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October 04, 2021

Daily Tech News 4 October 2021

Top Story

New research suggests that the Wuhan Bat Flu may have come from the Wuhan Bat Market and not from the Wuhan Bat Virus Factory across the road according to a paper published by the Wuhan Bat Virus Factory. (LA Times / Yahoo News)

A second paper from France that - the article kind of slides past this - has not actually been published anywhere concurs.

The article is 90% just the LA Times sniping at CNN, but that has a certain charm in itself.

Tech News

M1X Arm-based MacBook Pros may be arriving later this month. (WCCFTech)

The rumoured specs are inviting. Shame about the operating system, the price, the fact that it's all glued together into an unmaintainable brick, and that the company behind it basically just plain sucks.
The chip shortage will continue until morale improves. (ZDNet)

If you're waiting for prices to come down then congratulations, you can keep right on doing that.
Why carmakers can't just update to newer chips. (Jalopnik)

In short: Because cars are expected to work.
Ransomware gangs are getting ripped off by rival gangs that are undercutting their prices. (ZDNet)

The free market at work.
JMS is working on a reboot of Babylon 5. (Variety)

Look, it's his baby, and the original production was, shall we say, not untroubled. If he wants to try making it again, and he has funding, let's see how it comes out.

Disclaimer: They said it was mad to build a space station in the middle of nowhere, but they did! And it sank into the swamp! (actually, it blew up) So, they took the debris and built Babylon 2 and that sank into the swamp too. SO, they started again and built Babylon 3! It blew up, caught on fire and sank into the swamp. Babylon 4, though — it held! Didn't blow up, didn't burn up and it did NOT sink into the swamp. It did, however, disappear without a trace but Babylon 5 — now there was a space station!!!

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The article is 90% just the LA Times sniping at CNN, but that has a certain charm in itself. Tech News M1X Arm-based MacBook Pros may be arriving later this month. (WCCFTech) The rumoured specs are inviting. Shame about the operating system, the price, the fact that it's all glued together into an unmaintainable brick, and that the company behind it basically just plain sucks. The chip shortage will continue until morale improves. (ZDNet) If you're waiting for prices to come down then congratulations, you can keep right on doing that. Why carmakers can't just update to newer chips. (Jalopnik) In short: Because cars are expected to work. Ransomware gangs are getting ripped off by rival gangs that are undercutting their prices. (ZDNet) The free market at work. JMS is working on a reboot of Babylon 5. (Variety) Look, it's his baby, and the original production was, shall we say, not untroubled. If he wants to try making it again, and he has funding, let's see how it comes out. Disclaimer: They said it was mad to build a space station in the middle of nowhere, but they did! And it sank into the swamp! (actually, it blew up) So, they took the debris and built Babylon 2 and that sank into the swamp too. SO, they started again and built Babylon 3! It blew up, caught on fire and sank into the swamp. Babylon 4, though — it held! Didn't blow up, didn't burn up and it did NOT sink into the swamp. 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