Daily Tech News 31

• If you were waiting for an RTX 5090 or 5080 - which you weren't if you've been reading the reviews - they're gone. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Micro Center is sold out of both cards at all stores, though they only had 233 5090s in the entire country. Taiwan, where the chips are made, received an allotment of just 84.
  
  In Australia, meanwhile, there aren't any. Not that many people care with a starting price of A$4000 for the cheapest model.
  
  The 5080 - half the price for a chip half the size with half the memory - is more plentiful in the sense that there were a lot more for sale initially. It is also completely sold out.

• Contec health monitoring devices are sending your information to China. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Though why they are doing that is a good question.
  
  When notified, Contec provided a series of firmware updates to resolve the problem.
  
  None of the updates actually fixed anything.
  
  
  
• Apple announced a quarterly profit of $36 billion on sales of $124 billion. (Mac Rumors)
  
  Which used to be a lot.
  
  
  
• Google offered its Pixel/Android/Chrome software team voluntary redundancy after it smooshed them all together. (Tech Crunch)
  
  The last significant advance in Android was in 6.0's storage updates, so I'm not overly fussed if they all leave.
  
  
  
• The Pentagon is moving to block Chinese spyware DeepSeek after workers - who should all be fired immediately - connected to it from their work computers at work. (Tech Crunch)
  
  What?
  
  
  
• Italy has blocked DeepSeek entirely. (Reuters)
  
  The country's regulators asked what data the company kept about its users and whether it is stored in China, which we know for a fact it is because the servers weren't secured at all and people were able to log in and download it, and the answers were "considered to totally insufficient".

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