• Year of Linux on the Desktop?  Part One: Does Linux actually account for 11% of desktops even in the US - and a higher number globally?  (ZD Net)
  
  Probably, yes.  You get that number by adding together desktop Linux, ChromeOS (which is Linux) and "Unknown" numbers.
  
  Globally Linux numbers are about 50% higher, and looking at US government website stats, 25% of requests come from some flavour of Linux (including Android).
  
  
  
• Year of Linux on the Desktop?  Part Two: Google's AluminiumOS (yes, they spell it with two eyes) brings Android to the desktop.  (Thurrott)
  
  And Google has already been working to merge ChromeOS with Android.  So this would bring a thoroughly-tested Linux variant with a huge collection of existing applications to the desktop, though half of those apps are Kairosoft games.
  
  And the new Steam Cube is due to launch soon, bringing SteamOS - again, a flavour of Linux - to the desktop.
  
  With Microsoft working tirelessly to destroy Windows, these consumer-oriented Linux versions may bring welcome relief.

• Yes, Virginia, there are still some tech bargains: Seagate's 24TB Barracuda model is selling for just one cent per gigabyte.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Or $240 for the whole thing.
  
  Well, not in Australia, where it is significantly more expensive and also completely out of stock everywhere.
  
  With SSD prices on the rise this may be a good choice for people looking to build a high-capacity NAS.
  
  
  
• Speaking of SSD prices, an interesting thing is happening there.  The shortage is affecting NAND flash generally.  All versions, from high-reliability enterprise chips to the cheap stuff targeted at microSD cards.
  
  Meanwhile PCIe 5 controller chips for consumer SSDs are coming down in price, meaning that the price gap between PCIe 4 and PCIe 5 drives is fast disappearing.  At the start of the year it cost around 100% more for a PCIe 5 drive; now it's closer to 30%.
  
  
  
• People are more likely to give up their seats to pregnant women on public transport when Batman is present.  (Nature)
  
  He's not going to hurt you.  He's just going to judge you.
  
  
  
• Why a RAM boycott isn't going to do anything.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Because 70% of RAM goes to enterprise customers and if you don't buy it, they will.
  
  So what's the solution?
  
  Linux.  It's notably more memory efficient than Windows.
  
  
  
• Why Honda is suddenly launching reusable rockets.  (The Verge)  (archive site)
  
  Because they don't do much if you don't launch them.
  
  People don't often think of them that way, but Honda is a successful aerospace company.
  
  
  
• Someone tell Petronius the Arbiter that I've found the Door into Summer.
  
  Now I just need to find the Door Back into Pleasant Spring Weather.
  
  
  
• Updated my Minecraft modpack.  It's still on 1.20.1 because some key mods aren't available on anything later - Minecraft doesn't care at all about mod compatibility between versions - but I found a single mod (Vanilla Backport) that bundles together backports of all six six out of nine feature releases since then but has a weird compatibility problem with the Modernfix mod.
  
  Dye Depot and Dye the World - which add 16 more colours to vanilla Minecraft and to 19 other mods respectively - have both been updated.  And Create: Steam and Rails has a beta version with Create 6.0 compatibility.  I took Create out of the modpack entirely because the update to Create 6.0 broke compatibility with a lot of other mods, and if I wanted Steam and Rails and included Create 5.0, that broke still more things.  Looks like the great rift is finally healing.
  
  And after a whole bunch of tweaks and changes and updates, it just worked.  That never happens.

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• Don't worry about AI taking your job.  I don't worry about AI taking your job, so why should you, asks billionaire CEO Jensen Huang of Nvidia who got rich pushing AI.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  To be fair, he made the right call, making Nvidia the most valuable company in the world, and that is his job.  However, he is pushing his staff to use more AI precisely because if it works he won't need them.
  
  I don't believe it will work, but he has to claim to believe it, because that is also his job.  So one way or the other, he is lying.
  
  
  
• Ex-Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger says quantum computing will pop the AI bubble.  (WCCFTech)
  
  This would spell serious trouble for Nvidia, because if quantum computing is effective, it would erase 90% of their market overnight.
  
  Huang thinks that will take twenty years.
  
  Gelsinger believes it may take as little as two.
  
  

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• The Ayaneo Next 2 is another of those hand-held gaming devices like the Nintendo Switch or PlayStation Portable, only more so.  A whole lot more so.  (Liliputing)
  
  It has a 9" OLED display with a resolution of 2400x1504 at 165Hz, which is not drastically more than (for example) the Switch 2's 7.9" 1920x1080 120Hz screen.
  
  But it also has an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395, the same CPU powering the recent raft of $2000 home AI computers.  16 CPU cores and 40 graphics cores, packed into a handheld.
  
  Price not given but I expect it to be a lot.
  
  
  
• M3 MacBook Air’s Front Sharp Edges Were Too Uncomfortable For Its Owner, So He Used A Sandpaper To Smoothen Them Out, Followed By Some Polishing  (WCCFTech)
  
  Smoothen?

  The only drawback to smoothening the sharp edges of the M3 MacBook Air is that the polished area is prone to oxidation, but nothing like a simple wiping job will do the trick.

  Smoothen.
  
  
  
   
• A major AI conference has been flooded with papers "peer-reviewed" by AI.  (Nature)
  
  21% of the "peer reviews" were entirely AI-generated, and 50% showed significant AI use.
  
  Of the papers themselves, 1% were entirely AI-generated.  61% were at least mostly human work.
  
  
  
• The latest Soyuz launch to the ISS wrecked the rocket's own launchpad.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Crew on the ground failed to secure a 20-ton service platform and it got blasted into the flame trench by the launch and wrecked it.
  
  None of Russia's other launch sites can currently handle the Soyuz craft, which means that SpaceX may have to save the day yet again.

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• OpenAI has described its forthcoming AI device.  (Tech Crunch)  (archive site)
  
  Not announced.  Not previewed.  Described:

  When people see it, they say, "that's it?… It’s so simple."

  Not so much of a description as a fart.
  
  It's expected to be a phone, but without a screen, making it useless to everyone who already has a phone, which is...  Everyone.
  
  Also, don't look at the picture.
  
  
  
• Why can't ChatGPT tell the time?  (The Verge)  (archive site)
  
  Because it doesn't know anything.
  
  
  

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• AWS is adding "DNS resilience" to its notoriously unstable US-East-1 region.  (The Register)
  
  This won't make the datacenter any more reliable, it will just make it easier for customers to switch over to somewhere else the next time it goes down.
  
  
  
• Looking for a larger, faster hard drive for your 2013-era laptop?  SSSTC may have what you need.  (WCCFTech)
  
  It's an enterprise SSD, but it's just 7mm tall, uses a standard SATA interface, and stores up to 15TB.
  
  Price not mentioned but probably horrifying.
  
  
  
• Unless it doesn't: Intel's Nova Lake lineup next year will include models with dual CPU chiplets and dual cache chiplets after all.  (WCCFTech)
  
  With a total of up to 52 cores and 288MB of cache.
  
  Which is kind of a lot.
  
  Nominal power consumption for the high-end model is 150W, but this is Intel so expect it to post significantly higher numbers in the real world.
  
  
  
• Nvidia then: If you want to buy our GPU chips you have to buy the RAM from us too, at our marked-up prices.
  
  Nvidia now: Forget it, Jake.  It's Chinatown.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Nvidia previously forced the companies that make its graphics cards to also buy memory through them, even though Nvidia doesn't make memory chips.
  
  Now that memory chips have become expensive and hard to find, the board makers have been cut loose to sink or...  Well, just to sink really.
  
  
  
• As the UK tightens its grip on free speech, it has turned its steely idiot cross-eyed gaze on VPNs.  (The Verge)  (archive site)
  
  Just as everyone predicted.
  
  It won't work.  There are too many VPNs, they're too easy to create, and too easy to use.  The Great Firewall of China leaks like a sieve, so the UK doesn't stand a chance.

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• OpenAI says a dead teenager circumvented ChatGPT safety features before committing suicide.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  This comes out of one of the manifold lawsuits for wrongful death levied against OpenAI by the families of, well, crazy people.
  
  And OpenAI actually seems to have a point:

  OpenAI claims that over roughly nine months of usage, ChatGPT directed Raine to seek help more than 100 times.

  Why didn't you tell him to seek help?
  
  (Produces list of dates, times, and messages.)
  
  We did.

  But according to his parents' lawsuit, Raine was able to circumvent the company's safety features to get ChatGPT to give him "technical specifications for everything from drug overdoses to drowning to carbon monoxide poisoning," helping him to plan what the chatbot called a "beautiful suicide."

  Y'know, back in the Paleozoic era there were these things called libraries.
  
  
  Razors pain you;
  
  Rivers are damp;
  
  Acids stain you;
  
  And drugs cause cramp.
  
  Guns aren't lawful;
  
  Nooses give;
  
  Gas smells awful;
  
  You might as well live.
  
  
  
• OpenAI needs to raise $207 billion by 2030 so that it can...  Continue to lose money.  (Financial Times)  (archive site)
  
  Someone remind me why we are doing this again?

• Public websites in many US states and whatever Canada has instead of states, bailiwicks or voivodeships or something, for potential jury members to access data on their duties had - have - a tiny flaw: You can just look up anyone's details.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Not directly, but like WhatsApp you could simply run through all the possible numbers - even easier in this case because they are sequential - and access every single piece of data.  And there was no rate limiting.
  
  
  
• Asus' new Lockerstor Gen2 NASes offer up to six 3.5" drive bays, four M.2 slots for storage or caching, and dual 5Gb Ethernet ports.  (Notebook Check)
  
  And a PCIe slot if you need more speed.
  
  Priced starting at $470.
  
  
  
• What's better than a supercomputer?  A supercomputer with baked salmon.  (The Register)
  
  Norway's newest supercomputer is also being used to provide warm water for local salmon farms, or, if you dial the heat up just a little...
  
  
  
• Reviewing the Framework Desktop.  (Serve the Home)
  
  A month ago these AI-oriented systems with 128GB of unified RAM seemed awfully expensive.
  
  Then the prices for regular memory went not merely into orbit, but directly out of the Solar System.
  
  Since prices for these integrated systems have not been adjusted yet, they are suddenly looking much more attractive.
  
  
  
• AI companies are moving beyond the scale-up phase.  (ABZ Global)
  
  Ilya Sutskever (co-founder of OpenAI and now running his own company) and Yann Lecun (chief of AI at Meta) point out that the age of just scaling things up and getting better results is already over, and that all the money in the world can't make AI actually useful without much more research.
  
  Lecun goes further and says - as I do - that LLMs are simply not a path to real intelligence.  He lays out four key elements needed for intelligence, and notes that LLMs do not feature any of them.

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• TSMC, the world's leading manufacturer of high-end chips, says it can meet one third of the demand from AI buildouts.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Expect shortages of everything electronic.  Except hobby stuff like the Raspberry Pi Pico which is made on equipment from 2008 that the AI guys don't even think about.
  
  
  
• Rapidus - a new Japanese chipmaker funded by a list of the top companies in that country including Toyota and Sony - is set to start construction of a 1.4nm fab in Hokkaido in 2027.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Due to start production in 2029.
  
  So don't expect relief from the crunch any time soon.
  
  Unless the bubble bursts.
  
  
  

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• Intel's Nova Lake CPUs - expected next year with up to 52 CPU cores - will also have up to 144MB of last-level cache, similar to AMD's X3D chips.  (WCCFTech)
  
  But you can't have the 52 cores and the 144MB of cache.  The 52 core version has a second CPU die, and apparently the large cache version needs the space for its cache die.  28 cores max on those models, and only 8 of them full speed.
  
  By comparison, AMD is expected to launch CPUs next year with 24 full speed cores, but no "efficiency" cores.
  
  
  
• What is the role of tech journalism in a world where CEOs no longer feel shame?  (Platformer)
  
  Your role is to report the fucking news.
  
  This is about that disastrous interview with Roblox's CEO, but also about reporters who have completely forgotten - if they ever knew - that their job is to report:

  I'm still reckoning with what it means to do journalism in a world where the truth can barely hold anyone's attention - much less hold a platform accountable, in any real sense of that word.  I'm rethinking how to cover tech policy at a time when it is being made by whim.  I'm noticing the degree to which platforms wish to be judged only by their stated intentions, and almost never on the outcomes of anyone who uses them.

  No sign of intelligent life.
  
  
  
• Campbell's Soup's CISO and vice president Martin Bally has been put on leave after video of him surfaced declaiming that Chicken noodle soup is people!  You're eating people! and I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore.  (The Register)
  
  Although the audio is garbled, in a later section he appears to cry out You maniacs!  You blew it up!
  
  
  
• Amazon has launched its Leo satellite internet, offering speeds of up to one gigabit per second.  (Amazon)
  
  Can you use it?  Not yet.  Trials for enterprise customers start next year.
  
  Also, Amazon's satellite cloud falls just a little short of Starlink's: 150 vs. nearly 8000.

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• ChatGPT told them they were special.  Then...  Bad things happened.  (Tech Crunch)  (archive site)
  
  OpenAI is facing seven lawsuits this month, three from the families of users who went insane, and four from the families of users who committed suicide.
  
  Now while I'm not a huge fan of this type of suit - the dangers of AI "therapists" have been known for more than fifty years - there may be some merit to the negligence angle in the allegations:

  Shamblin's case is part of a wave of lawsuits filed this month against OpenAI arguing that ChatGPT's manipulative conversation tactics, designed to keep users engaged, led several otherwise mentally healthy people to experience negative mental health effects. The suits claim OpenAI prematurely released GPT-4o - its model notorious for sycophantic, overly affirming behavior - despite internal warnings that the product was dangerously manipulative.

  On the other hand, insane-while-online rarely works out as a personal growth path.  Just consider Bluesky.
  
  Or:

  From mid-June to August 2025, ChatGPT told Madden, "I'm here," more than 300 times - which is consistent with a cult-like tactic of unconditional acceptance.

  Or, to be fair, consistent with saying "I'm here".

  At one point, ChatGPT asked: "Do you want me to guide you through a cord-cutting ritual - a way to symbolically and spiritually release your parents/family, so you don’t feel tied [down] by them anymore?

  Which is...  A bit weird, I must admit.

  Madden was committed to involuntary psychiatric care on August 29, 2025.  She survived - but after breaking free from these delusions, she was $75,000 in debt and jobless.

  Restitution for that much - and legal costs - would seem appropriate.

  "A healthy system would recognize when it's out of its depth and steer the user toward real human care," Vasan said.  "Without that, it's like letting someone just keep driving at full speed without any brakes or stop signs."

  Real humans tend to do that a lot too.

• Why college students prefer TikTok over newspapers.  (The Verge)  (archive site)
  
  Because...  I would say because they are idiots, and if you read the article these people are very definitely idiots, but The Verge is talking about the New York Times here and not Generic Newspaper, so perhaps the answer is the New York Times lies to you all the time, while TikTok only lies to you almost all the time.
  
  And also, idiots.
  
  
  
• Lenovo has stocked up on memory to avert sudden price rises in its products - having 50% more inventory on hand than usual, enough to ride out shortages through 2026.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Part of the reason memory is in short supply is precisely this sort of panic buying.
  
  The other part, though, is that demand simply exceeds supply and this situation is likely to continue for a couple of years.
  
  
  
• Nova Lake is expected to have five times the AI processing power of current Arrow Lake desktop chips - and four some reason half the graphics performance.  (WCCFTech)
  
  These chips aren't intended as graphical powerhouses; your best bet there for a general-purpose desktop system is still AMD's Zen 4-based Ryzen 8700G.  Still a strange backwards step in an otherwise very powerful chip.
  
  
  
• Apple's iPhone Fold is expected to sell for around $2399.  (WCCTech)
  
  Fold me once, shame on you...
  
  
  
• Broadcom has shown off its new 144 lane PCIe 6.0 switch, with a PCIe 7.0 model planned for 2027 and PCIe 8.0 scheduled for 2029.  (Serve the Home)
  
  Great.
  
  Now how about an affordable PCIe 4.0 switch?  Because everything after PCIe 3.0 has been priced into the ionosphere.
  
  
  
• Japan plans to build a major new chip manufacturing hub in Hokkaido.  (BBC)
  
  Advantages: Hokkaido is geologically stable - relatively speaking, since the whole of Japan is an earthquake zone; water is plentiful; and power is stable.
  
  Disadvantages: Bears.
  
  
  

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• Deep Fission has an interesting idea: Rather than extracting spent nuclear fuel from reactors and burying it a mile underground, why not bury the entire reactor...  A mile underground?  (Spectrum)
  
  The reactors will be small - very small, just 75cm wide though 9 meters tall - to fit down a regular borehole, and will generate 15 megawatts of power each.  They plan to bring a test unit online next year - though they admit the schedule is optimistic - and commercial units within three years.
  
  
  
• Mazama Energy, on the other hand, just plans to drill a hole - into Newberry Volcano in Oregon.  (Yahoo)
  
  Down into the depths where the rock reaches temperatures over 600F, so they can pump water down and drive a turbine off the returning steam.
  
  The difficulty there is that at temperatures over 700F where the process is most efficient, the drilling equipment tends to go all melty itself.

• Flash memory shortages are new affecting supplies of high-capacity microSD cards.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Fortunately I have a small supply in hand already.
  
  
  
• Microsoft warns that its new AI features bring with them an increased exposure to data theft, malware, and a chance of hallucinations.  (ItsFOSS)
  
  So no change from standard Windows 11, really.
  
  
  

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• The strange and totally real plan to blot the Sun and reverse global warming.  (Politico)
  
  An in-depth and thoroughly researched article, albeit one written by a pair of compulsive liars with a combined IQ barely into the double digits.
  
  Nowhere in the dozen or so pages of irrelevancy does it mention the actual plan: To cool the planet by increasing effective cloud cover by 1%.
  
  Yes, when they say "blot out the Sun" they mean imperceptibly.

• Intel's Arc B390 graphics in its upcoming Panther Lake laptop CPUs - expected to launch at CES in January - are twice as fast as AMD's Radeon 890M or Intel's own Arc 140T included in the existing Lunar Lake CPUs.  (WCCFTech)
  
  It's just one leaked benchmark but it may be real because the chips themselves are already leaking with engineering samples popping up all over.
  
  The question is - if this is true at all - how?  Panther Lake (at least the top two models in the lineup) has a 50% larger GPU than Lunar Lake, but it still has the same 128-bit LPDDR5X memory bus, which I would expect to constrain the graphics performance to similar levels to the 890M and 140T.
  
  I guess we'll know soon enough.
  
  
  
• A CrowdStrike employee has been fired after being caught sharing company information with hackers.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  Not a good look for a company that offers high-end security solutions.
  
  
  
• People still use Twitter, despite the competition.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  There is no competition.
  
  
  
• The Atari Gamestation Go is a $180 handheld gaming console that includes over 200 games from prior millennia.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Instead of the typical dual joysticks these days, it has a four-direction controller (D-pad), a dial/paddle thing, a tiny trackball, the usual ABXY buttons, four triggers, and a numeric keypad.  The emulator - running on a dual-core 1GHz Arm CPU with 512MB of RAM - seems to be up to the task of running all the included games, and cartridges for early 90s game consoles loaded from the microSD card.  But beyond that, things proved a little too hard - games for the original PlayStation and Nintendo GameCube crashed on launch.

• In our Daily Dose of Tech Executives are Idiots Google tells employees it must double capacity every six months to meet AI demand.  (Ars Technica)
  
  It's not just college students who can't do math.

  During an all-hands meeting earlier this month, Google’s AI infrastructure head Amin Vahdat told employees that the company must double its serving capacity every six months to meet demand for artificial intelligence services, reports CNBC.  Vahdat, a vice president at Google Cloud, presented slides showing the company needs to scale "the next 1000x in 4-5 years."

  That would put Google Cloud Services at around $60 trillion in revenue per year, more than double the entire US GDP.
  
  Where do you expect the money to come from to fund this insanity?

  While a thousandfold increase in compute capacity sounds ambitious by itself, Vahdat noted some key constraints: Google needs to be able to deliver this increase in capability, compute, and storage networking "for essentially the same cost and increasingly, the same power, the same energy level," he told employees during the meeting.

  Oh.  Magic.

  "It won’t be easy but through collaboration and co-design, we’re going to get there."

  No, you're not, and everyone knows you're not.
  
  Progress over the last seven years, at truly massive cost, has been around 60% better AI performance per watt annually.  Chip improvements, algorithm improvements, and manufacturing improvements combined.
  
  You're asking your team to boost that to 300% overnight.

• SK Hynix is planning to increase memory production at its facility in Icheon, South Korea, from 20,000 to 140,000 wafers per month.  (WCCFTech)
  
  This won't even scratch the surface if the AI bubble keeps demanding hardware on its current trajectory.
  
  And the memory makers aren't going to build new factories any faster because only three of them survived when the last bubble burst.
  
  
  
• Speaking of idiot tech executives, the CEO of the world's most popular game, Roblox, sat down for an interview with the New York Times.  It did not go well.  (Kotaku)
  
  Asked how the company was dealing with its pedophile problem, CEO David Baszucki responded:

  "We think of it not necessarily just as a problem, but an opportunity as well."

  Remarkably, things actually went downhill from there.
  
  
  
• Speaking of not being able to do math the International Association of Cryptologic Research has cancelled its annual leadership election after...  Oh.  (Ars Technica)

  "Unfortunately, one of the three trustees has irretrievably lost their private key, an honest but unfortunate human mistake, and therefore cannot compute their decryption share," the IACR said.  "As a result, Helios is unable to complete the decryption process, and it is technically impossible for us to obtain or verify the final outcome of this election."

  An entirely understandable mistake, assuming all these people are idiots.
  
  
  
• What killed Perl?  (Entropic Thoughts)
  
  Mostly, Perl.
  
  
  
• WhatsApp allows anyone who knows your phone number to look up your public details on the app, assuming you have an account.
  
  So what's to prevent someone from just iterating through all the 63 billion of so potential phone numbers in the world and finding all the people with WhatsApp accounts?
  
  Nothing.  (The Register)
  
  That's the problem with systems on this scale.  The researchers were probing the system with 100 million API requests per hour, for weeks, from a single IP address, and nobody noticed.
  
  
  
• Qualcomm bought open source hobbyist hardware maker Arduino six weeks ago. At the time I predicted it might not mean imminent doom since Qualcomm is not as bad as, say, Broadcom.  (The Register)
  
  And they've already fucked it.  Though it seems the TOS clause about reverse-engineering was already in place, the rest of the changes pushed through yesterday are a complete train wreck for its customer base.
  

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• High King Mustafa, Lord of Microsoft's AI division, is angered by your insufficient displays of appreciation for his bountiful distribution of AI slop.  (PC Magazine)
  
  "Remember the days," he asked, "when all you had to eat was bread and cheese, and meat, and vegetables, and fruit in season, and pasta, and rice, and beans, and fish, and eggs, and chocolate cake?  Why aren't you properly grateful for the disgusting slop we are forcing down your miserable gullets?  Don't you know how lucky you are to live in an age where slop like this is available?"
  
  He then reportedly threw a chair at an intern.

• Nvidia posted record revenues of $57 billion for the quarter, up 62% from the same period last year.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Nvidia predicts an even better result next quarter.  Since the company already charges $100 per GB for memory on its high-end graphics cards, it is not going to feel the same pinch as regular users as memory prices soar across the board.  It might cut margins from 90% to 85%.
  
  
  
• Intel has reduced the price of its flagship Ultra 9 285K CPU to $429.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Not only is this a dead-end platform set to be replaced next year, but the upcoming - though still dead-end - Ultra 7 270K will provide the same performance for less money.  The 270K is a refresh of the current 265K, which is selling for $300.
  
  
  
• What happens when even college students can't do math anymore?  (The Atlantic)  (archive site)
  
  This has been the case for a very long time, but it suddenly got a lot worse.

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