Daily Tech News 17 October 2025

• Meta, Snapchat, and TikTok showed what they thought of Australia's scumbag totalitarian lunatics - I mean, government - by not bothering to show up before a senate inquiry into how the companies were planning to implement they government's latest idiotic law banning children under 16 from accessing their sites. (The Nightly)
  
  If I had been representing any of these companies I would have simply said: We're not. It's your law. You enforce it.

• Microsoft wants you to talk to Windows 11. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  I'm with Gigi.
  
  
  
• Why we're leaving serverless. (Unkey)
  
  There is no "serverless". You're running on someone else's servers, except they're broken, so you have to run your own servers as well to fill the gaps, and the whole thing ends up far more complicated and expensive - not to mention slower - than just running your own servers in the first place.
  
  Renting a virtual machine rather than a physical one is a viable option in many cases. Serverless... Not so much.
  
  
  
• If Asus' ProArt 5k and 6k monitors didn't do it for you, the company now offers an 8k model. (WCCFTech)
  
  Price not announced, but given the prices of the 5k and 6k models ($849 and $1399 respectively), expect it to cost $3000 or so.
  
  
  
• The future of being trans on the internet. (The Verge)
  
  Before you click, imagine the most annoying article possible on this subject.
  
  It's worse than that.
  
  
  
• A new wave of social media apps provide hope in a doomscrolling world. (Tech Crunch)
  
  No they don't. Reddit has left the market open for smaller competitors, but I still don't see anyone taking its place.

  She offers examples like Beli, an app that lets users share their favorite restaurants with friends, or Fizz, which connects people going to the same college.  Others include the  astrology-bonding app Co-Star, or even Partiful, which lets people connect with friends to plan events.

  They'll all be dead inside twelve months, except Co-Star, which will get hit by a comet next Tuesday.

  Terrell said Spill shifted its design from simply feeding users content to matching them with communities that might be of interest to them.

  For example, those who like watching the WNBA can join a group specifically for that.

  Did I say twelve months? I meant twelve weeks.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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