Daily Tech News 29 April 2024

• What happens to TikTok? (The Verge)
  
  The author of this article is either delusional or drunk, but in any case, the answer is it dies and is forgotten within a week.
  
  
  

• MongoDB CEO Dev Ittycheria talks AI hype and database evolution. (Tech Crunch)
  
  To clarify: He says that AI is mostly hype:

  "My life has not been transformed by AI," he said. "Yes, maybe I can write an email better through all those assistants, but it's not fundamentally transformed my life. Whereas the internet has completely transformed my life."

  In fact, most of what he says here is refreshingly sensible:

  "There's probably like 17 different types of databases, and probably about 300 vendors," Ittycheria said. "There's no customer on this planet that wants to have 17 different databases. The complexity that creates, and the cost of learning, supporting and managing those different technologies becomes overwhelming. It also inhibits innovation, because it creates this tax of complexity."

  I'm still meh on MongoDB's license structure, but I recognise the necessity to prevent Amazon simply draining their blood and discarding the lifeless husk.
  
  
  
• Huawei's Pura 70 contains SMIC 7nm technology, and also unicorn farts. (The Register)
  
  SMIC doesn't have 7nm technology. It has 14nm with multi-patterning.
  
  
  
• The US is reviewing the risks of China gaining a lead in RISC-V technology. (Reuters)
  
  I'm sure they are, but it's irrelevant. RISC-V is an open standard; anyone can create their own implementations of it.
  
  If you don't like that, build something better yourself.
  
  
  
• American Airlines still hasn't properly fixed its Y2K problems. (BBC)
  
  A 101-year-old frequent flier keeps being assigned a baby seat.

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