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• Is there anything AI can't do?  Enterprise hard drives are now on backorder for the next two years as AI deployments eat all available storage.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That will put pressure on supplies of cheap bulk QLC SSDs, sending those prices up, which will put pressure on higher-quality TLC SSDs.
  
  But at least at the end of it you won't have a job anymore.
  
  Unless you're in a trade, in which case your employment is secure but your customers won't be able to pay you.

• AMD's Ryzen 5 3600 has dropped to $67.  New.  Including a fairly decent stock cooler.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  It comes with AMD's Wraith Stealth cooler, but for an extra $4 you can get it with the bigger and better Wraith Spire model.
  
  It's not the latest and greatest - it's three generations behind the latest and greatest - but still, it's $67.  Or $71, depending.  
  
  
  
• A laid off Intel employee absconded with 18,000 files, some of them classified Destroy Before Reading.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Oops.
  
  
  
• A tape that may contain a copy of the long-lost fourth edition of Unix has been found.  (Ponderwall)
  
  It says it contains a copy of the long-lost fourth edition of Unix, but since the tape is more than fifty years old, it's been shipped off to the Computer History Museum for expert restoration before anyone tries to check its actual contents.
  
  
  
• Always Mars tomorrow, never Mars today: The launch of the Escapade mission aboard New Glenn was scrubbed because a cloud.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  They'll try again at 2:45 pm EST on Wednesday when hopefully not a cloud.
  
  
  
• ChatGPT private queries have been leaking into Google Search Console - a tool that lets you monitor search queries leading to your website - because ChatGPT was, well, taking people's private queries and doing just what anyone would do and looking the information up on Google.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Of course.

Song is the extended edition of Lindsay Buckingham's song Holiday Road, which he wrote at Harold Ramis' request for National Lampoon's Vacation.  Since there's no original music video for the extended edition, this one is taken from clips of Vacation and the second third sequel, Vegas Vacation.

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