• Microsoft releases their new Surface lineup. (AnandTech)
  
  They have new CPUs, and are now available in a choice of colours: Grey or black.
  
  And that's it. HP needn't have worried.
  
  
• Microsoft also released the Windows 10 October update. (PCPer)
  
  It has... Something. Probably. Exciting stuff from Microsoft.
  
  
• Microsoft also announced headphones. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  They cost $349 and are headphones.
  
  Microsoft are really hitting it out of the plate today.
  
  
• Wait - Microsoft also updated the Surface Studio. (TechCrunch)
  
  While still ferociously expensive, it at least has decent specs, with a quad-core i7 CPU and GTX 1060 or 1070 graphics, and a 1TB or 2TB SSD replacing the absurd laptop hard disk of the original.
  
  

• Sweden bans memes. (TechDirt)
  
  
• Someone apparently tried to assassinate President Trump, Secretary of Defense James Mattis, and Admiral John Richardson, chief of Naval Operations. (CNBC)
  
  Meanwhile, Twitter is arguing about whether it matters that someone threw ice at someone in a bar thirty-five years ago.
  

  "This letter makes it clear that not only was it a part of their life, and a regular part of their life, but it was a core a part of their life and something they did to excess." - NYT's David Enrich, who helped break the story of Kavanaugh's 'obnoxious drunks' letter pic.twitter.com/CfYRn8kYVL

  — CNN Tonight (@CNNTonight) October 3, 2018

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• I really need to deploy that new editor with its auto-save feature.
  
  
• HP announced their Spectre Folio, a leather-wrapped convertible laptop like the Spectre x2 only extra leathery.  (AnandTech)
  
  It's hamstrung by a 5W CPU (the x2 has a 15W part).  I'm guessing it's fanless and silent and has great battery life, but the x2 can actually do stuff.
  
  Microsoft is launching new Surface hardware in the next few hours, so this is HP trying to grab some news in front of that event.  Good luck with that; they make great hardware but their marketing department needs to be fired en masse:

  "Have you sniffed your PC recently?" Wolff asked. "Other than a whiff of ozone, they generally really don't have a smell, there is no memory associated with them. It's pretty cold. We wanted something that offered more than that, and that was our mission."

    (ZDNet)
  
  Really, HP, you just needed to note that it has separate PgUp/PgDn/Home/End keys and I'd be sold.  (Thurrott.com)
  
  It does look good, I must admit.
  
  
• Chrome 69 sucks.  I've had more problems with it than the last 50 release combined.  Guess they were too busy mangling URLs to wrangle bugs.
  
  
• Houston we have a problem with our robot brothel.  (ZDNet)
  

• France may have just banned Twitter  (TechDirt)
  
  Smartest thing France has done since...  Wait, I'm thinking...

• The DOJ is suing California over their new net neutrality legislation.  (TechCrunch)
  
  I wasn't comfortable with the federal government regulating net neutrality, and for exactly the same reasons I'm not comfortable with the federal government preventing the states from regulating net neutrality. 
  
  More knowledgeable observers than I are citing Wickard v. Filburn as the constitutional basis for this.  I was aware of that decision but didn't know it by name.  It essentially rules that intrastate commerce is interstate commerce because if you are engaging in intrastate commerce you have removed yourself from the totality of interstate commerce which means that you are altering the scope of interstate commerce and can be regulated by the federal government under the Commerce Clause EVEN IF YOU NEVER ENGAGED IN COMMERCE IN THE FIRST PLACE because it would have impacted price stabilisation programs which as a libertarian-leaning Australian strikes me as fucking insane.
  
  So a single farmer from Ohio growing wheat to feed his own animals in 1938 could decide the fate of the entire internet.
  

• molten is a minimal, extensible, fast and productive framework for building HTTP APIs with Python.
  
  [Looks at code samples.]
  
  You've turned Python into Ruby.  That's amazing.  I'm not even mad.

  
  
  

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