Welcome to the Tech Mem Right Home for Thursday, August 22nd, 2024.

I'm Brian McCullough today as Mike Lynch's body is recovered off Sicily a deeper

look at what was a roller coaster of a life.

More cross-posting for Meta's apps.

We have a date for the re-release of Recall.

Interesting Executive Shuffle over at Apple, and more data showing the degree to which free

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According to Italian officials, UK tech entrepreneur Mike Lynch's body has been recovered from the wreckage of that super yacht Bayesian, which sank three days ago off the coast of Sicily, quoting the Financial Times.

Six people, including Lynch and his 18-year-old daughter Hannah, have been missing since Monday

when Baysian went down in an intense storm near Palermo.

A fifth body was pulled from the sunken yacht on Thursday morning.

Divers searching the wreck off the coast of Porticello are still looking for the sixth

missing passenger whom the Italian Coast Guard said is a woman that suggests that the

other bodies recovered are likely to include Christopher Morvillo of the law firm Clifford Chance and Jonathan

Bloomer, chair of Insurance Group his Cox and Morgan Stanley

International who were also on board Bayesian when it sank.

Their wives, Nettamorvillo and Judy Blumer were also on the vessel, end quote.

Yeah, it turns out there were other prominent people on this boat. And from the reading I've been doing, it seems

like this was a real Black Swan event, a water spout, which is of course a tornado in the

water, just decided to come down on them no real way to

anticipate or avoid that but also since I alluded to this yesterday I thought it was

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