Daily Tech News 11 July 2026

• Commies to the left of me, commies also to the left of me: Meta faces fines in the trillions of dollars from Europe and a cartel of US states unless they make their platform worse. (Ars Technica)
  
  These people need meteor strikes. Now:

  That figure is likely uncomfortably "close to Meta's market capitalization of around $1.5 trillion," Reuters noted. But California Attorney General Rob Bonta seems to agree it's appropriate, alleging in a statement to Reuters that "Meta has prioritized profits over the safety of kids and fueled the mental health crisis we see impacting a generation of American children."

  What generation of American children? The ones you didn't manage to murder or mutilate?

  As Meta seemingly continues treading water - pointing to screen-time notifications that kids can easily dismiss or default settings that may be changed - the financial pressure to do more to protect kids could threaten its AI ambitions at a crucial time.

  Everything not forbidden is forbidden. Everything not compulsory is compulsory.
  
  
  
• Don't you tilt your head at me! (The Register)
  
  We see you! Don't think we don't just because we're passed out in the gutter blitzed on fentanyl!
  
  

• Taiwanese Nanya, the fourth or fifth of the Big Three memory makers, is planning to hike capital investment to $6.2 billion next year. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That's four times the amount allocated for this year, which was in turn four times the amount spent last year.
  
  Supporting this are modest increases in quarterly revenue and profits year-on-year... A mere 684% and 1324% respectively.
  
  70% of Nanya's sales are still of older DDR4 RAM, but in this market every bit helps.
  
  
  
• New Japanese chipmaker Rapidus is looking to hit the ground running next year as well with the launch of its 2nm fabs. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Until a consortium of Japanese companies joined forces to create Rapidus in 2022, the country's leading chip factories were using a creaky 40nm process - great for high-volume low-cost automotive microcontrollers but paleolithic compared to modern laptop and phone chips.
  
  Rather than merely trying to pick up the pace, they have chosen to leapfrog the past two decades entirely.
  
  
  
• If you always wanted an Apple Lisa but weren't haunting the right landfill in 1989 when thousands of unsold units were dumped, now is your chance. (The Register)
  
  A complete FPGA-emulated Lisa motherboard is now available for $350.
  
  And the operating system is free. Apple released that as almost open source in 2023.
  
  
  
• Nvidia's off again-off again 5000 Super series is... On? (WCCFTech)
  
  Not soon and not cheap, but not not.

• The game behind the anime series that launched a thousand nice boat memes, School Days, is receiving a new English language dub.
  
  Among the voice talents are Mint Fantome and Phoebe Chan of idol group Densetsu.EXE, formerly known as Nijisanji's Pomu Rainpuff and Prism Project's little blue forg Ami Amami respectively.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile there's yet another new Tenchi Muyo outing, Tenchi Galaxy, on the way, with the dub cast adding the talents of Hololive English Advent's devilish diva, Nerissa Ravencroft.

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