Daily Tech News 4 August 2025

• Did Craigslist really kill newspapers? (Poynter)
  
  Yes. Sort of. Maybe. But also mostly no.
  
  Newspapers had been in slow decline for thirty years when Craigslist launched in 1995.
  
  What the site did certainly do was accelerate a process started by the newspapers themselves.
  
  

• FCC chairman Brendan Carr is Literally Worse Than Hitler. (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  His crime?
  
  Nobody watches Stephen Colbert.
  
  Constant outrage must be really tough on brain cells.
  
  
  
• The acquisition of Commodore by Christian "Perifractic" Simpson and his backers has been completed. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  I don't have any particular association with the classic 8-bit Commodore machines - I was an Amiga kid - but this is still welcome news.
  
  I wonder if FPGA hardware-emulated Amigas might be in the works in the future through a collaboration with Amiga Inc. and Cloanto, which publishes the software-level emulator Amiga Forever.
  
  
  
• Early versions of Microsoft Recall were pulled from distribution when it was discovered they collected all your most sensitive information in one database where it was convenient for hackers to steal it. It still does that. (The Register)
  
  Do not want.

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