Daily Tech News 30 March 2022

• Agent for the other house on my shortlist is not playing games. Sent the contract right over, only one thing in there that raises an eyebrow, and certainly no deal breakers. Getting my agent to do a walkthrough and then will take it from there.
  
  What I also found while clicking around is a rather nice five bedroom house on 16 acres on the edge of town - with a spare two bedroom house just in case, I don't know, the main house has a puncture. At the extreme upper end of my price range but actually still cheaper than my current place, which is about the size of the spare house there.
  
  The problem is, it's on wireless internet, and wireless internet in Australia sucks. A major reason I selected this particular town is the fibre internet, and this house don't got it. I can do my job remotely, but I still need to be able to do my job.
  
  What price 1km of Cat 5?
  
  
  
• Axie Infinity's Ronin network bridge got hacked. Just a little bit. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  For $620 million.
  
  And they didn't notice for a week.
  
  (Yes, this is crypto stuff.)
  
  (breathe in)
  
  WHAT ARE YOU IDIOTS DOING?
  
  (breathe out)
  
  
  

• Nvidia's GeForce RTX 3090 Ti is officially officially here for officially $1999. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  But actually a whole lot more than that.
  
  And there are no reviews, because Nvidia didn't send out review samples.
  
  It runs at 450W and should be about 35% faster than the RTX 3080 at three times the price.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile the Ryzen 5800X looks kind of dead. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  If you want speed you'll go for the 5800X3D or the 12-core 5900X; if you're price-sensitive you'll want the new 5700X which substantially cheaper, uses much less power, and is only 5% slower in single and multi-threaded benchmarks.
  
  
  
• HP's new FX900 Pro SSD is, um, pretty good actually. (Tweaktown)
  
  It's not quite the fastest SSD in existence, but it's cheaper than anything faster and faster than anything cheaper. 7.4GB/s read and 6.7GB/s write, with 43 μs read latency and 14 μs writes.
  
  
  
• Paging Barbra Streisand. Will Ms. Streisand please come to the Law of Unintended Consequences phone.
  
  

  As a customer, this is the email that I got and didn't catch at the time. "Sooo, just FYI, there's been an attack against our systems with DB. Maybe consider changing your password?" Hugs and puppies, Ubiquiti. pic.twitter.com/lm83yXc7Sk

  — Corey Quinn (@QuinnyPig) March 30, 2022

  
  
  Farewell, Ubiquiti, you assholes.
  
  
  
• Sydney is acquiring... Sandworms. They're sandworms. (ZDNet)
  
  The sandworms will be used to extend the new Metro system in western Sydney, burrowing through 200 metres of sandstone and shale per week. (Not a lot of granite around here.)
  
  
  
• What happened to that 40 mile long Russian invasion convoy. (The Guradian*)
  
  Or one version of events, anyway. But something sure happened to that convoy and it wasn't good.
  
  * Stet.
  
  
  
• This professor stopped grading here students' papers. How did it go? (The Conversation)
  
  She has no idea because she stopped grading her students' papers.

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