Daily Tech News 1 August 2024

• Dating sites Bumble and Hinge allowed stalkers to pinpoint users' locations to within two meters. (Tech Crunch)
  
  They were among a long list of sites with similar problems, allowing malicious users to very precisely triangulate the locations of others.
  
  This has since been fixed, with most sites diluting the precision down to 1km, though Grindr still lets you track people to within 100m.

• Delta Airlines says the CrowdStrike debacle cost the company $500 million. (CNBC)
  
  If that's accurate, and a majority of affected customers sue CrowdStrike for damages, that could easily send the company into bankruptcy.
  
  
  
• Ampere has announced a new generation of 192 core Arm server chips priced at $5555, as well as a 512 core AI processor. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  192 cores is a lot if the cores are good individually. If this is the CPU in question, though, the cores do not seem particularly good.
  
  512 AI cores on the other hand could mean anything at all.
  
  
  
• Best Buy seems to have leaked the official prices of the new Ryzen 9000 desktop CPUs which were supposed to be on sale today. (Tom's Hardware)
  
  They cost around 10% more than the existing Ryzen 7000 models.
  
  But that's comparing the MSRP against the heavily discounted retail price of the previous generation. Compared to the original MSRP the new models are up to $100 cheaper.
  
  Availability is now expected on the 15th. It does seem that the problem goes beyond mere labelling, and involves some chips not delivering on the rated clock speeds. (YouTube)
  
  AMD has recalled and is re-testing all chips produced so far and will replace any that don't meet the spec before they are sold.
  
  If you watch that video it mentions that Intel also doesn't expect to be selling working CPUs before mid-August. At least AMD has Ryzen 5000, 7000, and 8000 that work just fine.
  
  
  
• The Venezuelan election results are as real as death statistics out of Gaza.[/urk> (Columbia)
  
  The official numbers are clearly calculated from the percentages, rather than vice-versa.
  
  
  
• Amazon is quietly killing a whole list of "devops" services. (DevClass)
  
  "DevOps" is the deliberate intersection of software development and operations, as opposed to the usual process of this simply being the unavoidable 11th Ring of Hell.
  
  The list includes S3 Select (not S3 itself), CloudSearch, Cloud9, SimpleDB, Forecast, Data Pipeline, and CodeCommit. None of these have been shut down - yet - but they are not accepting new customers.
  
  
  
• Why we may never know the truth about ultra-processed foods. (BBC)
  
  Because it's all pseudo-scientific bullshit.
  
  
  
• Reddit says Microsoft, Anthropic, and Perplexity need to pay to play. (The Verge)
  
  Google and OpenAI are already paying Reddit for search and AI training data.

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