2021-07-07

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Intel Hybrid CPU Starts 'End of Life' Process

When I opened up my daily brief today however, the headline read ‘Core Processor with Hybrid Technology Discontinued’, which immediately struck me as a bit crazy. Intel announced Lakefield, its only Hybrid CPU on the market, in January 2019. Lakefield came to market in June 2020 in two products.
Intel Continues to Rehire Veterans: At Some Point They’ll Run Out

Pentagon Cancels $10B Microsoft Contract
FBI Seized Lego Set from D.C. Riot Leader
NYPD's 'Game Trucks' Should Be Avoided at All Costs

If you’re still tempted by the siren song of Mario Kart 8, a senior counsel for Brooklyn Defender Services, which represents around 35,000 people per year, professionally advises not to go anywhere near this thing. “As a criminal defense attorney, I would advise every young person to stay away from the Police Foundation’s so-called game truck, a mobile surveillance arcade, for their safety and for the protection of their personal information,” MK Kaishian wrote to Gizmodo, pointing to DNA harvesting. “If this venture was really about providing harmless activities for young people to engage in, there would be no need for police involvement.”

Haitian president shot dead at home overnight, interim PM says
- Haitian president assassinated at home in 'barbaric act' -PM
- Haiti President Jovenel Moïse killed in attack at home - BBC News
Haiti's opposition said that Mr Moïse's five-year term should have ended on 7 February 2021, five years to the day since his predecessor, Michel Martelly, stepped down. But there had been a year's delay to elections after Mr Martelly's departure, and Mr Moïse insisted he had one more year to serve as he did not take office until 7 February 2017. Parliamentary elections should have been held in October 2019 but disputes have delayed them, meaning Mr Moïse had been ruling by decree.