Daily Tech News 2 June 2023

• In the feel-good story of the day, Ella Irwin, Twitter's head inquisitor, successor to the odious Joel Roth, who survived the revolution that deposed former dictator Vijaya Gadde, has resigned. (Tech Crunch)
  
  As the article notes, the timing of Irwin's abrupt departure coincides with the debacle du jour of Twitter first welcoming and then censoring Matt Walsh's film How to Stump a Supreme Court Nominee.
  
  Though the article also notes that Irwin's brief tenure also saw Twitter welcoming "neo-Nazis", so it would appear that Tech Crunch is hiring meth heads straight off Skid Row, which while perhaps commendable as a form of social outreach is unlikely to improve editorial standards, or, this being Tech Crunch, unlikely to improve them much.

• Reddit is planning to charge lots of money for its API, just like Twitter. (The Verge)
  
  Not quite as lots, but still lots, with the cited number being $12,000 per 50 million API calls.
  
  As a baseline example, blockchain gateway Infura charges $1000 per month for 150 million API calls, while at the other end of the scale Twitter charges anything up to $2 per API call. Not $2 per million, $2 per call.
  
  A reasonably configured server should be able to handle 10 million API calls per day, meaning that Infura has something like an 80% margin to cover all their costs beyond the bare hardware, Reddit has around 99%, and Twitter 100%.
  
  Which used to be a lot.
  
  One Reddit user commented:
  
  They're digging their own grave.
  
  Reddit used to very much a bit player behind market leader Digg, until Digg released a hugely unpopular update and told users who complained to fuck off.
  
  And fuck off they did, in droves, to Reddit. I'm not sure if Digg is still alive.
  
  Update: Sort of. The top post on Digg right now links to a Reddit thread.
  
  
  
• Intel is planning to release 40 core Arrow Lake desktop chips next year. (WCCFTech)
  
  This year the company is not expected to release a new generation of desktop chips at all.
  
  Next year's 15th generation though should bring a substantial upgrade, though not all that substantial, as 32 out of those 40 cores will be half-speed quarter-size "Efficiency" cores.
  
  I'd much rather see 16P + 16E cores, but that would make for a substantially larger chip.
  
  
  

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