Daily Tech News 2 October 2025

• OpenAI's new social app
  
  Wait, let me stop you right there.
  
  Noah, we'll need you to build another boat. No, same size as last time would be fine.
  
  
  
• OpenAI's new social app, Sora, is filled with horrifying Sam Altman deepfakes. (Tech Crunch)

  In a video on OpenAI's new TikTok-like social media app Sora, a never-ending factory farm of pink pigs are grunting and snorting in their pens - each is equipped with a feeding trough and a smartphone screen, which plays a feed of vertical videos. A terrifyingly realistic Sam Altman stares directly at the camera, as though he's making direct eye contact with the viewer. The AI-generated Altman asks, "Are my piggies enjoying their slop?"

  I say we take off and nuke the entire site from orbit.

  In the next video on Sora's For You feed, Altman appears again. This time, he's standing in a field of Pokémon, where creatures like Pikachu, Bulbasaur, and a sort of half-baked Growlithe are frolicking through the grass. The OpenAI CEO looks at the camera and says, "I hope Nintendo doesn't sue us." Then there are many more fantastical yet realistic scenes, which often feature Altman himself.

  Build a global network that everyone can share, they said. Make access cheap and easy, they said. What could go wrong, they said.

  People on Sora who generate videos of Altman are especially getting a kick out of how blatantly OpenAI appears to be violating copyright laws. (Sora will reportedly require copyright holders to opt out of their content's use - reversing the typical approach where creators must explicitly agree to such use - the legality of which is debatable.)

  Guys?
  
  OpenAI isn't violating copyright anymore than a typewriter.
  
  You - the people posting this drivel - are doing that.

• Xbox Game Pass Ultimate got a 50% price hike. You won't believe what happened next. (WCCFTech)
  
  The site where you cancel your subscription crashed.
  
  Oh. You do believe that. Okay.
  
  
  
• TypePad - MovableType's answer to Blogger - est mort. (TypePad)
  
  It has typed its last pad. It has joined the bleeding choir unreadable.
  
  The shutdown was announced a month ago, but TypePad stopped accepting new customers five years ago so this came as a surprise to absolutely nobody.
  
  
  
• F3 is the open virus solution for the future. (ACM)
  
  It's supposed to be a replacement for overly-simple formats like CSV and overly-complicated formats like Apache Parquet. What it is, is weaponised idiocy:

  Each self-describing F3 file includes both the data and meta-data, as well as WebAssembly (Wasm) binaries to decode the data.

  Oh no you don't.
  
  
  
• Intel and AMD on-chip secure enclaves aren't secure if the attacker has complete physical control over your server and a fortune to spend on sophisticated analog switches to selectively manipulate in-flight data in cruel and unusual ways. (Ars Technica)
  
  Intel and AMD never claimed that the on-chip secure enclaves were secure under these conditions, and indeed said the opposite.
  
  
  
• The UK is still demanding the password to all of Apple's encrypted data belonging to its customers. (Ars Technica)
  
  The UK agreed to drop this bullshit but apparently they don't know how.
  
  
  
• Apple's latest AirPods got reviewed by iFixit. (MacRumours)
  
  They earned a repairability score of zero.

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