Daily Tech News 30 August 2024

• Tomas de Torquemada, a justice on Brazil's Supreme Federal Court, stepped up his personal vendetta against Twitter by issuing an order - a secret order, because it's what he does - freezing Starlink's finances in Brazil and banning the company from conducting any kind of financial transaction in the country. (Twitter)
  
  The aim is clearly to shut down Starlink in the country which would be awkward because it provides critical services for remote schools and hospitals and Brazil's own military.
  
  Elon Musk has responded by... Making Starlink free for existing customers in Brazil.
  
  

• X has been "caught" warning that links to NPR could be unsafe for human consumption. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Not seeing the problem here.
  
  
  
• There's a bug in the RP2350 A0 chip affecting the internal pull-up resistors on the I/O lines (except the dedicated QSPI and USB lines). (Liliputing)
  
  There's a software fix (resetting the I/O buffer as needed to clear the voltage on that pin), a hardware fix (adding external pull-down resistors to compensate) and a lazy bugger fix (just wait for updated A3 or B0 chips to ship).
  
  
  
• There's also a Linux distribution that runs on the Pi Pico 2 and RP2350. (Liliputing)
  
  It's not an off-the-shelf release since the Pico 2 / RP2350 only includes 520k of RAM and supports a maximum of 16MB, and also lacks a memory management unit, but it's Linux nonetheless.
  
  
  
• Elasticsearch is open source again. (Elastic)
  
  Pretty much. It's AGPL, which depending on your use case may or may not be viable.
  
  
  
• A judge has rejected most of the copyright claims against GitHub in a lawsuit regarding the Copilot AI assistant. (Developer Tech)
  
  Because, in short, the claims were bullshit.
  
  
  
• Intel's upcoming Lunar Lake laptop CPUs will also have much improved graphics performance. (WCCFTech)
  
  Faster than AMD's previous generation, but slower than the current generation.
  
  That's still pretty good.
  
  
  
• MSI is offering a BIOS option to run AMD's 9700X at 105W. (Hot Hardware)
  
  That's the same power as the previous generation 7700X, and gives the 9700X an additional 13% performance on multi-threaded tasks.
  
  
  
• California has declared that AI causes cancer. (Ars Technica)
  
  The AI companies and California deserve each other.

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