Throttled and Frozen – #352
Stolendroids Podcast
Well, it’s 2018 and so far, it’s not looking great. Intel’s hardware has a massive defect that’s requiring software patches that throttle performance, GoPro and eero are doing mass layoffs, HP computers caught Samsung’s flu and now their batteries are exploding, and this is just the first 20 minutes of our show!
Headlines:
- Ohh, ISP uses extortion on customers! Yay no Net Neutrality
- GoPro lays off a significant portion of the company
- HP goes all Samsung on us
- FCC continues to try and screw us over
- Intel design flaw ruins the computer industry
- Vulnerability affects Intel, AMD, ARM, and Apple
- Intel CEO made sure to sell his stock before releasing info on the vulnerability
- EPIC Games says Intel is to blame for performance issues
- Class action lawsuit goes after Intel
- Intel launches new 8th Gen Core CPU. No one cares.
- eero lays off 30 people. Says they will stick to wifi
- Spotify hit with a massive lawsuit for copyright infringement
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