Daily Tech News 7 May 2025

• Skype is dead. Here's five alternatives. (Hot Hardware)
  
  I wish it were dead. I've received eight messages on it from work today. The first of those at four minutes past midnight.

• Intel's 265K has been cut in price from $399 to $299. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  While overall I would recommend AMD's platform, that does deliver 80% of the performance of Intel's current top-of-the-line chip for 50% of the price. It's a little faster than AMD's 9900X and now 20% cheaper as well.
  
  If Intel wasn't planning a new socket next year cutting off any possibility of upgrades it might actually be worth recommending. But they are so it's not.
  
  
  
• Under RDK, "Make America Healthy Again" means junk science like, uh, evolution. (The Verge) (archive site)

  "There's a sort of Darwin-esque notion that only the fittest survive," says Paul Offit, a vaccine scientist, virologist, and professor of pediatrics at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.

  "Only the fittest survive" is tautological. In evolution, fitness is defined by survival to reproduction.

  "But these viruses can kill anybody, so that's just wrong." In the recent deaths, the first from measles in a decade, no underlying medication conditions have been reported. Both of the Texas children were reportedly healthy before they contracted measles. They could have stayed that way.

  Measles doesn't just "kill anybody" as Offit knows perfectly well. It was a major killer before the introduction of the vaccine, and we certainly shouldn't abandon that vaccine.
  
  But it kills children.
  
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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