Daily Tech News 1 June 2022

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• I got hacked and Facebook banned me. (Emily Cordes)
  
  Well, lah-di-dah. I fell down the stairs and landed hard enough that I was peeing blood for a while, but you don't see me complaining about it.
  
  Much.
  
  Anyway, either delete your Facebook account or set up two-factor authentication, or bo... No, not both, that doesn't make sense.
  
  
  

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• Intel showed off its new Sapphire Rapids Plus HBM chips, which are basically Sapphire Rapids plus HBM. (AnandTech)
  
  The CPU includes up to 64GB of RAM wired directly to the cores. With lots and lots of wires - 4096, I think.
  
  
  
• Over 3.6 million MySQL servers were found exposed on the internet. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Shame!
  
  No, actually, unlike Redis or MongoDB or Elasticsearch, all of which come without any password authentication set by default, MySQL makes you jump through flaming hoops to disable it. Possibly a widely-used but rather stupid installer.
  
  
  
• SpaceX has shown off the next generation of Starlink satellites. (Gizmodo)
  
  Starlink 2.0 satellites are five times faster and have 10 times the network capacity of the current model.
  
  Since the satellites are bigger, they need a bigger launch vehicle, which just coincidentally SpaceX also has.
  
  
  
• If you want an Apple-1, you have a chance. (9to5Mac)
  
  If you also have half a million bucks you can set on fire.
  
  The Apple-1 is the hand-made predecessor of the massively successful Apple II, and it, well, it works, I guess.
  
  Auction runs from June 2 to June 12.
  
  

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