Daily Tech News 19 October 2026

• A district court judge in Utah has blocked that state's law requiring magical ponies age restrictions for all websites that somehow stops precisely at the state border. (EFF)
  
  The law covered not only sites operating within the state - which falls under Scalia's "dumb but constitutional" - but sites anywhere in the world accessible from Utah.
  
  Sites were required to either block VPNs (and were forbidden from mentioning the existence of VPNs) or track the precise address of every single IP address in the world of which there are now 2¹²⁸ which is rather a lot.

• Two RTX 5090s, worth a combined $470,000, went missing from an airport in Sao Paulo, Brazil. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  "Missing."
  
  
  
• The new Elizabeth Holmes documentary isn't. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Isn't an Elizabeth Holmes documentary. (Holmes was the "female Steve Jobs" now serving time in prison for defrauding investors in her biotech company, Theranos.)
  
  It may be a documentary on propaganda, or based on the one glowing review I read from an obvious dimwit, it may be slop.
  
  
  
• Speaking of slop, LinkedIn is tired of it. (CNN)
  
  Their new "SLOP" for AI post button is being clicked half a million times a week to downvote the content.
  
  
  
• New PCs arrived. These are the two I ordered weeks ago - the Minisforum M1-1390 - which I picked up on sale for about $390 including tax and shipping. They cost rather more than that now. And they're also out of stock.
  
  24-core Intel 13900HX and up to 64GB of DDR4 laptop RAM but none installed, making their utility limited unless you already have a lot of DDR4 laptop RAM sitting around from systems you built in 2021 that have now expired... Which I do.

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