• As SSDs finally break the 10¢ per GB barrier flash memory producers are planning to scale back.  (AnandTech)
  
  Unfortunate but necessary if they are to stay in business.
  
  
• Western Digital announced a 4TB model of their Blue consumer SATA SSD.  (AnandTech)
  
  13¢ per GB is still pretty good.  But we need something better than SATA.  I suggest USB.  3.1 is faster than SATA, and 3.2 is a lot faster.  And controllers and hubs and drivers already exist.
  
  
• If you need something a bit more enterprisey, Micron's 9300 NVMe drives might be just the thing.  (Serve the Home)
  
  2.5" form factor with U.2 PCIe connectors.  Up to 15TB in the Pro model, and 12.8TB in the Max model designed for higher write workloads (in this case up to 38.4TB of writes per day).
  
  4K write latency is said to be 11µs which is as fast as I've seen for conventional flash.
  
  
• California passed new transparency laws.  So police departments responded by destroying old records so that it wouldn't be possible to turn them over.  (TechDirt)
  
  
• Docker Hub got hacked.  (Hacker News)
  
  Data accessed included usernames - unimportant - hashed passwords - which don't matter as long as they were using something reasonably secure like Bcrypt or Scrypt or PBKDF2 - and GitHub access tokens, which is kind of a disaster.
  
  
• When setting an environment variable gives you a 40x speedup.
  
  Basically, when the ls command needs to perform an extra 10,000 system calls to colour its output.  Which in this case is always.
  
  
• Sri Lanka restricted access to social media after the wave of terrorist attacks over Easter, and is now restricting VPN access.
  
  Governments should not have the ability to do this.
  
  
• HTTP headers for the responsible developer.
  
  Web developers everywhere: Yeah, that's all very nice for you, but if I actually do the "responsible" thing, my application stops working.
  
  Still good to know exactly which rules you need to break and why.
  
  
• Mozilla is shutting down its IRC network due to corrosion
  
  
• Linux 5.2 will support for case-insensitive filenames for EXT4.  (Phoronix)
  
  Configurable per director.  Handy if you're working in a mixed Windows/Linux environment, though really I think everyone learned how to cope with this a decade ago.
  
  
• Alldocube's M5X is a good cheap tablet with mediocre cameras and a security hole in the font manager.  (ZDNet)
  
  If these thing shipped with stock Android it would be an immense improvement.

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