Daily Tech News 1 September 2023

• HP has announced two new Pavilion Plus models: An update Pavilion Plus 14 with AMD's Ryzen 7840H CPU, and some 16" piece of junk. (Liliputing)
  
  The 14" model has a beautiful 2880x1800 120Hz display, the Four Essential Keys, the aforementioned 7840H CPU, and up to 32GB of LPDDR5-6400 RAM.
  
  Yes, the RAM is soldered in place, but at least there's 32GB of it.
  
  Apart from that there's a 5MP camera with a physical privacy shutter, two USB-C ports, two USB-A ports, HDMI, and a headphone jack.
  
  This is what I've been looking for for the past year.

• A judge has issued a temporary injunction against the Texas age verification law. (Tech Crunch)
  
  The judge has a reasonable take on this:

  "The Court agrees that the state has a legitimate goal in protecting children from sexually explicit material online," wrote judge David Alan Ezra in the junction. "But that goal, however crucial, does not negate this Court's burden to ensure that the laws passed in its pursuit comport with established First Amendment doctrine."

  The EFF has a reasonable take on this:

  "Once information is shared to verify age, there's no way for a website visitor to be certain that the data they're handing over is not going to be retained and used by the website, or further shared or even sold," explains the Electronic Frontiers Foundation, a nonprofit advocating for civil liberties online.

  The Free Speech Coalition is a bunch of frauds:

  "We're pleased that the Court agreed with our view that HB1181's true purpose is not to protect young people, but to prevent Texans from enjoying First Amendment protected expression," said Free Speech Coalition Executive Director Alison Boden in a statement.

  Two out of three ain't bad.
  
  
  
• The US Copyright Office wants public comments on the questions surrounding AI and copyright. (The Verge)
  
  They won't once they start seeing the comments, because people are crazy.
  
  
  
• The ACLU has joined with whores - by which I mean sex workers, not other leftist non-profits - to file a complaint with the FTC over Mastercard making it harder to pay that $20, same as in town. (404 Media)
  
  All the other shit payment processors have pulled over the years, not a peep.
  
  Donate to the wrong charity, you'll be lucky if you only go to jail.
  
  But God forbid that you can't put a blowjob on your Mastercard.
  
  
  
• The Church of Scientology is seeking to block the availability of circuit diagrams and spare parts for E-Meters. (404 Media)
  
  Right-to-repair laws would seemingly require the availability of both diagrams and spare parts, but the "Church" - or rather, Author Services, Inc, a wholly grifting subsidiary, is claiming that the E-Meter is not an electronic device based on scientific principles, but a religious artifact and therefore exempt... And also an electronic device based on scientific principles.
  
  

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