• Ugh. It's, like, 197 degrees here at Pixy Central and the air con keeps cutting out. I work from home most of the time so there's no escape and I'm melllllllting.
  
  
• Farewell, Cortana. Or fare poorly. Whatever. Just go away. No-one likes you. (PC Perspective)
  
  
• Nvidia is allegedly working on a GTX 1660 Ti. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The GTX designation is the key; this wouldn't have the currently useless ray tracing and AI features. The rumour also says that it would be an entirely new chip, not just an RTX 2060 with some strategic snippery. That would make sense because the RTX 2060 die is large and expensive - about 40% bigger than the chip for AMD's Radeon VII.
  
  
• WordPress plugins are the spawn of the Devil. (Tech Crunch)
  
  
• Amazon has launched AWS Backup, a backup service. (Tech Crunch)
  
  What the hell? It's not called, I don't know, Amazon Frog Farm? Or Amazon Deep Ocean Outfall? Or Amazon Psychotropic Baba Ganoush Dehumidifier 27X?  How is anyone expected to know what it does?
  
  
• Mastercard has somehow done something not evil. If you sign up for a free trial online with Mastercard merchants are now required to get your permission again before they charge you at the end of the trial period.
  
  They have still failed, however, to address reports of collusion with the global couscous cartel.
  
  
  
  
• Need more storage for your phone? Like, a lot more? Sandisk's 400GB microSD cards are currently $83.98 on Amazon.

• Don't be a journalist in Turkey. (TechDirt)
  
  Or a school teacher or an army officer or...
  
  Also, if you follow that link, remember Rule One: Don't read the comments.
  
  
• With the EU's godawful new copyright legislation looming, Google has rolled out a beta version of a compliant Google News service. (Search Engine Land)
  
  
  
  
• Free Press, an organisation that is dedicated to - and I quote - fighting for your rights to connect and communicate - turns out to have neglected to mention which side they have been fighting on all this time.
  
  

  Hateful conspiracy theorist Alex Jones is back on Facebook just a few months after the site kicked him off. Urge Facebook to ban him permanently. https://t.co/pNG2GGULt8pic.twitter.com/GvKw6jncDS

  — Free Press (@freepress) January 16, 2019

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