• The long-running court case by Sony and the global music cartel against the internet and free people everywhere, represented here - somehow - by Cox Communications, has met an end.  (CBS)
  
  Most recently upheld by the Fourth Circuit, it finally reached the Supreme Court which just handed down its decision, saying, no you dumbasses, just because you don't make it impossible for someone to do something bad doesn't make you complicit.
  
  You may wonder with such a divided court what the split was in this decision.
  
  The split was 9-0.
  
  Even the concurrence by the court's special needs justices Sotomayor and Jackson agreed with the majority opinion on this point of law and on the decision generally.

• Intel's big Battlemage graphics card is finally here, but there is no B770 card in sight.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Instead we have the B65 Pro and B70 Pro, which both feature 32GB of RAM on a 256-bit bus.  So they are definitely not targeting gamers looking for performance on a budget, but with MSRP for the B70 Pro starting at $949, it is the cheapest 32GB graphics card by a solid margin.
  
  AMD's Radeon 9700 Pro has a list price of $1299, and while Nvidia's 5090 has an MSRP of $1999, even that is a complete fiction and you'll be be paying twice that if you can find one at all.
  
  
  
• Not everything in computing is insanely expensive.  This gigabit switch for example is less than ten bucks.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That's not a remarkable savings, it's just a useful datapoint.
  
  
  
• The new Seagate Firecuda 540R is an SSD focused on endurance, with about twice the liefspan of comparable mainstream desktop drives.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And with today's market, it's MSRP makes it a reasonable option.
  
  If it were available at MSRP.
  
  It's not.  It's about twice that.
  
  
  
• The same hackers who recently hit the vulnerability scanner Trivy have now done the same to Python AI library LiteLLM.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  It's likely that they broke into LiteLLM using the Trivy hack.
  
  Reports are that half a million more users were compromised via LiteLLM, so things are only going to get worse.
  
  
  

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