Daily Tech News 30 April 2024

• The FTC has ordered Razer - a computer and mouse manufacturer - to refund all customers of the Razer Zephyr and pay a $100,000 fine. (The Verge)
  
  The Razer Zephyr - for those who do not move in the idiot community - was an RGB N95 mask for the COVID-phobic who really wanted to show off their mental issues.
  
  Except it wasn't N95. As far as I can tell, it wasn't anything.
  
  I'm against the refunds on the simple principle that anyone dumb enough to buy one of these things deserves to be punished.
  
  The fine can stay though.

• Co-working space company WeWork - once valued at $40 trillion or some other equally ridiculous number - is planning to emerge from Chapter 11 bankruptcy after raising fresh capital and creating a plan to pay off some part of its $4 billion in debt. (Business Insider)
  
  Though certainly not all of it.
  
  Adam Neumann, former WeWork CEO and the guy who landed it in bankruptcy with $4 billion in debt in the first place, offered to buy its remains for $650 million.
  
  The remains declined to be bought.
  
  
  
• Hitting every branch on the way down. (Rachel by the Bay)
  
  Programming do be like that sometimes.
  
  Most of the time.
  
  Every fucking day, really.
  
  
  
• Motherboard makers apparently to blame for high-end Intel Core i9 CPU failures, says Intel. (Ars Technica)
  
  Another garbage article from the Ars Technocrats, and they are getting roasted in the comments.
  
  Shorter version: It turns out that running desktop CPUs at 500W is bad. Who knew? Intel knew. And they are trying to shift the blame to their motherboard partners for helping Intel fake benchmark results.
  
  Lower-end Intel CPUs - the non-K parts - are mostly fine.
  
  
  
• In preparation for its annual I/O developer conference in two weeks, Google is, uh, laying off developers. (Tech Crunch)

  "As we've said, we're responsibly investing in our company's biggest priorities and the significant opportunities ahead," said Google spokesperson Alex Garcia-Kummert. "To best position us for these opportunities, throughout the second half of 2023 and into 2024, a number of our teams made changes to become more efficient and work better, remove layers, and align their resources to their biggest product priorities. Through this, we're simplifying our structures to give employees more opportunity to work on our most innovative and important advances and our biggest company priorities, while reducing bureaucracy and layers, and just generally pushing people out the airlock" he added.

  Google declined to comment on whether those leaving the company had oxygen.
  

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