Welcome to the TechBrew Ride Home for Monday, November 24th, 2025. I'm Brian McCullough today.

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of capacity for specific types of chips. Here's what you miss today in the world of tech.

Over the weekend, the internet was all a flutter about this new feature from X called About This Account,

which lets users see the country or region where an X account is based by tapping the sign-up date on that profile.

The Flutter was about the fact that some top accounts were revealed to be based in countries like Russia, India, and Nigeria.

Quoting the verge, head of product at X, Nikita Beer, was quick to say that there were, quote,

a few rough edges, but promise they'd be resolved by Tuesday. There have definitely been complaints

about inaccuracies. The company even ended up removing information about where an account was created,

saying the data was not 100%, especially for older accounts. The reaction from users on X was,

of course, totally level-headed. They immediately recognized that the data was flawed and

definitely didn't spend the last 24 hours trying to score political points. Just kidding, people on X have done almost nothing

but shout that accounts they disagree with are actually foreign operatives. Even users who have

publicly complained that the information on their own profile was inaccurate, continued on

to make bad faith posts about how their political opponents were running a foreign sciop. The inaccurate data could have several causes, people who travel or outlets with staff

scattered around the globe might appear to be based somewhere other than where they actually are,

at least temporarily. If someone uses a VPN, it could affect where X shows their location.

Some of it could just be old IP addresses.

At the time of this writing, Hank Green's account is listed as being based in Japan.

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