Monday, March 16
Daily News Stuff 16 March 2026
Lunchables Edition
Lunchables Edition
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- The Big Three memory makers are publicly saying they expect the AI bubble to pop - or at least fizzle - by 2028, which is why they're slow-walking expansion plans in the face of unprecedented demand. (WCCFTech)
That does mean that if you need memory now you're kind of screwed.
It also means that Taiwan's Nanya and West Taiwan's CXMT - the fourth and fifth largest memory manufacturers - are making hay while the sun shines.
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- North Korea's latest scam is placing remote workers with tech companies. (NBC)
They've actually been doing this for a while. They fake their ID, phone a friend for interviews, send the money to the government, and steal secrets if they get a chance.
- Electric vehicle sales are booming in countries where a hundred miles is a long distance and nobody has children. (Electrek)
Less so in places with a future.
- Myrient, the 385TB archive of retro games that was dying of exorbitant hosting fees, has been saved. (Tom's Hardware)
The entire archive has been backed up and volunteers are working on a new website and torrent server.
I took a look myself, but I don't have 385TB of space available and it was hard to know where to start with a partial archive.
- Britain is investing $2.5 billion in nuclear power to protect itself from future energy price shocks. (GB News)
Not fission which exists and actually works, but fusion which doesn't. Except on an inconveniently abrupt scale.
- What good is a glass worm? (Aikido)
Glassworm, an attack that injects vulnerabilities into open-source projects by slipping invisible Unicode characters into sensitive places, is back.
Unicode merges all human languages, ever, into a single character set. Its creators never bothered to ask if this was a good idea.
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The commenters at that Electrek article are huffing pure copium.
Posted by: Rick C at Monday, March 16 2026 10:07 PM (1zWbY)
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The not having children stuff is probably downstream of the green garrote around other aspects of that nation's economy.
I was persuaded against fusion after a period of enthusiasm when I had a look at the United States PE exam for nuclear engineering.
Beyond that, Starmer's science advisor shows all of the hints of wacky decision making and wishful thinking or fraudulent proposals for economic investment that have been in UK government policy announcements since at least Boris Johnson. (At least Rishi and Liz were not Keir, but I recall that they were pretty keen on preventing covid misinformation, and wanting to bring in foreign investment.)
I was persuaded against fusion after a period of enthusiasm when I had a look at the United States PE exam for nuclear engineering.
Beyond that, Starmer's science advisor shows all of the hints of wacky decision making and wishful thinking or fraudulent proposals for economic investment that have been in UK government policy announcements since at least Boris Johnson. (At least Rishi and Liz were not Keir, but I recall that they were pretty keen on preventing covid misinformation, and wanting to bring in foreign investment.)
Posted by: PatBuckman at Tuesday, March 17 2026 01:31 AM (s6adZ)
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When I went through the US Navy's nuclear power school back in the 1970s (shortly after the big oil crisis and before Three Mile Island), one of the instructors told us that his nuclear power nightmare was that we wouldn't build plants properly on a reasonable schedule; the "no nukes" people would make it so that none were built until we got into a real energy crunch, at which point the public would clamor so much for energy that they'd build a bunch in a hurry as cheaply as possible, which would set us up for a major problem.
Some years later, I was catching up with a Navy buddy who had become an NRC inspector after leaving the Navy, and he told me that construction of nuclear plants was already horrible; he'd note problems with how things had been fabricated or put together, and the shop foreman would stamp each problem report, "Waivered," and file it.
With regards to Myrient, I have two Amiga 2000s in my basement, so for the last week or so, I've been downloading a lot of Amiga software and stashing it on my NAS.
Some years later, I was catching up with a Navy buddy who had become an NRC inspector after leaving the Navy, and he told me that construction of nuclear plants was already horrible; he'd note problems with how things had been fabricated or put together, and the shop foreman would stamp each problem report, "Waivered," and file it.
With regards to Myrient, I have two Amiga 2000s in my basement, so for the last week or so, I've been downloading a lot of Amiga software and stashing it on my NAS.
Posted by: wheels at Tuesday, March 17 2026 02:28 AM (AxWHc)
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An EV would actually make sense for me, given that I virtually never go more than 10 miles from the apartment and I can easily steal electricity to charge it from dozens of places I know.
Posted by: normal at Tuesday, March 17 2026 05:51 AM (e0fX0)
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Do you think I can get EV credits for an all electric AAM helicopter to drop communists from? Asking for a friend. I'm fine with the fancy batteries on unmanned vehicles, but am personally more comfortable with combustion engines. (Though, caveats, I also would not personally want my hands on the awesome aerospace propulsion engines.)
Posted by: PatBuckman at Tuesday, March 17 2026 07:15 AM (s6adZ)
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