Daily Tech News 25 August 2024

• Pavel Durov, founder and CEO of messaging app Telegram, has been arrested in Paris on charges of... Fuck charges, he's a libertarian and this is France. (Ars Technica)
  
  Durov founded Russian social network VKontake before resigning because... We don't know exactly, but allegedly because the Russian government had assumed de facto control of the company, wanted him gone, and wasn't too fussy about how he left. China subsequently banned VKontakte as a tool of the Russian government, but China bans everyone.
  
  Ars' creative director Aurich Lawson - who personally suspended my account once for pointing out the site's rampant hypocrisy - noted:

  I'm pretty curious to see how this plays out. Is it really as simple as "you ran a platform where you didn't moderate private messages, therefore you're criminally responsible for everything people said"?
  
  Because that seems pretty chilling on the face of things.

  Do tell, Mr. Lawson.
  
  It's time to start treating Europe like North Korea. If you go there, assume that you are not coming home intact.

• NASA has finally made a decision. (WCCFTech)
  
  Butch and Suni will be coming home on SpaceX's Crew Dragon, after tests of another Starliner module showed similar but not identical failures in the attitude control thrusters.
  
  A second Crew Dragon module will be sent up to dock with the ISS next month - there is one docked permanently as a lifeboat - with two additional crew onboard. The return trip is planned for February next year.
  
  
  
• Do you have a laptop, mini-PC, or all-in-one desktop that handles your computing needs just fine but you need more storage - and want to stick with an all solid-state solution - and you need something fast and don't want to mess about with NAS hardware and USB 10Gb Ethernet adapters?
  
  Yes?
  
  The TB4S-OC from Aoostar may be what you need. (Liliputing)
  
  The price is reasonable at $179, and it supports four M.2 drives. Connection to your computer is by USB4 at 40Gbps or OCuLink at 64Gbps if you have that (basically PCIe over a cable).
  
  You will need a USB4, Thunderbolt, or OCuLink port. Internally it's just a PCIe switch, so it does not work at all with generic USB ports.
  
  
  
• Always wanted your own mainframe? Christie's has an IBM 7090 on offer right now. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Price is expected to be in the area of $50,000. Plus shipping, which could add up because it weighs 23,000 lbs.

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