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October 16, 2024

Daily Tech News 16 October 2024

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Again with the Torquemada: The president of the Minneapolis Federal Reserve has explained that nobody buys anything with Bitcoin (because the government makes it as difficult as possible) and it's a lousy hedge against inflation, having gained just, um, 1000% against the dollar over the last five years. (WCCFTech)
Of course, Kashkari is on record for stating elsewhere that there is an "infinite amount of cash at the Federal Reserve."
Right.

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SpaceX is working on plans to boost Starlink to gigabit speeds. (Notebook Check)

This will be done using the Gen2 satellites the company started launching last year, that will also provide direct-to-satellite phone service once that is approved by ground-based authorities.
If you're still annoyed with Apple unilaterally reducing the lifetime of SSL certificate from five years to one, good news: The company plans to reduce it further to just 45 days. (The Register)

This would completely kill manual installation of SSL certificates. Nobody has time for that.
SSD prices are expected to start declining again as nobody continues to buy the hot new AI PCs. (Tom's Hardware)

Good news. Prices haven't increased that much since manufacturers slowed production anyway, though the very cheapest sale prices have dried up.
Apple has announced a new iPad mini. (9to5Mac)

The CPU is upgraded from the A15 to the A17 chip. Apart from that, it's the same, with the same 1000% markup on storage prices.

Disclaimer: It do be like that sometimes. D-5, unless you count X, in which case D-0.

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