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Software
Licensing Issues Behind Decision To Kill Snow Leopard ZFS Plans
5:45AM Jack Loftus | From the OpenSolaris forums, by way of Daring Fireball’s John Gruber, comes word this morning that Apple’s decision to remove ZFS support from Snow Leopard was based on licensing issues. 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 »
Peripherals
10:55AM Nick Broughall | Well, maybe not a million, but it probably has a plug for your portable gadget, whatever that may be. More »
Latestbuy’s Power Pouch Has A Million Gadget Plugs
10:55AM Nick Broughall | Well, maybe not a million, but it probably has a plug for your portable gadget, whatever that may be. More »
Business
Chinese Paper Reports iPhone Worker Not Tortured, Told Foxconn To Search His House
2:44AM Matt Buchanan | The New Yorker reports Chinese paper Southern Daily claims they’ve seen surveillance footage of Sun Danyong’s interrogation by Foxconn, which show that he wasn’t locked up or tortured. It also says that Sun told Foxconn to search his house. More »
Science
NASA Kills Ulysses Spacecraft After 18 Years Of Studying The Sun
1:00AM Jesus Diaz | You thought the leaden winter would bring you down forever / But you rode upon a steamer to the violence of the Sun. 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]
Gadgets
K3 Harnesses the Power of the Sun, the Wind, and the Electric Grid
11:40PM Jesus Diaz | The Kinesis K3 power generator updates their previous K2 unit with a new power source: In addition to its windmill and solar cells, it can now charge its internal battery with external electricity sources. More »
Hardware
Sun Storing The Entire Internet In a Shipping Container
11:20AM Sean Fallon | How do you store three petabytes (that’s 3,145,728 GB) of web pages for the Internet Archive? You put them in a datacenter housed in a shipping container. More »
Business
IBM Wants Sun for $US7 Billion
2:44AM Jesus Diaz | Sun—once a bright star in the technology universe, who even wanted to buy Apple—is about to get swallowed by IBM for $US7 billion, say New York Times’ sources. [NYT] More »
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