Daily Tech News 30 October

• A Russian court has reportedly fined Google $20,541,679,800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 for blocking 17 Russian TV channels. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Which used to be a lot.

• Apple's new Mac Mini - which is actually mini - is here, including an M4 Pro model. (9to5Mac)
  
  As with everything Apple makes, it is locked down forever at the time of purchase, and selecting larger memory and storage options is ruinously expensive.
  
  But at least this one supports up to 64GB of RAM.
  
  The 2024 models measure 5" square, similar to other mini-PCs, and much smaller than the previous 8" square models.
  
  
  
• AMD's 9800X3D, due out next week, is 25% faster than its predecessor on productivity benchmarks. (WCCFTech)
  
  The X3D models are optimised for games and are generally slower than the regular models for serious work, but AMD seems to have managed to reverse that in this case: It's also 10% faster than the comparable current-generation 9700X.
  
  
  
• The Verge is having a normal day to end all normal days: A vote for Trump is a vote for school shootings and measles. (The Verge)
  
  It's particularly impressive how the article includes a chart showing school shootings soaring under the Biden-Harris administration, not Trump's.
  
  
  
• Oops. Oopsie. There's been a local privilege escalation bug in the X.Org window server (that manages desktops on Linux) for 18 years. (Phoronix)
  
  Another very good reason not to run it on servers.
  
  If you needed one.
  
  
  
• 25% of Google's new code is written by AI. (The Verge)
  
  Another very good reason to move away from Google as fast as you can.
  
  If you needed one.
  
  
  

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