Daily Tech News 12 June 2024

• Twitter is about to hide likes. (The Verge)
  
  Which is to say, the like button will still be there, and the like count will still be there, and you'll be able to see which posts you liked and who liked your posts.
  
  But you won't be able to see who liked someone else's posts. Just the count.
  
  And the psychopathy rampant in The Verge's comment section shows that Elon Musk is entirely correct in pushing for this change.

• MSI has two Epyc 4004 motherboards. (Serve the Home)
  
  These are fairly boring low-end Ryzen 7000 motherboards, except that they have remote management and depending on the model either dual 10GbaseT or dual 25Gb SFP28 Ethernet ports.
  
  
  
• Brazil's government is turning to OpenAI to combat skyrocketing court costs. (Reuters)
  
  What could possibly go wrong?
  
  
  
• News site BNN Breaking turns out to be utterly fraudulent, and, worse, not paying journalists to generate its fake news. (The New York Times) (archive site)
  
  You can understand how the Times would be upset. Getting upstaged is one thing. Getting upstaged by fifty lines of BASIC is another.
  
  
  
• Silicon Valley salaries are shrinking as the recession deepens. (Mercury News) (archive site)
  
  How about that.
  
  
  
• Zen 5 is slightly slower than the Zen 4 X3D chips for gaming. (Notebook Check)
  
  Okay.
  
  
  
• Flow claims its chip can make any CPU twice as fast, and in some cases, one hundred times as fast. (Tech Crunch)
  
  As far as I can tell, this is just a binary-incompatible parallel CPU. It won't work at all without updated software, and it won't do anything at all for sequential tasks.
  
  It may well be useful, but it's certainly not novel.

posted by Pixy Misa at 04:23 AM

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