why look at you you're nothing but Skin and Bones come sit down let me hand feed
you a healthy helping of tech news now 100 sugar-free Intel has partnered with
chip giant Media Tech in an effort to close the gap on manufacturing Rivals
Intel Foundry services will manufacture chips for medical devices industrial
Computing and more as they invest over 40 billion dollars building new
fabrication plants around the world the aggressive play is in line with Intel
CEO Pat gelsinger's pledge to make The Foundry business a key priority in the
face of stiff competition from the likes of tsmc and Samsung who now account for
over 70 percent of global Foundry production it's really heartwarming to
see two small companies that are worth only a couple hundred billion dollars
each come together to take on the big guys last year Intel announced it would
build trips for Qualcomm as it launched its Foundry play and it hopes to catch
up to its rivals in the Asia region sometime in the 2025 time frame
meanwhile the U.S Senate readies itself to potentially pass the chips act
offering up to 52 billion in subsidies
to Makers who design and manufacture their own chips by suddenly hungry I'm
wearing cheesy guys security researchers at Kaspersky have discovered what
appears to be a root kit in ASUS and Gigabyte motherboards running Intel 8th
gen chips nicknamed Cosmic strand this
isn't a new strain of ultra potent marijuana but rather a malicious piece
of code which runs during the low-level UEFI startup when you first power on
your machine not as good the root kit embeds a series of nasty hooks into
startup processes in order to gain access to a target's machine and since
it's embedded in the low level firmware it can persist there even after a clean
install it's like a monkey pox rash you
can't just scrub it clean analysis and comparisons to similar code
patterns from crypto mining bot my Kings has led researchers to believe that
Cosmic strand is connected to a chinese-speaking individual and it's
thought to have been circulating in the wild since 2016. that's right they've
got your entire depraved search history stored on a server somewhere
but then again Google and Facebook have had that for years now do something new
hackers Amazon is hiking the prices of its Prime
subscription service across Europe a Mid-State Rising tide of inflation the
company announced that customers in the UK would say a 20 jump in their annual
subscription fees while Germans can expect to pay 30 more what did the
Germans ever do and those in France will see a
staggering 43 increase though In
fairness France kind of had it coming sorry France snails are not a delicacy
and I haven't forgiven you yet for exporting that idea
the move follows a similar price increase in the U.S in February where
American customers saw their yearly memberships bumped up to 139 dollars
from 119. Amazon CEO Andy jassy I mean
how am I going to get used to that referenced higher costs driven by
inflation and supply chain shortages as well as the addition of new products and
digital content in Amazon's catalog as justification for the changes I mean the
money has to come from somewhere and we know that Daddy Bezos doesn't have pockets that deep saving up for a new
mega yacht give the guy a break a summer break this Heat's got me parched now to
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links below back to you Linus and we're back Instagram head Adam massuri has
garnered the ire of many social media influencers after the platform's recent
changes that prioritize short video clips rather than pictures and texts of
your close friends will this trend never end the changes even triggered a
response from Kylie Jenner with some critiques of her own I'm sure Missouri's
fight or flight response was triggered when he heard the low rumble of 300
million pre-teen girls screeching at their iPhones
you're done goofed now Instagram e-commerce giant Shopify is laying off a
thousand employees citing a miscalculation
miscalculated bet that e-commerce would continue to grow beyond the pandemic CEO
Toby litke announced that shopify's Workforce grew from 1900 in 2016 to 10
000 in 2021 which apparently was too
much good to know the employees will receive a generous 16 weeks of severance
pay which hopefully will give them plenty of time to be rejected from other
prospective jobs as many tech companies have actually implemented hiring freezes
amidst this pandemic-ish recessiony
thing that we're calling 2022.
meta will be upping the price of the quest to VR heads is there any good news
today no by a hundred dollars in August that's right like Pokemon cards or a
used car the now two-year-old headset is actually getting a price increase meta's
official reasoning for the adjustment is something to do with something something
Rising costs inflation Etc that's been a
theme today meta's VR Hardware division reportedly lost nearly three billion
dollars last quarter though so quite frankly I think they should have
increased the price more
I
am involved in that company so maybe he can just keep finding it
in other billionaire news Elon Musk and his team are jocking over Twitter's
alleged unwillingness to cooperate in the 44 billion dollar acquisition of the
social media giant musk aims to back out of the contract as his lawyers allege
that Twitter is being difficult about providing necessary documentation and
has not been truthful regarding the metrics for fake accounts and user
engagement on the platform this is like a bad episode of divorce court at this
point accusations are hurled left and right and all I want to do is know which
one of them actually loves me more I'm
going with Mom you can buy it you can buy my love
and Russia has said that it will not renew its current commitment to the
International Space Station when it expires in 2024 heightened tensions
between the U.S and Russia over the past year have seen Russia pull away from the
ISS in hopes of launching its own Russian orbital space station or Ross
who we all know was the best friend the ISS I'm kidding the ISS was planned to
operate until being decommissioned in 2030 but with Russia no longer
cooperating as a partner the station's future is called into question without
the help of our comrades it may drift Evermore into the endless black void of
space or lose thrust power and crash into the ocean because if the Russians
can't have it I guess nobody can and who knows what the tech news will
bring on Friday so come back then or risk losing your thrust okay that
transition didn't make much sense when I changed some stuff but I'm sticking with
it