Daily Tech News 28 July 2023

• Conservatives were bombarded with misinformation in the leadup to the 2020 election according to a study by Facebook "researchers" who rank MSNBC as more reliable than the CRC Handbook. (Forbes)
  
  Uh huh.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile Facebook has lost $21 billion to date on its virtual reality push because its "researchers" totally have their finger on the public pulse. (CNBC)
  
  In the most recent quarter the company spent $4 billion on virtual reality compared to revenues of $276 million.
  
  What the fuck they are spending all that money on I have no idea because it looks like a tech demo from 1993.

• AMD has announced the Radeon 7900 Golden Rabbit Edition at $649. (WCCFTech)
  
  I ignored this at first because it looked like a China-only release, but it now has official US pricing.
  
  Compared to the 7900 XT this model cuts the core count by 10% and reduces RAM from 20GB to 16GB, but the 7900 XT launched at an MSRP of $899 so it's also a lot cheaper.
  
  AMD is still expected to launch a 16GB 7800 at $549 and a 12GB 7700 at $449 in the coming months.
  
  Ignoring the rabbits (which may not be an entirely safe thing to do) this means you can now build an AMD system with a 7900 CPU and a 7900 GPU.
  
  
  
• Congress is at it again with a bill that purports to protect children online but actually... Huh. (Congress.gov)
  
  I'll need to read the whole thing because a quick skim didn't find the usual privacy horrors we see with this sort of thing.
  
  
  
• On the other hand, the new legislation is upsetting all the right people. (The Verge)

  Digital rights advocates have also suggested that KOSA could prevent LGBTQIA+ teens from finding the resources they may need online without coming out to their parents due to the parental consent requirements of the bill.

  Sounds unexpectedly based.
  
  
  
• The 4TB Western Digitial SN850X has now dropped to $269 on Amazon. (Notebook Check)
  
  This is a solid SSD and that would have been an incredible price a year ago. The 4TB Team MP34 dipped as low as $160 a few weeks ago but that's half the speed of the SN850X.
  
  
  
• Elon Musk said that Twitter - that is, X - will be abandoning light mode and going dark only and The Verge had to run with the story in the five minutes it took for outraged users to swarm and the decision to be reversed. (The Verge)
  
  They do still plan to remove "dim" mode which nobody anywhere has ever used.

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