Daily Tech News 25 October 2021

• One thing I have to give Dell credit for: Service manuals. (PDF)
  
  Need step-by-step instructions for replacing the WiFi module or the GPU fan for your laptop? All in there.
  
  Also, the Inspiron 15 and 15 Plus, like the 16 Plus I currently have, have dual M.2 slots. Though one is a mini-me 2230 slot, like the 16 Plus. Would it kill them to just make them both full size?
  
  Plus, the Inspiron 15 is available with an AMD 5700U just like the Inspiron 14, and with the dual M.2 slots makes an even more attractive NUC replacement - once it goes on sale at 35% or 40% off, which it currently is not. Only problem is it's too big to fit in a document tray, which was my clever idea for creating a budget desktop rack.
  
  
  

• Old and busted: Don't be evil.
  
  New hotness:
  
  

  🔒"- Google had a plan called "Project NERA" to turn the web into a walled garden they called "Not Owned But Operated". A core component of this was the forced logins to the chrome browser you've probably experienced (surprise!)"

  — fasterthanlime 🌌 (@fasterthanlime) October 23, 2021

  
  

  🔒"- The exchanges are also rigged so that google wins on bids where they aren't the highest bidder.
  - A large amount of people inside google are aware of all of this
  - If Google ever tells you some change will increase your ad yield, run. In fact anything they tell you is a lie"

  — fasterthanlime 🌌 (@fasterthanlime) October 23, 2021

  
  

  You can read the full unredacted document for yourself here: https://t.co/aismwE2rkI

  — fasterthanlime 🌌 (@fasterthanlime) October 23, 2021

  
  
  These are allegations, not proven in court, but a lot of them are familiar to those watching this nonsense in recent years.
  
  Really this is the top story but I didn't want to fill the front page with embedded Tweets.
  
  
  
• But wait, there's more:
  
  

  An *enormous thread* on alleged @Google @Facebook collusion based on the just-released *unredacted* complaint from the Texas AG. First filed December.
  
  Anything PURPLE is newly unredacted.
  
  Yellow/Orange is just normal highlights.
  
  1/?

  — Patrick McGee (@PatrickMcGee_) October 22, 2021

  
  

  Google also owns the largest buy-side and sell-side brokers. "It is pitcher, batter, and umpire, all at the same time," says complaint.
  
  Senior GOOG employee: “[t]he analogy would be if Goldman or Citibank owned the NYSE.”
  More to the point -- if NYSE was the only stock exchange pic.twitter.com/MrZhy7gB1j

  — Patrick McGee (@PatrickMcGee_) October 22, 2021

  
  
  
  
• Prince of Persia has been ported to the Atari XL. (Vintage is the New Old)
  
  You will need a model with 128k of RAM though.
  
  
  
• AMD's "Zen 3D" CPUs - the ones with the stacked cache chips - will go into production next month. (WCCFTech)
  
  And launch in February. I'm not sure if that means they had to do a die revision to bring these into production, but it kind of sounds like it.

posted by Pixy Misa at 03:58 AM

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