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Intel just unveiled Puma, a photonic chip that sounds less like a real thing and more like an

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April Fools joke from the time before most tech companies decided that was cringe. Razer didn't

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get the memo. I'm Riley Murdoch, this is TechLinked and you might want to sit down as I tell you that

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the prototype CPU Intel showed off at Hot Chips 2023 is based on a custom risk architecture

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with eight cores and 66 threads per core for a frankly offensive 528 total threads.

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Wow! Modern x86 CPUs usually only have two threads per core, but that hasn't always been the case.

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Intel's old Xeon 5 could do four threads per core, IBM's Power 8 could do

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eight, and Sun's Spark chips thought they were fancy going up to 16.

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But adding threads makes each thread weaker, and a ton of weak threads wouldn't benefit most

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workloads today. Except for the pay to buy scale workloads Intel has designed this CPU to tackle

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with its one terabyte per second of data throughput and optical interconnects between

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chips so they can be connected together in eight socket server sleds that in turn connect to each

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other to create Sam Altman's wet dream. Pam Anderson, what are you doing here?

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She's like made of silicon.

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iFixit is taking the right to repair fight to McDonald's because everyone deserves a burger

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with all the fixins. No, the target here is McDonald's notoriously unreliable ice cream

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machines. iFixit bought and tore down one of the machines, which aren't terribly complex.

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The problem is that they're prone to overheating, not ideal in an ice cream machine,

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and their error codes are just simply baffling. Employees have tried to read the effing manual,

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but the manual appears to have been written by an infinite number of chimpanzees with a grudge

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against the working class. The machines are built and must be repaired by Taylor, which is either

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an ice cream machine company or a 19 year old sorority sister. Taylor is infamously slow to

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respond to repair requests, probably because she's so busy with cheer practice. Is this based on a

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personal experience of yours just now? No. Okay. Despite that, 25% of Taylor's profits come from

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service technician callouts, which cost $315 per 15 minutes of work. That's like $1,200 an hour.

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Franchisees would obviously prefer to work with a cheaper, more responsive repair service,

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but the DMCA is what allowed Taylor to put in a digital lock that prevents anyone else from

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getting in there. So now iFixit is petitioning the copyright office for an exemption that allows

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third-party repair workers to fix these machines and for Congress to fix the DMCA in general,

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because working at McDonald's is already punishment enough. YouTube will be changing

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its community guidelines policy so that creators can get violation warnings removed from their

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channel if they complete an educational training course. The course is intended to explain YouTube's

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content policies and help creators avoid future infractions, kind of like sensitivity training

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for live streamers, which many of them desperately need. If creators complete the course and go 90

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days without violating the same policy again, then the warning will be lifted. Prior to this change,

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that one-time warning would simply stick around forever, increasing the risk that if a creator

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accidentally fell afoul of the rules again years in the future, it might lead to a formal strike

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against the channel. According to YouTube, more than 80% of creators who receive a warning

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never violate their policies again. And I guess they think that last 20% are repeat offenders

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because they simply didn't know being racist is bad. No one told me. But not every flagged video

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deserves it. Due to the sheer scope of YouTube, its sometimes nebulous guidelines, and its limited

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number of human content moderators, it's unfortunately easy for videos to get inappropriately flagged

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as inappropriate. If that happens, at least the falsely accused will have the opportunity to think

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about what they haven't done. You know, just when I thought the bits couldn't get any quicker,

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there they go. Wow. Get out of the way. They don't stop for people. In a spot of good news for

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people who like smartphones that fit in normal sized hands, ASUS has declared that the rumors of

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the Zenfones demise have been greatly exaggerated. The company says they have a strong commitment

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to their smartphone business and even potentially teased a Zenfone 11 release in 2024. So maybe we

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can finally get Riley to stop crying. I did just in time to film this. Thank God. Elon Musk live

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streamed a demonstration of Tesla's updated full self-driving beta, which impressively uses only

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cameras and algorithmic intelligence, rather than also relying on other sensors like LiDAR and radar,

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which they removed from the cars. During the demo, Musk sat in the driver's seat,

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filming on his cell phone and interacting with commenters in violation of automated driving

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policies put in place by none other than Tesla. At one point, the car attempted to accelerate

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through a red light requiring Musk to look up from his phone and intervene. So inconvenient.

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Police will not be issuing a ticket for a distracted driving because despite the thousands and

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thousands of witnesses, if it doesn't happen in front of the police, it doesn't count.

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Google is launching Duet AI for Workspace, which is basically Microsoft's co-pilot AI for Microsoft

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365 in both function and price. But you get to choose which multi-billion company gets your money.

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After the free trial, Duet will cost $30 per month per user for large organizations,

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which is exactly how much Microsoft charges. However, there's no word yet if Duet will be

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able to sing the share part of I Got You Babe at your company's annual karaoke night. The only

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thing I would really use it for, so I don't see the point right now. The FBI announced they were

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able to dismantle and destroy the Quackbot Botnet, a network of infected computers responsible for

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worldwide ransomware attacks and other cybercrimes. The FBI led Operation Duck Hunt, that's real,

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identified 700,000 infected computers worldwide and disrupted it by tricking those computers into

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downloading an uninstaller from FBI servers, which must have come packaged with a gif of the

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Super Nintendo dog laughing in your face. But actually, I think that would require the FBI

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to have the sense of humor that they inevitably lost by seeing what you all do in front of your

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webcams. I used to love spying on the populace, and now, I don't even know that you can do that

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with a camp alone. And after nearly a year of waiting, Meta's virtual avatars finally have

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legs. The beta for the new limbs will roll out and quest home over the next few weeks,

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but not in Horizon Worlds, where players will continue to resemble a levitating Lieutenant

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Dan, but with significantly less existential angst. There are still a few issues to buff out. For

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example, you can see your avatar's legs if you look into a virtual mirror, but not if you look

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down at your own hovering virtual torso. It's all in your head, man. Your reflected avatar also

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doesn't track when you crouch. Instead, the camera just sinks about a foot and leaves you

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staring at your own digital belly button. Which, honestly, I've wanted to do my whole life. It's

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so hard. That sounds weird. And all this after only 11 months of development. Truly, we live in

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an age of wonders. The developers wanted to work on the feature, but Mark Zuckerberg just keeps

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challenging everyone to bouts of jiu-jitsu. You can work on that later. Come here. I want to show

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you something. And it would be truly wonderful if you came back on Friday for another episode of

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Tackling. If you don't show up, we don't really have anything to do, so please clear your schedule

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because it's lonely in here.