Daily Tech News 10 February 2023

• GitLab has announced it is laying of 7% off its staff, blaming it on a "tough macroeconomic environment". (GitLab)
  
  Sure. It's totally that our idiot leaders have destroyed the world's economy and not because you're getting your lunch eaten by your major compet-
  
  
  
• GitLab's major competitor GitHub is closing offices and laying off 10% of its staff. (Twitter)
  
  Global recession it is.
  
  
  
• Yahoo is laying off 20% of its staff. (Axios)
  
  Yahoo still exists?
  
  
  
• Holocure 0.5 is out, with Hololive Japan's Gen 1 and Gen 2. The next update is confirmed to include all three generations of Hololive Indonesia - the game's creator confirmed it in chat while HoloID Gen 3's resident penguin Kaela Kovalskia was playing the game.
  
  This is a fan-made game inspired by the indie hit Vampire Survivors. It's free and it's fun, which is not a common combination these days.
  
  
  

• Need a 2TB M.2 2230 SSD for your Steam Deck or Surface Pro? Framework has them. (Frame.work)
  
  Yes, the laptop company. No, the laptop doesn't use 2230 drives - they'll fit but won't lock into place - but since they already buy tons of SSDs and 2230 drives are hard to find at retail, why not make a few bucks selling just the SSDs?
  
  I have two Dell laptops that have empty 2230 drive bays that could use these... Except they're not cheap at $299 for 2TB.
  
  
  
• Intel's 24 core Sapphire Rapids Xeon W workstation CPU is 12% faster than AMD's 24 core Zen 3 Threadripper. (WCCFTech)
  
  That's not amazing, but it's not completely terrible. Except that makes it less than 20% faster than AMD's Ryzen 7950X or Intel's own 13900K, and it will be a lot more than 20% more expensive.
  
  
  
• Those Xeon W CPUs have power ratings up to 350W, which is a lot. (WCCFTech)
  
  But this is Intel, and their 125W CPUs use up to 300W already. The 350W models use 600W, or 900W if you over clock them.
  
  Toasty.
  
  
  

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