Daily Tech News 11 August 2023

• LK-99 might not be a superconductor at all - let alone at room temperature - which is odd because one of the things that has been confirmed is that it works as a superconductor at least at liquid nitrogen temperatures. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  What's going on? It looks like the pure material may not be a superconductor, and its behaviour is very dependent on impurities. Which lines up with recent theoretical analyses.
  
  The original lab in Korea is now providing samples of their own material to independent researchers, so the story is likely to resolve itself one way or another in the next couple of weeks.

• The Doogee T20mini is an 8.4" Android tablet with a 1920x1200 screen, an adequate CPU (two A75 cores and six A55 cores, all at 1.6GHz), 4GB of RAM, 128GB of storage, a microSD slot, and a headphone jack, running on Android 13. (Notebook Check)
  
  List price is $265 but it's available for pre-order at $135, shipping next week.
  
  Googles "doogee malware".
  
  Well, fuck.
  
  Do not want.
  
  
  
• Twitter is close to break even. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Before Elon Musk bought the company, it was losing $4 million per day on average.
  
  After he took over, advertisers fled fearing a backlash from leftist lunatics who don't buy their products anyway, and despite massive cost savings from firing its own horde of leftist lunatics, the company was still losing money.
  
  Tech Crunch is skeptical about all this when they post every press release in existence verbatim, because, well, they are also leftist lunatics.
  
  
  
• Samsung has announced 256TB SSDs. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Not much information about the exact specs, because (a) Samsung doesn't seem to have said and (b) none of the images in the article will load because the SSL certificate for the CDN has expired.

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