• Someone is upset that Facebook is co-operating with the US government to remove the accounts of terrorist organisations.  (TechDirt)
  
  
• Apparently setting your money on fire is the hot new trend.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Uber, which has never made a dime and is never likely to, is valued at $82.4 billion.
  
  
• Marzipan will let iOS apps run on Macs.  (IconFactory)
  
  Problem: iOS apps will suck on Macs.
  
  Solution: Rewrite the iOS apps to work on Macs.
  
  
• I'm not even going to read that story, it's too depressing.
  
  
• Google just added a new tag to replace <iframe> because who needs standards?  (ZDNet)
  
  
• Those small fast mammals are no threat to us said the dinosaur.  (Tom's Guide via Six Colors)
  
  
• Mozilla is hoping to find a way to renew certificates before they expire.  (ZDNet)
  
  
• Let me know when you reach 10240x2880.  (TechSpot)
  
  Might also need Thunderbolt 4 to connect the thing, so get on that too.
  
  
• Intel's 2TB 660p is now available for $185.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Not in Australia it's not, though the price is coming down here as well.  I don't know why, but Samsung SSD pricing in Australia is better than in the US, while Intel pricing is worse.  In this case, the 2TB 660p costs 20% more than a 1TB 970 Evo Plus in Australia, but is 20% cheaper in the US.
  
  Full review of the 1TB model here if you're tempted.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  If I can find it here at US pricing (which would be roughly A$290 including GST) I'll likely buy one.  Yes, it's QLC, but it has a 24GB fixed pseudo-SLC cache, plus up to 250GB of dynamic pseudo-SLC cache (judging by benchmarks).  So you have to stress it quite a bit before you're hitting the QLC directly.
  
  I can get the 1TB model for A$175, which isn't too bad, but the 2TB model runs about three times that.
  
  
• Ars Technica loved Detective Pikachu.
  
  Is that a good sign or a bad sign?

Posted by: Rick C at Friday, May 10 2019 11:01 PM (Iwkd4)

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