Wednesday, November 06
Daily News Stuff 6 November 2024
Return Of The God Emperor Edition
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Return Of The God Emperor Edition
Top Story
- The Verge is going through the five stages of election grief. (The Verge)
Denial.
Bargaining.
Blaming crypto.
Calling for censorship.
Going home early and getting drunk.
- Slashdot just posted Trump's win and left its commenters to handle the meltdown. (Slashdot)
Smart. Efficient.
Tech News
- If you want a PCIe 5.0 SSD that has high transfer rates and is reasonably cheap, the Corsair MP700 Elite is that. (Tom's Hardware)
Pretty much.
- A Samsung 990 Pro is cheaper, better in other respects, and would probably not be noticeably slower. (Tom's Hardware)
The Samsung drive has a top speed of 7.5GBps vs. 10GBps for the Corsair model, but it's priced at $149 for 2TB compared to $249.
I know which I would choose.
- Hacking 700 million Electronic Arts accounts. (BattleDash)
Ethically.
No, really.
- Hundreds of code libraries on NPM try to install malicious code on your computer. (Ars Technica)
Not as malicious as NPM itself, but still...
- The Ampere One A192-32X is a 192 core 3.2GHz Arm-based server CPU. (Serve the Home)
I love this line:The AmpereOne A192-32X is important to keep in context. It is a 192-core 3.2GHz (hence A192-32X) part, which seems mundane by 2024 standards.
Pfft. 192 cores? Hardly worth getting out of bed.
- Sundar Pichai has told Google staff to take their political opinions, fold them until they are all sharp corners, and shove them up their Slack channels. (Yahoo)
Nature is healing.
- Mozilla (the company behind the Firefox browser) has laid off 30% of its staff and closed down its advocacy division. (Tech Crunch)
Nature is fucking healing. Trump gets results.
- A ransomware crew that hacked Schneider Electric has demanded payment of $125,000. (The Register)
Paid in baguettes.
No, really.
Disclaimer: Congratulations, America. You may now proceed to gloat and belittle your enemies for the traditional three day period before getting back to the hard work of saving civilisation.
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