• Adobe is discontinuing Shockwave support having fired Director in 2017.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  I'm surprised it lasted this long.  Flash is next on the list, of course.  Not because it's not useful but because it's a bugridden insecure pile of crap.
  
  
• Intel announced Compute Express Link - CXL - a cache-coherent CPU interconnect over PCIe 5.0.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  AMD hasn't signed on to this effort, since they already have Infinity Fabric and it's been shipping in volume since 2017.
  
  
• Liz Warren's plans to squish Amazon, Google, and Facebook don't rest in existing antitrust and anti-cartel regulations but in new and blatantly unconstitutional EU-style copyright legislation.  (TechDirt)
  
  Good thing she won't win - not least because this would have precisely the opposite effect - but look for other idiots to latch onto this idea.
  
  
• F5 has bought Nginx for $670 million.  (TechCrunch)
  
  Could have just used apt install, guys, but whatevs.
  
  Not sure how they plan to make money.  Nginx is solid and reliable and I've come to loathe it and have switched to Caddy.  Anyway, it's not something you outsource and run as a cloud service.
  
  
• KeyDB is a multi-threaded port of Redis.  (GitHub)
  
  It's not a complete overhaul and preserves Redis's locking mechanism, so it won't scale write workloads indefinitely, but for reads it does pretty well, offering better throughput and better latency.
  
  Redis itself is pursuing a clustered / shared nothing approach, which scales much better but is more complex to deploy.
  
  
• Amazon has released an open source version of Elasticsearch.  (Amazon)
  
  But isn't Elasticsearch already open source?
  
  Well, yes.  Sort of.  Maybe.
  
  The Amazon version also has authentication, which was previously a paid enterprise-level feature, a truly daft decision.
  
  
• China goes full Brave New World.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  That may or may not be an improvement over 1984.
  
  
• Why is Nvidia buying Mellanox?  (The Next Plaform)
  
  Answer: Because they had $7.4 billion just sitting around and needed to do something with it.

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