• Australia is moving closer to banning children from social media - which is impossible - after a story commission by the government showed that banning children from social media - which is impossible - is possible though they won't say how and admitted that there is no method that actually works.  (Bloomberg)  (archive site)
  
  This kind of bullshit gets routinely slapped down in the US on First Amendment grounds, but we don't have a First Amendment here.  We don't have any amendments.  Thanks (apparently) to the influence of "philosophers" like Jeremy Bentham around the time our constitution was being drafted, we don't have any negative rights at all.

  The trials project director, Tony Allen, said there were "no significant technological barriers" to stopping under-16s gaining social media accounts.

  This man has not only never met a teenager, he was apparently born fifty years old.

• The Crucial P510 is a "cheap" PCIe 5.0 SSD.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's 10% cheaper than Crucial's own T710, and 30% slower, and lacks a DRAM cache.
  
  Making it very close to twice the price Crucial's PCIe 4.0 T500 - which I have and which works perfectly well - for a likely unnoticeable speed improvement.
  
  
  
• AMD's Ryzen 9000G has been put to the test and offers an unnoticeable speed improvement over the 8000G for its integrated graphics.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Which was expected because it's the desktop version of a laptop chip that we know needs fast memory to get the full use out of its integrated GPU, and with regular desktop memory it doesn't have that.
  
  Of more interest is how it performs in CPU tasks with its 4 Zen 5 and 8 Zen 5c cores, against the existing chips with 8 Zen 4 cores.
  
  The matching laptop chips show a 15% speed gain but it might do better with a desktop power budget.  Or not.
  
  
  
• SpaceX's Starship 10 probably won't launch this month.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Oops.
  
  
  

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