Daily Tech News 5 May 2022

• Posting times of Daily Tech News might be just a leetle variable for the next few weeks. And the past few weeks.
  
  I'm working 16 hours a day and moving house, which are decidedly not two great tastes that taste great together.
  
  
  
• If you're running the brand new Chrome version 100 upgrade to 101 right now. (TechSpot)
  
  Chrome 100 has 29 security vulnerabilities, six of them considered serious.
  
  
  

• Heroku got hacked. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  A month ago.
  
  And is telling customers to reset their passwords now.
  
  
  
• Connie Willis, call your lawyers. (Thurrott.com)
  
  Though in her novel Remake, the primary use of CGI was to edit out cigarettes and alcohol from old movies, not to edit in product placement for new ones.
  
  Casablanca, now sponsored by Red Bull.
  
  
  
• Script your web pages using Python. (DevClass)
  
  Because what could go wrong using a language with significant indenting in an environment that eats indenting?
  
  
  
• The new Mushkin Delta is a mediocre QLC SSD hat you should probably avoid. (Tom's Hadware)
  
  It's not DRAMless at least; it's not a complete disaster. And if you're upgrading from a spinning drive it will be insanely fast. But it can't keep up with its PCIe 4 interface, so you're better off going with a TLC PCIe 3 drive at the same price.
  
  
  
• Prism's Sara Nagare got 45,000 viewers watching her watch villagers wander around in a standalone Minecraft server unless she didn't. (Reddit)
  
  I was watching for a bit while I worked early this morning. Don't know what happened, but her usual 80 or so viewers shot up into the tens of thousands and stayed there, and the video got over 5000 likes while it was live.
  
  
  

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