Daily Tech News 26 June 2025

• Facebook has also won the lawsuit filed against it by angry authors (and "authors"), with a different federal judge also ruling that it is legal to read books that you bought. (MSN)
  
  The authors sued because Facebook could hypothetically use its AI to create near-copies of their work. They lost the suit because, well, it didn't.

  "The plaintiffs presented no meaningful evidence on market dilution at all," said Judge Chhabria.

  There's a lot of that going around.

• HDMI 2.2 is here, supporting speeds up to 96Gbps. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Since the existing HDMI 2.1 standard can easily support uncompressed 8k video at 60Hz, this is not something you should make it a priority to go out and buy - particularly since nothing supports the new standard yet.
  
  But if you plan to upgrade to a 12k 120Hz monitor soon - which you don't because they don't exist - this is the way to go.
  
  
  
• Intel just laid off 107 staff in California. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Which is not a lot, except that these are mostly chip designers.
  
  The company seems to be planning to lay off 15-20% of staff across the board. And all of its marketing department.
  
  
  
• The cargo ship Morning Midas, which suffered a catastrophic fire while transporting hundreds of electric vehicles, is not on fire anymore. (Notebook Check)
  
  It sank.

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