Daily Tech News 15 December 2025

• After Amazon was blocked from buying Roomba maker iRobot last year by US and European regulators, the company has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy and will be sold off to Shenzhen PICEA Robotics Co. (Bloomberg / MSN)
  
  Guess they'll have to... Suck it up.
  
  Oh, and good fucking work on the regulations there. You really protected competition, huh?

• After 53 years, HP-IB, also known as GPIB and IEEE-488, has a stable Linux driver. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Thanks. Though I hear some people have moved on to Firewire now.
  
  
  
• The Motorola Edge 70 prides itself on being thin and lightweight, unlike all the other phones on the market, which are so heavy the average person can barely lift them let alone carry them about. (Notebook Check)
  
  Performance is kind of meh for the price. If you must have an edge, older models are available for much cheaper.
  
  
  
• The Minisforum N5 Pro NAS turns out not to be all that expensive. (NASCompares)
  
  I mean, it costs close to $1000 for the bare unit (with 128GB of storage - basically an OS boot disk) for a device with five 3.5" bays and three M.2 slots. But it has 10Gb and 5Gb Ethernet ports, two USB4 ports, Oculink, and a PCIe x16 slot for expansion.
  
  And a twelve-core Ryzen 370, so this is not merely a NAS but a very capable PC with a lot more storage and networking options that you typically find in small pre-built systems.
  
  I'm not about to buy one, though, because I have plenty of mini-PCs and plenty of multi-bay external storage units. And that little Beelink NAS too.
  
  
  
• This $1500 robot cooks dinner while I work. (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  So does my $20 Kmart slow-cooker.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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