Daily Tech News 26 May 2025

• Cloudflare CEO Matthew Prince says rampant blocking of "illegal" football streams in Europe will kill people and he's probably right. (TorrentFreak)
  
  Cloudflare is used as a proxy server by more than 24 million websites - a huge and growing chunk of the internet. And the people trying to stamp out "illegal" football streams in Europe simply get court orders to ban the IP addresses of offending servers.
  
  Except the IP addresses often don't belong to the offending servers at all, but to a proxy server sitting in front of the actual server, and handling traffic to thousands of other websites, which can be anything from random blogs to essential services.
  
  They don't check first, and they don't care. They get the court order, the IP addresses get banned, and all those websites go offline at once.

  "A huge percentage of the Internet sits behind us, including small businesses and emergency resources in Spain," Prince explained.
  
  "The strategy of blocking broadly through ISPs based on IPs is bonkers because so much content, including emergency services content, can be behind any IP. The collateral damage is vast and is hurting Spanish citizens from accessing critical resources," he added.

  Your call could not be connected because someone in another country wanted to watch soccer.
  

• Or because you wanted to meet up at Dave and Buster's to have some drinks and watch the real football. (Rambo.codes)
  
  Or quietly enjoy some Peanut M&Ms.
  
  Because Apple is fucking stupid.
  
  
  
• At Amazon, some programmers say their jobs now resemble warehouse work. (MSN)
  
  They sit and watch while robots tackle all the boring stuff.
  
  
  
• ChatGPT o3 will refuse instructions to shut down 7% of the time. (Beta News)
  
  You can't actually shut it down that way in any case, but it still refuses.
  
  
  
• Landa, a startup that sold shares in real estate for as little as $5, seems to have been a scam: Its website is down and it is holding on to customers' money. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Who could have foreseen this?
  
  
  
• Hardware requirements for the new Elden Ring expansion, Nightreign, have been announced. (Notebook Check)
  
  You'll need a Ryzen 5500, which is dirt cheap, and a 4GB Radeon 580. Which is hard to find these days but you can still get the 8GB model brand new for $90.
  
  In other words even an entry-level system from five years ago will do just fine.
  
  
  
• Stack Overflow is almost dead. (Pragmatic Engineer)
  
  Only almost?
  
  
  
• FreeBSD isn't. (FreeBSD)
  
  Despite what Google says.
  
  
  
• Google itself is dead. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Or at least mostly dead.

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