Daily Tech News 17 October 2023

• Proposed legislation in New York would require a background check to buy any 3d printer capable of producing gun components, which is to say, any 3d printer at all. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Other proposed legislation in the People's Democratic Republic would ban manufacturing guns by any means (protected by the Second Amendment) and ban the sharing of firearm designs (protected by the First Amendment).
  
  There's one token socialist in the comments on that article, but mostly they seem pretty sensible.

• Intel has launched its 14th generation desktop chips. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  These are its 13th generation desktop chips.
  
  Except for the the 14700K, which has 4 extra "efficiency" cores when compared to the 13700K, they have only minor clock speed increases to go with the price increases.
  
  
  
• Cities Skylines 2 arrives next week and the hardware recommendations are "all of it". (WCCFTech)
  
  A 12600K or 5800X CPU, and a 3080 or 6800 XT or higher.
  
  The minimum requirements are much lower, but you might not have a good time.
  
  To be fair, the original game came out in 2015 and received its last major update in May, and is still perfectly playable if you want to wait a couple of years for high-end graphics cards to become more affordable.
  
  
  
• Sam Bankman-Fried's "effective altruism" consisted of stealing money, bribing people, and setting the rest on fire. (Washington Post)
  
  Not sure exactly what effect was intended there.
  
  
  
• Bandcamp - which was in the process of unionizing - has been hastily sold by owner Epic Games and laid off half its staff. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Bandcamp seems to be (or have been) popular with indie musicians, but when tech companies unionise, destruction follows.
  
  
  
• The neighbour of the beast: LinkedIn is firing another 668 employees. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Oddly specific.
  
  
  
• Micron has a new range of "mainstream" SSDs - the 7500. (Serve the Home)
  
  These are U.3 drives for servers, meaning you need a cheap adaptor cable or PCIe card to plug them into a desktop PC. But if you need a lot of storage, an 8TB enterprise drive like this is actually cheaper than an 8TB M.2 drive, and not much more than a pair of budget 4TB models.
  
  (U.3 drives are backwards-compatible and will work in U.2 drive bays and adapters, but the reverse is not true.)

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