• With support for Windows 10 ending last October, user numbers for Windows 11 climbed to an all time high.  Which was only to be expected.
  
  Less expected was that the numbers for Windows 11 have been dropping ever since.  (MSN)
  
  Over the last two months Windows 11 has fallen from 53.7% of the PC market to a very slim majority at 50.7%, with Windows 10 growing from 42.7% to 44.7%, and most of the remainder going to Windows 7, which came out all the way back in 2009.
  
  This is not particularly good news for Microsoft.

• Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang is deeply hurt by all the negative opinions of AI.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  He has no mouth and he must whine.
  
  
  
• A quantitative analysis of the cost of overreliance on AI advice.  (Science Direct)
  
  A very dry paper, but in short decision makers tend to over-rely on AI advice even when it directly contradicts available empirical data.  And this was in the context of an iterated prisoner's dilemma scenario, where optimal strategies are simple and well-known.
  
  
  
• With contract prices for DRAM rising 70% and NAND flash by 100%, memory now accounts for 20% of the cost of a mobile phone.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Which is not all that much.
  
  
  
• Amazon bought a Bee.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Bee makes a wearable AI thing, which is to say, useless overpriced junk.
  
  
  
• VMWare ESXi has a -365 day vulnerability.  (Bleeping Computer)
  
  If a zero-day vulnerability is one that must be fixed immediately because it is open to instant exploitation, what do you call one that has been actively exploited for a year before the developers notice?
  
  
  

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Posted by: Rick C at Wednesday, January 14 2026 02:11 AM (tCA/g)

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