Daily Tech News 5 December 2025

• As expected, AMD has announced price increases for its Radeon graphics cards. Starting today, the cost to board partners of the parts (GPU chip and GDDR6 RAM) will increased by $10. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  For 8GB cards. For 16GB cards the cost rises by $20.
  
  Given the craziness going on right now, that is not a lot.
  
  There may be more increases coming, but for now at least, no reason to panic.
  
  
  

• Finding that random person in Nebraska. (Stacktower)
  
  XKCD comic 2347 highlighted a key weakness of modern computer systems: Everything depends on "a project some random person in Nebraska has been thanklessly maintaining since 2003".
  
  Stacktower is a Python library that inspects your own tech stack and draws a similar diagram and highlights the individual thankless maintainers, so that you can thank them.
  
  
  
• Teehee. They said "end to end". (Tech Crunch)

  Earlier this year, home goods maker Kohler launched a smart camera called the Dekoda that attaches to your toilet bowl, takes pictures of it, and analyzes the images to advise you on your gut health.

  I can see where this is going to end.

  The security researcher also pointed out that given Kohler can access customers' data on its servers, it's possible Kohler is using customers' bowl pictures to train AI.

  Why?

  Citing another response from the company representative, the researcher was told that Kohler's "algorithms are trained on de-identified data only."

  No.

  The Dekoda costs $599 plus a mandatory subscription of at least $6.99 per month.

  It's even cheaper if you don't buy it.
  
  
  
• Russia has banned Roblox. (CBC)

  On Wednesday, Roskomnadzor blocked access to the U.S. children's gaming platform Roblox, accusing it of distributing extremist materials and "LGBT propaganda." Roskomnadzor further said Roblox was "rife with inappropriate content that can negatively impact the spiritual and moral development of children."

  Well, yes.
  
  
  
• The iPhone Air has depreciated by 50% in ten weeks. (WCCFTech)
  
  It's like backwards DRAM.
  
  
  
• A critical flaw in React and Next.js lets hackers execute code on your servers if you're a fucking idiot. (Bleeping Computer)
  
  The problem with making JavaScript run on servers is that then JavaScript programmers will run code on servers.
  
  The result is exactly what everyone predicted.

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