• Microsoft's Surface Laptop 2 gets a full review.  (AnandTech)
  
  This is a mid-range system, below the Surface Pro and Surface Book, but above the Surface Go.
  
  It seems expensive for what you get, but then I waited for a 70% off sale before buying my latest laptop so my sense of value for money may be a bit skewed.  But the i7/16GB/512GB model costs twice as much as the Dell Ryzen R7 laptop we got for a co-worker this week.
  
  
• This Dell wireless keyboard just eats batteries.
  
  
• Asus engineers apparently posted their email passwords on GitHub on more than one occasion.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Oops.  If you do anything even slightly important with your email, enable 2FA.
  
  
• Huawei's networking equipment could be backdoored without warning accordng to a British security review.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Although Huawei have provided source code for review, they have not provided any way to validate that the source code matches the binary files they distribute.
  
  
• LAPD reports that their high-tech policing initiative is garbage that does little but infringe upon civil rights.  (TechDirt)
  
  So they're going to keep right on doing it.
  
  
• AMD's next-gen Navi graphics may support dedicated ray tracing - possibly even better than Nvidia's RTX 2080 Ti.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Unless it doesn't or it's not.
  
  
• Office Depot faked malware scans to rip people off on expensive tech support.  (Ars Technica)
  
  They've been fined $35 million, but someone should be in jail over this.
  
  
• The FCC has fined robocallers $200 million in the past four years.  (Ars Technica)
  
  The robocallers have coughed up 0.0003% of the total fines levied, because the FCC lacks statutory authority to enforce such fines.
  
  The FTC meanwhile has collected 8% of the fines it has levied over the same period.
  
  
• How to use Google Sheets as a database.  (codecentric)
  
  Step One: Don't.
  
  
• A four-socket Supermicro server gets put through its paces.  (Serve the Home)
  
  The Intel Xeon Platinum CPUs used here are 12-core parts that cost $7000 each.  Ouch.
  
  Both Intel and AMD will have 48 core CPUs available this year.  Maybe wait for those.

• Google is busy censoring the app store for...  Religion.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  
• Instagram is busy censoring commenters for...  Who the hell knows anymore?  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Alex Jones is still on Instagram by the way.
  
  
• Australia wants Facebook to censor paid content relating to elections.  (ZDNet)
  
  
• The New York Times ran an op-ed piece accusing teenage gamers of Nazi sympathies.  (One Angry Gamer)
  
  Written by an "assistant professor of game studies", a job title that makes minimum wage laws look like a bad idea.
  
  
• Microsoft calls for more online censorship.  (One Angry Gamer)
  
  Specifically, they want to use advanced AI to instantly scrub any content depicting real-world violence from the internet.  And once that's done, they plan to turn their attention to "toxic" speech.
  
  Maybe you should ask Tay how well that is likely to work, you fucking retards.

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