Daily Tech News 14 October 2025

• One of the UK's innumerable regulators has fined 4Chan £20,000 for... Well, basically for telling them to get fucked, which the British didn't take too well in 1776 either. (The Verge)

  "Today sends a clear message that any service which flagrantly fails to engage with Ofcom and their duties under the Online Safety Act can expect to face robust enforcement action," Ofcom enforcement director, Suzanne Cater, said in a statement.

  
  
  4Chan has responded by suing Ofcom in federal court... In the US.
  
  4Chan could be in more trouble still if they don't kiss the ring:

  Starting from tomorrow, 4Chan additionally faces a daily penalty of £100 for either 60 days or until 4Chan complies with the information requests, up to a maximum of £6,000.

  Yes, I'm sure that will do the trick.

• The Dutch government has seized control of technology company Nexperia from its Chinese owner Wingtech. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Nexperia focuses on boring but necessary products like diodes and transistors. It was spun off from Phillips in 2006 and sold to Chinese interests in two stages in 2017 and 2018.
  
  Seems like they came to regret that.
  
  
  
• The Humbird 3 is a Thunderbolt 5 eGPU dock with a PCIe 4.0 x16 slot for $399. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  The numbers. What do they mean?
  
  It also has three downstream Thunderbolt 5 ports, a DisplayPort port, and a 5Gb Ethernet port. And up to a 500W power supply though the basic model only comes with 180W.
  
  
  
• Intel Blackout on VROC with Transition to Graid Technology in Another Streamlining Move. (Serve the Home)
  
  What?
  
  Oh. Intel sold off its virtual RAID products to a company called Graid.
  
  I guess that makes sense.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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