Daily Tech News 13 June 2023

• Eight thousand subreddits have gone dark, ranging from r/funny with 40 million subscribers down to ones that shall remain nameless involving porn of specific individual Pokemon. Oh, and Reddit itself crashed. (The Verge)
  
  With every major subreddit with an ounce of self-respect banished to the Nether Realm, what's left of the self-described "front page of the internet" looks like something scrawled by Rachel Maddow's evil twin on the walls of her padded cell with what you only hope is a smuggled crayon.
  
  Even r/programming has vanished from view, and one of the moderators of that subreddit is u/spez, also known as Steve Huffman, for now the CEO of Reddit.
  
  Oops.

• Microsoft Edge sends the images you view online back to Microsoft. (NeoWin)
  
  That is not good.
  
  It's supposedly so that Microsoft can apply AI upscaling, which is as much a thing I asked for as ads in my Start menu.
  
  
  
• Intel has - again - shown off benchmarks proving that its new server CPUs are 7x faster than AMD's in workloads that everyone runs on GPUs anyway. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It's not entirely a waste of time, but it is almost entirely a waste of time. Particularly since the special functions needed for that performance are not even included in Intel's regular CPU models.
  
  
  
• AMD meanwhile is announcing its 128 core server CPUs today. (WCCFTech)
  
  Those will face up against Intel's latest 56 core models, and by face up I mean annihilate.
  
  
  
• The FTC is planning to block Microsoft's takeover of Activision Blizzard. (CNBC)
  
  Actilizard just chose to Budweiser itself, so perhaps time for Microsoft to step back from the troubled acquisition of a company that hasn't had a good reputation since 2002.
  
  
  
• There is no cloud, just other people's computers, managed by other people, and subject to other people's mistakes. (The Register)
  
  And sometimes those mistakes are doozies.

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