• Intel has received a $7.9 billion grant from the US government under the CHIPS Act.  (Notebook Check)
  
  This is not a different grant to the previous $8.5 billion grant though.  That one had not been completed, and has been reduced by $600 million due to the $3 billion contract Intel has received to produce secure chips for the Pentagon.
  
  Which when compared to the nonsense the government so often gets up to - this grant goes to pay Americans working at American companies in America - seems almost quaint.
  
  
  
• I am reminded as I am every couple of years that Perth exists.
  
  That USB storage device I bought was in stock and shipped just hours after I placed my order with Amazon...  From the far edge of the asteroid belt.
  
  
  

Tech News

• ISPs told an FCC inquiry that the reason their customers don't simply leave is down to the excellence of their customer service.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Still funnier than Saturday Night Live.
  
  
  
• Is Redis going full WordPress?  (GitHub)
  
  After abandoning open source itself, Redis is going after open-source libraries supporting Redis and suggesting they sell out to Redis or else.
  
  
  
• The US Senate is proposing a minimum security standards law for healthcare providers.  (The Register)
  
  On the one hand, security standards of US healthcare providers are shit.
  
  On the other hand, this is the Senate.  They are idiots who take advice from idiots to draft legislation for idiots.  And this is bipartisan, which means there are twice as many idiots involved.
  
  
  
• Huawei's Mate 70 phones will run the new Android-free HaronyOS.  (The Verge)
  
  Which is Android.
  
  
  
• Apple offered Indonesia a $100 million bribe to un-ban the iPhone 16.  (The Register)
  
  Indonesia is holding out for more money.
  
  
  
• Britain meanwhile is trying to shake down Google for $8.8 billion.  (The Register)
  
  And you get a tariff, and you get a tariff...
  
  
  
• The Pilet 5 and Pilet 7 are hand-held computers from an alternate universe 1990s that went in a very interesting direction.  (Liliputing)
  
  Resolutely function-over-form, these devices are big and clunky and have not just physical buttons but trackballs and trackpads and joysticks and dials and rollers and actual physical I/O ports.
  
  They're based on the Raspberry Pi 5 so they're quite capable as well.

Posted by: normal at Thursday, November 28 2024 03:49 PM (bg2DR)

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