Daily Tech News 9 June 2024

• With a successful suborbital test flight of Starship under his belt, Elon Musk is turning his attention to the Starfactory. (Space)
  
  Starfactory, already under construction, is planned to be able to build a Starship - the largest and most powerful rocket ever launched - every day.
  
  And keep in mind that both Starship and the Super Heavy booster with its 33 engines are fully reusable. So that's multiple launches per day.
  
  He's the main character in an old-school Heinlein novel.

• A court-appointed administrator for failed fintech startup Synapse has found $85 million of customer funds aren't. (CNBC) (archive site)
  
  Aren't what?
  
  Just aren't. Aren't funds. Aren't there. Aren't accounted for.
  
  Since Synapse was a middle-man between banks and other startups that needed financial services, its failure means that customers - both companies contracting Synapse and their customers in turn - currently have no access to funds even though the banks are solvent and the accounts are FDIC insured.
  
  But the fact that a third of the money simply seems to be gone makes things even more complicated.
  
  
  
• The DOJ has indicted the developers of a tool that let people spend Bitcoin without the government monitoring them. (Reason)
  
  You know, like you can still do - for now - with cash.
  
  The government hates that.
  
  
  
• For 13 years, Siri has sucked. Now with the AI bubble in maximum inflation mode, Apple is set to make it worse. (The Verge)
  
  Okay.
  
  
  
• What Snowflake isn't saying about its massive data breach. (Tech Crunch)
  
  What Snowflake is saying is that this is entirely the fault of its customers.
  
  For being silly enough to trust their data with Snowflake.
  
  
  
• Six people have been hospitalised after eating Diamon Shruumz brand chocolate bars. (Ars Technica)
  
  Which contain - as you might have guessed - psychedelic mushrooms.

  The chocolate bars are still available for sale online but the FDA said that consumers should not eat, sell, or serve them, you idiots.

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