Daily Tech News 4 April 2025

• Oracle got hacked, twice, recently, according to Oracle staff who won't go on the record and are now in fact in hiding in an undisclosed location. (Yahoo)
  
  Or something.

  Oracle staff informed some clients this week that the attacker gained access to usernames, passkeys and encrypted passwords, according to the people, who spoke on condition that they not be identified because they're not authorized to discuss the matter.

  Note that this is the same company that very recently proclaimed:

  There has been no breach of Oracle Cloud. The published credentials are not for the Oracle Cloud. No Oracle Cloud customers experienced a breach or lost any data.

  Basically, the data that was stolen in the breach that Oracle so strenuously denied ever happened is real, but old, and likely useless.

• Speaking of Oracle, in MySQL 8.0.17 and later you can create multi-valued indexes on JSON arrays if - and this is important - all the indexed data is in the form of unsigned integers.
  
  This index is automatically used for comparisons like MEMBER OF and JSON_CONTAINS if... Something. I don't know what, because in my case it can't see the index at all and the end result is somehow slower than before I did all that.
  
  
  
• Why everything in the universe turns more complex. (Quanta)
  
  It doesn't.
  
  
  
• Climate change is on track to destroy capitalism says a leading rent-seeker, warning of dire consequences if other people don't spend enormous amounts of money that will benefit him. (The Guardian)
  
  Right.
  
  
  
• A climate firm supported by Microsoft and Facebook has file for bankruptcy after its co-founder was arrested on fraud charges. (MSN)
  
  There's a surprise.
  
  
  
• Researchers at Google's DeepMind have listed all the ways AGI could destroy the world. (Ars Technica)
  
  It can't, and in any case, nobody is working on it.
  
  (OpenAI's Sam Altman redefined AGI - which stands for artificial general intelligence - as "profitable". Which OpenAI is definitely not.)
  
  
  
• Intel is reportedly launching a joint venture with TSMC. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Involving chips, probably.
  
  
  
• The EFF has vowed to fight site-blocking bills that are being put forward in Congress. (TorrentFreak)
  
  By Democrats. The article doesn't mention that.

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