• It's been an entire day since there was a critical Microsoft vulnerability so here we are again.  (The Register)
  
  It's BitLocker again this time, which not many people care about because a major problem is with it being too secure; encrypting your entire computer without ever prompting you to set up a decryption key.  Built-in ransomware.
  
  Anyway, the hack allows you to access an encrypted PC if it has run a Windows Defender offline scan...  Ever.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile Maine's security breach disclosure portal suffered a security breach.  (Bleeping Computers)
  
  Clever hackers found a way to post fake but official-looking security breach notices.  You can probably see where that could lead.

• Running a little late because my boss really wanted the Australian team (including me) to pass a new feature to the QA team in the US before the end of the day.  I wasn't sure but said I'd give it a try.
  
  It worked flawlessly the first time.
  
  
  
• xAI is offering 66% off for three months for their SuperGrok upgrade if you want to play with it down from $30 per month to $10.  I find Grok very useful for correlative searches that used to require lots of manual digging in Google, and before that an entire wall of paper manuals, so I'm giving it a try.
  
  
  
• OpenAI is also considering cutting prices.  (CNBC)
  
  Smells like IPO season.
  
  Worth noting is that xAI (part of SpaceX) is now profitable.  OpenAI is very definitely not.
  
  
  
• Xbox is hosed says Xbox chief content officer Matt Booty.  (Engadget)
  
  Not mentioned: Who hosed it.
  
  
  
• I haven't seen an official announcement but RTX 3060 and 3050 cards are popping up again.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The 3060 is a decent card.
  
  
  
• Technocommunists are eating each other over in Europe.  (ZDNet)
  
  Again.
  
  
  
• Luis Rossman is suing Samsung over SSD warranties.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  As the article notes, one of Rossman's 4TB Samsung 990 Pro drives failed.  he sent it back, and they...  Sent the dead drive back to him, saying it was fine.
  
  He runs a high-end computer repair shop so he has the tools to hand to prove it was not fine.
  
  Samsung offered him a refund - of the original price.  The drive now costs three times as much.
  
  But none of that is why he's suing them.  They offered him a refund, claiming they don't have the drive in stock to provide a warranty replacement.
  
  But the drive is literally in stock right this moment.  Samsung just didn't want to honour the warranty.
  
  
  
  

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