Daily Tech News 13 May 2024

• Twitter has won a significant victory as an Australian federal judge has told Australia's e-Safety commission to fuck off. (Sky News)
  
  Our e-Safety commissioner - a Yankee import and former Twitter censor - wanted to block video of the stabbing attack of a Sydney bishop from viewers worldwide.
  
  Justice Geoffrey Kennett today said, and I quote, Nah.
  
  Or more precisely:

  The application to extend the interlocutory injunction granted on 22 April 2024 (as extended on 24 April 2024) is refused.

  Which is federal judgespeak for Nah.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile Australia plans to continue expanding the extraction and exports of natural gas through to at least 2050, by which time everyone will have been dead for 38 years. (BBC)
  
  This is annoying all the right people.

• Leaked details of Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake desktop CPUs indicate that the company is abandoning hyper-threading. (Forbes)
  
  Hyper-threading allows a single core to work on two tasks at once, or almost at once, interleaving instructions from two different programs on alternate cycles.
  
  This improves overall performance by around 20%, but at the cost of increased complexity and power consumption and the introduction of subtle security issues.
  
  Since Intel's new efficiency cores run at about the same speed as each thread on a hyper-threaded performance core - but use half as much space on the chip to do it - removing hyper-threading at this point makes perfect sense for Intel.
  
  AMD doesn't have efficiency cores as such. It has its "c" cores, where c probably stands for compact, but they are functionally identical to the full-sized cores and include hyper-threading themselves.
  
  
  
• Workers at the Towson, Maryland Apple Store have voted to authorise a strike. (Tech Crunch)
  
  Right you are then. Have fun.
  
  
  

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