Daily Tech News 28 October 2022

• This bird has flown.
  
  

  the bird is freed

  — Elon Musk (@elonmusk) October 28, 2022

  
  
  
  
• Elon Musk has taken charge at Twitter. (CNBC)
  
  Out immediately are hapless CEO Parag Agrawal, who made drugged-out hippie Jack Dorsey look like Steve Jobs by comparison; CFO Ned Segal, whose only talent appears to be losing billions of dollars; and vapidly vicious Chief Inquisitor Vijaya Gadde, whose appearance against Tim Pool on the Joe Rogan podcast showed that she is incapable of anything beyond repeating leftist talking points.
  
  Not just fired, but escorted out of the building by security. (The Verge)
  
  The entire Twitburo is in the process of being defenestrated.
  

• The lunatics at Ars Technica are taking this news with all the considered solemnity of a badger with its nose on fire. (Ars Technica)
  
  Trying to paint Twitter's senior management as sages and heroes. It's not polite to laugh at the mentally ill, but sometimes you just can't help it.
  
  
  
• There's a new critical vulnerability in OpenSSL. (ZDNet)
  
  A patch will be out soon.
  
  If you have been sitting on older, stable versions of Linux, like Ubuntu 20.04 or RedHat 8, you can continue to do so, because the bug is only in the latest releases.
  
  
  
• Intel shares are down 3% after the company reported a quarterly profit of $1 billion. (AnandTech)
  
  Same quarter last year the profit was $6.8 billion, so investors are understandably unimpressed. But it's better than last quarter, when the company lost half a billion.
  
  
  
• Two cents worth of solder vs. a $1600 graphics card. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Just don't buy a 4090 right now.
  
  

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