Daily Tech News 28 September 2021

• Facebook has abandoned the idea of Instagram for Kids after everyone in the Universe, and many people from nearby universes, told them what a terrible idea it was. (Hot Hardware)
  
  The planned app was to target children under 13. You do have to wonder where these people come from and how small their bubbles are that they even contemplated this.
  
  They say that YouTube and TikTok have versions for children, but YouTube has - always has had - content for children, and TikTok is an internationally designated relativistic black hole targeting zone.
  

• For just $3 you can strangle AMP at its source. (Apple)
  
  This is a Safari extension for iOS that finds Google AMP links and converts them to take you to the original content instead.
  
  
  
• The problem with the blockchain is the blockchain. (The Block Crypto)
  
  Oops. Accidentally spent $22 million in transaction fees to transfer $100k.
  
  
  
• Spider.
  
  
  
• The problem with North Korea is North Korea. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  If you try to travel secretly to North Korea, people will notice and assume you are up to no good - particularly when you are up to no good.
  
  
  
• This is impossible. What mistake are you making? (Quanta)
  
  The discovery of a double charm tetraquark was met with appropriate levels of skepticism, but seems to check out. Unlike those faster-than-light neutrinos that were all down to a faulty cable.
  
  
  
• Sydney is fully exiting lockdown December 1.
  
  No vaccine mandates, no vaccine passports, no intrastate travel restrictions.
  
  The past couple of months have still been appallingly authoritarian and a huge overreaction, but they at least had the sense to back off before it blew up in their faces. Assuming they actually follow through. We'll see.
  
  Melbourne continues to spiral into the abyss.
  
  
  
• The FCC is setting up a $1.9 billion fund to rip Chinese spy equipment out of US communications networks. (ZDNet)
  
  Larger telcos can't access the funds, but smaller carriers, schools, libraries, and other organisations providing internet access are eligible.
  
  This is not the worst way to spend public funds.

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