") I'm awake, for certain values of "awake," after over seven hours' sleep. Maybe it's something about this Drury Inn hotel bed?

Coffee to start, then I'll get myself publicly presentable and hit the breakfast buffet downstairs. Maybe there'll be time for a morning pipe before I set off on my explorations today.

Howz about yoo?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 25, 2025 06:11 AM (cCu74)

39 Mornin' Wolfus. Scrambling to get ready for work here.

Hope your day of recon is good and productive. The furry thugs probably miss you...

Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 25, 2025 06:12 AM (O7YUW)

40 BOING!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 25, 2025 06:15 AM (qTM0v)

41 Thing From Snowy Mountain, if you're still here, thanks for the good thoughts. I'll check out Owensboro, KY, today. It looks nice on Gorgle Street View, has several Shell gas stations (I have a card and the Buick will need food soon), and an actual Chase Bank. Strangely, Evansville, more than 1.5 times larger, has only one of the former and none of the latter.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 25, 2025 06:16 AM (cCu74)

42 Mornin' Wolfus. Scrambling to get ready for work here.

Hope your day of recon is good and productive. The furry thugs probably miss you...
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant at September 25, 2025

***
I know I miss them. Linda is probably spoiling them terribly (even more than I do, that is --). Good luck at work. Remember that Friday, the consummation devoutly to be wished, is only a day away.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 25, 2025 06:18 AM (cCu74)

43 The Weather Channel, which I haven't watched in years, tells me that Evansville will see no rain today, high of 77 and low tonight of 55 (!). It'll be interesting to see the area in sunlight instead of clouds and rain.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at September 25, 2025 06:20 AM (cCu74)

44 G'mornin all y'all !!
My Friday

Posted by: OkJohn at September 25, 2025 06:21 AM (NC/it)

45 Grateful to you all, and thanks Fen, for the nuggets. Always appreciated.

Posted by: OkJohn at September 25, 2025 06:23 AM (NC/it)

46 God's word is the best start/end to any day, thanks Fenenlonspoke.

I have set the lord always before me: because he is at my right hand, I shall not be moved. Psalms 16:8

Posted by: Kingsman at September 25, 2025 06:25 AM (ehY6c)

47 And in other news, it looks like Nidal Hasan is finally going to face death for his murder of fourteen people.

Posted by: NR Pax at September 25, 2025 06:25 AM (svLOV)

48
Good morning, Hordians. No, please stay seated. No need to stand.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 25, 2025 06:41 AM (tgvbd)

49 So what was the holdup?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 25, 2025 06:45 AM (Jg8yx)

50 Warai-otoko: "Badger Badger Badger Badger ...."

Mushroom Mushroom!
Posted by: Grumpy and Recalcitrant

Snake!

Posted by: Tuna at September 25, 2025 06:46 AM (lJ0H4)

51 Badger Badger Badger Badger ....

... Swing!
Posted by: m at September 25, 2025 05:48 AM

Little league!

Posted by: Cybersmythe at September 25, 2025 06:50 AM (VmDLh)

52

*hic*

Posted by: Hillary Clinton at September 25, 2025 06:50 AM (ohGZW)

53 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at September 25, 2025 06:51 AM (hoCmQ)

54 Lock them up! So many unhumans need to be severely punished:

https://tinyurl.com/yc25md9p

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 25, 2025 06:51 AM (qTM0v)

55 mornin yall. Pixy, ff you are still here I was wondering why sometimes comments will get double and triple posted. There appears to be a routine in Minx that prevents duplicate posts but automatic double and triple posts stll get thru.

Also, what is the purpose of the email field? Is there a newsletter?

Posted by: fd at September 25, 2025 06:53 AM (vFG9F)

56 "So what was the holdup?
Posted by: Boss Moss "

I'm gonna guess "Democrats".

Posted by: fd at September 25, 2025 06:54 AM (vFG9F)

57 The new local mug shots are out. Honesty Ellis got arrested again, this time for disorderly conduct, and Alfonzo Smart was caught DUI and driving without a license.

Posted by: fd at September 25, 2025 06:57 AM (vFG9F)

58 Honesty Ellis has a soundcloud. Asspiring crapper?

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 25, 2025 06:59 AM (Jg8yx)

59 "Honesty Ellis has a soundcloud. Asspiring crapper?
Posted by: Boss Moss"

She got arrested for shoplifting before. She's working on gaining some thug life inspiration.

Posted by: fd at September 25, 2025 07:02 AM (vFG9F)

60 G'mornin' everyone!

LOL, fd!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at September 25, 2025 07:08 AM (ppG5b)

61 Jeffrey Epstein will not die:

https://tinyurl.com/4n5uts2h

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 25, 2025 07:09 AM (qTM0v)

62 I don't get shoplifting. These places are crawling with cameras. They'll get caught sooner or later.

Posted by: Boss Moss at September 25, 2025 07:09 AM (Jg8yx)

63
So what was the holdup?
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 25, 2025 06:45 AM (Jg8yx)

Obama and Biden weren't sure they weren't going to give him the Medal of Honor.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 25, 2025 07:10 AM (tgvbd)

64 Nicholas Christian Westmoreland wins the prize this week. He got tagged for DUI, possession of narcotics, eluding officers, 7 traffic offences, possession of a knife during a felony, driving without a license, theft by receiving, and oh yeah, parole violation.

Posted by: fd at September 25, 2025 07:10 AM (vFG9F)

65 leucovorin calcium

In all the fury about Tylenol, lost in the story is treatment.

Posted by: no one of any consequence at September 25, 2025 07:10 AM (ZmEVT)

66
The new local mug shots are out. Honesty Ellis got arrested again, this time for disorderly conduct, and Alfonzo Smart was caught DUI and driving without a license.
Posted by: fd at September 25, 2025 06:57 AM (vFG9F)

So, neither Smart nor Honest?

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at September 25, 2025 07:12 AM (tgvbd)

67 " I don't get shoplifting. These places are crawling with cameras. They'll get caught sooner or later.
Posted by: Boss Moss

Looking at some of these mug shots you get the sense that some of these folks aint got no sense.

Posted by: fd at September 25, 2025 07:12 AM (vFG9F)

68 Move over, George Soros.

Meet Christopher Hohn:

https://t.co/hg5erBsZXY

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 25, 2025 07:13 AM (qTM0v)

69 62 I don't get shoplifting. These places are crawling with cameras. They'll get caught sooner or later.
Posted by: Boss Moss at September 25, 2025 07:09 AM (Jg8yx)

... and released ...

Posted by: m at September 25, 2025 07:13 AM (aURVT)

70 N00d!

Posted by: Hans O'Lo at September 25, 2025 07:13 AM (u7pQw)

71 Nicholas Christian Westmoreland wins the prize this week. He got tagged for DUI, possession of narcotics, eluding officers, 7 traffic offences, possession of a knife during a felony, driving without a license, theft by receiving, and oh yeah, parole violation.
Posted by: fd

He'll be out by lunch. No reasonable prosecutor.

Posted by: rickb223 at September 25, 2025 07:13 AM (P58QN)

72 71 Nicholas Christian Westmoreland wins the prize this week. He got tagged for DUI, possession of narcotics, eluding officers, 7 traffic offences, possession of a knife during a felony, driving without a license, theft by receiving, and oh yeah, parole violation.
Posted by: fd

He'll be out by lunch. No reasonable prosecutor.
Posted by: rickb223 at September 25, 2025 07:13 AM (P58QN)

Bring back DUI 3 strikes you're out. Or 1....

Posted by: m at September 25, 2025 07:14 AM (aURVT)

73 Move over, George Soros.

Meet Christopher Hohn:

https://t.co/hg5erBsZXY

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 25, 2025 07:13 AM
-

More:

https://t.co/qlrM8APtYx

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at September 25, 2025 07:15 AM (qTM0v)

74 Posted by: Kingsman at September 25, 2025 06:25 AM (ehY6c)

Amen! God bless you, my brother!

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at September 25, 2025 07:15 AM (uA11f)

75 "It was doomed to irrelevance by a combination of high prices and being promoted with Microsoft's doomed Recall software which absolutely nobody wants or trusts."

High prices doomed the Qualcomm launch? Compared to the intel-based Microsoft laptops and Pros, the Qualcomm PCs were and are a few hundred dollars less expensive here in the United States.

The bigger issue for Microsoft's was/is legacy software which includes games and certain line of business applications. these issues are lessening. In terms of units shipped, when you start from essentially zero the initial numbers are going to look a lot like zero.

As for Recall? This has to be one of the most ill-advised and implemented features ever released. At least it can be turned off now.

Still, Microsoft had to start somewhere which it did.

The going forward challenge is whether or not corporations begin to adopt ARM PCs. If they do, and indications are saying they will, their growth should be meaningful. I always view this as a 10-year project and we're about halfway through.

Anecdotally, the people I know that own one of these ARM PCs find them anything but irrelevant.

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 25, 2025 07:47 AM (aJQjq)

76 Oink!

Posted by: Alteria Pilgram - My President has convictions. at September 25, 2025 07:47 AM (aJQjq)

Posted by: m at September 25, 2025 09:05 AM (aURVT)

77 PM: Don't understand half of what you write about, but very much enjoy the way you write it. As for today's little video: ... a little weird?

Posted by: BrianinTn at September 25, 2025 09:22 AM (YtxWX)

78 Secret Service Dismantles Electronic Network Posing Threat to Officials at UN Gathering

Followup on story about lots of SIM cards and servers and such in NY from the other day, maybe?

https://archive.is/aAN0S

Epoch Times

Posted by: m at September 25, 2025 09:33 AM (aURVT)

79 Fan-created AMVs are fun, but *man*, I wish more of the people who make them would learn how to synchronize their clips to the beat... A music video is supposed to *match* the music; otherwise, it's just a random slideshow.

Posted by: The Nth Doctor at September 25, 2025 10:53 AM (vWw36)

80 little witch academia is great. i don't remember any really weird parts.
all the dan da dan stuff is great too.

Posted by: cmeat at September 25, 2025 03:32 PM (LgQ89)

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