Daily Tech News 24 August 2025

• Who are the 400 million people who made Threads the second most popular discussion platform after only Twitter? (Mashable)
  
  The article doesn't seem to understand its own conclusion: That these are the same people who made The Big Bang Theory the most popular show on television: Bipedal sphex wasps.
  
  In short, they don't exist, or at least not as recognisably individual human beings. They are trivially interchangeable corporate drones, the same people who made CB (formerly Cracker Barrel, the nation's foremost fine dining cheese experience) a household name for all the wrong reasons.
  
  
  
• Speaking of households, I peeked out of mine this afternoon. It was a warm winter's day, so I essayed out to tackle the easiest part of the garden - the patch of lawn nearest the house - which was dusted with small weeds and could do with a trim before the season kicks off for real next month.
  
  Even my smaller lawnmower (an 18V Bosch unit) could handle the task, though I did need to swap batteries at the midpoint because I had neglected to do so before putting it away for the winter.
  
  On the other hand, that virus really did a number on me, and I also needed to recharge half-way through mowing less than half the lawn. It'll likely be weeks before I'm back to normal.
  
  
  
• Also had a migraine. Just 'cause.

• Will Trump help 4Chan escape the UK's Thought Police? (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  Uncertain but hopeful. Certainly someone needs to drag the Latter Day Stasi to one side before they bring down the entire internet in civil war.
  
  
  
• Will the FTC help Europe escape its own catastrophic meddling in critical internet security protocols? (Bleeping Computer)
  
  So many idiots, so little time.
  
  
  
• Coinbase's CEO explains why he fired engineers who didn't try AI immediately. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Because he's an asshole.

  "I jumped on this call on Saturday and there were a couple people that had not done it. Some of them had a good reason, because they were just getting back from some trip or something, and some of them didn't [have a good reason]. And they got fired."

  And then Coinbase was nuked from orbit, and oh how we laughed.
  
  
  
• InnoDisk demonstrated DDR5 MRDIMMs running at capacities up to 128GB and speeds up to 12,800MHz. (Serve the Home)
  
  These could be interesting in a second-generation AMD Strix Halo desktop - expandable memory and 50% more bandwidth than the soldered solutions currently availabe.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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