Daily Tech News 2 July 2025

• Search engines like Google and Bing will be required to verify the age of users from Australia by the end of 2025, forcing them into safe mode if they are logged in and under the age of 18. (Information Age)
  
  Which is stupid for many reasons, not least of which even under the law it doesn't work if you're not logged in.
  
  
  
• In more surprising but more welcome news, Chris Elston - "Billboard Chris" on Twitter - and Elon Musk won in separate cases against Australia's "eSafety Commissioner" Julie Inman Grant and some random crazy lady who goes by the name of Teddy Cook. (MSN)

  In the post, Mr Elston, who goes by the name Billboard Chris on X, slammed the proposed appointment of Mr Cook, a biological female, to a World Health Organisation panel on healthcare delivery.

  The post reads: "This woman (yes, she's female) is part of a panel of 20 'experts' hired by the WHO to draft their policy on caring for 'trans people'. People who belong in psychiatric wards are writing the guidelines for people who belong in psychiatric wards."

  Speaking of random crazy women:

  Ms Grant labelled the remarks "degrading" and issued a takedown notice to X on March 22, threatening the company with a fine of up to $782,500 for any refusal to remove the post.

  Not only is the relevant law stupid - which is the ground state in these matters - but Australia's Administrative Review Tribunal ruled that Grant broke the law in forcing the content to be taken down.
  
  Elston and Musk sued separately to have the posts restored, and both won.

• You could steal half a million dollars from a museum and nobody would notice. (Calvin.sh)
  
  The million-dollar cube in the Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago's Money Museum contains a little over $1.5 million.
  
  
  
• Websites used to be simple. (Simplesite)
  
  Some still are:

  You're experiencing it right now. This website is looped through a RS-232 serial connection at 56k baud rate (actually a little bit extra to handle protocol overhead). I disabled the server cache so you can experience the scrollbar shrinking as content slowly loads in.

  The way nature intended.
  
  
  
• The Crucial T710 is that company's latest PCIe 5.0 SSD. (Serve the Home)
  
  It's fast, yes. It's also expensive at $280 for 2TB. You're still better off with two PCIe 4.0 SSDs. Or even just one of them.
  
  
  
• Speaking of expensive, Synology's new PCIe 3.0 SSD costs twice as much as that. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  $535 for 1.6TB. It's sold as a caching device for NASes, so the critique in this article is a little misplaced. Even at PCIe 3.0 speeds it can easily keep up with two 10Gb Ethernet ports running at full speed in both directions.
  
  It does have a pretty substantial write endurance of 2900TB, but a 4TB Crucial T500 is twice as fast, offers more than twice the storage, still promises 2400TB of endurance, and sells for around $300.
  
  
  
• Xerox just bough Lexmark for $1.5 billion. (Nerds)
  
  I think I ran a brief article about this last year when the deal was first announced; the acquisition has now been completed.
  
  
  
• The GOP's spending bill could kill renewable energy projects. (The Verge)
  
  Promise?
  
  

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