• Intel has discontinued Itanium.  (AnandTech)
  
  So if you were planning on buying one, get your order in before the middle of 2021.
  
  
• Humble has some book bundles for you:
  
  Programming Cookbooks - 15 O'Reilly cookbook titles for $15.
  
  Fantasy Manga - 89 volumes of manga for $20, including Battle Angel Alita 1-3, Re:Slime 1-4, Mushishi 1-10, Cells at Work 1-4, and Flying Witch 1-4.
  
  Numenera - 28 volumes of games rules, campaign settings, and adventures for $15.  Numenera is the game system used for the Planescape: Torment sequel Torment: Tides of Numenera.  It's set on Earth, but a billion years in the future, where technology has changed to the point that few people even recognise it as technology any more.
  
  Also Computer Music - 16 titles on computer sound and music for $15.
  
  
• If a $3000 chip on a $1700 motherboard is a wee bit pricy for you, you might want to consider a $250 to $500 on a $400 motherboard.  (AnandTech)
  
  The board in question is the Supermicro AlphabetSoup - sorry,  C9Z390-PGW - and it's a regular socket 1151 Z390 motherboard but with a PLX chip (a PCIe switch) for extra PCIe lanes and built-in 10G Ethernet.  Also WiFi 5 (802.11ac), two M.2 slots, two U.2 ports, five USB 3.1 ports, two DisplayPort ports, one HDMI port port, and the usual audio port ports.
  
  
• Fuck Oracle.  (Forbes)
  
  They are doing licensing compliance audits on companies using Java for development.  Everyone knew this was coming when they bought Sun, and now it's here.
  
  
• The Raspberry Pi 4 is not coming in 2019.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's a slow news day.  They wrote it, I linked it.  Sue us.  Wait, don't do that.  See disclaimer.  We have trebuchets.

• Fixing Facebook needs a trust score.  (ZDNet)
  
  I'd prescribe a shovel, but you do you ZDNet.
  
  
• Facebook and Google got whacked and then unwhacked by Apple.  (Thurrott.com)
  
  Reporting is unclear, but this may have been Apple revoking their enterprise certificates and then issuing new ones, to force-kill the offending apps immediately.
  
  
• Larry Correia issues an antipology.  (Monster Hunter Nation)

Posted by: Mauser at Saturday, February 02 2019 11:56 AM (Ix1l6)

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