Daily Tech News 4 October 2024

• A federal judge has issued a temporary injunction blocking California's new law against "AI deepfakes" noting that the law is overbroad and subjective. (Tech Crunch)
  
  The judge is, as the kids would say, based.

  While a well-founded fear of a digitally manipulated media landscape may be justified, this fear does not give legislators unbridled license to bulldoze over the longstanding tradition of critique, parody, and satire protected by the First Amendment. YouTube videos, Facebook posts, and X tweets are the newspaper advertisements and political cartoons of today, and the First Amendment protects an individual's right to speak regardless of the new medium these critiques may take.
  
  ...
  
  California's interest and the hardship the State faces are minimal when measured against the gravity of First Amendment values at stake and the ongoing constitutional violations that Plaintiff and other similarly situated content creators experience while having their speech chilled.

  Indeed.
  
  
  
• Amelia Watson Hyte Y40 Limited Edition PC Case Status: Acquired
  
  Sitting in the front hall right now.
  
  
  
• Calliope Mori Hyte Y40 Limited Edition PC Case Status: Order confirmed
  
  Hyte confirmed that the order was processed before things fell apart, and they've fixed it. I've now received the confirmation email and the order is showing in my account on their site.
  
  I'm not sure that I want to go through all that again for the Dokibird case. It ended up costing me an extra $200 to air freight a PC case to the other side of the world, and a regular Hyte Y40 only costs $130.

• Cloudflare has blocked a 3.8Tbps DDOS attack, the largest on record. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Everything is awesome.
  
  The attack was using a wide range of compromised devices, notable Asus and Microtik routers.
  
  
  
• Conservatives on social networks are censored more than liberals. (Nature)
  
  But it's their own fault, say the researchers, for sharing unapproved information.
  
  
  
• What happens to all of 23andMe's DNA when it goes bankrupt as seems likely? (NPR)
  
  It all goes in the jar.
  
  Don't ask.
  
  
  
• The Magic the Gathering community is undergoing yet another incredibly stupid and very public meltdown. (The Verge)
  
  At least in the old days, if someone thought you were cheating at cards they would just shoot you.
  
  
  
• What goes around: After Matt Mullenweg, co-founder of WordPress, went nuclear on WordPress hosting provider WP Engine, blocking the company's access to the open source WordPress components and updating the WordPress dashboard to include posts targeting WP Engine, WP Engine has fired back with a lawsuit accusing Mullenweg and WordPress owner Automattic of extortion and libel. (MSN)
  
  I hate WordPress.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:15 AM

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