Daily Tech News 27 December 2023

• If you were looking to buy the latest Apple Watch Series 9 or Ultra 2, you can't. (Tech Crunch)
  
  I can. I don't want to, but I can. But you can't.
  
  It's been banned from sale in the US (though not Australia) over claimed patent infringement involving the light-based pulse oximetry sensor. Apple could just take the pulse oximeter out - I'm not sure how many people care about that - but until they do, or until they make headway in their appeal, they can't sell the device in the US.
  
  
  

• If you're looking for news on NASA's Artemis program, the plan to send an appropriately diverse crew to the Moon to do appropriately diverse things, using SpaceX as a launch platform because NASA is too diverse to actually do that part, good luck using a search engine. (TorrentFreak)
  
  Because all the links are getting hit with DMCA takedowns. Because while it's technically perjury to file a false DMCA takedown request, nobody has ever suffered the consequences.
  
  
  
• Intel is spending $25 billion to build a new chip factory in Israel - less a $3.25 billion grant from the Israeli government. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Intel already operates a 7nm fab in Israel; the new fab will probably produce chips at 1.8nm.
  
  
  
• Windows 11 will soon let you reinstall the operating system without wiping your files. (XDA Developers)
  
  The only problem is that after reinstalling, you'll still have Windows 11.

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