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Amazon's Prime Day sales are mostly a lie, with prices averaging just 0.6% lower during the company's largest sale of the year. (MSN)

Some prices are lower, some say they are lower but are the same as the usual discount offered online, while others actually increase during Prime Day sales looking for people who are too busy to price-check.

There are some bargains but they are far and few between. I did find in the latest sale that it was cheaper to buy a Bosch cordless drill with battery and charger than the battery alone.*

* So I did.

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Crimson Collective, the hacking group that recently claimed to have breached RedHat and stolen half a terabyte of customer data, now claims to have hacked Nintendo. (WCCFTech)

Such claims should not be believed without evidence, but they did in fact breach RedHat and steal half a terabyte of customer data.
Beelink's GTR9 Pro is small, quiet, fast, and expensive. (Serve the Home)

This is another of those Strix Halo desktop models - 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, 40 RDNA 3.5 graphics cores, and 128GB of soldered RAM for $1999. It comes in an aluminium case very similar to though a little smaller than the Mac Studio.

Standout feature of this one is its dual 10Gb network ports, very useful given the limited expansion options.

You can play games on it - gaming performance is around the level of a laptop RTX 4070 - but the real use case is to configure it with 96GB of graphics RAM and run local LLMs for a fraction of the cost of a professional graphics card.
If you bought into Bose SoundTouch home theater equipment, you bought a bunch of dumb speakers. (Ars Technica)

Bose has a new app. The new app doesn't work with these old products because fuck you that's why.

Rival Sonos tried to end support for older speakers and had to walk this back in the ensuring firestorm. Sonos also released a new app last year which was widely ridiculed and led to the company losing $30 million and the resignation of its CEO.

Bose seems to have slept through the entire thing.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: I didn't hear nuthin.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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I did find in the latest sale that it was cheaper to buy a Bosch cordless drill with battery and charger than the battery alone.* * So I did. Tech News Crimson Collective, the hacking group that recently claimed to have breached RedHat and stolen half a terabyte of customer data, now claims to have hacked Nintendo. (WCCFTech) Such claims should not be believed without evidence, but they did in fact breach RedHat and steal half a terabyte of customer data. Beelink's GTR9 Pro is small, quiet, fast, and expensive. (Serve the Home) This is another of those Strix Halo desktop models - 16 Zen 5 CPU cores, 40 RDNA 3.5 graphics cores, and 128GB of soldered RAM for $1999. It comes in an aluminium case very similar to though a little smaller than the Mac Studio. Standout feature of this one is its dual 10Gb network ports, very useful given the limited expansion options. 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