Thursday, June 20
Daily News Stuff 20 June 2024
Legs Of Justice Edition
Legs Of Justice Edition
Top Story
- A Meta (which is to say, Facebook) engineer was told to resign after calling out sexist practices in hiring and evaluating of female employees. (Ars Technica)
Maybe it's true. Maybe it's not. But if HR was on the ball they would have just asked him "what is a woman?" and then fired him no matter what his answer was.
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- DRAM and flash prices are... Not soaring as predicted. (Tom's Hardware)
The best of the bargains from last year have dried up, but prices are pretty steady now.
- Speaking of which, you can get a 1.5TB Optane 905P for $299. (Serve the Home)
Allegedly; the page shows $349 for me.
If you need these drives - they have a 10 microsecond access time, compared with 50 microseconds for a good flash SSD - you might want to stock up because nobody is making them anymore.
- The EU wants to scan all your messages - including the ones with end-to-end encryption. (The Verge)
The Telescreen is $299. The Telescreen with bundled ads is $199.
Both are behind the painting.
- Softbank plans to use AI to automatically mute calls from angry customers. (Ars Technica)
There is no way this could possibly go wrong.
Disclaimer: I'm at soup.
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