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NEWS SOURCES:

 

STARTING OFF ON THE WRONG TRACK

Apple tracking when it says it isn’t; lawsuit ensues

https://gizmodo.com/apple-iphone-analytics-tracking-even-when-off-app-store-1849757558

https://twitter.com/mysk_co/status/1588308341780262912

Video from Mysk (the tweet publishers): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8JxvH80Rrcw

https://www.macrumors.com/2022/11/14/apple-class-action-user-tracking-allegations/

Apple’s famous “1984” commercial: https://youtu.be/VtvjbmoDx-I

Time stamped to the quote: https://youtu.be/VtvjbmoDx-I?t=54

https://mashable.com/article/apple-data-privacy-collection-lawsuit

https://techcrunch.com/2022/11/14/apple-faces-new-lawsuit-over-its-data-collection-practices-in-first-party-apps-like-the-app-store/

 

YOU GUYS SAW THE PRICE, RIGHT?

4080 Selling out

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/nvidia-rtx-4080-sold-out-within-one-hour

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CunGt3cQXc

Review of FE https://www.ign.com/articles/nvidia-geforce-rtx-4080-16gb-founders-edition-review

Microcenter https://www.microcenter.com/search/search_results.aspx

 

I WANT TO WRITE ABOUT SOMETHING ELSE

More Twitter shenanigans

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/15/23461244/twitter-blue-relaunch-verification-elon-musk

https://www.androidauthority.com/twitter-sms-2fa-3234698/

scraping Slack channels for criticism https://twitter.com/caseynewton/status/1592539948745650176

https://www.cnbc.com/2022/11/15/musk-fires-twitter-engineers-after-critical-posts-on-twitter-and-slack.html

But Elon may actually manage to improve Twitter in ONE way at least – end-to-end encryption

https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1592721308479291397

 

QUICK BITS

 

THEY SHOULD BILL GATES FOR THIS

Microsoft pledges annual harassment report after oopsies uncovered

https://www.businessinsider.in/tech/enterprise/news/a-review-of-microsofts-sexual-harassment-policies-found-it-could-have-acted-earlier-to-address-executive-misconduct-alleged-in-insider-report/articleshow/95542329.cms

https://www.pcgamer.com/microsoft-pledges-annual-harassment-report-after-audit-sparked-by-complaints-and-bill-gates-allegations/

https://www.nytimes.com/2021/05/16/business/bill-melinda-gates-divorce-epstein.html

 

AT LEAST THEY KNOW WHAT TO LOOK FOR

Ubisoft and Riot Games team up against toxic chats

https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/16/23460869/ubisoft-riot-games-toxic-chat-zero-harm-in-comms

 

CPU IN COURT

Intel Copyright infringement

https://hothardware.com/news/intel-loses-cpu-patent-lawsuit-ordered-pay-nearly-1-billion

 

WHY IS NO ONE HAVING A GOOD TIME? I SPECIFICALLY REQUESTED IT

Microsoft releases Minesweeper, Solitaire, and others on Microsoft Teams for “team-building”?

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/blog/2022/11/16/build-connections-with-games-for-work-a-new-microsoft-teams-app/

 

NEED MORE SPACE?

EU considering launching data centers into SPACE

https://www.theregister.com/2022/11/16/datacenter_orbit/

https://www.thalesgroup.com/en/global/activities/space