• Legislation to force Bytedance to sell TikTok or shut it down has passed the Senate, lathered in $90 billion of pork, and is headed for President Biden's desk where he is expected to ceremonially smear it with pudding thus passing it into law.  (The Verge)
  
  Expect TikTok to start claiming its first amendment rights to act as a spy and propaganda agency for America's enemies tomorrow.
  
  Also...  TikTok is banned in China.

• The FTC meanwhile has voted 3-2 to ban almost all noncompete agreements.  (NPR)
  
  The minority pointed out that while this might be a worthy idea, it is not within the FTC's mandate and will simply be struck down by the courts.
  
  
  
• Apple has cut its expected sales of the $3500 Vision Pro in half, noting that it is horribly expensive and basically useless.  (MacRumours)
  
  It's unusable for gaming (and far too expensive), has almost no dedicated software, can't be plugged into...  Anything...  And is far too bulky and heavy for AR use (where images are overlaid on the real world).
  
  There are some things even Apple's cult followers won't swallow.
  
  
  
• IBM is expected to acquire Hashicorp.  (CNBC)
  
  Hashicorp makes...  Terraform, that's right, which is for infecting all of your computers with Docker, and Consul, which I have actually used and which sucks.
  
  
  
• Samsung has announced mass production of its 9th generation VNAND flash chips, with a capacity of 1 terabit and a transfer rate of 3.2GHz.  (AnandTech)
  
  This is TLC NAND too - what passes for the good stuff these days.  I think 1 terabit flash chips already existed but only in QLC devices.

Posted by: normal at Thursday, April 25 2024 03:52 AM (bg2DR)

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