Daily Tech News 20 November 2025

• The EU is considering scaling back the GDPR rules after learning that every website on the planet uses cookies. (The Verge)
  
  Finally.

  "We have all the ingredients in the EU to succeed. But our companies, especially our start-ups and small businesses, are often held back by layers of rigid rules," said Henna Virkkunen, executive vice-president for implementing layers of rigid rules at the European Commission.

  You don't say.

• Is the detector that detects whether the watcher that is watching the monitor that monitors DownDetector down? (A Site Whose Name Is Too Long)
  
  No.
  
  But DownDetector itself was down during the Cloudflare outage.
  
  
  
• If you need to replace your Nintendo GameBoy - which you likely do since the original came out in 1989 - the Ayaneo Pocket Vert looks like just the thing. (Liliputing)
  
  It's about the same size as the original model, but has replaced the 2.5" monochrome screen with a 3.5" colour model, and upgraded the resolution from 160x144 to... 1600x1440.
  
  Which is better than a whole lot of things.
  
  It has four hidden trigger buttons on the back and turns the blank areas of the faceplate into an invisible touchpad.
  
  No pricing information yet.
  
  
  
• More PowerPoint slides than you ever wanted about the upcoming Snapdragon Elite X2. (Hot Hardware)
  
  The Snapdragon Elite sank without a trace in the PC hardware market because it wasn't better enough - and certainly not cheap enough - to make up for the compatibility issues that come from running x86 software on Arm hardware.
  
  As for this second attempt, the 18 core flagship model looks nice, but unless they've solved the pricing and compatibility issues that may not matter.
  
  
  
• Screw you guys, I'm installing Linux. (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  2026 will be the year of Linux on my desktop, at least.
  
  
  

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