Does Facebook have no SHAME?

TechLinked covers a fast paced round of tech news with a focus on major hardware announcements and a notable social media privacy misstep. The first segment dives into Intel’s data center lineup, unveiling Cascade Lake Xeon configurations that push to 56 cores and 112 threads for the top platinum model, alongside refreshed Xeon SP architecture and Optane DC persistent memory options. The team discusses the new 800 series PCIe card enabling 100 gigabit Ethernet and highlights Intel’s Agilex FPGAs built on a 10 nm process with DDR5 and PCIe 5.0 support. The discussion blends hardware advancements with practical implications for servers, memory technology, and enterprise networking, providing context on performance, scale, and potential data-center transformations. A later portion shifts to consumer tech and security, noting Facebook’s controversial request for users to provide email passwords during sign up, a policy that was quickly disabled, and prompting commentary about privacy, trust, and potential regulatory pressure on the company. The episode wraps with quick takes on Google Duplex broader availability, gaming store competition, and executive moves in the tech industry, all framed with the hosts’ characteristic light humor and skepticism about corporate ethics and regulatory debates.

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