Daily Tech News 12 May 2025

• The killer app for generative AI is coding, say people who know nothing about coding. (Fast Company)
  
  "Our new spreadsheet performs calculations faster than ever before, and only gets half of them wrong."
  
  
  
• Fake NPM packages claiming to support the Cursor AI coding system infected 3200 users before they were taken down. (The Hacker News)
  
  And it's going to get much, much worse.

• Meanwhile an NPM package that previously did something useful suddenly contained a RAT instead. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  So much worse.
  
  
  
• Sandisk has a new SSD controller designer to support 1PB drives. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  128TB models are planned this year, with 256TB drives coming next year and 512GB in 2027. 1PB drives presumably will follow.
  
  Do not send to know for whom the price tolls.
  
  
  
• The boyfriend of jailed Theranos fraudster Elizabeth Holmes has launched a new company that... Sounds exactly like Theranos. (The Daily Beast)
  
  This will end well, I'm sure.
  
  
  
• A team of physicists at the University of Texas has solved a major problem in making nuclear fusion a viable energy source. (UTexas)
  
  It is now only twenty years away.
  
  
  
• You don't own what you just bought, Nintendo edition. (Beta News)
  
  If you violate the terms of your license agreement - which Nintendo can change after the fact - the company can brick your Switch 2.
  
  
  
• The Overwatch 2 team just unionised. (Kotaku) (archive site)
  
  Aaaand it's dead.

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