Daily Tech News 17 August 2025

• A federal judge has blocked the FTC's investigation into Media Matters' illegal activity. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Judge Sparkle L. Sooknanan - I swear I am not making this up - said that nothing Media Matters was doing was illegal and in any case they had already stopped with most of the illegal stuff.
  
  
  
• A brazen attack on air safety is under way. (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  If you saw "The Verge" and guessed they were screeching inanely about the Trump administration, you can collect your Kewpie doll in aisle five, next to the mayonnaise.

• Sony seems to be learning, slowly: Fairgame$, set to be the company's next computer game mega-flop (Sony earlier released Concord, which cost $400 million to make and earned $0) has been quietly strangled. (WCCFTech)
  
  A huge loss of all the news channels who were looking forward to making fun of this one.
  
  
  
• SD Express is a new standard for mini storage. (Liliputing)
  
  Slightly larger than micro SD, it supports PCI Express 4.0 x2 for transfer rates up to 3.7GB per second. Launch devices have capacities up to 2TB.
  
  Both of which used to be a lot.

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