Daily Tech News 7 March 2022

• TikTok is exiting Russia. (ZDNet)
  
  Alongside a lot of other companies, yes, but TikTok is owned by China.

  According to the Moscow Times, Russian President Vladimir Putin signed a new law on Friday that bans what the country calls "fake" news about the military. This law will target any statements referring to the invasion of Ukraine as an "invasion", any attempt to discredit the armed forces, or calls for sanctions on Russia. Those found to be spreading so-called fake news could face up to 15 years in prison.

  The enemy of my enemy may or may not be my friend, but he ain't gonna go to prison for 15 years just to let me post Bayraktar memes.

• At $480 the WD Red SN700 is the cheapest 4TB NVMe drive I've seen so far. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's only PCIe 3, but it's TLC and has a DRAM cache, so it's still a solid performer. Unfortunately the 4TB model and only the 4TB model has an 80% markup in Australia. Fortunately I already have two 4TB SSDs... Three 4TB SSDs... So I don't need any more.
  
  
  
• Nvidia is launching its RTX 3090 Ti - again - on March 29. (WCCFTech)
  
  And the 16GB model of the 3070 Ti is reportedly dead. Again.
  
  
  
• Apple is expected to announce a new, affordable 27" monitor tomorrow. (WCCFTech)
  
  Where by affordable they mean $2500, which is significantly more than I paid for all four of my new monitors.
  
  
  
• Windows Defender is enough, if you configure it right. (0ut3r Space)
  
  Having looked over those recommendations, I'd say just turn it on and hope for the best. That is way too much effort.
  
  
  
• Australia's new anti-trolling legislation is Orwellian garbage. (ZDNet)
  
  Facebook, Twitter, and Google all agree with me on this, which is an unusual situation to find myself in.
  
  
  
• Shut off from advanced technology from the US, Europe, Japan, Taiwan, and South Korea, can Russia build home-grown supercomputers? No. (The Register)
  
  "We're basically fucked," says Andrei Sukhov, professor and head of the CAD lab at HSE University in Moscow.
  
  
  

The Sessho-seki, a famous rock in Nasu, Japan that was said to have imprisoned the evil nine-tailed fox demoness Tamamo-no-Mae, was found broken in half.

After nearly 1,000 years, the demon vixen is presumably once again on the loose. https://t.co/Fz3yRLy4qQ

— Nick Kapur (@nick_kapur) March 6, 2022

the ominous kitsune shaped clouds above fuji on the 19th certainly don't help wahaha: https://t.co/wt1O5vJzFC

— SamKalensky (@samkalensky) March 6, 2022

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