Daily Tech News 10 February 2022

• SpaceX lost 40 newly launched satellites due to a geomagnetic storm. (The Register)
  
  Have they checked down the back of the sofa? Last time I looked I found a fully armed and operational battlestation.
  
  
  
• Western Digital and Kioxia (Toshiba) lost at least 6.5 exabytes of flash memory due to contamination. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Have they checked down the back of the sofa? Last time I looked I found the Dead Sea scrolls. Or possibly a whole bunch of unpaid parking tickets; hard to tell once they pass the thousand year mark.
  
  
  

• Cloud lock-in vs the multi-vendor approach. (Tim Bray)

  Here's an example: Last year, AWS dramatically reduced data egress charges, under pressure from CloudFlare, Oracle, and of course their customers.

  Yeah we've covered that story here.
  
  They didn't. They didn't reduce data egress charges at all, let alone dramatically.
  
  
  
• How we optimised Python API code 100x. (Towards Data Science)
  
  They rewrote it in C.
  
  
  
• A review of the Asus USB-C2500 2.5Gb USB Ethernet adaptor. (Serve the Home)
  
  They pronounce it good, which is nice because I bought three of them last month.
  
  
  
• Samsung's Galaxy Tab S8 range is here. (ZDNet)
  
  If you were waiting for a small, reasonably priced Android tablet with solid overall specs... You can keep right on waiting.
  
  These do have good overall specs but are a little lacking in the small and reasonably priced categories.
  
  
  
• 4TB SSD just showed up.
  
  
  
• Hulu has order 20 new episodes of Futurama. (Variety)
  
  I have concerns. I love Futurama and it ended about as well as any western cartoon series has ever ended - back in 2013, before the Great Woke Cloud had destroyed everything.
  
  
  
• There are now a thousand startups with a market valuation over a billion dollars. (Bloomberg)
  
  Totally not a bubble.

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