• 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.

• 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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Posted by: cxt217 at Thursday, December 11 2025 02:04 AM (ZLF73)

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