Daily Tech News 3 October 2024

• Eric Adams' phone pleads the Fifth. (The Verge)
  
  The FBI obtained two of the New York mayor's phones under a warrant served almost a year ago, but they still haven't managed to access any data.
  
  Adams changed the password after the warrant was served - to prevent staff from deleting information that was required for the investigation, he says - and then promptly forgot it.
  
  
  
• The Amelia Watson Hyte Y40 PC limited edition PC case is winging its way toward me as we speak. Or as I write and you read. Or trucking its way.
  
  The shipment of Calliope Mori Hyte Y40 limited edition PC cases to Australia disappeared into the Nether, so I broke down and finally ordered it directly from the US, exorbitant shipping and all.
  
  The site took my money and then promptly crashed, because of course it did.

• The TerraMaster F8 SSD Plus is an 8 slot M.2 NAS with 10Gb Ethernet. (Serve the Home)
  
  It competes with Asus' Flashtor models, which come in 6 and 12 slot versions, but has more oomph. The 8 core N305 CPU is more than twice as fast as the older 4 core model in the Asus unit.
  
  It's a bit fiddly to install and the operating system is meh, but it can deliver a steady 9Gbps over the network.
  
  
  
• If you run a Zimbra server which you probably don't it's time you patched it. (Ars Technica)
  
  Nasty exploit in the wild.
  
  
  
• The modern economy rests on a single road in North Carolina. (Twitter)
  
  The Spruce Pine quartz mine - the source of the purest natural quartz in the world - supplies critical materials used in every single leading-edge chip manufacturing plant.
  
  
  
• That road is gone. (Axios)
  
  It's not known when the mine might reopen.

  "This is second order of priority," The Quartz Corp said in a statement. "Our top priority remains the health and safety of our employees and their families."

  
  
  
• Cerebras - maker of the world's largest AI chips - is filing for an IPO. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  A single Cerebras chip is the size of a dinner plate and contains 900,000 cores.

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