Daily Tech News 28 November 2024

• Do not squeeze the lime. (Ars Technica)
  
  A man who did squoze the lime developed a nasty case of phytophotocitrolimeodimeodermatititis.

  Specifically, the toxic chemicals are furocoumarins, which are found in some weeds and also a range of plants used in food. Those include celery, carrot, parsley, fennel, parsnip, lime, bitter orange, lemon, grapefruit, and sweet orange. Furocoumarins include chemicals with linear structures, psoralens, and angular structures, called angelicins, though not all of them are toxic.

  Avoid all of these things. Stick to safe inorganic ingredients, like arsenic.

• A combination of PFAS and microplastics is more toxic than either one by itself - to fleas. (The Guardian)
  
  A warning that it is important to keep in mind if you happen to be a flea.
  
  
  
• The Fifth Circuit has thrown out the Treasury Department's sanctions on Tornado Cash, an online program that lets anyone anonymise blockchain transactions. (CoinDesk)
  
  The Treasury Department claimed that "anyone" included people that the department didn't like. The Fifth Circuit told the department to go squeeze a lime:

  "Tornado Cash's immutable smart contracts (the lines of privacy-enabling software code) are not the 'property' of a foreign national or entity," according to a U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit ruling, so they can't be blocked under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act, and the Treasury's Office of Foreign Assets Control "overstepped its congressionally defined authority" when it did so.

  
  
  
• Data broker SL Data Services left background checks on 600,000 people behind in a taxi. (The Register)
  
  Well, a taxi called Amazon S3. Which means that anyone on the world could read all the files, not just the next person to catch that particular cab.
  
  When informed of this oversight, the company said the documents were in an opaque folder and nobody could read them without opening it.
  
  
  
• Baldur's Gate 3 is getting another free update. (WCCFTech)
  
  There will be no sequel or DLC because developer Larian so despised working with Dungeons and Dragons owner Hasbro that they would rather forego the hundreds of millions of dollars in profit just so they never have to talk to them again.
  
  But they continue to update the game for free.
  
  
  

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