Daily Tech News 20 April 2025

• Vendors have voted to reduce the duration of SSL certificates from one year to 47 days. (Computerworld)
  
  Fuck vendors.
  
  This is mostly driven by Apple, because... Because nothing, really. It's a bad solution to a non-problem.
  
  Apple has been pushing for this for some time. Previously certificates were valid for up to five years, and then Apple got involved.
  
  And the certificate vendors have just committed suicide, because nobody is going to pay them for a certificate that has to be manually refreshed every few weeks, and if you are deploying an automated solution you might as well go all the way and implement a free automated solution using Let's Encrypt.
  
  So good work, assholes.
  
  
  
• It's true that SSL providers are stupid but you still can't use the certificate without hacking DNS. (Bugzilla)
  
  And it's true that SSL is intended to be resilient to this sort of attack, but if you care about security you need to care about who is providing your DNS, and if you do then this attack doesn't work anyway.

• Intel says yes, our graphics cards kind of suck when used with older (and slower) CPUs. (WCCFTech)
  
  Intel's graphics drives are somewhat inefficient. This doesn't show up on recent CPUs, because they are fast enough to keep up anyway. But if you pair an Intel graphics card with a CPU from five years ago, the performance bottleneck is now the CPU.
  
  This is a problem because Intel's graphics cards are cheaper than anything current from AMD or Nvidia, making them look like a good option for people with tight budgets... Who would still be using older CPUs.
  
  
  
• Russia is seeding chatbots with lies. Any bad actor could do the same, though of course the exercise would be redundant because feeding bullshit into a bullshit factory doesn't really change the output. (Detroit News)
  
  What if we made it even more stochastic?
  
  
  

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