Daily Tech News 1 November 2024

• Microsoft will be offering a one year $30 support plan for users who are reluctant to move from Windows 10. (PC World)
  
  Microsoft has its own page on this, but it is almost entirely trying desperately to persuade users to just switch to Windows 11; it's hard to even spot the support plan.
  
  And unlike the business version of extended support, this will last for a single year, after which you will be cut off and left to install Linux.
  
  On the upside:

  Microsoft will also continue to provide Security Intelligence Updates for Microsoft Defender Antivirus through at least October 2028.

  Which is really all I want. Just leave me alone, stop screwing things up, and keep blocking viruses.

• In other good news Windows Recall has been delayed yet again. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  This is the update that collects all your most important private data - including things like readable passwords - in one convenient place for anyone to steal.
  
  
  
• Amazon workers are still complaining about being told to come to work. (Ars Technica)
  
  What part of "work" do you not understand?
  
  
  
• For the third quarter Intel has posted a loss of $16.6 billion on revenues of $13.3 billion. (The Register)
  
  That's a net margin of -125%.
  
  That's not at operating loss, though, but an accounting loss, taking charges for severance packages for the 15,000 employees being laid off, and writing down deferred tax assets whatever that means. (I understand accounting. US corporate tax law is a foreign country.)
  
  
  
• What sank the Bayesian superyacht that sank in a storm in Italy? (New York Times) (archive site)
  
  A storm. In Italy.
  
  
  

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