• LG has a new ultra-ultra-wide (32:9) 49" monitor.  (AnandTech)
  
  Still 5120x1440, though.  Waiting for 7680x2160 at least.
  
  
• AMD has been added to the NASDAQ-100 index capping a couple of great years following several years that weren't quite so great.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  
• A fan was producing popular and successful films set in the Warhammer 40k universe, so Games Workshop hired him to do it professionally.  (TechDirt)
  
  What, no lawyers?  What the hell kind of story is this?
  
  Update: Link fixed. The image below was more apropos than I'd intended.
  
  
• ICE seized a million websites for no reason, eventually said oops and gave them back.  (TechDirt)
  
  Nice work, guys.
  
  
  
  
• Someone thought it was a good idea to throw $46 million more into the money pit of Star Citizen which has already swallowed $200 million in crowdfunding.  (WCCFTech)
  
  
• Fastmail responds to the AIIA - the Asinine Internet Insecurity Act.
  
  
• Gluten free in Antartica.
  
  I tripped over this.  I still don't know exactly what it is.
  
  
• IBM has partnered with Samsung to manufacture Power10 and their Z15 mainframe CPUs on 7nm EUV.  (Wikichip)
  
  IBM sold off their own manufacturing to Global Foundries, and while they had done research on 5nm and 3nm nodes, they weren't even close to production so they needed a capable partner.  That meant either TSMC or Samsung.
  
  7nm EUV is a more advanced version of the current 7nm process shipping from TSMC, with better control and more precise circuit features.  EUV stands for x-rays.
  
  
• Ceci n'est pas une backdoor.
  
  It's an oddity of GitHub's URL structure that makes this look like it's part of the Linux source code.
  
  
• Coles home-brand Nasi Goreng (Indonesian fried rice) is cheap and surprisingly good.  Why are there suddenly all these great varieties of shelf-stable microwave rice?  Has there been a recent technological breakthrough?  It has a shelf life of 9 months but once you open it, it needs to be refrigerated and used within 48 hours.

Social Media News

• Journalist shocked to discover that journalists lie.  (Six Colors)
  
  This story only got traction  (New York Times) when the facts became utterly and irrefutably damning.  (Medium)
  
  To anyone who's not either part of the left-wing bubble or dead and buried, it's obvious that the media lies.  All.  The.  Time.  If this story comes as a surprise at all, it's only that it got out.
  
  The Medium piece covers just one of his articles.  Basically, nothing in the story was true.  No-one at Der Spiegel questioned it for a moment; rather, when the facts came out, they attacked the people questioning the lying weasel's veracity.
  
  Eventually the deniers were steamrolled by a rising tide of evidence showing that many of the journalist's stories were completely fabricated.
  
  Here's the sonuvabitch with the idiots who give him a Journalist of the Year award.  (CNN)
  
  
• PewDiePie vs. the Bay Area Mafia.  (Quillette)
  
  Needless to say, I'm with PewDiePie.  Whoever he is.
  
  
  

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