Daily Tech News 30 April 2025

• Google Play has lost nearly half of its apps in the past year. Here's why that's a good thing. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Developers aren't leaving Android. Much. Rather, Google is belatedly taking steps to weed out the tsunami of crap that has been infesting the plague store for years.
  
  Not sure how you weed a tsunami. Which might be why it has taken them so long.
  
  In addition to removing 1.6 million garbage apps, Google rejected 2.3 million new apps before they could ever reach the app store, and banned 158,000 developer accounts that were attempting various kinds of nefariousness.

• Reddit is issuing firmly-worded letters against researchers who exposed their users as gullible morons. (404 Media)
  
  The researchers at the University of Zurich used an AI chatbot to argue with Reddit users, and succeeded at winning the arguments more often than nominal humans.
  
  
  
• It costs more than one Bitcoin to mine one Bitcoin. (PC Gamer)
  
  That'll slow the fish down.
  
  
  
• If you are still using an LG phone, update it now. (9to5Google)
  
  Not because it's been hacked, but because the update servers will shut down at the end of June.
  
  LG shut down its phone division four years ago, but has kept the software updated since then.
  
  
  
• If you are running Kali Linux, you'll need to add a new update key. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Because they lost the old one. They weren't hacked; it wasn't compromised. It just fell down the back of the sofa.
  
  
  
• One word: Trees. (WSJ) (archive site)
  
  Carbon sequestration is potentially a $250 billion market - says the article - but what do you do when the forest you are paying for you carbon credits... Burns down?
  
  Better call the Lorax.
  
  
  

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