• Bitcoin has surged to a record price of $84,000 following Donald Trump's re-election, which you may have heard about.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's not clear yet who Trump might pick to head the SEC, but it's hard to imagine anyone more criminally antagonistic to crypto than Gary Gensler.  While the agency missed the FTX fraud case until it was already over, it has spent four years simultaneously refusing to specify the rules around crypto trading and prosecuting companies involved in crypto trading,
  
  
  
• Meanwhile AMD's 9000-series CPUs are at record lows.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The 9900X in particular is nearly 30% cheaper than when it launched three months ago.
  
  
  

Tech News

• Anthropic has hired an AI welfare researcher as part of its philosophy welfare program.  (Transformer News)
  
  The role is utterly pointless and will likely produce nothing of value, but it keeps them off the streets.
  
  
  
• Somebody moved Britain's oldest satellite and nobody knows why.  (BBC)
  
  Or who.  They did figure out where though.
  
  
  
• VMWare Workstation and VMWare Fusion (for Mac) are now free for everyone, including commercial use.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Which might mean the company has abandoned them.  Or might not.
  
  
  
• The QNX embedded operating system is now free at least for non-commercial use.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  QNX is owned by Blackberry.  Yes, that Blackberry.  Yes, they're still around.

Posted by: Amelia2 at Thursday, November 21 2024 08:14 PM (q9cjq)

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