Daily Tech News 7 March 2025

• The Trump administration is planning to demand the social media accounts of people applying for green cards, US citizenship, and asylum or refugee status. (The Verge)
  
  Which is entirely sensible. You'd have to be stupid to document criminal plans online where anyone can read them, but people are indeed stupid.

  "One way of looking at this is that it's an attempt at basically catching up to modernity," Kathleen Bush-Joseph, an analyst at the Migration Policy Institute's US immigration program, told The Verge. Bush-Joseph, whose work partly focuses on efforts to modernize the US immigration system, said that the immigration system "does not really reflect the reality of the twenty-first century in important ways."

  I'm pretty sure that's not what The Verge wanted to hear.

  Two documentary filmmakers sued the first Trump administration over the State Department's social media policy in 2019, arguing that it violated the First Amendment and hadn't proven necessary to protect national security interests. ... A federal judge dismissed the case with prejudice in 2023.

  So perish unbelievers.
  

• AMD may have an unexpected winner in the Radeon 9070 non-XT. (YouTube)
  
  It's a little faster than expected, and a little cheaper than expected, and it very power efficient - possibly the best of recent graphics cards from any manufacturer.
  
  The cards are selling out and retailers are suggesting and restock won't come in at MSRP, though AMD is disputing that.
  
  
  
• The US Department of Labor is investigating Scale AI. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Scale AI is not an AI company; rather it employs large number of people to help feed training data into new AI models. Two lawsuits have recently been filed by employees over the conditions of their employment.
  
  
  
• Has Brother's printer division done an HP? (The Register)
  
  The company says no, but users are reporting that their printers no longer support third-party ink and toner after the latest firmware updates.
  
  
  
• If you need more memory on your graphics card, the Zeus from Bolt Graphics might be what you want. (Serve the Home)
  
  The base model uses 120W of power, includes 32GB of LPDDR5X memory onboard and two DDR5 SODIMM slots for another 96GB, and a 400Gb Ethernet port so you can connect an entire cluster of them together.
  
  The top of the line runs at 500W, has 256GB of onboard memory and eight SODIMM slots, and six 800Gb Ethernet ports.
  
  Availability is expected late next year.
  
  
  
• Cyclone Alfred continues to take its own time to reach the coast. While delivering 110 mph winds, it's only moving as a system at around 5 mph.
  
  It's expected to finally arrive around mid-day tomorrow.
  
  Update: Yeah, the winds here are starting to pick up now, and I'm nowhere near the storm.

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