Wednesday, December 10
Daily News Stuff 10 December 2025
Fascism R Us Edition
Fascism R Us Edition
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- Australia is joining a wave of fascist dictatorships around the globe in regulating how kids spend their time online. (The Verge) (archive site)
I may have changed a word or two there.On December 10th, most major social media platforms will boot children in the country under 16 from their services. Under the law, social platforms will also need to implement a "reasonable" age verification method there - while critics argue kids will get around it anyway.
The critics are, of course, correct. The age restrictions are about as robust as The Verge's paywall.
And VPN providers are having a field day.
Maybe they put the idiots in Canberra up to it.
Tech News
- RAM is ruining everything. (The Verge) (archive site)
Useful tidbit: SK Hynix - one of the big three memory makers - is investing $500 billion dollars in new factories, with the first set to go into operation in 2027.
Half a trillion dollars. That's a lot of money. Whether it will be enough is an open question, but I'm not sure we can criticise them for not expanding faster.
- Microsoft's Patch Tuesday is here for December and fuck me that's a lot of security holes. (Bleeping Computer)
Ugh.
- AMD has announced its new Epyc 2005 processor range for embedded servers. (Serve the Home)
They're Ryzen 9000 desktop chips, just packaged differently and with lower power budgets.
- Boom Supersonic - which demonstrated a supersonic jet back in January - has found funding and customers, but not for its supersonic jet. (Tech Crunch)
It's selling a derivative of its jet turbine engine for power generation for datacenters.
- The war on disinformation is a losing battle. (The Verge)
Which is good, because The Verge is squarely on the side of disinformation. They only get through two paragraphs here before they start actively lying.
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I see Boom Supersonic is going the GE route, using their jet engines for non-aviation applications. GE has seen great success doing so - whether Boom will be able to do so is an open question.
SK Hynix, bravely going where angels and CFOs fear to tread in building new physical plants. Did they suddenly get money from the South Korean government?
As an aside, where do you buy the Win10 Enterprise IoT LTSC?
SK Hynix, bravely going where angels and CFOs fear to tread in building new physical plants. Did they suddenly get money from the South Korean government?
As an aside, where do you buy the Win10 Enterprise IoT LTSC?
Posted by: cxt217 at Thursday, December 11 2025 02:04 AM (ZLF73)
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Misinformation is pretty harmless when the official truth is persuasive, and when official sources are not caught lying. Trying to regulate misinformation is like chumming for sharks. People know that there is a problem, and will speculate about what that is. Schools where you can ban or fail people for saying the wrong thing are a poor training environment for rhetoric, which may show up later in careers.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thursday, December 11 2025 04:53 AM (rcPLc)
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