Daily Tech News 5 March 2024

• Apple has launched the new M3 Macbook Air, starting at $1099. (AnandTech)
  
  For that price you get 8GB of RAM and 256GB of SSD, neither of which can be upgraded. Apple would pay less than $10 for each of those components.

• Gartner predicts that search engine volume will drop 25% by 2026 due to competition from AI agents and the fact that search engines are fast becoming useless. (Gartner)
  
  I don't really have a solution to that.
  
  
  
• The EU has fined Apple $2 billion over its restrictive app store practices. (The Verge)
  
  This isn't related to the current mess; this is following a 2020 investigation under rules in place since 2006.
  
  Apple is seriously pissy about this.
  
  
  
• You will own nothing and we don't much care if you like it: if you own a Roku device, well, you don't. (Cord Cutters)
  
  Roku has announced new mandatory terms of service and if you don't agree to them, your TV will spontaneously turn into a pumpkin.
  
  
  
• AWS has gone nuclear. (Datacenter Dynamics)
  
  Pretty literally. AWS has bought a datacenter right next to the Susquehanna nuclear power plant.
  
  
  
• A look at QNAP's TBS-h574TX solid-state combined NAS/DAS thingy. (Serve the Home)
  
  It has 2.5Gb and 10Gb Ethernet and two Thunderbolt 4 ports, and you can use it simultaneously over the network and and with a directly-attached laptop or two.
  
  Being entirely SSD-based it has no trouble filling that 10Gb Ethernet connection, but it also costs $1199 without any drives - just five bays that can take common M.2 drives or E1.S server drives.
  
  Asus' Flashstor 12 Pro has fewer features, but it has 12 M.2 slots and 10Gb Ethernet, and costs $799.

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