Wednesday, November 13
Daily News Stuff 13 November 2024
Weapons Of Mass Distraction Edition
Weapons Of Mass Distraction Edition
Top Story
- 23andMe is laying off 40% of its employees and cancelling all its research work. (BBC)
The company has been on a downward spiral since it was hacked and information for nearly seven million users stolen. This did not include genetic data, but did include family trees and other personal information.
- AMD meanwhile laid off 4% of its employees. (WCCFTech)
AMD is doing well overall but specific business units are lagging.
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- Not announcing layoffs was TSMC, which instead reported that it is running at 100% capacity for 5nm and 3nm production. (WCCFTech)
Even Intel is using TSMC for its latest chips while it works on getting its 1.8nm technology into production.
- What if AI doesn't just keep getting better forever? (Ars Technica)
It isn't. It won't. Even the Ars commentariat is laughing at this sudden realisation that AI is a bubble:Anybody want a celebratory slice of glue pizza?
- The AI hype bubble is, if not bursting, then certainly deflating. (Slack)
While still popular at the CEO level, among workers excitement has cooled by 9% in the US and 12% in France - compared to just three months ago.
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Microsoft is killing the Mail and Calendar apps in Windows 11. (The Verge)
Back to Outlook it is.
And they still have a better track record than Google.
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The hackers who breached AT&T's data at analytics company Snowflake have been arrested. (Tech Crunch)
AT&T was just one of 165 Snowflake customers who saw their data hacked on a massive scale.
Last I saw, Snowflake was still blaming 165 individual customers for allowing their Snowflake accounts to be hacked.
Disclaimer: Turns out that bees are not legumes. Who knew?
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Bees are not legumes? I suppose they're not suitable pizza toppings, either.
Posted by: Joe Redfield at Thursday, November 14 2024 04:28 AM (KOtXO)
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