• Microsoft is buying Activision Blizzard for $68.7 billion.  (PC Perspective)
  
  In cash.
  
  Activision has been around since 1980 and is the publisher of classic titles such as Build-A-Bear Workshop: Welcome to Hugsville and Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare - Jackal Assault VR Experience.  Blizzard was for years a license to print money with Warcraft, Starcraft, Diablo, and World of Warcraft, then they got woke and went broke.
  
  I don't know if Microsoft can turn the beleaguered company around, but if anyone can do it, it's them, because they are still motivated by good old-fashioned greed - they don't even bother to pretend they are doing things for your own good.
  

• Intel is unveiling its own custom Bitcoin mining chip because I have no idea why.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Seriously, what the hell?
  
  
  
• AMD, Intel, and Nvidia are all planning major price hikes this year.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Due in part to TSMC raising prices for silicon production and in part to money printer go brrrr.
  
  
  
• In place of a legal notice, here is a blessing.  (GitHub)
  
  SQLite is about as good as it gets.
  
  
  
• Facebook and Twitter have told Australian regulators that they shouldn't be regulated.  (ZDNet)
  
  Yeah, that'll work.
  
  
  
• Apple and Google have told the US Senate that antitrust legislation will harm the privacy and security of users.  (Bloomberg)
  
  "We'll make sure of it", they said.
  
  
  
• Open source developers have have a powerful new tool at their disposal: Blackmail.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  I mean, when you come right down to it...
  
  
  

Posted by: normal at Thursday, January 20 2022 03:26 AM (LADmw)

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