Daily Tech News 23 November 2025

• The strange and totally real plan to blot the Sun and reverse global warming. (Politico)
  
  An in-depth and thoroughly researched article, albeit one written by a pair of compulsive liars with a combined IQ barely into the double digits.
  
  Nowhere in the dozen or so pages of irrelevancy does it mention the actual plan: To cool the planet by increasing effective cloud cover by 1%.
  
  Yes, when they say "blot out the Sun" they mean imperceptibly.

• Intel's Arc B390 graphics in its upcoming Panther Lake laptop CPUs - expected to launch at CES in January - are twice as fast as AMD's Radeon 890M or Intel's own Arc 140T included in the existing Lunar Lake CPUs. (WCCFTech)
  
  It's just one leaked benchmark but it may be real because the chips themselves are already leaking with engineering samples popping up all over.
  
  The question is - if this is true at all - how? Panther Lake (at least the top two models in the lineup) has a 50% larger GPU than Lunar Lake, but it still has the same 128-bit LPDDR5X memory bus, which I would expect to constrain the graphics performance to similar levels to the 890M and 140T.
  
  I guess we'll know soon enough.
  
  
  
• A CrowdStrike employee has been fired after being caught sharing company information with hackers. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Not a good look for a company that offers high-end security solutions.
  
  
  
• People still use Twitter, despite the competition. (Tech Crunch)
  
  There is no competition.
  
  
  
• The Atari Gamestation Go is a $180 handheld gaming console that includes over 200 games from prior millennia. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Instead of the typical dual joysticks these days, it has a four-direction controller (D-pad), a dial/paddle thing, a tiny trackball, the usual ABXY buttons, four triggers, and a numeric keypad. The emulator - running on a dual-core 1GHz Arm CPU with 512MB of RAM - seems to be up to the task of running all the included games, and cartridges for early 90s game consoles loaded from the microSD card. But beyond that, things proved a little too hard - games for the original PlayStation and Nintendo GameCube crashed on launch.

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