Thursday, February 06
Daily News Stuff 6 February 2025
Plot Pant Edition
Plot Pant Edition
Top Story
- The biggest breach of US government data is underway. (Tech Crunch)
What Tech Crunch means here is that decades of government malfeasance is being brought to light.
And they hate it.
- The biggest heist in American history: DC is just waking up to the Elon Musk takeover. (The Verge) (archive site)
What The Verge means here is that decades of government malfeasance is being brought to light.
And they hate it.
Tech News
- Typing on the world's largest keyboard maybe. (Tom's Hardware)
It has 178 keys, and is even larger than you might expect because the top two rows are all double-width. My Everest Max by comparison only has 136, but is both modular and much more compact. And prettier. And cheaper.
- ASRock's NUC BOX-255H performs pretty well. (Serve the Home)
Mini-PCs based on AMD's Ryzen 370 are still 25% faster than this. But also more expensive.
- No, Apple didn't just install SpaceX on your iPhone. (9to5Mac)
But if you have an iPhone 14 or later and you're on T-Mobile, you have satellite support today.
Because Apple just installed SpaceX on your iPhone.
- The Fruit Jam is a credit-card sized computer based on the RP2350B - the second edition of the Raspberry Pi Pico chip - with video output. (Tom's Hardware)
People quickly figured out with the original Pi Pico that it was possible to get it to produce a DVI video signal even though the chip has no video logic on board. Now you can get that without needing to make the hardware yourself.
Price has not yet been announced but the existing version sells for $15.
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