Daily Tech News 2 January 2025

• It's Public Domain Day - or was, yesterday - meaning a slew of new content is in the public domain, unless it isn't, in which case it's not. (Duke University)
  
  Sometimes it's hard to be sure particularly when dealing with 95-year-old material where everyone directly involved is probably dead.
  
  But entering the public domain this year - yesterday - is A Farewell to Arms, The Sound and the Fury, The Maltese Falcon, Is Sex Necessary by James Thurber and E. B. White, Alfred Hitchcock's first sound film Blackmail, and The Cocoanuts, the first feature film by the Marx Brothers.
  
  Also the characters - though not the stories - of Popeye and Tintin, the first speaking roles of Mickey Mouse, Singin' in the Rain, Ain't Misbehavin', and Ravel's Bolero.
  
  
  

• CES is almost here so all the hardware news is waiting until then. So until next week it's mostly leaks of varying veracity.
  
  
  
• California seeks to fix soaring insurance premiums and outright lack of coverage due to wildfires caused by the state's incompetent forestry policy by... Making things worse. (Fast Company)
  
  We've tried nothing and we're all out of ideas.
  
  
  
• The RTX 5060 could be 20% faster than the current 4060 and have 0% more memory. (Notebook Check)
  
  It's stuck at 8GB which is already posing problems.
  
  Meanwhile Intel's 12GB B580 is already out and cheaper than Nvidia's old card, let alone the new one.
  
  On the third hand, precisely because the Intel card offers such good value, you can't find it anywhere.
  
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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