Daily Tech News 6 May 2022

• Elon Musk is not going it alone on his buyout of Twitter - Larry Ellison of Oracle is among the takeover backers chipping in a few billion. (Ars Technica)
  
  Ellison is of course just wildly popular with the kind of person panicking at the possibility of the wrong kind of people being permitted to speak, for example:

  Fuck all of those guys.

  Or:

  Funny how the most hated of Silicon Valley are in this deal. I wonder id they got trolled too much and are trying to get even.
  
  The only Twitter I read is from reporters so I have no idea first hand knowledge of how Musk and Ellison were treated.

  Clearly an expert opinion, as is this:

  Libertarian billionaires. Just the people we want controlling social media. /s

  This, but unironically.
  

• AMD has a new range of Ryzen 5000 chips for Chromebooks. (AnandTech)
  
  How are these different from the Ryzen 5000 chips for regular laptops, you might ask.
  
  They're not.
  
  
  
• If you want 8TB of PCIe 4 TLC SSD in your laptop, there's not that many options. Sabrent's Rocket 4 Plus is one. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  On the plus side, it's large and fast.
  
  On the definitely not plus side, it's $1999.
  
  
  
• Please stop disabling zoom. (Matuzo)
  
  It's my firewall and I'll disable whatever-
  
  In mobile web pages.
  
  Right, I knew that.
  
  
  
• New York state looks set to ban new crypto mining operations. (CNBC)
  
  Okay.
  
  

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