Daily Tech News 17 March 2022

• Nvidia has quietly cut the cost of its GPU chips to graphics card makers by 8-12%. (WCCFTech)
  
  Does this mean the price of graphics cards is finally coming down?
  
  ...
  
  Apparently, yes. Still well over MSRP, but much less over MSRP than previously. AMD CPU and GPU prices are also down, though their GPU prices weren't marked up as much as Nvidia's and haven't come down as sharply.
  
  Plus DDR5 RAM is now in stock and only twice the price of DDR4.
  
  I'm not in the market having (a) just bought two laptops and (b) to move house shortly, so I'll just have to hope prices are still low six months from now or that the new insect overlords are at least relatively benign.
  
  
  
  

• I'm not sure if Node.js induces mental illness or vice versa, but the correlation is at 0.95: Recent versions of the node-ipc module had a 25% chance of deleting all your files if it thought you were located in Russia or Belarus. (Reddit)
  
  Not hacked. Deliberate.
  
  Okay, Russia and Belarus suck, but so does Node.js. Don't use it. Don't use projects that use it.
  
  
  
• I was expecting an Earth-shattering kaboom: Experiments on hybrid matter/antimatter atoms surprised researchers by not acting weird. (Quanta)
  
  In fact, the artificial atoms behaved markedly less weird than regular atoms under the same conditions, and nobody knows exactly why.
  
  
  
• You have that right. It's called resignation. (ZDNet)
  
  Do it.
  
  
  
• Does the Australian government know about [insert very very long list of incredibly NSFW websites here]. (ZDNet)
  
  Hopefully no.
  
  
  

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