Daily Tech News 28 November 2023

• A land grab is under way in Australia for lithium mining rights. (Financial Times)
  
  For the most part it's major Australian companies blocking foreign takeovers of lithium mining startups.
  
  Despite a collapse in lithium prices, sales by Australia quadrupled in the first half of this year compared with 2022. All by itself that generated a 1% annual growth in Australia's GDP.

• The latest NAS from AOOSTAR has 6 3.5" drive bays and 6 M.2 slots, powered by a Ryzen 5800U. (Liliputing)
  
  When I saw the logo in the picture I thought it was ADDSTAR which is a not entirely terrible brand name, but no.
  
  It has two 2.5Gb and two 10Gb Ethernet ports (though the latter will probably turn out to be SFP+), HDMI and DisplayPort, and four USB ports.
  
  Price TBA.
  
  
  
• If you want something a bit smaller there's the FriendlyELEC CM3588. (Liliputing)
  
  It has a Rockchip CM3588 Arm CPU, four M.2 slots (with only one PCIe 3 lane each, but that's still 1GBps), 2.5Gb Ethernet, two HDMI outputs, and an HDMI input for... Reasons.
  
  Starts at $130 with 4GB RAM and goes up to $160 with 16GB.
  
  
  
• If you have a collection of old game consoles or home computers, but don't have a collection of old televisions or monitors, the RetroTINK-4K could be the device you need. (RetroTINK)
  
  It accepts composite, S-Video, component, analog RGB, and HDMI inputs at resolutions up to 1920x1080, plus analog and digital audio, can decode NTSC, PAL, and SECAM signals, and can capture, upscale, and resample pretty much any resolution and refresh rate up to 1080p and produce a clean 4K 60p HDMI output. If it can't automatically lock on the the weird signal coming out of your 1987 Czechoslovakian Sinclair Spectrum knock-off, it has a micro-SD slot where you can install custom profiles.
  
  There's just one tiny problem: It costs $750.
  
  
  
• The DevTernity conference has collapsed in disarray after it was discovered that the loudly promoted female speakers were fake AI personas. (404 Media)
  
  Well, duh. There are no women in tech.

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