Daily Tech News 27 May 2026

• California is considering an exemption from its sweeping age verification requirements for open-source operating systems such as Linux. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Which is nice because the law is stupid, totalitarian, and completely unenforceable anyway.
  
  Interesting point: Android, ChromeOS, MacOS, and iOS are all based on open-source code. The only popular operating system that isn't is Windows.

• Now it's TSMC's turn to face angry workers. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  A bit of an own goal this time around. TSMC staff have traditionally been paid a bonus based on corporate profits, but the company has been planning to cut the percentage paid to staff in order to fund capital expansion. I don't think anyone is hurting - like many other chipmakers the company is making record profits, so we're talking a reduced share of a much larger pie - but Taiwanese workers will be looking at the huge bonuses won by their counterparts in South Korea. And judging.
  
  
  
• The CTO of Uber pointed out the obvious: There is no link between AI token spend and shipping working software. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Except maybe an inverse one.
  
  
  
• Every silver lining has a cloud: Search engine DuckDuckGo reports install rates are up 30% from users fleeing Google. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Quack.
  
  
  
• Nvidia's Vera server CPU has been benchmarked and it's not Earth-shaking but it's perfectly decent. (Phoronix)
  
  I'm a bit confused about the high bandwidth numbers, because the tests seem to exceed the theoretical bandwidth of the system, but I'm not going to worry too much since nobody's going to be able to buy one anyway.
  
  
  
• That weird new Ferrari Luce electric vehicle? Designed with the involvement of the company of former Apple design head Jony Ive. (The Verge) (archive site)
  
  You're driving it wrong.

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