Could Elon Get Away With It? - July 11, 2022

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NEWS SOURCES:

 

JUST ELON FOR THE RIDE

Elon Musk officially ends his bid to buy Twitter

https://linustechtips.com/topic/1441980-elon-musk-ends-44bn-bid-to-buy-twitter/

https://www.bbc.com/news/business-62102821

Twitter hires law firm that invented poison pill https://www.cp24.com/lifestyle/technology/twitter-hires-u-s-law-firm-wachtell-to-sue-musk-after-pulling-out-of-44b-deal-reuters-sources-1.5982089

https://lmg.gg/w4w0L

https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/11/tech/elon-musk-mocks-twitter/index.html

meme https://twitter.com/elonmusk/status/1546344529460174849

https://www.axios.com/2022/07/11/the-biggest-losers-from-elon-musks-twitter-chaos

https://globalnews.ca/news/8980817/donald-trump-elon-musk-bull-artist/

might actually escapehttps://www.politico.com/news/2022/07/11/judges-force-musk-buy-twitter-00045103

ruse to sell stock? https://fortune.com/2022/07/09/how-elon-musk-bizarre-twitter-takeover-saga-could-have-just-been-a-cover-for-him-to-sell-8-billion-in-tesla-stock/

 

EVERYTHING MUST GO

GPUs in China are selling for way below MSRP (fire’s low, I’ll go chop some more GPUs)

https://wccftech.com/chinese-retailers-selling-amd-nvidia-entire-graphics-card-lineup-significantly-below-msrp-prices-drop-up-to-38-percent/

https://tieba.baidu.com/p/7917196500

slightly below in Germany/Austria https://www.3dcenter.org/image/view/15688/_original

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/gpu-pricing-index

 

NOT-SO-JOLLY-ROGER

Rogers President and CEO says outage caused by faulty “maintenance update”

https://about.rogers.com/news-ideas/a-message-from-rogers-president-and-ceo/

https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rogers-outage-interac-debit-restored-1.6515869

knocked out a quarter of Canada’s connectivity https://twitter.com/netblocks/status/1545663118218518529

some regions still affected https://www.cbc.ca/news/business/rogers-outage-day-three-1.6516279

so about that Shaw merger https://globalnews.ca/news/8981252/rogers-outage-shaw-merger-jeopardy/

 

QUICK BITS

 

MACRO SCHMACRO
Microsoft goes snip-snap-snip and plans to block Office macros by default

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2022/07/microsoft-makes-major-course-reversal-allows-office-to-run-untrusted-macros/

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/microsoft/microsoft-rolls-back-decision-to-block-office-macros-by-default/

https://techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/microsoft-365-blog/helping-users-stay-safe-blocking-internet-macros-by-default-in/ba-p/3071805/page/2

 

ARE YA WIN(DOWS 98)-IN’, SON?

Windows 98 on Xbox Series X

https://www.eurogamer.net/digitalfoundy-2022-i-installed-windows-98-on-xbox-series-x

https://www.windowscentral.com/gaming/xbox/xbox-series-xors-can-now-run-windows-98-quake-half-life-and-other-pc-classics-through-virtualization

https://80.lv/articles/digital-foundry-got-windows-98-games-running-on-xbox-series-x-s/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lrpkFuKh4CI

guide https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IcRr09Kg46o

 

TALK ABOUT INFINITE, OY

Halo Infinite co-op beta delayed

https://www.pcgamer.com/sorry-halo-infinites-campaign-co-op-beta-isnt-starting-today-after-all/

https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/halo-infinites-long-awaited-campaign-co-op-preview-arrives-this-week

https://twitter.com/ske7ch/status/1546533711818006528

https://www.polygon.com/23203994/halo-infinite-co-op-beta-release-date

 

TALK ABOUT DISRESPECT, OYYY

You have to buy an NFT to play-test Dr Disrespect’s FPS game

https://kotaku.com/dr-disrespect-nft-youtube-project-moon-midnight-society-1849164253

https://www.nme.com/news/gaming-news/dr-disrespects-studio-working-on-a-pvpve-first-person-shooter-3266260

https://midnightsociety.com/blog/roadmap-la-founders-event-and-beyond

https://www.dexerto.com/gaming/dr-disrespect-defends-midnight-societys-development-process-after-criticism-from-game-devs-1867260/

 

FAKE GAMES, REAL CHORTLES

Fake games from Steam Sale are hilarious

https://twitter.com/shoomlah/status/1545133081324990464 (DENNIS: screenshot all the images in the thread)