Daily Tech News 29 July 2025

• Tea is the gift that keeps on gifting. (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  Not only is it good with honey when you have a nasty cold which I do right now, but just when you thought it couldn't get any more hacked, it do.
  
  Now 1.1 million "private" messages have escaped into the wild.

  While the company initially insisted that the hack only affected its "legacy" database and users who signed up before February 2024, according to the independent researcher and data trove reviewed by 404 Media, Tea remains unsafe, way beyond the scope of the original hack, and private messages sent as late as last week are accessible and vulnerable to further exposure.

  At first glance, the app has no security whatsoever and never did.
  
  The Verge tries to make a big deal of the nefarious actions of the elite hackers, but the fact is that all of the data was public the entire time.

• Nvidia's RTX 5050 is faster than the classic 1080 Ti. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  An enthusiast by the name of TrashBench set out to show the old high-end card was still a capable competitor in 2025.
  
  Turns out it ain't.
  
  
  
• Samsung has signed a $16.5 billion deal to build AI chips for Tesla. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  These are not to answer stupid questions but to handle assisted driving and full self-driving functions - collating all the data from the cars' myriad sensors and trying not to run into things.
  
  The actually useful kind of AI. Potentially useful anyway.
  
  
  
• Nvidia's B200 AI chip is 217 million times faster than Intel's 4004. (WCCFTech)
  
  To be fair, the 4004 was introduced in 1971, built on a 10 micron process, and used less than half a watt of power.
  
  The B200 came out last year, is built on a nominal 5nm process, and uses 1kW of power.
  
  
  
• The SZBox DS156 is a 15 inch laptop with an embedded 7 inch tablet. (Liliputing)
  
  The main screen is 1920x1080 and the tablet is only 1200x800, so it's not high-end stuff, but if you have spare memory and an M.2 SSD lying around the bare-bones model is around $250 which is not a high-end price.
  
  
  

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