Daily Tech News 4 June 2025

• We can remember your pet for you, wholesale. (The Atlantic) (archive site)
  
  Your pet can live forever. Except when it dies. But then we can bring it back, better than new, ready to chew on your shoes and piddle on the rug all over again.
  
  Also, race horses. Because that's where the real money is.
  
  ViaGen just missed one thing: The name.

• Nvidia suggests you turn down the settings on the demo of new game Hell is Us on their cards or it kind of won't work. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The game also requires an RTX 4090 to achieve even 30fps at 4k resolution, so this is not entirely Nvidia's fault.
  
  
  
• Add -noai or ?udm=14 to stop Google's "helpful" AI summaries. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Also includes a guide on how to tell Chrome and similar browsers to do that automatically.
  
  
  
• We are Harvard researchers. We'd rather discriminate against Jews than save lives. (The Times) (archive site)
  
  That's not the worst of it, either. Of a scientist bewailing the loss of her $60 million research contract thanks to Harvard's illegal bigotry and intransigence, the article says:

  The Harvard researcher Dr Sarah Fortune was only two years away from creating a vaccine that could have saved the 1.25 million people killed each year by tuberculosis. But last month, she received a letter telling her that the $60 million grant funding her research was being halted by President Trump.

  Your choice, Miss Fortune.
  
  But:

  But now, "all the data and knowledge" her team has gathered "is gone".
  
  "It's as if those studies never happened," she said.

  As if.
  
  
  
• Facebook is planning to revive an old nuclear power plant. (The Verge)
  
  And refurbish is volcano lair.
  
  
  
• Facebook (and Yandex) are spying on you. (GitHub)
  
  Using the old Zoom trick.
  
  
  
• You can't copyright Eleanor. (Car and Driver)
  
  A design patent, maybe?
  
  

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