• Apple and Google have responded to Australia's corporate regulator, the ACCC, saying you can't regulate us as tech monopolies because we're really criminal protection rackets.  (ZDNet)
  
  We are not making this up.

• Intel's Alder Lake HX parts will bring the desktop chips to laptops.  (WCCFTech)
  
  That means 8 P cores (laptop chips currently max out at 6) and 32 graphics cores (laptop chips currently max out at 96).  And TDPs starting at 55W so don't expect these in your next thin-and-light.
  
  
  
• WordPress sites are now getting hacked even before you can finish deploying them.  (The Daily Swig)
  
  The WordPress installation process has always been insecure by default, and this is the logical end result: All self-hosted WordPress sites now come pre-hacked for your convenience.
  
  
  
• The US Treasuy has sanctioned money laundering startup Blender.  (ZDNet)
  
  What exactly did they expect.

  Our mission is to enable some of the fastest growing industries in the world: Rogue states, warlords, terrorists, and organised crime.  We plan to list on NASDAQ in mid-2023.

  I may have embroidered that a little.
  
  
  

Posted by: normal at Monday, May 09 2022 11:52 PM (LADmw)

Posted by: Frank at Tuesday, May 10 2022 12:33 AM (rglbH)

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