• Acer's Nitro 5 is an all-AMD gaming laptop - if you select the all-AMD build anyway.  (AnandTech)
  
  Ryzen 5 2500U with 8GB RAM (user-upgradable to 32GB), RX 560X with 4GB RAM, 256GB SATA SSD and 1TB HDD, and the least colour-accurate 1080p IPS display the reviewer has ever seen.
  
  I hope you like green, because that's what you're going to get.
  
  Also effective against Daleks.
  
  
• That Ryzen handheld gaming widget seems to be progressing towards reality.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Starting at $699, a rather expensive reality; that's the same price as the Acer laptop above.
  
  
• Etsy took money out of an unspecified number of its sellers' accounts rather than paying it in.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  People are, shall I say, irked.
  
  
• Are Apple going to release a 16-inch MacBook Pro and a 31 (or 32) inch 6k monitor this year?  (9to5Mac)
  
  Maybe.  But this is Apple we're talking about.  Good old keep it the same but raise the prices Apple.
  
  Also, so far as I know, 6k LCD panels don't exist, though it's a common high-end video resolution.  Checking the TFT Central database at 31.5" (the most likely size) we find 1920x1080, 2560x1440, 3840x2160, 5120x2880, and 7680x4320.  That is, 1080p, 1440p, 4k, 5k, and 8k.  6k is absent.  In fact, no 6k panels are listed at any size.  Which doesn't mean that someone isn't busy cooking one up, but doesn't provide an support for the idea either.
  
  
• AMD quadrupled its server market share from Q4 2017 to Q4 2018.  (Serve the Home)
  
  However, their share had previously dwindled to less than 1%, so while a welcome recovery, it's a slow one.
  
  
• How to get banned for life from AirBnB.  (The Next Web)
  
  Actually, that's boring.  Forget that.
  
  How to get banned for 17 years from the Fairmont Empress hotel in Victoria, Canada.  (New York Times)
  
  Much better.  It involves a suitcase full of salami, several dozen seagulls, and a faulty hair dryer.  And a towel.

  "I had forgotten that sea gulls cannot fly when they are wrapped in a towel,” he admitted.

• Apple will be hosting a major event on March 25 where they are expected to announce major new streaming services that will all be shut down within three years.  (Tom's Guide)
  
  
• The Born Rule is a formula relating the probability of an experimental outcome to the wave function of a quantum system, first set down by Max Born in 1926.
  
  It works great.  But it's taken more than 90 years for mathematicians and physicists to figure out why it works.  (Quanta)
  
  The new work shows that if you assume that wave function's collapse - for some definition of collapse - on observation, the Born Rule follows from the postulates of Quantum Mechanics.  This doesn't tie you to or exclude any of the interpretations either, as some earlier attempts did.
  
  
• All hats are grey in the dark.  (ZDNet)
  
  If you're spreading worms, I don't think you count as a white hat anymore.

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