Daily Tech News 26 November 2024

• Do Not Stab: Google has released an update to the Google App for iOS that... Inserts Google Search links into third-party web sites. (9to5Google)
  
  There isn't even a Do Not Stab header for this one:

  The feature, Google says, will offer an opt-out for website owners through a form. It's pointed out by SERoundTable that opting out can take up to 30 days, while the feature is live now.

  Thanks Google.
  
  
  
• Both sides of the Google antitrust case blathered incoherently in closing arguments. (New York Times) (archive site)
  
  Can't they both lose?

• I bought myself a Terramaster D8 which is a small, cheap, and fairly dumb hybrid storage box.
  
  It holds 4 x 3.5" drives and 4 x M.2 NVMe SSDs, attached over 10Gb USB. So it's much faster than my old Synology boxes, but it only does RAID-0 and RAID-1 and even that only on the first two drives. You want to configure that on the system it's attached to.
  
  But it is cheap; I paid about $250 including tax and shipping, and you are not getting an 8-bay 10Gb Synology solution for that.
  
  
  
• On the other hand, QNAP. (The Register)
  
  They issued a timely software update.
  
  It bricked users' devices.
  
  
  
• Amazon's new Kindle Colorsoft is kind of good except kind of not. (The Verge)
  
  It's a 7" colour e-ink device with a resolution of 300 dpi, which is pretty good, and 4096 colours, which is tragic for an LCD but again pretty good for e-ink.
  
  But in colour mode the resolution is cut in half taking it from pretty good territory to pretty bad.
  
  And while Amazon claims a battery life of 8 weeks on a charge, that assumes that you barely use the device; the reviewer estimated it will last for 20 hours of actual reading. Which again, is not bad, but is a lot less than 8 weeks.
  
  Also it doesn't seem to be available in Australia.
  
  
  
• Teamgroup has announced a 16TB external SSD. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's basically the size of a 2.5" external hard drive, probably because it's a 2.5" SSD in a metal box, only it stores more, runs ten times faster, is a lot more robust, and costs an estimated $2000.
  
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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