EETimes: Intel builds 80-core chip
Intel's researchers have produced an 80-core chip that uses less energy than a quad-core processor and has teraflop performance capabilities. Researchers have built the prototype to study how best to make that many cores communicate with each other. They're also studying new designs for cores and new architectural techniques, according to Manny Vara, a technology strategist with Intel's R&D labs. The chip is just for research purposes and lacks some necessary functionality at this point, but Vara says Intel will be able to produce a chip with 80 cores in five to eight years.

By that time, it will be able to run Quake 6 at 10 frames per second...

Isen.blog: Notes on Verizon Official Position on Net Neutrality
Last night William Barr, Verizon's General Counsel, spoke at Fordham Law School. He gave what can only be considered the Verizon Official Position on Network Neutrality. (That is, he did NOT DISCLAIM that his remarks didn't represent his employer, and he is, after all, General Counsel.) I was there. I took fairly close notes. I'm presenting this as a straight reading, that is, without editorial comment, just notes on what he said.

Have you heard of Net Neutrality? Have I? I was there, man.