• Seattle looks set to be the first city in the US to protect gig workers from being arbitrarily revoked.  (KUOW)
  
  Companies like Uber have a bad habit - well, they have lots of bad habits, but they have a particular bad habit of treating their workers like accounts on social networks: You get up in the morning and your job is gone.
  
  No warning, no explanation, no recourse, it's just not there anymore.
  
  I haven't read the legislation and I don't expect Seattle to get it right - though it's worth noting that two council members voted against it because they thought it was overbroad - but if you behave unreasonably for long enough, someone, somewhere, is going to hit you with a rock.

• Silicon Motion is preparing a PCIe 5 SSD controller with a power consumption of 3.5W.  (AnandTech)
  
  That's about one third of current PCIe 5 controllers and in line with existing PCIe 4 models.  If they can also cut the price drastically, PCIe 5 SSDs might actually have a reason to exist.
  
  
  
• SK Hynix meanwhile is sampling 321-layer flash memory chips.  (Serve the Home)
  
  The very first multi-layer flash chips were introduced 10 years ago this week with 24 layers.  At the time the flash memory industry was approaching a crisis because flash cells couldn't be made smaller without becoming so unreliable as to be basically useless.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile Intel's 1TB 670p is available on Amazon for $34.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  This is a QLC model with DRAM cache, so not amazing but also not terrible.  
  
  It launched in 2021 with an MSRP of $154, so that's a 75% price reduction in two years.
  
  
  
• CNET is deleting thousands of old articles in order to improve its Google search ranking.  (Gizmodo)
  
  Google says this won't work, but what would they know?
  
  

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