Daily Tech News 14 July 2023

• If you have a VanMoof (who?) e-bike and are worried about getting locked out of the app now that the company is in administration, a friendly Cowboy has ridden to the rescue. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Of course there's an app.
  
  There is a way to use these bikes without the app but some of the functionality is missing. Now though there are at least three third-party apps to choose from, none of them depending on the continued existence of corporate servers.

• Twitter has started delivering on its promised revenue sharing payments to top accounts subscribed to Twitter Blue. (The Verge)
  
  Left Twitter in a huff after Elon took charge? Congratulations, you just missed out on upwards of $10,000.
  
  
  
• Reddit has scrapped gold. (The Verge)
  
  As usual for Reddit, without warning and without any alternative.
  
  Reddit let you buy virtual coins to give awards to users for good posts. They just shut down that very popular system with zero notice.
  
  I'd already stopped buying coins after Reddit set itself on fire, so maybe it wasn't that popular anymore.
  
  
  
• AMD won't follow in Intel's footsteps with P cores and E cores. At least, not on the desktop. (WCCFTech)
  
  And we're not likely to see more than 16 cores in mainstream CPUs anytime soon, because two memory channels doesn't provide enough bandwidth to warrant it.

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