Daily Tech News 27 October 2024

• Are Boeing's problems beyond fixable? (Financial Times / Ars Technica)
  
  Probably not.
  
  They do need to ditch their space division, though. Find a buyer or just shut it down. Unless the government starts handing out cost plus contracts like candy again, it's a money pit for them.

• Intel's new Arrow Lake CPUs on motherboards with Intel's new Z890 chipset running Microsoft's new 24H2 update to Windows 11 with their integrated graphics don't. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  If you want to do that, you need to update your BIOS. Or disable the integrated graphics and plug in a video card. Or stick with a previous edition of Windows that works.
  
  The last option is likely safest, because this is not the first major problem to have arisen with 24H2 on specific hardware. There are known SSD models that work perfectly well on previous Windows versions that cause Blue Screens of Death on the latest update.
  
  
  
• UnitedHealth has confirmed that medical and billing records for several customers were exposed during a ransomware attack on Change Healthcare back in May. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Where several turns out the be one hundred million. Roughly.
  
  What's more, when Change paid the ransom - believed to be $22 million - the intermediary stole the money and stiffed the hackers, leading to the data being leaked anyway until Change paid the ransom again.
  
  The attack caused an estimated $2.45 billion in losses for Change.
  
  
  
• Bounty hunters. Just saying.
  
  
  
• An energy company founded by the CEO of Atlassian plans to build a 6GW solar power plant in northern Australia - good place for it - and supply 2GW of that to Singapore. (Reuters)
  
  The article doesn't mention the exact location, but assuming this is the north end of Western Australia (which is a desert) and not the north end of Queensland (rainforest) or the north end of the Northern Territory (swamp) it seems like a good plan.
  
  Plans are to also supply power to Indonesia in the future. That's a lot closer than Singapore, but either is closer to that part of Western Australia than is Sydney.
  
  
  
• The US government bought a tool that can track phones at abortion clinics. (404 Media) (archive site)
  
  If that seems oddly specific, your suspicions are correct. It can track mobile phones anywhere. The writers of this piece don't care about wholesale unconstitutional violations of privacy, though. They only care about abortion.
  
  
  
• Orion could be OpenAI's game changing model. (Hot Hardware)
  
  No it couldn't.

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