Daily Tech News 22 September 2023

• Cisco is acquiring Splunk in a $28 billion deal. (Bloomberg)
  
  If you were thinking Elon Musk overpaid for Twitter - and he did - then rest assured that the market hasn't come to its senses.
  
  What is Splunk? I was under the impression that it was a log aggregation tool, which would never be worth $28 billion.
  
  It is.
  
  
  

• CNLabel Contact Relation Younger Cousin
  Mothers Siblings Daughter Or Fathers Sisters Daughter (Apple)
  
  This is a constant in iOS for localisation. What the hell it localises to I have no idea.
  
  (Parses...)
  
  It means your youngest female first cousin, excepting for some reason daughters of your father's brothers.
  
  There is a language out there that has a word for that.
  
  
  
• Rishi Sunak defies critics and presses on with "Net Zero" U-turn. (The Guardian)
  
  What this garbled headline means is that the Prime Minister of Britain has told the "Net Zero" death cult to get knotted and is acting in an almost sane and only partly self-destructive manner, which is the best we can hope for in Heinlein's Crazy Years.
  
  
  
• Microsoft is threatening to release an update to Windows 11 with AI shit smeared all over it. (The Verge)
  
  Even Microsoft Paint is getting an AI update.
  
  If you have Windows 11 installed, it's not too late to scrub it and replace it with Windows 10.
  
  
  
• Microsoft also announced the inadequate Surface Laptop Go 3 and the overpriced Surface Laptop Studio 2. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Neither has the Four Essential Keys.
  
  On the plus side, they're at least not shipping models with 4GB of soldered-in RAM anymore.
  
  
  
• Authors Guild sues OpenAI for using Game of Thrones and other novels to train ChatGPT. (The Register)
  
  OpenAI has countersued the Authors' Guild, saying that after reading A Game of Thrones, ChatGPT hasn't written anything for twelve years.
  
  
  
  

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