Daily Tech News 20 May 2023

• OpenAI has launched an official ChatGPT app for iOS. (Tech Crunch)
  
  
  
• Apple has banned the use of ChatGPT internally because it leaks confidential information. (Tech Crunch)
  
  The water is perfectly safe to drink.
  
  For you.
  
  I'm not touching the stuff.

• A review of the Asus Flashstor 12 Pro. (Serve the Home)
  
  This lets you take up to twelve cheap M.2 SSDs and run them at about 2% of their potential speed. That's still a transfer rate of 800MB per second, which is close to the capacity of 10Gb Ethernet, but it's designed to be cheap and convenient, not to deliver the full potential of the SSDs.
  
  Write speed with RAID-5 was even worse, in some cases as low as 250MB per second, though that might have been due to the choice of DRAMless QLC drives, which are notably poor performers under sustained write loads.
  
  Still it should be just fine for home / small office storage, with the ability to start small and add more SSDs over time. Other solutions with similar capacities live in another price bracket entirely.
  
  
  
• Speaking of DRAMless QLC drives, the Sabrent Rocket Q 2230 is one. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The notable feature here is that it comes in a 2TB capacity and fits inside a Steam Deck, Asus Ally, or for people with jobs, recent Microsoft Surface models. Price for the 2TB model is $220, which is as much as some 4TB full-size M.2 drives but a heck of a lot cheaper than Microsoft's official price for upgrading to a 2TB Surface.
  
  
  
• Speaking of the Steam Deck, if you're generally happy with yours but envious of the Ally's 1080p screen and better colour gamut you can now have that for $99. (Deck HD)
  
  Or will soon be able to. Assuming you have a steady hand, because while replacing the screen in a Steam Deck is something that you can do, it's a 43-step process.
  
  
  
• Curse you DeSantis probably: Disney is removing dozens of TV shows and movies from its Disney+ and Hulu streaming services because of those evil Nazis in Florida and totally not because the company is bleeding cash from every orifice. (The Verge)
  
  Disney's financial troubles are so obvious that The Verge doesn't even try to pin the blame on outside causes here.
  
  
  
• Asus has apologised for remotely crashing every Asus router in the world with a bad automated update even if you had turned off automated updates. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Oops, our bad.
  
  At least they didn't brick the devices. Which is something that has happened.

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