Daily Tech News 17 April 2025

• Nvidia's RTX 5060 Ti 16GB edition is here and it's eh. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The other two cards announced today, the 5060 Ti 8GB edition and the 5060 non-Ti, are nowhere to be found.
  
  If you're not using ray tracing, it's about 10% slower than my Radeon 7800 XT and costs about 25% more at retail. Retail prices may settle down eventually, but they haven't been great so far in Nvidia's 5000-series launch.
  
  If you are using ray tracing, it's about 5% faster than my Radeon 7800 XT - but still 25% more expensive.
  
  That retail price places it just 10% cheaper than AMD's new 9070 (non-XT) card, which averages 50% faster at 4k resolution.
  
  It does better at Stable Diffusion (AI image generation) and runs acceptably cool and quiet, but you should definitely wait to see what the Radeon 9060 delivers if you're in the market.
  
  
  

• Some Synology consumer NAS models now require Synology-branded drives for full functionality. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  This applies to the 2025 Plus series - it was already true for recent enterprise NAS models.
  
  Allow me to take this moment to heartily unrecommend Synology.
  
  
  
• Charles Darwin's children drew vegetable battles on the manuscript of The Origin of Species. (The Appendix)
  
  Most of the original manuscript is lost, but what remains is... Colourful.
  
  
  
• CISA didn't end funding for CVE. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  I'm sure you will all find that comforting.
  
  
  
• Automattic, owner of blogging software WordPress, has been deploying watermarks on internal websites to catch leakers. (404 Media)
  
  Which, I mean, sure, Automattic sucks and WordPress sucks and CEO Matt Mullenweg is a lunatic, but if you're leaking internal documents to the press you should expect to get caught.
  
  
  
• China's restrictions on rare earth element exports are a problem. (The Register)
  
  Of course everyone has known for years that China was going to do this, because they've already done it, but nobody did anything about it.
  
  
  
• Spotify went down. (The Verge)
  
  But it came back up.
  
  
  
• Zoom went down. (The Verge)
  
  But it came back up.
  
  
  

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