Daily Tech News 31 May 2021

• Blockchain mining has made it impossible to buy video cards for video, so what if they instead used hard drives?
  
  Yep, storage market is fucked. (New Scientist)
  
  Drives haven't disappeared, but bargains on large hard drives that were commonplace six months ago are gone, and supply is patchy generally.
  
  I got myself a new 6TB drive (Toshiba Gold) last month to replace a failing unit in my NAS, because I knew this was coming. That drive is still available - but I'd now have to order it in from Amazon UK, because there's zero stock in Australia, even at double the price I paid.
  
  The people behind Chia say that this will be a good thing in the long run as drive makers ramp up production, to which I counter, fuck you you fucking fucks.
  
  
  

• Apparently it's Computex or something, and Intel has announced a refresh of their Tiger Lake laptop parts. (AnandTech)
  
  You can tell how far they've come by the fact that these are 15W parts but they quote performance numbers for them running at 28W and they actually use up to 50W: Not very.
  
  
  
• The next version of Windows 10 is on its way, and will bring sweeping UI changes that will probably suck. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Or you could not do that, Microsoft. Just a thought.
  
  
  
• Despite booking $11 billion in orders, Aerion could not raise funds to complete its supersonic business jet. (Flying)
  
  They will now return to making expensive chairs.
  
  
  
• Apple's next-gen M1X Mac mini will return the features removed from the M1 Mac mini. (9to5Mac)
  
  Not upgradeable RAM, though. Not upgradeable anything, in fact.

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