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Wednesday, May 14

Daily News Stuff 14 May 2025

Chocolate Maltese Falcon Edition

The Kosmos 482 space probe has landed safely - sort of - in the Indian Ocean. (Space)

Safe for everyone else, anyway.

The probe was supposed to go to Venus, more than 50 years ago, but got slightly lost.

It's 2025. Why are banks still getting authentication so wrong? (Jamal Habash)

Because they're banks. Something that is bad and barely works but has known risks is preferable to something that is good and works well but has unknown risks.
There's some sort of kerfuffle between Google and Nextcloud over app permissions. (The Register)

Google has denied the Android Nextcloud app the permission to even ask for permission to access any file on your device to sync with your Nextcloud server. (Nextcloud lets you run your own little cloud storage service - and other services as well - on your own hardware under your control.)

Google only allows permission to access media files. But isn't that largely the point of managing files on an Android device? They're great for accessing content and awful for anything else.
House Republicans have tried to jam a ban on state-level AI regulations into the budget reconciliation bill. (404 Media)

Okay. Works for me.
The universe is now expected to decay in 1,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,
000,000,000,000,000,000,00,000,000,000,000,000,000 years, much less than was previously calculated. (Phys.org)

Make sure you have clean underwear.
Curious variants of Intel's B580 graphics card have been spotted in shipping manifests, including a model with dual GPU chips and 48GB of total VRAM. (Hot Hardware)

These might be announced soon, but are not expected to actually be available for some time, if at all.

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