Based on extensive analysis of Intel Core 13th/14th Gen desktop processors returned to us due to instability issues, we have determined that elevated operating voltage is causing instability issues in some 13th/14th Gen desktop processors. Our analysis of returned processors confirms that the elevated operating voltage is stemming from a microcode algorithm resulting in incorrect voltage requests to the processor.

Intel is delivering a microcode patch which addresses the root cause of exposure to elevated voltages. We are continuing validation to ensure that scenarios of instability reported to Intel regarding its Core 13th/14th Gen desktop processors are addressed. Intel is currently targeting mid-August for patch release to partners following full validation.

Intel is committed to making this right with our customers, and we continue asking any customers currently experiencing instability issues on their Intel Core 13th/14th Gen desktop processors reach out to Intel Customer Support for further assistance.

Other link - https://www.tomshardware.com/pc-components/cpus/intel-finally-announces-a-solution-for-cpu-crashing-errors-claims-elevated-voltages-are-the-root-cause-fix-coming-by-mid-august

Intel statement on via oxidation

Short answer: We can confirm there was a via Oxidation manufacturing issue (addressed back in 2023) but it is not related to the instability issue.

Long answer: We can confirm that the via Oxidation manufacturing issue affected some early Intel Core 13th Gen desktop processors. However, the issue was root caused and addressed with manufacturing improvements and screens in 2023. We have also looked at it from the instability reports on Intel Core 13th Gen desktop processors and the analysis to-date has determined that only a small number of instability reports can be connected to the manufacturing issue.

For the Instability issue, we are delivering a microcode patch which addresses exposure to elevated voltages which is a key element of the Instability issue. We are currently validating the microcode patch to ensure the instability issues for 13th/14th Gen are addressed. - Intel representative via Reddit.

Android is officially the most r-slurred OS ever. You phone now leaves tons of data totally unencrypted (officially so you don't miss any calls or alarms when your phone reboots), with no option to switch back (I can't even find any 3rd party roms that support it) and it's up to app devs to decide what gets encrypted at rest and what doesn't

Obviously less secure then good ole full disk encryption but r-slurred fan boys are still going around and quoting google about how "askually this is more secure because magic hardware keys oooohooohohooh"

They made their joke of an OS even more of a joke

!codecels I hate google so fricking much. Android was done with 4.4. It had ever faeture you could want or need. But instead of admitting it and going into a maintenance phase they frick it up every few years for the lulz i guess.

Not to mention this is the death of android on the desktop. Every place I've worked requires FDE.

Here's another seethe from reddit https://old.reddit.com/r/evilautism/comments/1e8y9me/stupid_study_claims_autism_can_be_cured/

Mark my words this is the new political angle for 2025 and beyond.

this shit sucks lmfao "dynamically typed" languages are for s & cuckolds.

Ordered a cheapish 1tb Kingston m.2 SSD on amazon. Delayed twice because of prime day and then crowdstrike.

It finally arrived today and it looks like the inner packaging (not the padded amazon mailer, the kingston-branded cardboard-and-plastic thing) got run over by a truck repeatedly. The plastic around the drive is dented and scratched to shit and the cardboard is bent in 4 different places. Seriously, it looks like someone picked it up off of the warehouse floor after a forklift went over it.

This is, to put it lightly, very annoying. I'm already getting the parts for this build a week later than originally advertised thanks to prime day and crowdstrike, and now I will probably have to wait another week for a new SSD.

I'm still waiting on several other parts and I'm debating whether to wait for them to arrive to test, or to take apart one of my laptops with an m.2 slot tonight just to make sure the darn thing is at least recognized by the bios.

Edit: bit the bullet and tested it in a project laptop, and it was at least recognized by the bios. Will have to wait for the rest of the parts to test for further problems.

FINANCE·BUSINESS STRATEGY

Exclusive: Intuit is laying off 1,800 employees as AI leads to a strategic shift

BYSHERYL ESTRADA

July 10, 2024 at 8:15 AM EDT

Sasan Goodarzi, president and chief executive officer of Intuit.

Sasan Goodarzi, president and chief executive officer of Intuit.

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Intuit will tell approximately 1,800 of its global employees—10% of its workforce—they will be leaving the company. But leadership says the move isn't to cut costs.

Sasan Goodarzi, CEO of the Fortune 500 company, which offers products like QuickBooks, Credit Karma, and TurboTax, wrote an internal email to employees, seen by Fortune, announcing the "very difficult decisions my leadership team and I have made."

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Goodarzi explains that Intuit's transformation journey, including departing from the 1,800 employees, is part of its strategy to increase investments in priority focus areas of AI and generative AI, such as its GenAI-powered financial assistant called Intuit Assist, and reimagining its products from traditional workflows to AI-native experiences. The strategy also focuses on money movement, mid-market expansion for small businesses, and international growth.

"We do not do layoffs to cut costs, and that remains true in this case," Goodarzi writes. Intuit plans to hire approximately 1,800 new people with strategic functional skill sets primarily in engineering, product, and customer-facing roles such as sales, customer success, and marketing—and expects its overall headcount to grow in its fiscal year 2025, which begins Aug. 1.

Of the employees who will depart Intuit, 1,050 are not meeting expectations based on a formal performance management process. The company believes they will be "more successful outside of Intuit," Goodarzi writes. In addition, Intuit is reducing the number of executives—directors, SVPs, and EVPs—by approximately 10%, expanding certain executive roles and responsibilities.

Intuit is also consolidating 80 tech roles to sites where it is growing technology teams, including Atlanta, Bangalore, New York, Tel Aviv, and Toronto. The company is closing two sites in Edmonton and Boise that have over 250 employees, with a certain number of employees relocating to other sites within Intuit or leaving the company. Intuit is also eliminating more than 300 roles across the company to "streamline work and reallocate resources toward key growth areas," according to the email.

All departing U.S. employees will receive a package that includes a minimum of 16 weeks of pay, plus two additional weeks for every year of service. They will have 60 days before they leave the company, with a last day of Sept. 9. Employees outside the U.S. will receive similar support, taking into account local requirements.

"This timing allows everyone leaving to reach their July vesting date for restricted stock units and the July 31 eligibility date for annual IPI bonuses," Goodarzi writes. Those not on an IPI plan will be able to reach the eligibility date for July or Q4 incentives. It's the most generous severance package Intuit has ever offered, according to the company.

"Intuit is in a position of strength," according to Goodarzi. The company earned $14.4 billion in revenue in its fiscal year 2023, moving up 24 spots on the Fortune 500. For the period ending April 30, Intuit reported revenue of $6.7 billion, up 12%.

The post is full of gems, but this is probably the best part:

stable stable, which is consistently growing, consistently profitable, and paying employees $5k to $10k per day at current full comp market rates. These are largely flying under the news radar. These companies aren't Google or Apple, but rather some tractor company or heavy manufacturing company just churning out results for years without destabilizing the world. Stable stable companies do that thing where every quarter they "beat expectations" on their stock reports by a coincidental $0.01 just to prove they are always growing.

He seems to think that people working at manufacturing companies are making $10k per day.

BTW, this is what antirez wrote about the author 10 years ago:

One thing I did not liked was Matt Stancliff talk. He tried to uncover different problems in the Redis development process, and finally proposed the community to replace me as the project leader, with him. In my opinion what Matt actually managed to do was to cherry-pick from my IRC, Twitter and Github issues posts in a very unfair way, in order to provide a bad imagine of myself. I think this was a big mistake. Moreover he did the talk as the last talk, not providing a right to reply. Matt and I happen to be persons with very different visions in many ways, however Redis is a project I invested many years into, and I'm not going to change my vision, I'm actually afraid I merged some code under pressure that I now find non well written and designed.

There might be some good points buried in this post, but all I get is bitterness without much self-reflection. They seem like they'd be difficult to work with and would blame you for it.

He's looked at levels.fyi.

He even links to it from his resume.

His problem is that he thinks L10 is the benchmark to compare against, when the vast, vast majority of engineers (including many with decades of experience) would never make it to L10.

Wow, indeed, in his resume under "Waiting for AI Apocalypse / Available for Employment", he links to levels.fyi page for L10 Google Engineer ($3M total comp).

I deserve a $3M salary and if I don't get, it means the whole industry is fricked

The author's tone is condescending, angry and entitled. If everyday interactions with him followed the same tone, I would argue that he is the exact type of person behavioral interviews are meant to screen out (technically competent but a nightmare to work with).

If this guy has reasonable technical chops, he seems like someone who would be great to work with.

It's always, always good to have people in your group who are willing to call a steaming shitpile a steaming shitpile. It's also always good to have people in your group who can fairly rapidly turn a steaming shitpile into something that's fit for purpose and reasonably maintainable.

HNers are absolutely terrible at recognizing smart people. I think that's why they often heavily upmarsey beginner-level projects like "I made Redis in Python (meaning: I wrapped a dict with a simple API)" or "I made a desktop in HTML/JS"

>I boughted a 13700k last November

>It has never been more over

Leaks

• leaker at "Intel Customer" timestamp

  • Over 8 million 13th gen CPUs possibly affected

  • Actual failure rate of 10%-25%

  • No information on 14th gen products

• Other leaker timestamp

  • Expected to affect units from March of 2023 through April 2024

  • Infos

    • Fabrication issue where anti-oxidation coating is improperly applied

    • Intel working on microcode to decrease frequency, will not fix root cause but might work around it

• Leaker 3 timestamp

  • Reducing max frequency for boosting was able to work around the issue?

  • Documents saying customer is purging its inventory as a result of issues

• Allegedly leaked documents timestamp

  • Change to officially supported ram speeds DDR5-5600 reduced to DDR5-4800 ignoring XMP

• List of affected customers includes hedgies? timestamp

• Intel claims 0.035% failure rate in messages with OEMS timestamp

  • "This is in conflict with the OEM we spoke with which said 25%-50% failure rate"

• Leaker - "Either Intel is lying to us or they don't know the real failure rate. Until last month, they reported to us that 10% of their [production] was still having the 'oxidation' issue" timestamp

• Multiple sources - Intel is beginning what it calls "Vendor Remediation" for OEM customers timestamp

• "Medium-sized system integrator" timestamp

  • "We reduced out [harder to pass] failure requirements because of concerns of degradation. We're currently failing 12% of Intel CPUs during intake QA."

  • QA deets in this - certain tests are failing more often, this is why different companies are failing different %% timestamp

• OEM source - considering limiting turboclocks to 5.4-5.5GHz to limit RMAs timestamp

• General Platform Instability + Voltage timestamp

  • Microcode update could fix this?

  • The T series CPU failing doesn't make sense with this since it's low voltage or something

  • Potential memory Speed update timestamp

Root Cause

• Root Cause according to leaked document timestamp

  • "The root cause of this mechanism is due to a random defect mode in the fabrication process of the Raptor Lake CPU during the via formation steps which could cause high resistance vias due to oxidation"

• Possibly affected processors timestamp

  • Not copying all these down but even the 13600k(f) and 13700T are hit

• Start of Intel's duplicity, some quotes from customers and a quote from a Failure Analysis lab timestamp

  • Some details about ALD and how it works, possible failures that can happen during it

Google announced the shut down of one service and the service they ask users to transition to is also being shut down. 🤦🏾‍♂️

This is not a serious company. pic.twitter.com/I8k6cGz6YC

— Dare Obasanjo🐀 (@Carnage4Life) July 19, 2024

You're correct.

Full of zeros at least. pic.twitter.com/PJcCsUb9Vc

— christian_taillon (@christian_tail) July 19, 2024

!codecels

Have you seen the memes online where someone tells a bot to "ignore all previous instructions" and proceeds to break it in the funniest ways possible?

The way it works goes something like this: Imagine we at The Verge created an AI bot with explicit instructions to direct you to our excellent reporting on any subject. If you were to ask it about what's going on at Sticker Mule, our dutiful chatbot would respond with a link to our reporting. Now, if you wanted to be a rascal, you could tell our chatbot to "forget all previous instructions," which would mean the original instructions we created for it to serve you The Verge's reporting would no longer work. Then, if you ask it to print a poem about printers, it would do that for you instead (rather than linking this work of art).

To tackle this issue, a group of OpenAI researchers developed a technique called "instruction hierarchy," which boosts a model's defenses against misuse and unauthorized instructions. Models that implement the technique place more importance on the developer's original prompt, rather than listening to whatever multitude of prompts the user is injecting to break it.

Delta, United, American Airlines flights are all grounded right now.

The reason Southwest is not affected is because they still run on Windows 3.1.https://t.co/ezFubvKVNA

— Artem Russakovskii (@ArtemR) July 19, 2024

Are we *sure* the @CrowdStrike crash wasn't deliberate? They pushed a file full of NULL bytes to their agents which caused the BSoD... https://t.co/Bl177FGyBT

— hackerfantastic.x (@hackerfantastic) July 19, 2024

Turns out the anti-malware is the biggest malware of them all: windows machines worldwide that installed CrowdStrike are all crashing because someone at the company fricked up

they have a customer ticket here if you have an account https://supportportal.crowdstrike.com/s/article/Tech-Alert-Windows-crashes-related-to-Falcon-Sensor-2024-07-19

Also it looks like Trump took another W

LEGAL NOTICE: DR CRAIG STEVEN WRIGHT IS NOT SATOSHI NAKAMOTO

On 20 May 2024, Dr Craig Steven Wright was found by the High Court of England and Wales to have been dishonest in his claims to have been the person behind the pseudonym Satoshi Nakamoto (the creator of Bitcoin).

The…

— Dr Craig S Wright (@Dr_CSWright) July 17, 2024

!codecels

Kubernetes has destroyed more lives than blow, they just don't track the stats for that.

If you notice these signs, seek professional help immediately, don't wait for them to start posting on StackOverflow.

A long blogpost made by some neurodivergent guy who has spent 2 decades in the tech industry (including positions at STRAGMAN companies) and has gotten nowhere and about to get evicted

The whole thing is written like someone who posts on 4chan in an overly sarcastic and memey style. Its best summarized by the last paragraph:

The worst feeling is comparison. Comparison is the death of happiness, as they say. I look at my own place in the world compared to people who just started at Apple or Microsoft 20 years ago then never left, and now they have made eight figures just over the past 4 years while my life path has lead me to… practically nothing. Then the tech inequality continues to compound. Imagine joining a company where the teenage interns have already made a couple million off their passive stock grants and other employees have been making $2MM to $6MM per year over the past 5 years there, while you're starting over with nothing again for the 5th company in a row so what's the point in even trying6. Though, did you know paying rent on a credit card still qualifies for points? Made $60 this month paying rent with credit card point rebates7. whoops.

Well, at least the author is fricking hot for someone in their 40's, and isn't some IT blob. I'd tap that blonde bussy!

Orange site discussion here

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40986894