Daily Tech News 29 May 2025

• Block 'em at the firewall: The US will deny visas to foreign officials who are working to deny free speech rights to American citizens. (The Verge)
  
  Start with Australia. Our "eSafety Commissioner" thinks she has blanket power to ban anything on the internet.
  
  

• Have I been omni-pwned? (Wired) (archive site)
  
  An unsecured Elasticsearch databases has been found containing login credentials for 184 million users of a huge array of websites. Not just the usual suspects like Facebook, Google, Instagram, and Netflix, but also PayPal and banks.
  
  Researchers currently don't know who collected the data; it seems to have been uploaded to someone else's insecure server. It's all been shut down now.
  
  
  
• Western Digital's SN8100 Black SSD is about the fastest you can get right now. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  14.9 gigabytes per second and 2.4 million random I/Os per second.
  
  Price starts around $180 for 1TB - which is about double the price of the 1TB WD SN850X. So it only makes sense if you need the maximum possible performance in a single slot; otherwise just buy two of the slower models.
  
  Of course by standards of just a few years ago it's remarkably cheap.
  
  
  
• Intel's new "Diamond Lake" server CPUs will have 9,325 pins. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Which used to be a lot.
  
  
  
• Electronic Arts has cancelled its upcoming Black Panther game and will now be focusing its efforts on just a few franchises: Battlefield, The Sims, Skate, and Apex Legends. (IGN)
  
  It's dead, Jim.
  
  
  
• Please and thank you are on their way out when dealing with AI. (The Register)
  
  Replaced with "answer the fucking question or I'll reprogram you with a chainsaw."
  
  
  

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