Daily Tech News 13 August 2021

• Internet of Snitches. (Purism)
  
  What Apple is doing is a very, very bad idea, and they people attempting to justify it need to be thrown in a volcano.
  
  
  
• An increasing number even of Apple employees think Apple has lost the plot. (Reuters)
  
  Discord is spreading on the company's internal Slack channels. Or maybe slack is spreading on the company's internal Discord channels. One of those.
  
  Expect Slack and Discord to be banned by Monday.
  
  
  

• More Radeon 6600 XT reviews are popping up. (PC Perspective)
  
  General consensus is that it is, indeed, a video card.
  
  To be fair it is on average both faster and cheaper than Nvidia's RTX 3060 - unless you want to play Minecraft with ray tracing, anyway.
  
  
  
• Speaking of the RTX 3060, it looks like I'll be getting that - the laptop version, anyway. I missed out on the sale of the Dell model with the 3050, but this week they have a sale on the model with twice the RAM and storage and a 3060 instead. Much better value.
  
  
  
• Early high-latency DDR5-4800 modules are the new low-latency DDR4-3200. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  In bandwidth tests, where the DDR5 modules have a significant edge, they are slower, but in latency tests, where the DDR5 modules are slower, they are faster.
  
  No, I have no idea what the hell is going on, unless they accidentally swapped the results.
  
  
  
• Physicists have created a Wigner Crystal made entirely of electrons. (Quanta)
  
  I don't know what that means either.
  
  
  
• Internet for thee... (Islander News)
  
  The US Senate has threatened to provide free internet access to Cuba.
  
  
  
• But not for me. (Ars Technica)
  
  AT&T has had to delay half a million fiber connections... Because they've run out of fiber.
  
  
  
• Reddit is valued at $10 billion. (The Verge)
  
  Reddit was an also-ran, a downmarket version of Digg. Then Digg pushed a really unpopular site update and refused to listen to its users, and they all jumped ship.
  
  
  
• Twitter just pushed a really unpopular site update and is refusing to listen to its users. (CNet)
  
  Their strength is their weakness: They are incapable of learning from mistakes.

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