• Looks like congratulations are in order for the good people of the Commonwealth of Virginia, including my friend Brickmuppet.
  
  
  
• Mark Zuckerberg's goal is the world of Karl Schroeder's Permanence.  (Vice)
  
  When everything is monetised, only the monets will ever...  Wait, how does that go again?
  
  
  
• Zillow decided to use their price tracking data and clever AI to flip houses wholesale.  They lost their shirts.  (MarketWatch)
  
  In fact, they lost over half a billion dollars worth of shirts, which is a lot of shirts.
  
  What a shame.
  
  
  

Tech News 

• Facebook is shutting down its facial recognition project and deleting all the related data.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Also, I have a great deal to offer on beachfront timeshares in Wyoming.
  
  
  
• Over 30,000 GitLab servers have a serious unpatched vulnerability.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  GitLab is great.  It's one of the best pieces of open source software out there, and I use it every day.  You still need to keep it up to date.
  
  
  
• A deep dive into Google's new Tensor chip, powering the Pixel 6.  (AnandTech)
  
  It looks like this is similar to Samsung's Exynos 2100, but with a different CPU balance and a custom Google AI core.  Which is much faster than the similar cores found in chips from Samsung and Qualcomm, but mostly on things you don't do on a phone.