Daily Tech News 31 December 2025

• The problem with letting AI do the grunt work. (The Atlantic) (archive site)

  Fresh out of college in the mid 2010s, I'd scored a copy job for a how-to website. An early task involved expanding upon an article titled "How to Get Rid of Dark Lips." For the next two years, I worked on articles with headlines such as "How to Speak Like a Stereotypical New Yorker (With Examples)", "How to Eat an Insect or Arachnid," and "How to Acquire a Gun License in New Jersey." I didn't get rich or win literary awards, but I did learn how to write a clean sentence, convey information in a logical sequence, and modulate my tone for the intended audience - skills that I use daily in my current work in screenwriting, film editing, and corporate communications.

  Not seeing the problem here to be honest.
  
  The author's latest feature film, How to Write Slop for Fun and Profit, is airing nowhere now.
  
  
  
• 2025 was Hollywood's year of creative bankruptcy. (PCGamer)
  
  I mean, more so than usual.

• Asus is reportedly planning to increase production of DDR4 motherboards next year - both AMD's AM4 and Intel's LGA 1700. (WCCFTech)
  
  Good, because I have a lot of DDR4 memory I could transplant to new systems.
  
  
  
• Digging deeper into Honey's Dieselgate. (VPT Digital)
  
  Online purchasing tool Honey, which was supposed to find you the best deals, actually stole affiliate links and redirected the money to itself.
  
  It also detected if you might be looking for bad behaviour and stopped doing it if it suspected you might be watching.
  
  
  
• With new computers priced out of reach you may have thought of picking up a Nintendo 3DS to play some classic games. Bad timing because a second-hand 3DS suddenly costs almost as much as a brand new Switch 2. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Nobody knows why, though, because (a) there are 75 million of them and (b) they have the computing capacity of a potato.
  
  
  
• Nvidia's purchase of $5 billion worth of Intel shares has just completed. (The Register)
  
  Since they struck a deal at the price in September and Intel's share price has increased by 50% since then, Nvidia just made an instant $2.5 billion.
  
  Nice work if you can get it.
  
  
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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