Daily Tech News 4 March 2022

• Russia has asked Google to stop the spread of misinformation about its invasion of Ukraine. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Russia's invasion of Ukraine, that is. Not Google's. Google is so far as I know still deeply entrenched in the Sudetenland and not looking for further adventures.
  
  To be specific, Russia is objecting to calling the invasion an invasion, showing pictures of the invasion, streaming videos of the invasion, or generally claiming that Ukraine is a place that exists.

  Russia wants to introduce a new law that would punish spreading fake news about the Russian armed forces' military operations in Ukraine with up to 15 years in prison.

  Wonder where they learned that habit.
  
  
  
• And in particular, don't mention the fact that Russia is currently bombing an active nuclear power station. (AP)
  
  Edit: Or the museum building in the reactor complex. Or... Something.
  
  Because that would be bad.
  
  
  

• If you need a 12-core (sort of) NUC with dual 2.5Gb Ethernet ports ASRock has one. (Anandech)
  
  Two, in fact. Should be pretty zippy; these use the new Alder Lake laptop chips. 4 fast cores plus 8 efficiency cores, which combined should be about twice the speed of the previous generation 4-core parts.
  
  
  
• The Intel Core i3-12300 is good value for money. (AnandTech)
  
  This is a 4-core part priced at $143. While four cores is not a lot these days, the new design makes it about as fast as my 2017 Ryzen 1700 system that I am typing this on right now - with half the cores.
  
  On single-threaded tasks it's about 80% faster.
  
  And cheap. Did I mention cheap?
  
  
  
• Russia declares war on Apple in 3... 2... (9to5Mac)
  
  Apple Maps has been updated to show that Crimea is part of Ukraine and no longer Russian territory. Unless you're actually in Russia.

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