Daily Tech News 21 April 2025

• Discord is deploying age verification systems recently made mandatory in fascist dystopias. (Soap Central)
  
  Like Britain. And Australia.
  
  Fortunately they're being a lot more sensible about this than the governments that enforced the rules. The verification pops up - once - when you want to see adult content.
  
  Which is not something I want from Discord, ever, so I don't see this as a huge problem. And you can pass the verification check with a face scan by the app and not have to upload government ID.
  
  
  

• Looks like there will be a 32GB variant of AMD's Radeon 9070 XT after all... Sort of. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  AMD denied this a bit too strenuously. Looks like the 32GB model is for the Radeon Pro range, for workstation users and not gamers. It is the same card otherwise, though the clock speeds and power consumption will likely be trimmed back a little to make it more acceptable in an office environment.
  
  
  
• It's a four-inch cube and it's blue, but it doesn't say Cobalt on it. (Liliputing)
  
  The Beelink Me Mini supports six M.2 drives, two 2.5Gb Ethernet ports, three USB ports, and one HDMI. And an internal power supply so you don't have an inconvenient brick hanging off it.
  
  Also available in white and gray. Or will be available. Price and shipping date TBA.
  
  CPU is an Intel N200 which is a four core Atom CPU and delivers adequate performance for a NAS and only uses 6W of power.
  
  
  
• Resist eggheads! (Ars Technica)
  
  Ars Technica has noticed that people have finally woken up to the communist takeover of the education system and is desperate to put them to sleep again, by force if necessary.
  
  
  
• Chinese APT IronHusky deploys updated MysterySnail RAT on Russia. (HackRead)
  
  The Cold War proceeds apace, just now being fought between the Chinese and the Soviets.

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