Daily Tech News 10 September 2024

• Apple's iPhone 16 is one more than the iPhone 15. (Ars Technica)
  
  One more button.
  
  After taking the buttons away, Apple put one back.
  
  
  
• I've ordered the Calliope Mori and Amelia Watson Hyte Y40 Hololive Limited Edition cases that I've been chasing for the past year.
  
  Hyte now offers international shipping... By air. Which for something as large and heavy as a PC case costs as much as the case itself.
  
  And these are already expensive enough.
  
  The local distributor - there is only one supplier of Hyte cases in Australia - finally has them listed. Price is a straight conversion from USD to AUD (and since that includes sales tax that makes them slightly cheaper), and the shipping cost is about 10% of what Hyte wanted to deliver by UPS.

• The MSI Prestige 13 AI+ Evo is almost a good laptop. (Liliputing)
  
  It has the mid-tier Intel Ultra 7 258V, 32GB of RAM, a 1TB SSD, a 13.3" 2880x1800 OLED display, two Thunderbolt 4 ports, one USB port, HDMI, a headphone jack, a microSD slot, and two of the Four Essential Keys.
  
  So close.
  
  Also, the upcoming Lunar Lake chips are basically all identical except for one thing. If the number ends with 6, it comes with 16GB of RAM; if it ends with 8, 32GB. (The RAM is soldered on to the CPU package, the same way Apple does with all of its chips.)
  
  They all have 8 CPU cores. The cheaper models have 7 GPU cores while the more expensive ones have 8. And they all have a 37W peak TDP.
  
  There's very little point in paying for a more expensive model; just make sure you get one with enough RAM.
  
  
  
• Apache Cassandra 5.0 is here and it has indexes. (Datastax)
  
  It's a database. You might think that indexes are something a database should have long before it hits 1.0. You would be right.
  
  
  
• API complexity is a lie. (API Changelog)
  
  Horseshit. You must be trying to sell me something.

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  No. I don't think I shall.
  
  
  
• Crowdstrike hopes its customers won't sue it into oblivion. (The Register)
  
  I hope they will.

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