Thursday, July 28
Daily News Stuff 28 July 2022
Bohemian Fire Drill Edition
Bohemian Fire Drill Edition
Top Story
- Facebook - well, the parent company, Meta - saw a 1% decline in revenue compared with the same quarter a year ago. (Engadget)
And more significantly, a 36% decline in profits.
- Facebook's answer to this seems to be to power into the dive. In response to user complaints about them turning Instagram into a cheap TikTok clone, they said: We don't care. We don't have to. We're the phone company. (The Guardian)
Tech News
- TikTok itself meanwhile says China? Never heard of it. (Gizmodo)
Leaked PR documents say:Downplay the parent company ByteDance, downplay the China association, downplay AI.
Accompanied by a set of "proof points" to let you know they're lying.
- Intel's 56-core Sapphire Rapids CPU is 35% faster than the previous high-end Ice Lake chips. (WCCFTech)
It has 40% more cores, so this is not a huge win.
Disclaimer: Fire inspection at 7:30 AM. Attendance mandatory. For you, not for the inspectors. Sucker.
Posted by: Pixy Misa at
06:00 PM
| Comments (1)
| Add Comment
| Trackbacks (Suck)
Post contains 165 words, total size 2 kb.
1
Yeeeccchhh. The very fact that an utterly useless entity like FaceMeta even has profits is an affront to all that is good a pure in this World. In a sane and just world, Zuck would be making some pig farmer's bacon take on a sublt west-coast tinge.
Posted by: normal at Friday, July 29 2022 09:56 AM (obo9H)
49kb generated in CPU 0.1403, elapsed 0.2248 seconds.
58 queries taking 0.1823 seconds, 349 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.
58 queries taking 0.1823 seconds, 349 records returned.
Powered by Minx 1.1.6c-pink.
