Tuesday, July 29
Daily News Stuff 29 July 2025
Tea Remover Edition
Tea Remover Edition
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- Tea is the gift that keeps on gifting. (The Verge) (archive site)
Not only is it good with honey when you have a nasty cold which I do right now, but just when you thought it couldn't get any more hacked, it do.
Now 1.1 million "private" messages have escaped into the wild.While the company initially insisted that the hack only affected its "legacy" database and users who signed up before February 2024, according to the independent researcher and data trove reviewed by 404 Media, Tea remains unsafe, way beyond the scope of the original hack, and private messages sent as late as last week are accessible and vulnerable to further exposure.
At first glance, the app has no security whatsoever and never did.
The Verge tries to make a big deal of the nefarious actions of the elite hackers, but the fact is that all of the data was public the entire time.
Tech News
- I was so congested the last couple of nights that I couldn't really sleep. A couple of minutes after I lay down, my brain would go into panic mode insisting I had stopped breathing. (I checked. I hadn't.)
Got maybe an hour Sunday night, and then three hours sitting up last night.
Hoping I can do a bit better than that tonight, because even for me a full work day on that little sleep was a bit rough.
- Nvidia's RTX 5050 is faster than the classic 1080 Ti. (Tom's Hardware)
An enthusiast by the name of TrashBench set out to show the old high-end card was still a capable competitor in 2025.
Turns out it ain't.
- Samsung has signed a $16.5 billion deal to build AI chips for Tesla. (Tom's Hardware)
These are not to answer stupid questions but to handle assisted driving and full self-driving functions - collating all the data from the cars' myriad sensors and trying not to run into things.
The actually useful kind of AI. Potentially useful anyway.
- Nvidia's B200 AI chip is 217 million times faster than Intel's 4004. (WCCFTech)
To be fair, the 4004 was introduced in 1971, built on a 10 micron process, and used less than half a watt of power.
The B200 came out last year, is built on a nominal 5nm process, and uses 1kW of power.
- The SZBox DS156 is a 15 inch laptop with an embedded 7 inch tablet. (Liliputing)
The main screen is 1920x1080 and the tablet is only 1200x800, so it's not high-end stuff, but if you have spare memory and an M.2 SSD lying around the bare-bones model is around $250 which is not a high-end price.
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"Indian CEOs are reshaping corporate America with their unique blend of adaptability and innovation. In a new interview with @Newsweek, our CEO @imravikumars discussed how his Indian roots have influenced his leadership style and approach to driving company success."
Posted by: ahd at Tuesday, July 29 2025 10:16 PM (KLCB2)
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Re: (indian CEOS) I don't disagree, but I have major issues with corporate America right now, and my reservations with some of the Indian origin folks are basically only around average for me. My problem is basically that I think a lot of US university trained people are bad insane by mainstream US cultural standards.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Tuesday, July 29 2025 10:47 PM (rcPLc)
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Bitches always hate it when "hackers" steal their "private data", and the Verge is nothing but bitches, so they gotta make the noises that bitches make for solidarity.
Posted by: normal at Wednesday, July 30 2025 01:28 AM (LADmw)
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I'm surprised that nobody is jumping to conclusion that the women who came up with the business were doing feminist vibe coding, and that was why the stuff was left unsecured. Instead I am mostly seeing hints that a terrible business design, unhindered by male criticism, was combined with terrible software implementation, unhindered by even the sort of criticism that the females who function outside of the feminist bubble would give.
Posted by: PatBuckman at Wednesday, July 30 2025 02:00 AM (rcPLc)
Posted by: J Greely at Wednesday, July 30 2025 04:53 AM (oJgNG)
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J, it absolutely is a magic wand...but one that has a (high) chance of backfiring.
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, July 30 2025 05:17 AM (RG1Uw)
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Have you tried the Breathe Right adhesive nose-expanding strips? I think they can be useful in the brain-thinks-you're-not-breathing situation.
Posted by: Matthew Dixon Cowles at Wednesday, July 30 2025 11:52 AM (irynM)
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Good thing 'zon updated my shipping of that 9060 to next Wednesday. I've been limping along just fine with my 1070.... (Works well enough for World of Warships. I'm really interested to see what the difference will be).
Posted by: Mauser at Wednesday, July 30 2025 01:47 PM (QE7eq)
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Mauser, considering the recent news that an RTX 5050 beats a 1080Ti, you should be in pretty good shape. (Userbenchmark shows the 9060 xt handily beating the 1070 and DDG's "AI" says it's 45-55% faster.)
Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, July 30 2025 05:43 PM (1zWbY)
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