Daily Tech News 6 October 2021

• Elizabeth Warren has a brilliant new solution for the growing threat of ransomware: Make it illegal to be a victim. (Bloomberg)
  
  That's it. That's the story.
  
  
  

• Do the new security features in Windows 11 slow game performance? Yes. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  But only by around 5%. And that seems to apply equally to average frame rates and to frame consistency (99% frame rates), so it's not a serious impact.
  
  
  
• The Surface Pro 8 is better than the Surface Pro 7. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Also it has upgradable storage, so if you already have a laptop that comes with a 1TB M.2 2230 SSD like say the Dell Inspiron 16 Plus you can swap that into a low-end model instead of paying Microsoft $1000 for a $200 SSD.
  
  
  
• Intel is back, says Intel. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Intel added that its products that aren't shipping yet will close the gap with AMD's chips from last year, not that there ever was a gap, because there wasn't, but if there had been there wouldn't be.
  
  
  
• The simplest sorting algorithm ever. (Arxiv.org - PDF)
  
  On the one hand, it's O(n2). On the other hand, it's just four lines of code in any reasonable programming language. On the third hand, it looks obviously incorrect. On the fourth hand it has been mathematically proven to work.
  
  So it's the perfect answer for annoying tech job interviews.
  
  
  
• How IBM lost the cloud. (Protocol)
  
  We use IBM Cloud at my day job. (And other cloud services too.)
  
  The article is... Not wrong.
  
  
  
• If you are doing 50,000 Docker pulls per day and you're not Facebook or Netflix you are doing something wrong. Stop that. (Earthly)
  
  WHAT ARE YOU IDIOTS DOING?
  
  
  

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