Daily Tech News 8 June 2025

• While the rest of us are worrying about moving on from Windows 10 and updating out hard drives to SSDs, the government is preparing to move away from Windows 95 and floppy disks. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Fortunately it's nothing important and nobody's lives are at risk.
  
  It's just the US Air Traffic Control system.

• Kioxia - formerly a division of Toshiba - is preparing to release new, faster XL Flash SSDs to compete with Intel's Optane. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  And since Intel has abandoned Optane, they have the market for high-speed SSDs to themselves. And there is a market - data bases generally, and AI-oriented databases specifically because those guys have billions of dollars.
  
  XL Flash is SLC - one bit per memory cell, compared to three or four on common consumer drives - and reduces access times from a typical 30 to 50 microseconds down to three to five microseconds.
  
  
  
• Sonoma County has converted its drone program originally proposed to track down illegal cannabis farms into a privacy-busting airborne HOA. (SFGate)
  
  Is your grass a millimetre too long? They will find you, and take pictures.
  
  
  
• Can AI companies train their systems strictly on public-domain documents? No. (MSN)
  
  Also loading publicly available data onto a computer is not copyright infringement no matter what the rent-seeking communists at Reddit would like you to believe.
  
  
  
• Apple has warned Australia not to follow the EU in opening up the App Store to allow competition, because that would be bad... For Apple. (NeoWin)
  
  Europe's Digital Markets Act and recent antitrust lawsuits in the US have finally loosened Apple's death grip on its own platform and its automatic 30% cut on any money that comes anywhere near an iPhone.
  
  
  
• Anthropic's AI is not writing it's own blog. (Tech Crunch)
  
  The company has an entire team of editors revising and fact-checking what eventually makes it onto the nominally AI-generated blog, because even AI companies don't trust AI.
  
  

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