Daily Tech News 17 March 2024

• As many as 5.8 million US children could be suffering from Munchausen's Syndrome by Proxy, a.k.a your mom should take up day drinking and leave you alone. (CBS)
  
  "Long COVID" does not exist. There is such a thing as post-viral syndrome, where vague symptoms persists long after the specific symptoms of the disease, because viruses mess you up.
  
  But COVID is no different there from the flu, or indeed from a cold. What this "study" is measuring is that 5.8 million US children either (a) don't want to go to school, (b) have mothers who seriously need a hobby, or (c) both.

• The Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Fold 16 2024 is actually good. (The Verge)
  
  I don't know what the specs are because the review focuses almost entirely on the screen, but then the device is almost entirely screen, so that kind of makes sense.
  
  Folded up with the keyboard in place the screen is about 12" diagonally. Unfolded it's a 16" 2560x2024 display, and great for artists since it's pen-enabled.
  
  Problem, as usual, is that it costs around $3000.
  
  
  
• The LinkedIn app is adding games, because... It just is. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Okay, I guess.
  
  
  
• If you were watching the VMWare mess and feeling glad your company chose Citrix well there's bad news on the way for you as well. (The Register)
  
  Now that the competition has destroyed itself, Citrix is doubling its pricing.
  
  
  
• Get noted, commies. (Newsweek)
  
  China posted to Twitter arguing against the proposed forced divestiture of TikTok.
  
  They got hit with a community note pointing out that TikTok is banned in China.
  
  And despite claims that TikTok is not controlled by the Chinese government as a spying operation, that same government says it would rather shut the whole thing down than permit it to be sold.
  
  
  
• NASA's old supercomputers are causing mission delays. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  What missions?
  
  
  
• Twelve years later, the game Star Citizen is approaching 1.0. (WCCFTech)
  
  The game was formerly infamous for raising half a billion dollars while still in beta, but it took about a decade to do that and Palworld just did the same thing in under two months.
  
  So... New normal, I guess?
  
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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