• Not so humble: Humble Bundle won't let you give the full amount of a purchase to charity.  (Ars Technica)
  
  They don't care whether you pay anything to the content creators, but they are making damn sure they get a cut themselves.
  
  They previously tried removing the sliders that let you change the allocation of your payment - between the creator, the designated charity, and Humble Bundle.  That provoked enough anger that they put it back.
  
  Now they're just limiting the minimum amount you can give to them.
  
  The article notes that Humble Bundle was taken over by IGN in 2017.

• Looking for a very fast, pathetically small, and hugely overpriced SSD?  Intel has you covered.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The Optane P1600X comes in a range of sizes up to 118GB, a perfect size for...  Basically nothing, since individual games are often larger than that.
  
  
  
• Looking for a very fast, huge, and hugely expensive SSD?  Gigabyte has you covered.  (WCCFTech)
  
  The AORUS Extreme AIC has a capacity of 32TB and a transfer rate of 28GB/s.  It's a full-size PCIe card with dual fans, looking very much like a graphics card.
  
  
  
• The FTC voted yesterday to expand the FTC's regulatory powers, with an eye to pursuing antitrust claims.  (The Hill)
  
  Can I vote myself a raise the same way?
  
  Just asking.
  
  
  
• Amazon is not happy about the FTC's actions.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Well, good.
  
  
  
• Subaru - the duck girl - just hit a million subscribers.  Also, it's her birthday.

Every single Hololive member showed up; they had to pre-record it and even then ran into a scheduling conflict, but everyone was there.

And no sooner had that ended - and Miko had read the incomprehensibly adorable picture book she drew for Coco - than I checked YouTube and the last Hololive member to graduate (well, ignoring the China debacle) is streaming live right now.

And promptly hit 150,000 subscribers.  I never caught her streams first time around - I was very new to Hololive and didn't even know Gen 5 had debuted - but she seems really nice and I can totally see her fitting in with the rest of Hololive.

• The world's fastest SSD...  Ish.  (Hot Hardware)
  
  Intel's Optane P5800X has a 6 microsecond access time.  That's about ten times faster than regular flash SSDs.
  
  On most benchmarks that doesn't matter.  Sequential access performance is the same as a PCIe 4.0 SSD, and multi-threaded I/O too.
  
  Where this helps is if you have a single task that requires fast access to data.  Which isn't that common; if you have a large busy database you probably have a lot of active threads.
  
  Optane is also good for very heavy write loads - the drive is rated for 100 drive writes per day, where an enterprise SSD might go as high as 3.
  
  
  

• How to install Windows 11 on a Raspberry Pi.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Neither asked nor answered: Why to install Windows 11 on a Raspberry Pi.
  
  
  
• Intel's next-generation Xeons will come with up to 64GB of RAM.  (AnandTech)
  
  That's not a lot for a server, but that's 64GB attached directly to the CPU.  Close to two terabytes per second bandwidth to the local memory.
  
  It's HBM2e, which is pretty power hungry, so don't expect to see these parts in a laptop.  They'll likely be in the 300W range, maybe 400W.
  
  
  
• Windows 11 includes DNS over HTTPS.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Regular DNS lookups are plaintext, so even if the three-letter agencies can't break your SSL encryption, they can easily find out which sites you are visiting.
  
  DNS over HTTPS fixes that.  Only problem is, depending on where you live - and what ISP you're stuck with - it may be blocked anyway.
  
  Chrome, Edge, and Firefox already support it, but requests directly from your operating system don't.
  
  
  
• Yes, we have no Xboxes.  We have no Xboxes today.  (Thurrott.com)
  
  Or tomorrow.  Or most of next year.
  
  Whatever hardware you have, try to make it last.
  
  
  
• Virgin Orbit launched seven - small - satellites from its LauncherOne system.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  This is notable because it takes off in mid air from a Boeing 747.
  
  
  
• A wireless carrier got caught embedding ads in Google authentication SMS messages.  (9to5Google)
  
  SMS prices are - always have been - a massive scam anyway.  They cost carriers almost nothing.  Embedding ads is like rubbing sulfuric acid into a papercut.
  
  
  

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