Daily Tech News 26 July 2025

• Tea, an app for women to share the private data of men, was hacked - if you can use that term for an application that appears to have had no security whatsoever - and the personal information of all the users has been leaked online - if you can use that expression when all the personal information was already public if you knew to look. (WCCFTech)
  
  And being a "women-only" app, it required users to upload government-issued photo ID for their protection. So a site dedicated to doxing other people just doxed all its own users.
  
  This is why we can't have nice things.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile, Britain, which as of yesterday requires all its subjects to provide government-issued photo ID to view porn on Twitter, is already using the technology to block reports of anti-illegal immigration protests. (Twitter)
  
  1984.0.0.1.
  
  

• Meanwhile over at Amazon, "security first" means about as much as "talent first" did with VShojo. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Hackers were able to inject a persistent vulnerability into an Amazon AI coding tool by, uh, asking it to do it for them.
  
  
  
• WiFi 8 is on its way. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Raw speeds are exactly the same as WiFi 7. Rather it's designed to deliver better real-world speeds by reducing errors and dropped packets in, uh, the real world.
  
  
  
• How did GPD manage to cram a Ryzen AI Max 395+ and 128GB of RAM into a handheld device? Apparently they left out the battery. (The Verge)
  
  Instead it draws power from either a large external battery or a 180W laptop charger.
  
  Hope the oven mitts are coordinated.
  
  
  
• Echelon home gym equipment can no longer be used without a monthly subscription, an internet connection, and probably government-issued photo ID stored on a public server. (Ars Technica)
  
  Hackers are working on hacking it.
  
  
  

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