Daily Tech News 6 July 2021

• REvil has asked for $70 million to decrypt all the victims of their latest attack. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  I can't be the only one wondering what would come out of comparison shopping that price against contracting the Russian mob to remove the problem entirely.
  
  REvil themselves appear to have been doing some calculations because they quickly lowered the price to $50 million.
  
  
  

• News you can use: How to uninstall Windows 11 and roll back to Windows 10. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Well, if you followed yesterday's news, step one is to delete your virtual machine.
  
  
  
• Don't buy a GPU! (WCCFTech)
  
  They're actually in stock consistently right now, and prices are starting to trend downwards, but indications are this is going to accelerate in the next few weeks as Chinese crypto miners dump their cards onto eBay.
  
  
  
• QNAP has fixed a critical vulnerability in their backup and disaster recovery software. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  No, not that one, a new one.
  
  
  
• Is Audacity suddenly spyware? (PC Magazine)
  
  If you have to ban children from using your product because it forcibly collects personal data, that's a pretty clear signal you're doing something you shouldn't.
  
  And it's proof that there are worse hosts for open-source projects than Oracle, who, amazingly, still haven't ruined MySQL. I mean, it has some - quirks, shall we say - but it's still free.
  
  
  
• Facebook, Twitter, and Google have threatened to drop services to Hong Kong. (WSJ)
  
  I mean.... Fuck everyone in this situation except for the citizens of Hong Kong.

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