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June 15, 2025

Daily Tech News 15 June 2025

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The root cause of the huge Google Cloud / Clouflare outage a couple of days ago. (Google)

A null pointer set a Google service into a boot loop when a change was applied without an appropriate policy set. The missing policy should have been caught and the update rejected, but wasn't, because everything is nightmarishly complicated.

Tech News

PCIe 6.0 SSDs aren't likely to show up in desktop PCs for years. (Tom's Hardware)

Servers, yes. Laptops, maybe. Desktops, no.

PCIe 5.0 SSDs are twice the price of PCIe 4.0 models anyway, and PCIe 6.0 is sure to be unreasonably costly for small drives, so if you're building a desktop just go for four PCIe 4.0 drives in RAID-0.
Korean researchers have outlined the next four generations of HBM (high-bandwidth memory) following the upcoming HBM4. (WCCFTech)

HBM8 will - eventually - deliver five times the capacity and 32 times the bandwidth of next-gen HBM4, with up to 240GB of RAM per device and 64TB per second of bandwidth.

And use 180W of power for a single HMB8 stack. HBM1 was slower, true, but it only used 4W of power.
How scammers are using AI to steal student aid. (AP News)

The answer is they're using it a lot.
An Associated Press analysis of fraud reports obtained through a public records request shows California colleges in 2024 reported 1.2 million fraudulent applications, which resulted in 223,000 suspected fake enrollments.
Because until last Friday you don't need to provide any ID to apply for student aid.
The Browser Company - that's what it's called - unveiled Dia, its new AI-focused web browser. (Tech Crunch)

No thanks.
Stolen iPhones are screaming at the looters who stole them. (The Economic Times) (archive site)

Oh no.

Anyway...
They've found the second Stargate. (Phys.org)

Good news. Now they just need to find the Ancient city.
New legislation in New York makes it illegal for AI to murder more than 100 people. (Tech Crunch)

Less than 100, no problem, but over 100 is right out.

Only the government is allowed to do that.

Musical Interlude

Song is Notice Me by Alexa Ray Joel. Anime is Gekkan Shoujo Nozaki-kun.

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