• President Trump has once again scrambled the plans of the Chinese Communist Party and Democrat prophesiers by temporarily waiving the new 125% tariff on selected goods from that country.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  The 20% basic tariff remains in effect, but the new tariff will not be applied to electronic components or devices like phones and laptops.
  
  Everything else gets whacked with a 145% impost which has small businesses in China in a panic.  Deliveries already booked and produced are now being refused, and there is simply no substitute market to turn to.
  
  And while it takes time to ramp up a mobile phone production line, products like clothing and homewares are already produced in dozens of countries like India, Pakistan, Vietnam, and Indonesia, who will be only too happy to produce more.
  
  
  

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• Oh, and you know all those attacks China has launched on American infrastructure over the past few years?  Turns out China was behind them.  (WSJ / MSN)
  
  Who knew?
  
  
  
• The Asus X870 Max Gaming Wifi7 motherboard is, well, a motherboard.  (WCCFTech)
  
  An X870 motherboards, meaning AMD.  With four full-length PCIe slots, only one is PCIe 5.0 x16, with the others being 4.0 x4, 4.0 x1, and 3.0 x1.
  
  I don't know where those 3.0 lanes come from, but my motherboard has a PCIe 3.0 x1 slot as well.
  
  It also lacks optical audio output and USB 4.0, but it does seem to have three HDMI ports.
  
  Price TBA but somewhere in the $200-ish range.
  
  
  
• Google's Chrome team is planning to fix a bug that's been around for 23 years.  (The Register)
  
  By feeding your browser a list of links, and then checking what colour each one is, a web site can figure out which other sites you have previously visited.
  
  They're not supposed to be able to do that.
  
  
  
• If you want an Asuka Langley from Evangelion themed mini-laptop, you can now get one starting at $1650.  (Notebook Check)
  
  And also ending at $1650.
  
  That gets you an Intel 255H CPU (6 P-cores, 10 E-cores), 64GB of RAM, 2TB of SSD, and a keyboard.  Screen is a 10.95" 2560x1600 "gaming display", so a reused tablet model.
  
  
  

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