• In an unexpected outbreak of sanity, 802.11ax has been renamed Wi-Fi 6.  (AnandTech)
  
  802.11ac and 802.11n are retroactively now Wi-Fi 5 and 4 respectively.
  
  There are some other specialised forms of 802.11, but for mainstream users you just need to know that higher numbers are better.
  
  
• Amazon has a new version of the Fire TV Stick, supporting 4K at 60Hz, Dolby Vision and Atmos, and HDR.  (AnandTech)
  
  And Wi-Fi 5.
  
  Fifty bucks.
  
  
• AMD will talk about 7nm CPUs and GPUs in a CES keynote in January.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Not clear whether there will be any product announcements or just an overview, but samples are already in the hands of major customers.
  
  
• Cloudera and Hortonworks are merging to form a single $5.2 billion company.  (TechCrunch)
  
  Which is one of those things that is either big news to you or means absolutely nothing.
  
  
• Japan has issued draft guidelines regarding experimental gene-editing of human embryos.  (Nature)
  
  Catgirls.
  
  
• LG's V40 phone has five cameras - one at the front, three at the rear, and one to see into parallel universes where you're better looking and have shaved recently.  (Hot Hardware)
  
  
• CRM platform Zoho was recently taken offline for hours by their domain registrar over supposed phishing scams.
  
  Turns out there is something to that, though not by Zoho itself.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  
• DigitalOcean has Kubernetes but is in treatment and should be better soon.

• Wired has posted an article - and I use the term advisedly - titled Brett Kavanaugh and the Information Terrorists Trying to Reshape America.  (Wired)
  
  The piece is pure propaganda.  The author, one Molly McKew, describes herself as a "narrative architect" - i.e. propagandist - and lists her previous work for Georgian president Mikheil Saakashvili, who fled his country ahead of a corruption prosecution and is in hiding in Ukraine, and Moldovan prime minister Vlad Filat, who wasn't quick enough and was jailed for 9 years after being convicted on corruption charges in 2016.
  
  This Medium post completely dissects McKew's chequered history.

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