Daily Tech News 23 July 2021

• Legislation proposed by the you-know-who would suspend Section 230 protections if social networks refuse to clamp down on free speech. (Tech Crunch)
  
  The difference between the Democrats and the Nazis is the Democrats only needed one Reichstag Fire.

• Global Foundries is doubling the capacity of its Fab 8 facility in upstate New York. (AnandTech)
  
  And also building additional fab nearby.
  
  Global Foundries doesn't currently have a leading-edge process node - they're still at 12nm - but with all capacity booked out worldwide it's a good time to expand.
  
  
  
• The One Plus Nord 2 comes with a Dimensity 1200. (AnandTech)
  
  That's one step behind current flagship phones, at 400 Euros. I'm not sure if these models make it to the real world.
  
  
  
• The new Dell XPS 17 is a great system with a crappy keyboard. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Lot of that going around. HP gets it right.
  
  
  
• The Washington Post accidentally published worthwhile material today. (Motherboard)
  
  Long-defunct ad and video site Vid.me let its domain expire and it gone snapped up by a porn network. And so broken embeds in old articles suddenly started working again - with brand new content.
  
  
  
• If you got hit with the Kaseya ransomware attack, you can now unlock your stuff for free. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Of course, you'd have been offline for three weeks by this point, which would have been awkward.
  
  
  
• Fuck off Gareth. (news.com.au)
  
  And when you get there, fuck off from there too.
  
  The lockdown is not working, so the solution is more lockdown.
  
  
  

• HoloEN defeated the Ender Dragon today. Due to equipment mixups during the battle they ended up beating it to death with random bits of equipment - a bow, used as a melee weapon, a shovel, I think, and a bucket.
  
  But it worked.
  
  
  
  They did some prep work last stream, but from starting the hunt for the Stronghold to the victory photo positioned around the dragon's egg was under two hours.
  
  Since that was the goal they'd set for themselves, they'll now be installing a mod to link their server to the JP server. Let chaos reign.
  
  
  
• Vtubers might look like anime girls but they're real people. Without going into details, I hope things improve soon for Iofi, Pomu, and Vyolfers, who are each going through a personal rough patch.
  
  
  

• Don't use biometric ID if you live somewhere with 4th and 5th Amendment protections.
  
  
  
  For the rest of us, it might not matter a whole lot.
  
  
  
• Sounds like a 70s comedy: 18 conspirators, at least 12 of whom were FBI informants.
  
  
  
  
  
• He's running. And his little dog too.
  
  
  
  
  
• CarAMElldansen.
  
  
  
  HoloEN doesn't have 3D models yet, so she made her own.
  
  
  
• GPU prices are... A little less fucked.
  
  
  
  Down by about 5%, which is at least movement in the right direction.
  
  
  
• New York, New York, it's a wonderful town. The mayor is a commie and the governor's a clown.
  
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  On the other hand, they're not confined to their own homes.

posted by Pixy Misa at 05:17 AM

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