• Tim Cook is stepping down as Apple CEO after fifteen years of keeping the company in a very profitable holding pattern.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  A visionary?  No.
  
  But did he make the shareholders wealthy beyond the dreams of fieldmice?  Yes.
  
  He will be succeeded by John Ternus, Apple's President of Hardware Engineering.

• Speaking of fieldmice JPMorgan's datacenter in New Jersey got a $77 million tax break to employ one full-time worker.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Do you know what hamster chow goes for these days?
  
  
  
• New cost-effective HUDIMMs show a 50% reduction in bandwidth when compared with regular DDR5 modules.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The H in HUDIMM stands for Half.
  
  Literally.
  
  
  
• You might wonder how the Big Three memory makers are treating the employees that are making unthinkable profits thinkable.  Well, SK Hynix workers are staring down the barrel of nearly half a million dollars in bonuses.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  This year.  It could be close to a million next year.
  
  Meanwhile across the road at Samsung workers are threatening to go on strike demanding even more than that.
  
  
  
• The EU launched its own age verification app.  It was hacked in two minutes.  (Politico)

  "It is fully open source. Everyone can check the code," von der Leyen said.

  And then they did.
  
  

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