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Daily Tech News 15 May 2025

Top Story

The Kids Online Safety Act is back and has the potential to change the internet - or to get struck down immediately over the obvious First and Fourth Amendment issues. (Tech Crunch)

The bill has strong bipartisan and industry support, which means it is just astoundingly awful.
"Apple is pleased to offer our support for the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). Everyone has a part to play in keeping kids safe online, and we believe [this] legislation will have a meaningful impact on children's online safety," Timothy Powderly, Apples senior director of Government Affairs, said in a statement.
Everyone involved in the creation of that sentence should be summarily executed.

Tech News

Zotac has announced a new mini-PC based on AMD's Ryzen 390 CPU. (Liliputing)

This is slightly slower than the top-of-the-line 395, with 12 Zen 5 cores and 32 RDNA3 graphics cores, cut down from 16 and 40 respectively.

Since the full chip is likely to be thermally limited in a mini-PC (read: it would overheat) this seems like a reasonable decision. If the price is right.
A California judge has slapped counsel in one case with $31,000 in fines after they presented a well-reasoned, tightly argued legal case citing a multitude of relevant decisions that didn't exist. (The Verge)

The judge fortunately took a minute to look them up.
Uber has announced its newest invention: Buses. (Tech Crunch)

No, really.
ArtificialCast is an AI powered tool for .Net that that type-cast and transform any value to any defined datatype, safely and automatically. (GitHub)

Yes, it's guaranteed to work 100% safely and automatically. Correctly? You're asking a bit much, bucko.
ArtificialCast is a demonstration of what happens when overhyped AI ideas are implemented exactly as proposed - with no shortcuts, no mocking, and no jokes.
It is fully functional. It passes tests. It integrates into modern .NET workflows. And it is fundamentally unsafe.
There's a lot of that going around.

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"Apple is pleased to offer our support for the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA). Everyone has a part to play in keeping kids safe online, and we believe [this] legislation will have a meaningful impact on children's online safety," Timothy Powderly, Apples senior director of Government Affairs, said in a statement. Everyone involved in the creation of that sentence should be summarily executed. Tech News Zotac has announced a new mini-PC based on AMD's Ryzen 390 CPU. (Liliputing) This is slightly slower than the top-of-the-line 395, with 12 Zen 5 cores and 32 RDNA3 graphics cores, cut down from 16 and 40 respectively. Since the full chip is likely to be thermally limited in a mini-PC (read: it would overheat) this seems like a reasonable decision. If the price is right. A California judge has slapped counsel in one case with $31,000 in fines after they presented a well-reasoned, tightly argued legal case citing a multitude of relevant decisions that didn't exist. 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