Daily Tech News 26 July 2021

• Whose stupid plan was this anyway?
  
  
  
• Never look a duck bearing lemons in the mouth. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The duck is probably mining Monero, or something equally unwelcome.
  
  
  
• There will be a new iMac next year. Probably. (WCCFTech)
  
  In the meantime if you want a Mac with more than 16GB of RAM, your only option is to buy a system that is explicitly marked for the dustbin.
  
  
  
• Of the top 30 Google hits on registering a user in PHP 16 contained SQL vulnerabilities. (Warit Schlager)
  
  The other 14 caught fire.
  
  
  
• If it sounds too good to be true, check your wallet. (Daniel is a Dev)
  
  Freenom, a site that gives you free domains, is basically set up to hold users to ransom.
  
  Of course, you can just register lots of domains for free and bankrupt them.
  
  
  
• Nuclear power's reliability is dropping as extreme weather increases. (Ars Technica)
  
  Reducing output efficiency by, um, an estimated 0.5% over 30 years.
  
  Doom.
  
  
  
• Someone - probably Russia - was looking to bribe YouTubers to spread anti-Bat-Flu-vaccine propaganda. (BBC)
  
  Not clear exactly why. There are enough real issues with the Bat Flu vaccines that it's unnecessary, but this sort of pointless malice is a Russian specialty.
  
  
  
• RNA demethylation can increase yields of staple crops like rice and potatoes by up to 50%. (Nature)
  
  Club of Rome hardest hit.
  
  
  
  

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