• Sorry, doomsayers.  The trade war and crippling rare earth element shortages have been pushed back to 2026.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And the US had already forged agreements to obtain rare earth elements from other sources.
  
  Always doom tomorrow, never doom today.

• AMD is relegating driver support for the RX 5000 and RX 6000 series cards to maintenance mode.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  They'll still receive bugfixes, but not driver updates to tune performance in specific games.
  
  My RX 7800 XT is still covered for now.  My two RX 580s rather less so; those drivers have been in maintenance mode for long enough that it's not clear there is still maintenance going on.
  
  
  
• CISA and NSA share tips on securing Microsoft Exchange servers.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  If these tips don't involve thermite, I'm not interested.
  
  
  
• Google is - reluctantly and with much kicking and screaming - starting to implement the changes required from its catastrophic loss in the suit brough against it by Epic Games.  (Ars Technica)
  
  A catastrophe for Google.  A strawberry sundae for everyone else.
  
  
  
• Slop, slop everywhere, and the message boards did stink.  (The Verge)
  
  Facebook's answer to protests against the increasing amount of AI slop in its products is more slop.
  
  
  
• AI browsers are a security time bomb.  (The Verge)  (archive site)
  
  There is no upside here.  AI browsers are bad news.

Posted by: cxt217 at Saturday, November 01 2025 09:56 AM (ZLF73)

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