• Intel and Principled Technologies have released updated benchmarks resolving some of the criticisms levelled at them earlier this week.  (Tom's  Hardware)
  
  Some, but not all.
  
  
• Washington state says Come at me, bro! to the federal government, apparently not having read Wickard v. Filburn.  (TechDirt)
  
  
• A grey-hat hacker has been busy remotely patching tens of thousands of vulnerable MikroTik routers.  (ZDNet)
  
  This has been an ongoing story, with multiple critical vulnerabilities discovered in the default configuration of these routers.
  
  
• Microsoft has contributed a library of 60,000 patents to Linux.  (The Verge)
  
  That doesn't mean anything technically, but it's a huge win for defending Linux from potential patent suits, in a MAD kind of way.
  
  
• Firefox removed support for RSS feeds.  (Use Tables)
  
  They suggest instead using Pocket, a commercial service owned by...  You're way ahead of me.
  
  People are taking this calmly.  (Hacker News)

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