Daily Tech News 7 February 2022

• Not directly tech-related but it played out on Twitter so I'm going to snipe it. (Also there's not that much tech news today.)
  
  Overnight all sorts of awful crimes broke out at the Freedom Convoy in Ottawa... Unless they didn't.
  
  

  Matais. I oversee the @OttawaPolice Arson Unit.
  
  Can you DM me your cellphone number so we can initiate an investigation.
  
  Thanks...Jim

  — Jim_Elves 🇨🇦 (@Jim_Elves) February 7, 2022

  
  
  And suddenly the person tweeting out his tale of attempted mass murder went very, very silent.
  
  
  

• Also the head of government-funded Antihate.ca got caught, well, making shit up.
  
  

  That said racist and antisemitic posters and flyers have now been seen by others. 2/2

  — BernieFarber (@BernieFarber) February 6, 2022

  
  
  His "friend" said he saw the flyer in Ottawa... And then downloaded an existing photo from Twitter and sent it to him because, um, he didn't have access to Twitter to post it himself. Or a phone to take a picture, apparently.
  
  But although that one was fake, he definitely has others that are real. Except he doesn't because he's not there, but trust him.
  
  Story checks out.
  
  
  
• The Freedom Convoy fundraiser on GiveSendGo has passed $4 million, despite an ongoing DDOS attack. Their servers are still kind of broken but clearly some people are getting through.
  
  
  
• The CEO of Spotify is still trying to split the baby. (Today)
  
  He apologises to the haters of Joe Rogan and to his own staff, says that Spotify is keeping Rogan anyway, and offers to pour $100 million down the drain of "marginalised" artists.
  
  This is gonna end well.
  
  Spotify was never a good company, and I'm assuming Rogan got his money and can walk if the house of cards collapses. I hear CNN is going have a whole lot of vacancies soon.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile the big advantage of Web3 is that it's decentralised and no-one has control and you can't cancel people oh wait.
  
  

  True Names Limited (TNL), the nonprofit that funds and organises development on @ensdomains, has terminated the contract of Brantly Millegan effective today.

  — nick.eth (@nicksdjohnson) February 7, 2022

  
  
  Apparently for the crime of suggesting that it would be nice if people didn't murder quite so many babies.
  
  
  
• Intel's i5-1240P is faster than an i7-1195G7. (WCCFTech)
  
  By quite a good margin. Which is to be expected, because the 1240P is a 12-core (4 fast cores + 8 slow cores) 12th generation chip and the 1195G7 is a 4-core 11th gen chip.
  
  The 14-core 1280P meanwhile (6+8 ) comes in just behind AMD's new 6900HX in multi-threaded tests. But the 6900HX is an eight-core part, so that's not exactly a win for Intel.
  
  On single-threaded tests Intel's 12th gen leads by 10% over AMD and 20% over their own 11th generation.
  
  Also, the 1280P is a 28W part, and Intel's prior 28W lineup only went to 4 cores. So there should be some much more capable thin-and-light laptop models this year.
  
  
  
• Largely pointless benefits aren't going to keep tech workers happy. (ZDNet)
  
  75% of managers want to work from the office. 34% of staff do. That's a problem in an industry struggling to find skilled workers.
  
  We're 100% remote at work, and it makes it a lot easier to find and retain staff.
  
  
  
• Will remote tech workers tolerate being monitored? No. (ZDNet)
  
  Betteridge's law never fails.
  
  
  
• What will keep tech workers happy then? (ZDNet)
  
  1. Money.
  2. A company that isn't run by idiots.
  
  American Big Tech is in for a world of hurt.
  
  
  

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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