• I was promised eight inches of rain today.  So far only two.  I feel robbed.
  
  
  
• The Conti malware gang - who have thrown in their lot with Russia - have been hacked.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  If your team is going to side with one side it helps not to have the other side on your team - the deed seems to have been done dirt cheap by a Ukrainian gang member.
  
  Oops.
  
  Internal communications and source code have been published, as usual.

Tech News

• Benhmarking AMD's Ryzen 6000 laptop CPUs.  (AnandTech)
  
  Short story: It's the same chip (on the CPU side) as the old one, but a series of clever tweaks has made it 9% to 14% faster.
  
  On graphics it's in a class of its own.
  
  Meanwhile the Ryzen 5000 desktop range, no longer the fastest gaming processors around, 
  have received price cuts of 20 to 25%.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Ryzen 7000 is due out later this year, though, and will use a different motherboard.
  
  
  
• Western Digital's new 20TB Red NAS drives are rated for 300TB of writes or reads per year.  (Serve the Home)
  
  That's not a lot.  Particularly for reads.  You can do that in two weeks, leaving the remaining fifty somewhat empty.
  
  
  
• Small, cheap, fast: With Intel's new NUC, pick one.  (Hot Hardware)
  
  It's basically a mini-ITX Alder Lake system, just with Intel branding.  If that's what you want, it is that.