Daily Tech News 26 July 2025

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Tea, an app for women to share the private data of men, was hacked - if you can use that term for an application that appears to have had no security whatsoever - and the personal information of all the users has been leaked online - if you can use that expression when all the personal information was already public if you knew to look. (WCCFTech)

And being a "women-only" app, it required users to upload government-issued photo ID for their protection. So a site dedicated to doxing other people just doxed all its own users.

This is why we can't have nice things.
Meanwhile, Britain, which as of yesterday requires all its subjects to provide government-issued photo ID to view porn on Twitter, is already using the technology to block reports of anti-illegal immigration protests. (Twitter)

1984.0.0.1.

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Meanwhile over at Amazon, "security first" means about as much as "talent first" did with VShojo. (Tom's Hardware)

Hackers were able to inject a persistent vulnerability into an Amazon AI coding tool by, uh, asking it to do it for them.
WiFi 8 is on its way. (Tom's Hardware)

Raw speeds are exactly the same as WiFi 7. Rather it's designed to deliver better real-world speeds by reducing errors and dropped packets in, uh, the real world.
How did GPD manage to cram a Ryzen AI Max 395+ and 128GB of RAM into a handheld device? Apparently they left out the battery. (The Verge)

Instead it draws power from either a large external battery or a 180W laptop charger.

Hope the oven mitts are coordinated.
Echelon home gym equipment can no longer be used without a monthly subscription, an internet connection, and probably government-issued photo ID stored on a public server. (Ars Technica)

Hackers are working on hacking it.

Musical Interlude

Song is Uptown Funk. Cartoon is RWBY.

Disclaimer: Best food fight scene since The Great Race.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:30 AM

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1 w00t

Posted by: m at July 26, 2025 04:31 AM (aURVT)

2 Morning!

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 26, 2025 04:32 AM (BLOW1)

3 >>> Meanwhile, Britain, which as of yesterday requires all its subjects to provide government-issued photo ID to view porn on Twitter

Oh, THAT won't be hacked.

Posted by: m at July 26, 2025 04:32 AM (aURVT)

4 And being a "women-only" app, it required users to upload government-issued photo ID for their protection. So a site dedicated to doxing other people just doxed all its own users.

Sad!

Posted by: bear with asymmetrical balls at July 26, 2025 04:33 AM (XLQLg)

5 Thanks, Pixy!

Posted by: m at July 26, 2025 04:33 AM (aURVT)

6 Seems all the news today was about people being stupid. So, same as it ever was. Anyway...

Posted by: clarence at July 26, 2025 04:47 AM (PlJ5c)

7
It's doxing all the way down.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 26, 2025 04:51 AM (Tv15w)

8 this ain't why "we" can't have nice things, it's why submoronic identitarians (but i repeat myself) can't have nice things.

Posted by: DenverGregg at July 26, 2025 04:52 AM (M4O8G)

9 One x or two?

dox (also doxx)
verb (doxes, doxing, doxed or doxxes, doxxing, doxxed)
[with object] informal
search for and publish private or identifying information about (a particular individual) on the internet, typically with malicious intent: hackers and online vigilantes routinely dox both public and private figures.
ORIGIN
early 21st century: alteration of docs, plural of doc1 (short for document).

Posted by: m at July 26, 2025 04:53 AM (aURVT)

10 RWBY - Uptown Funk

It started sounding like "Freak Out" a bit.

Posted by: m at July 26, 2025 04:54 AM (aURVT)

11
The two spacecraft doxxed, exchanged electronic fluids, then separated to cool off and enjoy a leisurely smoke.

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 26, 2025 04:56 AM (Tv15w)

12
Uptown funk
She's been shopin' 'round her uptown junk

Posted by: Krebs v Carnot: Epic Battle of the Cycling Stars (TM) Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh! Point&Laugh![ at July 26, 2025 04:58 AM (Tv15w)

13 What's up, Dox?

Posted by: m at July 26, 2025 05:00 AM (aURVT)

14 Morning, 'rons and 'ettes.

Posted by: olddog in mo at July 26, 2025 05:03 AM (hoCmQ)

15 Morning, Tech Peeps

Posted by: fluffy at July 26, 2025 05:06 AM (AN2gy)

16
g'mornin', 'rons

Posted by: AltonJackson at July 26, 2025 05:13 AM (tljrc)

17 Wow, things are slow tonight/this morning/whatever you want to call it.

Posted by: Thing From Snowy Mountain at July 26, 2025 05:16 AM (gHSfI)

18 Why is it that news related to computers and tech is usually bad news?

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2025 05:22 AM (2GCMq)

19 G'morning, all!''76.8 degrees, with a 76.5 dew point.

99%RH, and a heat index of 79 degrees already.

That's...moist.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 26, 2025 05:26 AM (a1415)

20 Psalm 139:13-18

Devotional by a man from TN about his mother in a memory care unit:

https://tinyurl.com/bdvxm5ym

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2025 05:26 AM (2GCMq)

21 >>> Why is it that news related to computers and tech is usually bad news?

That is an excellent question for ChatGPT.

Posted by: fluffy at July 26, 2025 05:30 AM (AN2gy)

22 >>> G'morning, all!''76.8 degrees, with a 76.5 dew point.

Dew point of 70 is gross. 75 is brutal.

Posted by: fluffy at July 26, 2025 05:32 AM (AN2gy)

23 Posted by: fluffy at July 26, 2025 05:30 AM (AN2gy)

LOL. I'd prefer not to chat with a GPT.

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2025 05:33 AM (2GCMq)

24 "Dew point of 70 is gross. 75 is brutal."

The type of morning where even your perspiration sweats.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 26, 2025 05:33 AM (a1415)

25 Three musicians perform a medley of hymns in front of a backdrop in OK

https://tinyurl.com/mtmwvjfk

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2025 05:35 AM (2GCMq)

26 Had the morning 4 mile walk done by 7:15am yesterday.

Yard work from 8:00-9:15am.

Some attic work to tidy up some stuff after that.

Pretty much by 10:00am you simply hunker down and stay in the A?C till late evening.

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 26, 2025 05:36 AM (a1415)

27 Vietnam Marine vet brings a happy memory to life:

Sunny Skyz site:

https://tinyurl.com/ym78ap4v

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2025 05:38 AM (2GCMq)

28 And with that, time for the walk.

BBIAB

Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 26, 2025 05:39 AM (a1415)

29 >>> And with that, time for the walk.

Try not to melt.

Posted by: fluffy at July 26, 2025 05:47 AM (AN2gy)

30 Thanks for the devotional about the man whose mama is in memory care, Fen. I sometimes take Holy Communion to patients in memory care. That's a good prayer to say before I visit.

Posted by: Mrs. Leggy at July 26, 2025 05:50 AM (dyL4B)

31 esp. for our schoolbus drivers here

Martin Pilgrim
@MartinPilgrim1
Jul 22
The Wheels on the Bus was written in 1937 but motorised buses date back to the 1890s. There was a forty year period where people were just getting on buses with no idea of what was going to happen.

Posted by: m at July 26, 2025 05:50 AM (aURVT)

32 Evening and morning, AoSHQ satellites! 'Tis Saturn's Day yet again. I carefully have not looked to see what kind of conditions are outside. I can't face that, not yet. Coffee first!

I've fed the furry thugs, and they are now doing their post-meal grooming. Truly I hate the media, as they have ruined that word. It used to mean "personal hygiene," or "training a specific person for a job." Now we have the "grooming gangs" and all that stuff. Grrrr.

Certainly I hate the people doing the actual exploitation. But they didn't *name* it "grooming," did they?

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 05:55 AM (omVj0)

33 wikipedia
ChatGPT is based on GPT foundation models that were fine-tuned for conversational assistance.

A generative pre-trained transformer (GPT) is a type of large language model (LLM) and a prominent framework for generative artificial intelligence.

Posted by: m at July 26, 2025 05:59 AM (aURVT)

34 Great. Big black Stirling cat just hoicked up his breakfast. The only good thing about it: He takes a while to get it done, so I can swoop down and slide him into the kitchen, where the tile floor makes it easy to clean up.

Is this an omen, or a metaphor for the day to come? Only time will tell.

Posted by: Wolfus Aurelius, Dreaming of Elsewhere at July 26, 2025 06:02 AM (omVj0)

35 Posted by: Mrs. Leggy at July 26, 2025 05:50 AM

You're welcome, Mrs. Leggy. I think it's wonderful that you bring Holy Communion to people in the Memory Care Unit. That's so important !

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2025 06:04 AM (2GCMq)

36 Posted by: m at July 26, 2025 05:50 AM (aURVT)

Thanks; I will let FenSpouse, the school bus driver, know

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at July 26, 2025 06:10 AM (2GCMq)

37 Maybe it's the other way around... when people do nice and normal things that don't wreck everyone's day, it isn't worth commenting on because we still somehow believe subconsciously that that's what's supposed to happen.

No news is good news, i guess. Who knows.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 26, 2025 06:10 AM (RlmPm)

38 They ought to call it the don't point.

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 26, 2025 06:12 AM (RlmPm)

39 37 Maybe it's the other way around... when people do nice and normal things that don't wreck everyone's day, it isn't worth commenting on because we still somehow believe subconsciously that that's what's supposed to happen.

No news is good news, i guess. Who knows.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 26, 2025 06:10 AM (RlmPm)

If it bleeds, it leads.

Posted by: m at July 26, 2025 06:12 AM (aURVT)

40 Me: "I guess I'll go do some weeding."

The atmosphere: "Don't."

Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 26, 2025 06:13 AM (RlmPm)

41 >>> Is this an omen, or a metaphor for the day to come?

You are overthinking. 'Tis simply one of the joyful moments of living in the service of house cats.

Posted by: fluffy at July 26, 2025 06:14 AM (AN2gy)

42 G'mornin' everyone!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at July 26, 2025 06:15 AM (dKEEs)

43 Ha!

38 They ought to call it the don't point.
Posted by: Warai-otoko at July 26, 2025 06:12 AM (RlmPm)

24 "Dew point of 70 is gross. 75 is brutal."
The type of morning where even your perspiration sweats.
Posted by: Village Idiot's Apprentice at July 26, 2025 05:33 AM (a1415)

Posted by: m at July 26, 2025 06:16 AM (aURVT)

44
Good morning, Hordians. Hope the rain holds off today. I'd like to get the lawn mowed.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 26, 2025 06:23 AM (HZi96)

45
Odd. When I show up here, suddenly everyone has something else to do.

Posted by: Hadrian the Seventh at July 26, 2025 06:35 AM (HZi96)

46 mornin yall. I'll ask the question that I ask Bruno every morning. What are we going to do today?

Posted by: fd at July 26, 2025 06:38 AM (vFG9F)

47 I know what Diamondrya Traneele Simmons is doing today. Trying to raise bail.

Posted by: fd at July 26, 2025 06:41 AM (vFG9F)

48 mornin yall. I'll ask the question that I ask Bruno every morning. What are we going to do today?
Posted by: fd at July 26, 2025 06:38 AM (vFG9F)
---
The same thing we do every day--try to take over the world!

Posted by: The Brain at July 26, 2025 06:42 AM (IBQGV)

49 >>> The same thing we do every day--try to take over the world!

Narf!

Zort!

Posted by: fluffy at July 26, 2025 06:43 AM (AN2gy)

50 I just got on and we are only at 46 comments. Must have been a roaring Friday night party somewhere.

Posted by: Cicero Skip at July 26, 2025 06:43 AM (JcXvW)

51 “ Blessed are the poor in spirit,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.
Blessed are those who mourn,
for they will be comforted.
Blessed are the meek,
for they will inherit the earth.
Blessed are those who hunger and thirst for righteousness,
for they will be filled.
Blessed are the merciful,
for they will be shown mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart,
for they will see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers,
for they will be called children of God.
Blessed are those who are persecuted because of righteousness,
for theirs is the kingdom of heaven.

Matthew 5:3-10

Posted by: Marcus T at July 26, 2025 06:45 AM (fB/cf)

52 I see AOC is going to have to pay for renting her "Tax The Rich" dress. She's about as classy as spats on a hobo.

Posted by: fd at July 26, 2025 06:48 AM (vFG9F)

53 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at July 26, 2025 06:50 AM (XQo4F)

54 18 Why is it that news related to computers and tech is usually bad news?
Posted by: FenelonSpoke

It takes hundreds of engineers several years to create a new iteration of a CPU. AMD does it every two years because they have multiple teams working at the same time.

It takes one guy a couple of days to screw up an application and spread users' private information all over the internet.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at July 26, 2025 06:56 AM (BLOW1)

55 How did GPD manage to cram a Ryzen AI Max 395+ and 128GB of RAM into a handheld device? Apparently they left out the battery. (The Verge)

Instead it draws power from either a large external battery or a 180W laptop charger.

Hope the oven mitts are coordinated.

The spec sheet says 45 - 75 watts TDP for it.
So they managed to gimp it to try keep the thermals under control.

Article also mentions it has two fans and four heat pipes.

Somebody will figure out how to get the TDP past 100 watts to get the full potential out of this APU and then they’ll have to come up with a way to play it without burning their hands.

GPD should’ve made the joysticks detachable like the Lenovo Legion handheld or the Nintendo Switch to solve that problem.

Might as well since it will need to be plugged into a wall anyhow.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 26, 2025 07:01 AM (6ydKt)

56 Good morning, good people, from the Adirondacks. The weather squeakers are in full whine about the "unbearable heat" now. We are in a different Jet Stream pattern that allows this so we have a vastly different Summer--hot, humid, lots of rain. It'll last until the Jet Stream changes again then they can mewl about it.

Meanwhile, may all effort from you result in maximal benefit to you, with the maximal heartburn going to the lefwit fungi who plague us.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at July 26, 2025 07:03 AM (hKoQL)

57 "Why is it that news related to computers and tech is usually bad news?

To err is human, to really foul things up requires a computer.

Posted by: fd at July 26, 2025 07:04 AM (vFG9F)

58 Re: ONT skydiving Cats

Early on in the 1960s space program, someone wondered about weightlessness, and Cats, and dutifully sent up about a half dozen or so of our feline overlords on the Air Force’s “Vomit Comet”, and luckily for us filmed the results for posterity. Naturally, it’s on the Tube that is You. Highly recommended.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 26, 2025 07:04 AM (M1o7r)

59 It's almost August and the news here is it's going to be hot. Also, the sky is blue and the Sun sets in the West.

Posted by: fd at July 26, 2025 07:06 AM (vFG9F)

60 Well, I certainly hope no one shoots my pussy into space.

Posted by: Mrs Slocumbe at July 26, 2025 07:08 AM (vFG9F)

61 58 Naturally, it’s on the Tube that is You.
Posted by: Common Tater at July 26, 2025 07:04 AM (M1o7r)

haha!

Posted by: m at July 26, 2025 07:10 AM (aURVT)

62 It's almost August and the news here is it's going to be hot. Also, the sky is blue and the Sun sets in the West.
Posted by: fd at July 26, 2025 07:06 AM (vFG9F)

And it’s not even a dry heat.
The closest I ever come to a dry heat around here is sticking my head in an oven in a dehumidified room.

Heat Index is supposed to hover around 110 for the next few days.

Then we’re back down to the low 90s for the rest of the week with a relatively mild “Feels Like” of 101.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 26, 2025 07:13 AM (6ydKt)

63 For the article about the Tea “hack”.

According to the user who revealed information on 4chan, the devs had apparently employed Google's Firebase for backend storage, and the buckets that contain chunks of data were set to public, which meant that there was no authentication when it came to accessing the contents of the storage. This allowed unauthorized data to surface over the internet, and it's all over X and Reddit now.

So they used the cloud to store this data, and then, like a dumbass amateur, forgot to set it to Private.

Is it really a hack if all the hacker had to do was figure out where the data bucket was and then access the publicly available data?

We blame computers & hackers but most of this stuff is easily preventable human error.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 26, 2025 07:23 AM (6ydKt)

64 High heat and high humidity sucks. Higher heat and low humidity sucks too. It’s like a hammer, at least at higher altitudes. The contrast between full shade and full sun is remarkable. Like, heat stroke versus “get thee under a blanket” remarkable.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 26, 2025 07:25 AM (M1o7r)

65 Nood Java Time.

Posted by: SpeakingOf at July 26, 2025 07:30 AM (6ydKt)

66 Spoiler: Cats, as a rule, do not appear to especially enjoy Weightlessness. At all.

While they have a well known general ability to deftly land on their feet, in a weightless environment this is …. problematic. Poor kitties.

Posted by: Common Tater at July 26, 2025 07:30 AM (M1o7r)

67 The Tea thing gets even wilder. They could either send a photo of their government issued ID which would be evaluated quicker, or send a selfie, which took longer but didn't have their home address on the front.

Except the selfies are geotagged...

Posted by: Voyager at July 26, 2025 08:40 AM (nmL8W)

68 “It’s also a gun!”

RWBY was so much better before Monty Oum died.

Posted by: Caiwyn at July 26, 2025 09:24 AM (Mc2lQ)

69 “It’s also a gun!”

RWBY was so much better before Monty Oum died.
Posted by: Caiwyn at July 26, 2025 09:24 AM (Mc2lQ)

Yes! It lost so much with his death. Sad to think of what the series might have been.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at July 26, 2025 10:07 AM (lFFaq)

70 I don't see how TEA can be anything other than a site to trash men (or expose bad men). What woman is going to give a man a good review, which only invites her sisters to vie for his attentions?

Posted by: Ameryx at July 26, 2025 10:25 AM (0rIWh)

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