Are you currently using Intel’s 13900k or 14900k CPU? This report from Gamers Nexus points to a suspected issue with Intel’s 13th and 14th-generation CPUs that have been causing gaming rigs and even game servers to crash. Yikes!
If indeed you have also encountered issues with either of these Intel chips, you may want to drop Gamers Nexus a note as they are actively investigating this issue.
According to the Social Weather Stations’ recent survey, the nationwide involuntary incidence stood at 14.2% for Q1 of 2024. This is higher than the previous 12.6 hunger rate seen in December 2023. That’s 3.95 million Filipino families that are “being hungry and not having anything to eat.”
True to his “Imeldific” upbringing, President Marcos, Jr’s apparent response is to release a vlog doing his own informal survey, asking whether viewers prefer adobo or sinigang?
Go figure…
It feels like the time when Google Reader was discontinued in 2013. While other podcast apps may have more features, Google Podcasts had everything I needed – a clean UI, it readily shows the recent episodes from my subscriptions – which for me, is the most important one.
Come June 23, 2024, Google Podcasts will cease to function and on July 29, 2024, users would no longer be able to migrate or export their subscriptions. I have already imported my subscriptions into YouTube Music to see how it fares as a podcast app. Somehow, something feels not right or maybe it’s because I’ve never really used YouTube Music before and had been forced to, because it’s going to replace Google Podcasts.
With Google’s promise that it will ‘increase investment in the podcast experience in YouTube Music’, I’ll give it a try. Although, I’m keeping the door open for other podcast apps out there.
22 years ago, Norah Jones’ debut album “Come Away With Me” was released. It became number one on the Billboard charts and one of the best-selling albums of all time. Feels like 22 years have just flown by, and it’s great to see her first studio album in nine years. It’s something to brighten up 2024. Here’s the first single from “Visions,”
Sarah Fergusson of ABC News, Australia interviewed Ferdinand Marcos Jr. It was a masterclass on how to interview a politician – asking the hard questions that, unfortunately, most journalists in the Philippines seem to have forgotten or have chosen to forget
Here’s a portion of the interview:
SARAH FERGUSON: There is one series of questions that comes up in relation to your father’s time which is, which is, of course, the question of corruption which became wholly associated with the Philippines for a long period of time. I think contemporary court judgements acknowledge the atrocities that were committed but also the plunder of the country’s resources.
Why wouldn’t you want all of that money back in the hands of the Filipino people?
FERDINAND MARCOS JR: Well, with the narrative…[laughs dismissively]
SARAH FERGUSON: May I just ask you why that is funny?
FERDINAND MARCOS JR: Why that?
SARAH FERGUSON: Why that is funny. I’m asking you a question about the plundering of large sums of money from the Filipino people…
FERDINAND MARCOS JR: No. I’m thinking that that maintains, that idea maintains because I take exception to many many of the assertions that have been made.
And I think we have been, we have since the cases were filed, the government fell. Cases were filed against me, my family, the estate etc and up to now we have, the assertions that were made, we have been shown to be untrue.
SARAH FERGUSON: Quite a lot of money, I think $5 billion was already recovered. I guess the quetion is …
FERDINAND MARCOS JR: Again, again, again…
SARAH FERGUSON: Do you not want to see all the money that was taken returned to the people?
FERDINAND MARCOS JR: Again, we have signed, this family has signed a quitclaims, we have signed many quitclaims. Any money that you find is yours and finished and everything was taken from us.
We went, we were taken to Hawaii. Everything. Everything was taken from us with nothing, we have nothing left.
SARAH FERGUSON: Not the view of the presidential commission.
FERDINAND MARCOS JR: I’m sorry?
SARAH FERGUSON: Not the view of the presidential commission. This is my final question on this topic.
FERDINAND MARCOS JR: Which presidential commission?
SARAH FERGUSON: In the Philippines? Their view is there is a large amount of money outstanding.
FERDINAND MARCOS JR: I think that having seen the facts, as they have been slowly revealed, further true investigation, not propaganda, but actual true investigation, the court cases and investigations by all kinds of NGOs, different agencies, that has changed and people can see that it was propaganda.