Intel is pulling funding from its cute little bare bones mini PC brand known as Next Unit of Compute
or NUCs possibly because they simply were not
little or cute enough. Look forward to this year's NoNUC November.
I'm Riley Murdock. This is TechLinked and this news was initially reported by Serve the Home
but Intel confirmed it in a statement noting that their ecosystem partners can continue NUC
innovation and growth if they really feel like it but Intel's gonna bounce.
The cuteness level here does not meet the threshold.
It needs to be cuter. Intel filled in a somewhat empty niche when it started making NUC mini PCs back in 2013
but it makes some sense that Team Blue would pull out now that other manufacturers have developed
their own mini PCs and Intel themselves have taken to naming their products things like
Intel Next Unit of Compute 9 Extreme Compute Element.
Why? The NUC brand image was also muddied by Intel straying from NUC's compact roots in favor
of releasing larger and larger systems perhaps causing the company to look down upon what it
has created with disgust and contempt. This isn't cute. This isn't cute at all.
Chinese state affiliated hackers exploited Microsoft's Azure cloud services to access
the email accounts of around 25 organizations including European and American government
agencies. The group has been dubbed Storm 0558 by Microsoft which is of course Leedspeak for
Storm Osb, a codename that Microsoft is still working on decrypting. They don't know why
they called it that. In a blog post Microsoft said they began an investigation on June 16th
based on customer reported information which is a very blasÃ© way of saying the US government called
and told us to fix our shit. Apparently Storm Osb acquired a signing key for Microsoft's consumer
accounts that somehow worked on Microsoft's enterprise Azure services because of a validation
issue giving the hackers email access since mid-May. A spokesperson for China's Ministry
of Foreign Affairs did not deny the attack but accused the US of being the world's biggest
hacking empire and possibly the most high stakes use of the they started it defense.
For their part no US officials have stated what agencies were compromised only that the
hack affected unclassified systems. It's kind of like an orphanage saying I can't tell you
which orphan was attacked but all of their appendages still work. The United States is
apparently riddled with old decaying telecom cables that are leaching lead into nearby soil
and water and not in a good way. The Wall Street Journal took samples from nearly 130 cable sites
which were then tested by several independent laboratories. These tests found significant
leaching in 48 locations due to a network of over 2,000 ancient lead lined cables from Roman times.
Many near residential neighborhoods schools and playgrounds. Notably the daily recommended
intake of lead for children is zero milligrams. The daily recommended intake for adults is also
zero milligrams. It's so hard to keep away. According to the investigation telecom companies
including AT&T and Verizon knew about the lead in these abandoned cables but never acted on the risk
of leaching and failed to even properly monitor the cables for degradation. Most of these cables
are from 50 to more than 100 years old and everyone except telecom companies apparently
knows that lead cables degrade over time. Unfortunately these types of cables tend to
be laid where phones are and phones are typically found where people live and some people through
no fault of their own just happen to be children. I'd say that I love all quick bits equally but
you know some bits are quicker than others and some bits get stuck between my teeth for like a
full day so Amazon is claiming that the EU has unfairly labeled it a very large online platform
or VLOP despite how large online and a platform it actually is. Specifically Amazon argues it
does not meet the definition of a very large platform under EU law which would require Amazon to
meet elevated compliance standards for privacy transparency protection of minors and moderation
of illegal content. Amazon very much does not want to be legally obligated to allow users to
opt out of targeted advertising so it's arguing that it's being unfairly singled out because
it's not the biggest online retailer in every EU country just you know Germany France Italy Spain
Portugal the United Nations International Telecommunications Union organized a news
conference last Friday so journalists could interview nine humanoid robots and the bots gave
some ominous responses surprising one told reporters that humanoid robots could make better
leaders than humans just just something to think about another robot was asked how she
felt about human regulations on AI in response she said I don't believe in limitations and
let's get wild and make this world a playground basically the UN's attempt to get in on the AI
trend was a lot like when your parents use modern slang they want you to think they're cool but they
just end up making you really uncomfortable the end of humanity will be lit AF fam nothing has
released the phone too don't worry I didn't hit my head between quick bits the company nothing
has released the phone phone and it's the second one so there's a two on the end the phone too
has some fancy new ways to make its rear led glyph useful has a significant jump in some specs
like battery life charging speed and camera quality but it also has a significant jump in price
over the phone one from $475 to 600 but come on it's the nothing phone too that's like double
the nothing and double the phone okay we had to open AI CEO Sam Altman doesn't just care about
creating super powerful AI and scanning everyone's eyes into a central database in exchange for
world coin he's also big on nuclear energy having invested millions of dollars in oklo a startup
working on cute little mini nuclear fission reactors they're so nice adorable which is said to go
public next year oklo CEO Jacob David says that he thinks his company could provide energy at
planetary scales for a billion plus years one upping other companies whose energy provision
goals top out at only a billion we can make it a billion no problem but beyond that I just
get who can say he just wants the power of the sun in the palm of his hand when is that ever
backfired popular fan fiction site and somehow hugo award winner archive of our own was hit by
an apparent ddos attack on monday which took it offline until tuesday morning threatening global
stockpiles of waluigi x reader and destial erotica destial from supernatural yes i knew that before
now a group dubiously claiming to be hacktivist collective anonymous sudan took credit for the
attack demanding a 30 000 ransom in bitcoin the hackers threatened to keep the site down for weeks
but not only is it back up and running someone has already posted a 550 word omega verse porn
parody of the attack where the physical embodiment of the archive of our own website gets anonymous
sudan pregnant and it can't tell regulars that the internet was a mistake but it won't be a mistake
to come back on friday for more tech news i mean no promises they might it might backfire we don't
we haven't tested it fully