Wednesday, December 24
Daily News Stuff 24 December 2025
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Zero Shopping Days Edition
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- Do not send to know for whom the memory shortage tolls. (WCCFTech)
Today it's Apple, whose cost for the memory in the iPhone 17 has jumped from $29 to $70.
But doesn't Apple have long-term agreements to lock in costs?
Yes. Yes they do. Some of those agreements are expiring in January.
Others expired this month.
- Former Samsung executives and employees have been hit with criminal charges for leaking trade secrets on memory production to Chinese memory manufacturer CXMT. (WCCFTech)
Cool. I mean, tut tut, don't do that again.
Tech News
- Intel's new Fab 52 plant in Arizona is larger and more advanced than TSMC's Fab 21, also in Arizona. (Tom's Hardware)
It does not produce memory, though.
- The launch of the PlayStation 6 and the Steam Machine could be delayed by soaring memory prices. (Notebook Check)
Ya think?
- How AI broke the smart home in 2025. (The Verge) (archive site)
When all you have is an LLM, everything looks like a chat room.This morning, I asked my Alexa-enabled Bosch coffee machine to make me a coffee. Instead of running my routine, it told me it couldn’t do that. Ever since I
You know what this reminds me of?upgraded to Alexa Plus, Amazon’s generative-AI-powered voice assistant, it has failed to reliably run my coffee routine, coming up with a different excuse almost every time I ask.
It’s 2025, and AI still can’t reliably control my smart home. I’m beginning to wonder if it ever will.Tech Enthusiasts: Everything in my house is wired to the Internet of Things! I control it all from my smartphone! My smart-house is Bluetooth enabled and I can give it voice commands via Alexa! I love the future!
And a second gun to shoot the first one if worse comes to worst.
Programmers / Engineers: The most recent piece of technology I own is a printer from 2004 and I keep a loaded gun ready to shoot it if it ever makes an unexpected noise.
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There are, to be sure, great things about the future, but Windows 10 1703 uses only 1 GB of RAM after I log on, and current version uses 4GB apples to apples. I have 12 GB in use now, and do not feel like I am actually accomplishing anything. (Not really memory limited, only my own stupidity and lack of caffeine limited, but still.)
Posted by: PatBuckman at Thursday, December 25 2025 01:39 AM (rcPLc)
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An Apple LaserWriter from 1991-ish would be my choice, and the firearm better be a revolver: none of that queer auto-loading stuff for me, thanks.
Posted by: normal at Thursday, December 25 2025 02:12 AM (LADmw)
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