Daily Tech News 25 March 2022

• Yesterday word got out that a British teen was believed to be the leader of the Lapsus$ hacking group. Today London police arrested seven people aged 16 to 21 in relation to, well, exactly this. (BBC News)
  
  Apparently they got doxxed by rival hackers.
  
  Technical skills: 9/10.
  Opsec: 0/10.
  
  Lapsus$ announced they are taking a break until March 30. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  
  

• Meanwhile Anonymous, who have been quiet lately, claimed to have hacked Nestle and leaked 10GB of proprietary data.
  
  Nestle denies this happened for a rather unique reason: they accidentally leaked that data themselves months ago. (Gizmodo)
  
  
  
• Google still thinks Android tablets are a thing. (The Verge)
  
  Guys, you haven't updated the Nexus 7 range since 2013.
  
  
  
• Nvidia GPU prices are down by about 40% here in Australia, but AMD prices are moving much more slowly... At least at the mid range. At the high end, they're also down sharply. Which has led to an absurd compaction of price brackets:
  
  
  
  Just $40 separates the 6800 from the 6900 XT.
  
  
  
• Which makes the 6900 XT relatively good value but it's probably not time to buy one. (Hot Hardware)
  
  The next generation's mid-range cards, due later this year, could beat current top-of-the-line cards while being much cheaper and more efficient.

• Hololive Indonesia Gen 3 was announced today, to debut, well, today. I think they've figured out that if they launch the same day it doesn't give YouTube time to ruin things.
  
  All of the Hololive Indonesia girls speak fluent English, something I wasn't originally aware of, though now that Hololive English is larger they spend more time speaking Bahasa for their local audience.
  
  Holostars Gen 4 debuts right after that - Holostars is the male branch of the all-female Hololive.

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