Daily Tech News 9 March 2024

• Apple has reinstated Epic Games' developer account as abruptly and with as little discussion as they terminated it in the first place. (Epic Games)
  
  Guess multi-billion-dollar fines have that effect.

• Dating app Bumble lost a third of its Texas workforce after - operative word, after - Texas passed abortion restrictions. (Tech Crunch)
  
  I wonder if there could have been any other contributing factors.
  
  
  
• Dating app Bumble laid off a third of its staff amid mounting losses. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Huh.
  
  
  
• Need a reasonably priced switch with 20 2.5Gb ports, four 10Gb ports, and two 40Gb ports? MikroTik's catchily named CRS326-4C+20G+2Q+RM might fit the bill. (Serve the Home)
  
  With the 40Gb ports that's a pretty good deal for an MSRP of $999.
  
  It also has console and management ports, and can even act as a router, though its processor is relatively slow and the routing throughput is sub-gigabit.
  
  
  
• TSMC is set to receive $5 billion in "incentives" from the CHIPS act for its planned fab expansion in Arizona. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That's against a total cost for this project of $40 billion, so your tax dollars are probably not being completely flushed down the drain.
  
  
  
• Fine tune a 70B AI model at home. (Answer.AI)
  
  All you need is two RTX 4090s.
  
  
  
• It's not just you: Even Google can't make WiFi work. (Reuters)
  
  Staff and Google's newest 600,000 square foot office space have been advised to work from the cage next door if they need network access.

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