Daily Tech News 22 July 2023

• Instagram's Twitter rival Threads definitely totally isn't dead, yet. (Tech Crunch)
  
  This is a response to a Wall Street Journal article reporting that daily user logins are down by 70% and the duration of those logins is also down by 75%, so total user activity is down by more than 90%.
  
  Which is not the trend you want to see on your brand new platform.
  
  I pointed out previously when Threads crossed the 100 million user mark that the platform had fewer than 100 million posts total, so most of those users weren't doing anything at all. Twitter's userbase averages 2 to 3 posts per day - and that's after 17 years, when the shine of a new platform has definitely worn off.
  
  
  

• If you ask the new AI-powered search engines - Bing with ChatGPT and Google with it's home-grown Bard - for buying recommendations for computer hardware, they will point you to products that don't exist, and so does this article. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It mentions AMD's 7950 XTX, which is not something you can buy anywhere.
  
  
  
• AMD's Threadripper Pro 7985WX is also not something you can buy, but someone out there has one because it's showing up in benchmark data. (WCCFTech)
  
  Zen 4 Threadripper and Threadripper Pro chips are expected to be available this quarter. There were never any Zen 3 regular Threadrippers, just the more expensive Threadripper Pro models.
  
  
  
• What is Reddit CEO Steve Huffman-Fried doing? (The Verge)
  
  Making friends and influencing people.
  
  Just like Hitler.

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