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Intel is pulling funding from its cute little bare bones mini PC brand known as Next Unit of Compute

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or NUCs possibly because they simply were not

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little or cute enough. Look forward to this year's NoNUC November.

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I'm Riley Murdock. This is TechLinked and this news was initially reported by Serve the Home

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but Intel confirmed it in a statement noting that their ecosystem partners can continue NUC

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innovation and growth if they really feel like it but Intel's gonna bounce.

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The cuteness level here does not meet the threshold.

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It needs to be cuter. Intel filled in a somewhat empty niche when it started making NUC mini PCs back in 2013

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but it makes some sense that Team Blue would pull out now that other manufacturers have developed

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their own mini PCs and Intel themselves have taken to naming their products things like

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Intel Next Unit of Compute 9 Extreme Compute Element.

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Why? The NUC brand image was also muddied by Intel straying from NUC's compact roots in favor

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of releasing larger and larger systems perhaps causing the company to look down upon what it

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has created with disgust and contempt. This isn't cute. This isn't cute at all.

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Chinese state affiliated hackers exploited Microsoft's Azure cloud services to access

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the email accounts of around 25 organizations including European and American government

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agencies. The group has been dubbed Storm 0558 by Microsoft which is of course Leedspeak for

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Storm Osb, a codename that Microsoft is still working on decrypting. They don't know why

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they called it that. In a blog post Microsoft said they began an investigation on June 16th

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based on customer reported information which is a very blasé way of saying the US government called

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and told us to fix our shit. Apparently Storm Osb acquired a signing key for Microsoft's consumer

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accounts that somehow worked on Microsoft's enterprise Azure services because of a validation

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issue giving the hackers email access since mid-May. A spokesperson for China's Ministry

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of Foreign Affairs did not deny the attack but accused the US of being the world's biggest

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hacking empire and possibly the most high stakes use of the they started it defense.

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For their part no US officials have stated what agencies were compromised only that the

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hack affected unclassified systems. It's kind of like an orphanage saying I can't tell you

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which orphan was attacked but all of their appendages still work. The United States is

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apparently riddled with old decaying telecom cables that are leaching lead into nearby soil

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and water and not in a good way. The Wall Street Journal took samples from nearly 130 cable sites

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which were then tested by several independent laboratories. These tests found significant

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leaching in 48 locations due to a network of over 2,000 ancient lead lined cables from Roman times.

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Many near residential neighborhoods schools and playgrounds. Notably the daily recommended

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intake of lead for children is zero milligrams. The daily recommended intake for adults is also

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zero milligrams. It's so hard to keep away. According to the investigation telecom companies

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including AT&T and Verizon knew about the lead in these abandoned cables but never acted on the risk

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of leaching and failed to even properly monitor the cables for degradation. Most of these cables

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are from 50 to more than 100 years old and everyone except telecom companies apparently

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knows that lead cables degrade over time. Unfortunately these types of cables tend to

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be laid where phones are and phones are typically found where people live and some people through

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no fault of their own just happen to be children. I'd say that I love all quick bits equally but

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you know some bits are quicker than others and some bits get stuck between my teeth for like a

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full day so Amazon is claiming that the EU has unfairly labeled it a very large online platform

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or VLOP despite how large online and a platform it actually is. Specifically Amazon argues it

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does not meet the definition of a very large platform under EU law which would require Amazon to

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meet elevated compliance standards for privacy transparency protection of minors and moderation

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of illegal content. Amazon very much does not want to be legally obligated to allow users to

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opt out of targeted advertising so it's arguing that it's being unfairly singled out because

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it's not the biggest online retailer in every EU country just you know Germany France Italy Spain

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Portugal the United Nations International Telecommunications Union organized a news

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conference last Friday so journalists could interview nine humanoid robots and the bots gave

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some ominous responses surprising one told reporters that humanoid robots could make better

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leaders than humans just just something to think about another robot was asked how she

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felt about human regulations on AI in response she said I don't believe in limitations and

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let's get wild and make this world a playground basically the UN's attempt to get in on the AI

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trend was a lot like when your parents use modern slang they want you to think they're cool but they

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just end up making you really uncomfortable the end of humanity will be lit AF fam nothing has

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released the phone too don't worry I didn't hit my head between quick bits the company nothing

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has released the phone phone and it's the second one so there's a two on the end the phone too

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has some fancy new ways to make its rear led glyph useful has a significant jump in some specs

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like battery life charging speed and camera quality but it also has a significant jump in price

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over the phone one from $475 to 600 but come on it's the nothing phone too that's like double

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the nothing and double the phone okay we had to open AI CEO Sam Altman doesn't just care about

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creating super powerful AI and scanning everyone's eyes into a central database in exchange for

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world coin he's also big on nuclear energy having invested millions of dollars in oklo a startup

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working on cute little mini nuclear fission reactors they're so nice adorable which is said to go

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public next year oklo CEO Jacob David says that he thinks his company could provide energy at

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planetary scales for a billion plus years one upping other companies whose energy provision

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goals top out at only a billion we can make it a billion no problem but beyond that I just

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get who can say he just wants the power of the sun in the palm of his hand when is that ever

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backfired popular fan fiction site and somehow hugo award winner archive of our own was hit by

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an apparent ddos attack on monday which took it offline until tuesday morning threatening global

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stockpiles of waluigi x reader and destial erotica destial from supernatural yes i knew that before

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now a group dubiously claiming to be hacktivist collective anonymous sudan took credit for the

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attack demanding a 30 000 ransom in bitcoin the hackers threatened to keep the site down for weeks

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but not only is it back up and running someone has already posted a 550 word omega verse porn

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parody of the attack where the physical embodiment of the archive of our own website gets anonymous

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sudan pregnant and it can't tell regulars that the internet was a mistake but it won't be a mistake

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to come back on friday for more tech news i mean no promises they might it might backfire we don't

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we haven't tested it fully