• The Nokia 8.1 is a phone.  (AnandTech)
  
  In fact, it's probably the Nokia X7 with a different label and a software update.  It has a headphone jack.  And a mid-range but pretty decent Snapdragon 710 (2 xx A75, 6 x A55).
  
  Only three cameras, which is almost none these days.
  
  
• AMD's Ryzen rumours rounded up.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  
• These peanuts make my HDMI connection glitch.
  
  
• Will you still feed Firefox now it's 64?
  
  
• DigitalOcean has launched its Kubernetes service.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  What does this do?  I have no fucking idea.  Something about getting all your servers compromised at once, automatically.
  
  
• Intel has offered a sneak peak of its SunnyCove server platform.  (Reddit)
  
  It runs faster on 7-Zip.  7-Zip, the zip that refreshes!
  
  
• Australia is doomed.  (The Next Web)
  
  
• Amusingly, Australia's new internet insecurity law violates the GDPR.  (alp.fail)
  
  
• Odroid's XU4 gets reviewed.  (Phoronix)
  
  It's twice as fast as the Raspberry Pi 3, sometimes three times as fast, four times on Python, but it does have a fan rather than a passive heatsink for cooling, so it might not be useful for every application.
  
  
• The Odroid H2 is very very out of stock but will be back in three months or so.  That got a review as well.
  
  
  
  
• Animal, vegetable, mineral, fungi, protozoan, or hemimastigote?  (Quanta)
  
  Look, just stop it, okay?  Stop finding new things.
  
  
• China may be behind the Starwood hack.  (New York Times)

  Geng Shuang, a spokesman for China’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, denied any knowledge of the Marriott hacking. "China firmly opposes all forms of cyberattack and cracks down on it in accordance with the law,” he said. "If offered evidence, the relevant Chinese departments will carry out investigations according to the law.”

  He almost made it through the speech with a straight face, too.
  
  
• Axios examines the positive impact of low unemployment without ever once mentioning the T-word.
  
  
• Now that the useful idiots in Labor have voted for the Asinine Internet Insecurity Act (AIIA) the useless idiots in the Liberal Party are telling them where to shove their amendments.  (ZDNet)
  
  
• In slightly less pathetically stupid news, the Australian Space Agency will be setting up shop in Adelaide.  (ZDNet)
  
  I wonder if they'll reopen Woomera for launches.  Woomera, though a shadow of its original self, is still bigger than Ohio.  (When first established, it was the size of Colorado).
  
  
• Supermicro has completed an external security audit that found no signs of the backdoor chips alleged by that stupid Bloomberg report.  (ZDNet)
  
  Bloomberg still has offered no hard evidence, or even documentation, supporting its assertions.
  
  The next step is a multi-trillion-dollar lawsuit.  I hope.

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