Daily Tech News 14 October 2023

• NASA has just launched its Psyche mission, an aptly named probe to explore the asteroid Psyche. (Ars Technica)
  
  Sent into space atop a SpaceX Falcon Heavy - and in fairness, it's much better for NASA to build just the spacecraft and leave the launches to private industry - the mission is expected to total $1.4 billion between the craft, the launch vehicle, and eight years of operations.
  
  The estimated value of the minerals on Psyche itself is in the range of $10 quintillion. That's 400,000 years of the US GDP, or about 7 trillion times the cost of this mission.
  
  Say what you will about government waste; this one would appear to be justified.

• Twitter has started to flag explicit pornography as explicit pornography. Here's why that's a bad thing. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Talk to the hand.
  
  
  
• Clinical trials at the Sheep Hilton show that Vitamin C is a safe and effective treatment for sepsis in humans. (Florey)
  
  Researchers at Australia's Florey Institute - the aforementioned Sheep Hilton - have shown that sodium ascorbate - Vitamin C - is effective at treating clinical cases of sepsis.
  
  You just need to inject it directly into your veins.
  
  Better than the alternative, and it gives your blood a refreshing citrusy tang.
  
  
  
• Untergruppenfuhrer Thierry "Klaus" Breton has turned his fiery gaze from Twitter to YouTube. (The Verge)
  
  Probably because Twitter ignored him.
  
  By the way, Klaus, antibiotics will clear that right up.
  
  
  
• Can open source be saved from the EU's Cyber Resilience Act? (The Register)
  
  Sure. Easy peasy. Null-route the entire useless continent.
  
  Maybe offer exceptions for Poland and Hungary.

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