It’s Time to Break The Cycle. - June 9, 2023

RILEYISMYNAME · June 10, 2023

NEWS SOURCES:

MAINS

SHOCKING: FINANCIALLY SOUND DECISIONS

GPUS sales down 40% year-over year

https://www.tomshardware.com/news/jpr-q1-2023-aib-report-jpr

Report shows 13% drop from last quarter https://www.pcgamer.com/graphics-card-sales-just-got-even-worse/

Nvidia shipments down 15.2%, AMD 7.5% https://lmg.gg/gnMIg

Nvidia down to 84% market share, AMD 12%, Intel climbed up to 4% (see graph) https://wccftech.com/gpu-shipments-continued-to-decline-in-q1-2023-nvidia-at-84-amd-at-12-intel-at-4-market-share/

END OF THE APOLLO PROGRAM, 1968-2023

Third Party Reddit app Apollo announces shutdown effective June 30

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/08/apollo-shutting-down-june-30/

Quickly followed by other third party apps https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754616/reddit-third-party-apps-api-shutdown-rif-reddplanet-sync

Apollo dev Christian Selig made a long post as to why yesterday; (EDITOR a list of important points from this link will follow it) https://old.reddit.com/r/apolloapp/comments/144f6xm/apollo_will_close_down_on_june_30th_reddits/

- Section titled “Bizarre allegations by Reddit of Apollo "blackmailing" and "threatening" Reddit” https://lmg.gg/NQ9E5

- Mod told Selig that Reddit CEO claimed Selig tried to “blackmail” the site https://lmg.gg/znXgu

According to call transcript (Selig also has audio), he is clearly joking about selling Apollo and fully clarifies that to CEO https://lmg.gg/I9sLj

CEO Steve Huffman posted API changes in AMA today https://www.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_the_community_about_changes_to_our_api/

His responses have…not been popular https://www.reddit.com/user/spez/comments/

He answers question about the blackmail accusation, apollo dev (iamthatis) responds below https://old.reddit.com/r/reddit/comments/145bram/addressing_the_community_about_changes_to_our_api/jnk45rr/?context=1

CYBERTRUCK 2077

Tesla’s Cybertruck has had massive problems

https://www.wired.com/story/a-leaked-tesla-report-shows-the-cybertruck-had-basic-design-flaws/

Information courtesy of 100GB leak to Handelsblatt https://www.handelsblatt.com/unternehmen/industrie/elektromobilitaet-mein-autopilot-hat-mich-fast-umgebracht-tesla-files-naehren-zweifel-an-elon-musks-versprechen/29166564.html

Basic design flaws like body sealing, noise, handling and braking, and suspension https://www.autoblog.com/2023/06/09/leaked-document-shows-significant-early-issues-with-tesla-cybertruck/

Hoped for “fair” braking score, got “poor”; pedal pressure pad still under design in Jan 2022, experienced “excessive pedal travel and inconsistent stop” https://lmg.gg/z6s7r

Tesla expects release candidates by late August https://electrek.co/2023/06/08/tesla-plans-375000-cybertrucks-per-year-release-candidates-late-august/

QUICK BITS

ZUCK DISCUSSES VISION

Mark Zuckerberg responds to Vision Pro

Says the announcement “really showcases the difference in the values and the vision that our companies bring to this in a way that I think is really important,” https://www.theverge.com/2023/6/8/23754239/mark-zuckerberg-meta-apple-vision-pro-headset

“…I'd say the good news is that there's no kind of magical solutions that they have to any of the constraints on laws and physics that our teams haven't already explored”

https://www.macrumors.com/2023/06/08/zuckerberg-responds-to-apple-vision-pro/

Claims Meta’s vision is more social and active because “every demo that they showed was a person sitting on a couch by themself (sic)”

https://www.pcgamer.com/zuck-points-out-that-every-apple-vision-pro-vr-demo-was-a-person-sitting-on-a-couch-by-themself

BLUE IS THE DEADEST COLOUR

Logitech is killing off Blue brand

https://www.engadget.com/logitech-retires-the-blue-microphone-brand-083111975.html

Also moving Astro headsets under G, but keeping the brand https://lmg.gg/fn9ZL

Only seem to be selling Yeti, Snowball and Sona mics https://www.logitechg.com/en-us/products/streaming-gear.html

NEUROMANAGEMENT

Bosses may be using telemetry to “spy” on remote workers, might get worse in future

(EDITOR: also show chart at bottom titled “What can your boss see?”) https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/06/07/work-monitoring-tools-surveillance-home-in-person/

Companies in future may use brain data to watch workers https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-65822889