Dear Santa, thank you for the dolls and pencils and the fish. It's Easter now, so I hope I didn't wake you but... honest, it is an emergency. There's a crack in my wall. Aunt Sharon says it's just an ordinary crack, but I know its not cause at night there's voices so... please please can you send someone to fix it? Or a policeman, or...
Back in a moment.
Thank you Santa.
Back in a moment.
Thank you Santa.
Tuesday, August 01
Daily News Stuff 1 August 2023
Idiots In Cars Passing Legislation Edition
Idiots In Cars Passing Legislation Edition
Top Story
- An FBI investigation into the US government agency that paid a contractor for an infamous piece of Israeli spyware used in unconstitutional warrantless surveillance has turned up the fact the culprit is the FBI. (New York Times - archive site)
If you guessed that at the start of the sentence you win some Kewpie mayonnaise.
- Massachusetts legislators are planning a tax of streaming services to fund 200 community access cable channels. (Boston Globe - archive site)
Nobody tell them about the internet. They might cry.
- The US and Europe are growing alarmed that, having been denied access to the latest technologies for producing the most advanced chips, China is now using older technologies to produce less advanced chips. (Time - archive site)
Judging from this story the US and Europe are not very bright.
Tech News
- Dell is all-in on generative AI. (The Verge)
Oh, they're not planning to use it. It's crap.
But if you want to deploy your own crap generative AI, they are happy to sell you very expensive servers to run it on.
- Basic computer games has been translated. (GitHub)
The 1978 classic book Basic Computer Games has been translated into a dozen other languages. Not French or Spanish, though, but C and Java and Python.
Why? I don't know why. But there it is.
- Samsung is losing billions of dollars on DRAM and flash production. (AnandTech)
The company still managed to eke out a small profit thanks to its other divisions, but while cheap memory is great for consumers, it's not so great for memory companies.
Of which there are only about three left in the world because the last time this happened the rest of them went bankrupt.
Disclaimer: Full speed ahead, and damn the Jesuit photon torpedoes.
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