• Russia has sentenced three teenagers - one to five years in a penal colony - over a plot to blow up an FSB building.  (Moscow Times)
  
  In Minecraft.
  
  No, literally.  There's a virtual copy of the building on a Minecraft server and they planned to Pekorise it.
  
  They also made fireworks.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile back in the USA same old, same old.  (Washington Post)
  
  Yes, the CIA is still illegally spying on American citizens.

  "CIA recognizes and takes very seriously our obligation to respect the privacy and civil liberties of U.S. persons in the conduct of our vital national security mission,” Kristi Scott, the agency’s privacy and civil liberties officer, said in a statement. "CIA is committed to transparency consistent with our obligation to protect intelligence sources and methods.  LOL.”

  
  
  
  

Tech News

• France has found that Google Analytics breaches the GDPR.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Also, the original link to that article was https://techcrunch.com/2022/02/10/cnil-google-analytics-gdpr-breach/?guccounter=1&guce_referrer=aHR0cHM6Ly93d3cucmVkZGl0LmNvbS8&guce_referrer_sig=AQAAADOr6euOPAb-NTYK9eKpVKFO8xDY-n_4uo3vAZOYBY_qQjQFgxnVyBTUz6vju3_M7dI0e_8MR-Sjr4V2VFo6zjyBdHzr2eDY4V6nGipk63MuUGua3S1XMO7lQKv19P9HTFtY3dhz-tgrpxoxffP4fmJr_k4UgmBGnDmYchN4Je3w
  
  It's GDPR violations all the way down.
  
  
  
• SpaceX is planning to launch a million tons of cargo  into orbit per year.  (WCCFTech)
  
  To put that into perspective, there's currently about 15,000 tons of artificial stuff in orbit right now.
  
  The goal is to get a million tons of equipment to the surface of Mars to create a self-sustaining colony, and there's about a ten-to-one ration between mass launched to orbit and mass landed safely on Mars.
  
  
  
• Ryzen 7000 could be announced at Computex in May for a July launch.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Or not.
  
  
  
• Alder Lake N is on its way too.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  This is the flip side: No performance cores, only efficiency cores, for ultra-low-power products.  But with up to 8 cores that don't completely suck, these will blow older Atom chips out of he water.
  
  
  
• AMD's acquisition of Xilinx has regulatory approval, and is expected to close on Monday.  (AnandTech)
  
  Intel bought Xilinx's main competitor, Altera, back in 2015.
  
  
  

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