Daily Tech News 6 November 2022

• The White House - note how they say "the White House" or "the Biden team" because Biden himself is out there telling Pennsylvania he's planning to destroy its major industries - is pushing to get its antitrust legislation through the lame duck session of Congress before the Republicans show up with the orange sauce. (Bloomberg / Yahoo News)
  
  Why do they think the bill still has a chance?

  Advocates have criticized the White House for failing to prioritize the legislation, which major tech companies have spent more than $100 million to defeat. Alphabet's Google, Amazon, Apple and Meta all oppose the bill.

  That's why.

• A look at the Asus ROG Crosshair X670E Hero Gold Ultimate Edition 2.1 Pro. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's an expensive board but it has every possible feature except 10Gb Ethernet. I'm considering it for my new system. It's more than I really want to spend, but all the alternatives are missing something I want.
  
  
  
• Intel wants to rent you your next server CPU. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Sapphire Rapids has a lot of special-purpose accelerator hardware built in, but the plan is to have it disabled and to charge a license fee to enable it. This is a long-time IBM strategy, but with AMD eating Intel's lunch in the commodity server space, Intel is handing them a chance to eat their dinner as well.
  
  
  
• A team at BYU has developed a new molten salt mini-reactor that can fit in a standard shipping container. (BYU)
  
  And a side benefit of the design is that it generates molybdenum-99, used in specialised medical imaging, which sells for $30 million per gram.
  
  Which used to be a lot.
  
  
  
• While everyone's attention has been distracted by the carnage at Twitter other tech companies have been quietly sharpening the knives themselves. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Lyft fired 13% of its staff, Stripe 14%, Opendoor 18%, and Chime 12%.
  
  Meanwhile Apple and Amazon have quietly instituted hiring freezes.
  
  Looks like the commies defenestrated from Twit Central aren't going to have a soft landing anywhere.

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