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Guaranteed to fit every time. eBay. Things people love. This is the Daily Tech News for Wednesday, February 5th, 2025. We tell you what you need to know, follow up on the context of stories, and try to help each other understand. Today, Roger Chang tells us about mini PCs. We address an open letter in our subreddit from TechnoMench and more from your emails. I'm Tom Merritt. I'm Jen Cutter. Let's start with what you need to know with the big story.
So, every once in a while, I find it necessary to cover why I'm not covering a story that a lot of people want me to cover.
And today is one of those days. Longtime and very trusted member of our community, TechnoMench, posted an open letter to the DTNS subreddit with a plea for me to cover more of the stories coming out of the U.S. presidential administration. It's well-intentioned. It's an honest request. He only threw a little bit of shade at me. So I'm going to address it by talking about what I think is asked for and explain why I haven't covered it.
On Monday, we did mention a story in Wired about some of the people working for the U.S. Department of Government Efficiency. That department runs out of the U.S. Digital Service, which is a non-congressionally appointed advisory group that was first set up by President Obama in 2014. So that's something to understand is this kind of thing, this kind of department itself is not new. They date back into the 60s and 70s. So the existence of an advisory
advisory, non-congressionally appointed group isn't the controversy here. Tuesday, Jason asked if we should cover this more, and we decided we should. Here's what that story, that Wired story is, and some of the other stories that Tech Dimension published to our subreddit. And I'm going to give an estimation of what I think the tech content is, and in the end, why I haven't been covering these for you.
So the Wired story focuses on a 25-year-old engineer named Marco Elez. Three sources told Wired that Elez, who previously worked for SpaceX and X, allegedly had access to Treasury Department systems, the U.S. Department of Treasury. Now, that would include systems that make payments for the U.S. government, which is, of course, what the Treasury does.
Two of the sources say that he has permission to write code on the Payment Automation Manager and the Secure Payment System at the Bureau of the Fiscal Service, or the BFS. Wired also looked at his GitHub history and found that he's got experience with distributed systems, recommendation engines, and machine learning. Also, other sources told Wired that he has admin privileges and visited a Kansas City office which houses BFS systems.
That story also notes that some of the other people working for the Department of Government Efficiency are young and describes the kinds of harms that can come from someone who abuses admin access to systems. They haven't been shown to abuse it. Wired is saying when you have admin access, you could do these kinds of things if you wanted to. On the same topic as the Wired story, Politico reports that Treasury Secretary Scott Besant
authorized access to the payment system to be given to Tom Krause. Now, Tom Krause is the CEO of Cloud Software Group. He is also working for Treasury. So he is an actual government congressionally appointed agency employee. And he is the official government liaison with the Department of Government Efficiency.
A source told Politico that there are safeguards in place that give anyone from outside Treasury read-only access. That would prevent them from making changes to the payments system. So different sources are saying different things about the level of access here.
As previously reported on DTNS, Senator Ron Wyden has posted about this on Blue Sky and acting Treasury Secretary David Lebrecht resigned. Now, originally, I just reported that he resigned over these incidents, which is true. But I did not note that he was placed on administrative leave before he resigned. So.
That probably played into his resignation as well. I think Politico has some of the best reporting on this issue that I've read. This is about fighting fraud in the payment systems. Allegedly, that's what the department is saying they want the access for is they want to root out fraud. Politico has a very good article talking about what kind of fraud there is, what kind of fraud prevention there has been in the past.
This is a story about government personnel. It's maybe about financial fraud, but in my opinion, it's not technology. There's a lot of reporting about what could happen if tech access is abused, but not what has happened.
And the bulk of the story is about whether people should have certain jobs or should have certain access. These are important issues. I'm not trying to minimize that. They are important issues not only for the citizens of the U.S., but have implications beyond its borders. In my opinion, these aren't tech stories right now.
Wired also has an in-depth article about the appointees to the Office of Personnel Management. This story is largely about their personalities, about what their loyalties are, and for the most part is also not about technology. For example, plans have now been detailed in a memo to convert roles such as chief information officers from career appointments to general, meaning they would be considered political appointments.
And they could be more easily replaced when a new party took over the executive branch. They could also be replaced more easily by the existing administration. That is also an important story, but it's an important political, non-technological story. It's about personnel. It's about politics. It's about running of the government.
There's also some reporting about allegations that an email server was installed without going through proper security vetting and therefore potentially could compromise the data of federal employees. Now, that is a technology story if you can find good information about what happened. But the story is very vague in its details and is also right now more about possibilities rather than anything that has happened yet.
There's also other stories here. There's reporting on an email asking employees to alert the email address DEIATruth at OPM.gov about employees working on diversity and inclusion initiatives. Another story talks about removing a feature in Office 365 that automatically included pronoun preferences. Again, these are both important stories, but other than involving an email address and an office feature, they're not particularly technological.
Other links posted to our subreddit had no tech side, at least from my opinion. One was about a website exposing information about government workers. Again, an important story, but long ago, being a website didn't count for me as tech coverage.
You can reasonably disagree with me about all of these choices and should express that if you do. But in the end, I have to make my own decisions. I've gained the trust of a lot of you not to inflame things unnecessarily and be a place you can hear things away from exaggeration. I have to make these kinds of calls to maintain that. And in times like these, it's going to aggravate plenty of people. That's not new to me. I had the exact same situation.
When people were pressuring me to cover secretary Clinton's email server, which aside from being an email server had very little tech content, there wasn't that much that was technologically interesting about it. Now I know a lot of you have expressed appreciation that we don't stray into politics unless it is firmly within the tech of a story. And I always must fight my own biases and may occasionally stray too far away from things in an effort to maintain that, but I'm doing my best to,
If I think a story is undercovered, I will pay extra attention to it. But if it's covered well elsewhere, which I think all of these are, I may lean against it.
One other signal I look for is who is covering it to kind of correct for my own bias. If it's like, who the verge, ours, Technica tech crunch, they all are covering this. Then even if I don't like it, I may think, you know what? I probably have to pay attention to it. Most of the reporting and some of the best reporting on these stories are from political sources like Politico. I find almost none from sources who cover technology as their core source.
That indicates to me that this is still a political story, that I'm not wrong about that. And if that's the case, you need to go to excellent political sources to get information about them. I can recommend a few. Jen Briney does a fantastic job on Congressional Dish covering what Congress does and what these appointments mean and what the Department of Governmental Efficiency is and is not from a governmental point of view.
Go to PX3, Politics, Politics, Politics, with Justin Robert Young. He covers this when it's important to the political side and what's going on with people inside the campaigns and what this means for elections. There's good info that is well covered from people I trust out there, not to mention lots of other sources out there that are covering this. There's no lack of information about this. Jen, am I crazy? Oh, I think we all feel a little crazy right now.
Even on the Canadian side, we all grow up knowing tons of American news all the time. I think people know American news more than Ontario news. Like we have an election coming up and it is kind of not being covered as much because of all this worldwide stuff. But
We've both been journalists for a long time, and we generally do have to stay in the scope that we've chosen. If I was writing local events, then I would be covering way more of this stuff, but I'm not. I am here to cover tech, and as much as I would love all of the people I trust to sound off on this, I know I need to kind of stay in my wheelhouse here and give the people what they trust me for.
Yeah, I like to think that we are somewhat of a safe harbor sometimes from being overwhelmed. You can know that, you know, we're in a little bit, we're going to talk about a router vulnerability. We're going to talk about, you know, Sonos maybe making a TV streaming device. And those things are of interest, or if those things are of interest to you, definitely.
You should be able to think like, oh, you know what? I can get a break from the over coverage of things when you come here. That doesn't mean I want to shy away when it is essential to technology, when it's going to affect how you use technology, when it's going to help you understand technology, which is the mission of the show. But I try to not overdo it and cover it when it's not central to that.
even if it's really important. I think that's the thing that's getting people like, yes, but this is super important. And like you say, they want to hear people they trust talk about things they think are super important. I understand that. Well, one last thing. Scientific American published an article called How to Avoid Outrage, Fatigue, and Tune In Without Burning Out. We'll have a link to that in the show notes. It's a good read for me. Maybe it's a good read for you as well. I would also like to highly recommend that.
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Gray noise now reports seeing exploitation in the wild. The CPE series is several years past end of life, but network scanning shows about 1,500 of them still active on the internet. Zixel said, we strongly recommend that users replace them with newer generation products for optimal protection.
These kinds of stories are tricky because on the one hand, I would prefer they gave an update to this vulnerability. On the other hand, I also know that it's hard to continue to maintain things long after their end of life. And there are open source alternatives for these kinds of products that people could put in. $1,500 isn't that bad as these stories go, but it's still too much. So it's good to make people aware that this needs to be patched or removed from a network.
Yeah, I always, whenever I see these stories, it's like, oh no, do I have one of these? Okay, not yet. But I also know it's coming. Yep. The longer you keep a device, the bigger the chance that something like this might happen.
The Verge reports that Sonos is planning to launch a streaming TV device later this year in the $200 to $400 price range, which might make it one of the most expensive streaming TV boxes on the market, if not the most, depending on where they put that price. The Verge got a look at it. Verge says it is a black box, slightly thicker than a deck of cards, running Android.
and a very pretty interface by their account designed by Sonos supporting Sonos voice control. It will also have HDMI switching functions. So it's not just a streamer. You can do HDMI pass-through, and that kind of maybe will take one other box out of your setup. And of course, it will work with Sonos speakers for surround sound as well.
Yeah, but Sonos software, though, it's kind of been a big question mark lately and made some of the longtime fans a little touchy about perhaps investing in new Sonos equipment. Yeah, the app has not won a lot of confidence. The interface is pretty. How will it work?
The European Commission announced Wednesday that it will investigate China's Xi'an over violation of consumer protection rules. The Rule of Law Commissioner Michael McGrath said, 96% of products tested and sold on these platforms are not fully compliant with our rules and safety standards. The Commission cited examples of choking hazards, unsafe electrical appliances, and chemical hazards in clothing.
4.6 billion low-value consignments, with a value not exceeding 150 euros, enter the market in 2024, double the amount in 2023. The EU has been considering removing a rule that exempts those low-value packages from customs charges. The US recently removed a similar exemption for packages coming from China.
During its earnings report Tuesday, Alphabet said its Google division will spend $75 billion this year on capital expenditures. That's an increase meant to build data centers and servers to improve its competitive position with OpenAI and other makers of generative models. It's a lot of money, too. Not everybody who invests in Alphabet was pleased to hear they're going to spend that much money.
However, Google's revenue is still up 12%. That's slower than the same quarter last year. Google Cloud revenue rose 30%. That's still going in the right direction, but analysts had expected 35%. YouTube satisfied expectations with 13.8% growth in ad revenue. That's a new high. Not announced in the earnings call, though.
was a change to Google's website, which removed a section of its AI principles page called Applications We Will Not Pursue. That had included a reference to weapons. A new section of its AI principles now reads that Google will, and I'll quote here, mitigate unintended or harmful outcomes and avoid unfair bias. Also aligned with, quote, widely accepted principles of international law and human rights.
China's state administration for market regulation is the latest to consider an investigation into Apple's policy of taking a 30% cut of in-app payments for digital goods. The cut does not apply to apps selling digital banking or physical goods.
Tencent and ByteDance particularly have lodged complaints about the practice. Bloomberg says the administration is talking to Apple executives. Yeah, the tone of the Bloomberg article was very much, I feel like they're going to work this out, right? Like Apple has good relations with the Chinese government and they'll probably figure out something. But I wonder what that will be.
Will it be an agreement to loosen up the restrictions? Will it be an agreement for third-party app markets for Tencent? I'm curious to see how this does resolve. Yeah, the phrase just talking to, it's like not summoned. It's just talking right now. Yeah, they're just having coffee or tea or something.
Uber has opened a waitlist for customers in Austin, Texas, to sign up for rides with driverless Waymo vehicles later this year. This is similar to Waymo's operation in Los Angeles in that it's restricted to a central area of the city, although Waymo's operation in Los Angeles does not use Uber. You book directly with Waymo.
Waymo and Uber are also partnering in Atlanta, so there should be a service launching there. Tuesday, Uber reported revenue was up 20% and trips up 18%, but it did forecast slower growth in the coming quarter. AMD had a good earnings report with revenue up 24% and data center revenue, where it sells chips to cloud and AI service, rising 69%. Still, the data center revenue was below expectations, while PC and gaming revenue were above.
AMD still lags behind NVIDIA and data centers, but made big gains on Intel in the PC market. Yeah, AMD's position is really interesting right now. They haven't passed Intel, but they're gaining.
And they're doing well in the parts of the market that aren't growing as fast, which isn't bad, but it isn't great for them. They really want to catch up to NVIDIA, and that's a tall order. Even with all the deep-seek panic that happened, there's still a lot of chip orders going out there, and most of them are still going to NVIDIA.
Microsoft announced its Build Conference will run from May 19th to May 22nd in Seattle. The company did not hint at what it might announce, but you could safely expect some new AI announcements, possibly some Surface hardware, too. We'll see. Former Microsoft employee Panos Panay will host an announcement by April.
Amazon in New York City on February 26th. He now leads Amazon's devices and services team. So that sounds like we might get that updated voice assistant that everybody has been hoping for if you try to use her right now.
I'm hoping for some new Surface. I would love a good Surface. So far, nothing's been like, oh, I need that. I would love to have that, oh, I need that feeling again. Yeah, no, I get you. Surface devices, Microsoft's walking a weird line there, right? They don't want to out-compete their partners, but they also want to provide you good reference hardware. And I've had a Surface device in the past, and they were really good. It would be great if they were great. You know what I mean? Definitely. Definitely.
And one more announcement of an announcement. Nintendo announced it will give everyone a closer look at the Switch 2 on Wednesday, April 2nd at 9 a.m. Eastern Time. The Nintendo Direct Stream may also announce new games for the Switch 2. All right, that's all the announcements. We're going to finish up with some Gartner estimates about worldwide semiconductor revenue. Chip sales rose 18.1% in 2024. That's no surprise with all the data centers being built.
Samsung took back the lead spot, though. You be forgiven for thinking that Samsung had fallen so far behind with all the consternation they've been having internally and difficulties with their CEO. But they are now the top chip seller for 2024, according to Gartner, bumping Intel to second, mostly thanks to strong memory sales. Samsung is one of the world's leading makers of memory and memory prices recovered.
Nvidia came in right behind Samsung and Intel at number three and SK Hynix, another Korean company also improved to number four that push Qualcomm down two places to number five. I wouldn't over-interpret that Qualcomm fell farther than Intel because Intel has farther to fall. But I would say pay attention to SK Hynix. They are, they're on the move and selling more chips all the time. Though,
Those are the essentials for today. Let's dive a little deeper in the ongoing stories and follow up on something. Back in December, our producer Roger Chang wrote a Patreon column about why he was excited to get the new Beelink SCR5 mini PC. But then he followed up last week with a column about why he returned it. So are mini PCs a bad idea? Not necessarily. Roger told us why.
So, Roger, thanks for talking about this again. I know people should probably go to the Patreon column if they really want to get all the details, but I figure a lot of people may not quite understand what we're talking about. So why did you get the mini PC, the Beelink SCR5? What was attractive about it in the first place? So there are two things. I was originally in the market for a new PC laptop or a newer PC laptop, and
And I was trolling all the Black Friday sales sites, and Amazon actually had one, but I
I was scrolling through and I also saw that they had this mini PC and it's, uh, a very small PC. It's about the size of two, uh, 12 ounce cans of sodas together. Um, and what attracted to, attracted it to me, one was the price. It was 300 bucks, uh, to the specifications. It was an AMD Ryzen seven 5,800 H, uh, 32 gigs of Ram with, uh, either a one or five, 12 gig, uh, S, uh, MVME. Uh,
Also, it was just a very small form factor that seemed very, very easy to integrate into my existing setup without having to move a lot of existing equipment out of the way to accommodate it. Because the idea with the mini PC is you have to provide the peripherals, the keyboard, monitor, and all that.
and all that. Exactly. But you pay less and get pretty good specs, it sounds like. You get pretty good specs. I don't need a new monitor. I got four monitors or three monitors. I have five keyboards and I have an untold number of mice. So that wasn't what I needed. What I needed was the computing portion of it. And it seemed like it fit the bill. I needed something to have as a backup to the Dell workstation I typically use for all the DTNS stuff.
One, because I always like having a backup. Not with this machine, but the machine I replaced with my current Dell workstation had a couple of instances where either the power supply or one of the drives conked out during the middle of the week, and it was very stress-inducing trying to get it back up and running in order to accomplish all the work. So I just wanted some sort of solution.
of safety net. Yeah. And you get, you got a decent price. You got good specs. You were very enthusiastic in your column in December about it. And it sounds like you're not like totally like saying it's bad. Why did you end up returning it?
I ended up returning it because for two specific reasons. One, Joe and I, Joe, the individual behind the scenes who sets up our streaming and produces all that aspect of it, we couldn't figure out what was causing my video artifacting in the show while using it. And I went through a number of issues. I decrypted my drives. I turned off BitLocker. I did a number of things that we could not fix.
that visual artifacting on the tools we use. So, I mean, that was a big strike because I can't really do the show if I'm looking kind of weird. Yeah, so it's a specific use case for you. Was there anything else? If somebody's like, well, I don't do shows, sounds great to me. Two was the noise. So once... Okay. It uses a laptop fan to cool it. And if you're doing most tasks...
It's fine. It's actually very quiet. But because I do live streaming while also recording the video through StreamYard OBS,
It's taxing the processor. It's not that the processor can't take it. It's just generating a lot of heat. So the fan really cranks up and you hear it. And more people are going to run into that. Even if they don't do streaming, they might do something else that's CPU intensive. If you do, for example, I was using Premiere Pro with it. And for most cases, it worked fine. But once you started doing 4K video or you were exporting...
It was definitely noticeable. The fan was really noticeable. And I don't know if it's just my ears, but it just hit that frequency that I found very annoying. I thought I could live with it for a week, but at the end of the week, I felt like... Yeah, it was sort of annoying. It's like having a car alarm that you think you can sort of ignore, but it's like car alarm again. And it was sort of that...
And those were really the only two issues. Everything else I found actually I really liked about it. Again, it was small. It actually comes with a VESA bracket. So if you wanted to and you had a VESA-compatible monitor, you can actually bolt it to the back of the monitor. Oh, VESA, the standard for attaching things to monitors and displays and stuff. Like TVs. A lot of TVs have that, too.
A lot of TVs you can mount it on the wall. Well, it uses that to mount itself to the back of your monitor. So you can effectively have like an all-in-one unit keeping a very clean space. Very powerful for what it is. It's essentially the guts of a very powerful laptop without the laptop screen.
And if you're fine with that, and most people generally are, they're very affordable workstations. If you need to outfit, say, four or five people with a low-cost but very functional Windows, and I will add this, it comes with Windows 11 Pro pre-installed with a legitimate key. Yeah, okay, good. And you need all that, and you just need to set people up. It's like $300, $350, $350.
It's perfect. You do office work. You do any kind of light photo editing, any light video editing. It's perfect for that. So that's the Beelink SER5, which didn't work for you, but it sounds...
Because of your specific situation, if you had a different situation, you might have been satisfied with it. What would you say to people interested in mini PCs in general? What if they're not able to find this or they don't want to spend the money on Beelink because they don't know the company, but they're interested in mini PCs? Like what else would you tell people?
There are a number of manufacturers that make them. I will say that Asus, Zotac, and a few other well-known brands make what they call mini PCs. They're basically PCs that are smaller than
than a small form factor PC. But they are pretty expensive because they're outfitted with discrete GPUs that allow you to do moderate to high-end gaming on a very small platform. But you're going to be paying at least a grand or more. Still less than you would pay for a complete system in some cases, but not the $300 one.
Yeah. Screaming.
But because there are so many of them running under different brand names, it's hard to say which ones specifically. B-Link GMK is another one that's good. They're both ODMs. They used to make these for other companies.
I know Ace Magician had a hard time because their small mini PCs was credited with having a bunch of malware pre-installed on it. And a lot of people kind of shied away from mini PCs as a category to look at because of that. But I would just say that...
that's sort of relegated to that one specific company. Uh, but do follow up on reviews, check out the subreddits. There is a mini PC, uh, subreddit and there's a, there's a vigorous, uh, vigorous, uh, uh, conversation going on about the best mini PCs, which ones are the most reliable, which ones are the safest in terms of, uh, uh, software, no malware, things like that. Um,
Honestly, if I didn't have the use cases I had, yeah, I would have totally kept it because it was a great machine. It booted up quickly. It shut off quickly. It was everything you wanted in a machine. Unfortunately, it was just those two issues that really kind of nixed the deal.
uh, on that. And if you want to read more, the Roger has more details on this. If you're like, I still have questions. I still have one. I know more about how he got it or, or what he was doing with it. Uh, go check out his columns. It's Rogers two cents at patrion.com slash DTNS. Thanks, Roger. Thank you. You can join in the conversation in our discord, which you can link your Patreon to, to join up. So become a patron at patrion.com slash DTNS.
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Yeah, so we were talking yesterday about the Tapestry app and how it pulls in things from multiple areas, RSS feeds, Blue Sky. Josh writes, just a quick note that as I was listening to the show about Tapestry, I opened up Feedly to see, and then he linked to Feedly's app.
import blue sky feeds into your feedly link so uh yes tapestry is very pretty it's a mobile app it's for ios uh but feedly's over there going like hey me too josh writes great minds think alike
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