Daily Tech News 12 February 2022

• I had it in my cart, again.
  
  This time it was an Orico 5-bay USB-C RAID storage box. I just got one, noticed they were getting scarce, and added a second one to an order I was placing with a different online store.
  
  As soon as I placed my order the lead time went from 2 days to 2 months.
  
  Went back to the store where I got the first one, added it to my cart, didn't get time to check out, and when I looked the next morning it was gone.
  
  Not so much of a drama this time because (a) I was buying a second one just in case it went out of stock and I needed one, and (b) I got an 8-bay non-RAID model for the same price. Hoping to set up software RAID on that.
  
  
  
• Also grabbed an HP Pavilion Aero 13 as a spare laptop, since the two big ones are going to be cabled in to monitors and storage and networks and not readily lappable.
  
  A$1199 with Windows 11. Exact same specs with Windows 10, A$1049. Not exactly a difficult decision.
  
  
  
• Twitter fell over. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  The site was still up but gave not-very-reassuring errors any time you tried to do anything.
  
  I felt a great disturbance in the force, as if millions of users wondered if they'd suddenly been banned.

• Learn what metaverse is and how you can profit from it with this $20 course. (ZDNet Academy)
  
  The headline does rather give the game away.
  
  (ZDNet Academy is not news, but advertising for the worst tech products that ever existed.)
  
  
  
• Cisco has made a $20 billion cash bid to buy Splunk. (Reuters)
  
  It's not a bubble.
  
  
  
• Early benchmarks of Intel's Raptor Lake have leaked, confirming a 24-core (8+16) design. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Bleh.
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:02 AM

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