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Vehicles
Anyone Have A Spare $US10m Racing Yacht Mast Lying Around?
8:30AM Jack Loftus | A quick glimpse into the life of a software billionaire: When Larry Ellison’s BMW Oracle Racing yacht snapped its $US10 million mast this week, the helmsman described the event as a “minor setback”. More »
Software
Apple Kills ZFS Plans For Snow Leopard
3:00AM Chris Jacob | Don’t hold your breath for the ZFS filesystem to appear in any future Snow Leopard updates. A message yesterday on the project’s homepage very clearly acknowledges that development has stopped completely. More »
Random Stuff
Founder Of Siebel Systems Attacked By A Rampaging Elephant
8:00AM Adam Frucci | Tom Siebel, founder of Siebel Systems (which he sold to Oracle for a giant pile of money) was charged by an elephant in the Serengeti while on vacation there. Where’s your money now?! More »
Hardware
Game Over For Sun’s “Game Changing” 16-Core Rock CPU
6:55AM Sean Fallon | In the wake of their buyout by Oracle, Sun Microsystems has canned their 16-core Rock chip project—once touted by the company as a “game changer,” and their answer to IBM’s latest Power CPUs—after five years of development. This represents the second major chip offering from Sun to be shelved in recent years. [NYT]
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