Daily Tech News Got Eaten By A Bear

• Got delayed by network problems at work, so I'll keep this short and then maybe add some stuff later.
  
  
  Update: Network is back up.
  
  Update 2: Network is suffering 97% packet loss and 340ms ping times.
  
  Update 3: Network is down.
  
  Update 4: Network still down. Wait, up, no, down, updown, downup... Up!
  
  
• Intel has made a $2 billion offer to buy embedded processor startup SiFive. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The whole attraction of SiFive is that their instruction set is an open specification, so anyone can implement it themselves if they want. Most companies wouldn't want all that work and would rather license a design or buy an existing chip, but you can.
  
  Intel is pretty much guaranteed to fuck things up. It's not in their DNA to be open.

• Pack 12 M.2 NVMe drives into your DVD bay. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Don't have a DVD bay? Tough.
  
  
  
• Dirt as a service: Backblaze is offering online Chia farming. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Backblaze has an enormous number of disk drives, perhaps enough to actually make a dent in Chia. You'd still need to prepare your farm locally before uploading it - it's the preparation that burns out drives; after that they're mostly idle.
  
  Or, you know, not do any of that at all.
  
  
  
• Food services supply company Edward Don has been hit by a ransomware attack and is offline. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Exactly how do these companies have their networks configured?
  
  
  
• Slilp, a market for stolen logins, got stolen itself by law enforcement agencies from four countries. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  They'll be up again somewhere else tomorrow.
  
  
  
• Hackers broke into Electronic Arts' network, and are now desperately trying to forget what they saw. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  The horror.
  
  
  
• Samsung security kind of sucks. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Though the bug that gave random apps admin rights over your phone was hard to miss because it also deleted all your other apps.
  
  
  
• The one thing worse than being in Bat Plague Lockdown in a communist dystopia is being stuck in Bat Plague Lockdown in a communist dystopia with bad weather and no internet. (ZDNet)
  
  Must check in on my brother living in Hell Melbourne.
  
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:26 AM

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