« Thursday Overnight Open Thread - October 23, 2025 [Doof] | Main

Daily Tech News 24 October 2025

Top Story

• Apple has lost a lawsuit in the UK alleging it overcharged commissions payable by developers, who passed half the excess cost on to their customers, which, this being Apple, was charged by Apple who then took their cut on it. (9to5Mac)
  
  Penalties could amount to $2 billion.
  
  
  
• In other "that used to be a lot" news Anthropic has signed a deal with Google for cloud services said to be in the tens of billions of dollars. (CNBC)
  
  Amazon, which has invested $8 billion in Anthropic, might be asking some questions at this point.

Tech News

• Elon Musk claims Tesla's new AI5 chip is 40x more performant than previous-gen AI4. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  We hates that word. We hates it, precious.
  
  
  
• Fujitsu's new FMV Note A laptop has a Ryzen 7 7735U CPU - one step up from what I am typing this on - and a Blu-Ray drive. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  With BDXL support too, for 100GB rewriteable discs.
  
  
  
• The Radeon AI Pro 9700 launches Monday at a price of $1299. (WCCFTech)
  
  It's a Radeon 9070 XT with twice as much memory. At twice the price.
  
  
  
• A look at the Microtik CRS812-8DS-2DQ-2DDQ-RM (Serve the Home)
  
  Otherwise known as Tim.
  
  Tim is an Ethernet switch with two 400Gb ports, two 200Gb ports, and eight 50Gb ports. It also has two 10Gb ports but it turns out they're just for management and aren't part of the switching logic. And hot swap fans and redundant power supplies.
  
  Since all the ports use the same signalling, internally it uses a 32-port 50Gb switch, with 4 ports assigned to each 200Gb connector and 8 assigned to each 400Gb connector, and you can break them out again with an octopus cable.
  
  Tim costs $1295, which is pretty reasonable considering what he brings to the table.
  
  
  
• Serverless is a handicap. (Viduli)
  
  It also costs several times more than just having a server.
  
  Welcome to the Internet, here's your monthly bill. Don't worry about paying, we've put a lien on your will.
  
  
  
• Microsoft has updated the Windows file explorer so that it doesn't display previews of files downloaded from the internet - again - because its security model is still dogshit after all these years. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Welcome to the Internet, you've been compromised. Everything is infinitely worse than you surmised.
  
  
  
• "Analog bags" are in. Doomscrolling is out. (Axios) (archive site)
  
  What the hell is an "analog bag", you ask.
  
  An analog bag is... A book bag.

  How it works: "I basically just put everything I could grab for instead of my phone into a bag," including knitting, a scrapbook and a Polaroid camera, says Sierra Campbell, the content creator behind the trend.

  Okay, that sounds healthy enough. What's the harm?
  
  The harm is that everyone who owns one is insane:

  The 31-year-old keeps one bag at home in Northern California, carrying it from room to room, and another in her car.

  But that's just one person.

  "It speaks to an incredible desperation and desire for experiences that return our attention to us, that fight brain-rotting, that are tactile... that involve creating over scrolling," Beth McGroarty, vice president of research at the Global Wellness Institute, tells Axios.

  Welcome to the Internet, fuck this shit I'm out. You can sit there in the corner and count your ill-earned clout.
  

Musical Interlude



Song is Welcome to the Internet by Bo Burnham. Animation is basically a celebration of vtuber agency Phase Connect - that fish dude is the avatar of CEO Sakana - which has been going from strength to strength as competitors have been folding or failing or being exposed as lying stealing cheating frauds looking at you Vshojo.

Phase Connect will be revealing five new talents this weekend as part of its fourth generation, Phase Saga. The sixth member, Anya Nyabyss (now which recently-retired Phase-affiliated indie vtuber could that possibly be?) has postponed her debut until some non-specific personal circumstances clear up.

The "nine year old who died" in the video (it's part of the original song) is a reference to Amaris Yuri, who came over from Cyberlive when they folded along with Kaneko Lumi, and then became the only talent ever to be fired by Phase Connect.

She's back with her channel intact and will be redebuting as an indie soon.




Disclaimer: Welcome the the Internet! You're banned!