• Twitter has filed an antitrust complaint against, basically, the entire music industry alleging collusion and systematic abuse of DMCA takedowns in order to force platforms into licensing agreements.  (TorrentFreak)
  
  I say alleging, but according to the filing, the president of the National Music Publishers' Association put the entire plan in writing as an email threat sent to Twitter even before the campaign started.
  
  
  

Tech News

• SSDs have only increased in price by 100% compared to the 300-500% for DRAM so we're safe oh Sandisk plans to double the price of 3D NAND flash for enterprise SSDs in Q1 2026 which is now.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  They say enterprise but expect things to get worse in the consumer market as well.
  
  
  
• HP meanwhile is turning to CXMT in China to help provide the DRAM it needs for consumer products given that the Big Three have sold out to the AI companies.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Meanwhile the share price for Taiwanese memory manufacturer Nanya has increased tenfold over the past year.
  
  
  
• And the Big Three - Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix - are all enjoying record profits.  (Ars Technica)
  
  Memory has turned abruptly from a money pit for Samsung to the shining star of the entire - what's the term - chaebol.
  
  (Samsung and SK are the two largest chaebols - corporate conglomerates - in South Korea.)
  
  
  
• AI read Harry Potter.  (The Register)
  
  And you can prod it into spitting out sentence fragments from Harry Potter by feeding it sentence fragments from Harry Potter, because it is just a very sophisticated autocorrect algorithm.
  
  The headline is more sensationalist, but this is what the story boils down to.
  
  
  
• You know what else are sophisticated autocorrect algorithms?  A lot of people.  (Twitter)
  
  But less correct, and less sophisticated.
  
  
  
• SpaceX has the green light from the FCC to launch another 7500 Starlink satellites.  (Ars Technica)

  The FCC said today's order allows SpaceX to "upgrade the Gen2 Starlink satellites with advanced form factors and cutting-edge technology," and "operate across Ku-, Ka-, V-, E-, and W-band frequencies, supporting both Fixed Satellite Service (FSS) and Mobile Satellite Service (MSS)." The FCC said it is waiving "obsolete requirements that prevented overlapping beam coverage and enhanced capacity," and is letting SpaceX "add new orbital shells at altitudes ranging from 340 km to 485 km, optimizing coverage and performance."

  Amazing what can be accomplished when the government isn't at war with its most productive citizens.
  
  
  
• Google co-founders Larry Page and Sergei Brin are leaving California ahead of the imposition of the confiscatory billionaire tax.  (Fox Business)  (archive site)
  
  Page has already bought a $173 million property in Miami.
  
  The tax strikes very close to home for Page and Brin, because they have special voting privileges that under an explicit provision of the legislation means they will be taxed not at 1% of their on-paper wealth per year, but at 5%.
  
  Amazing what can be accomplished by not interrupting your enemy in the middle of a mistake.
  
  
  
• NASA is returning four of the current seven ISS astronauts to Earth ahead of their February rotation after an unspecified medical issue.  (Ars Technica)
  
  They four can return at any time aboard the Crew Dragon capsule, and NASA is in talks with SpaceX to move forward the planned February 15 mission to send a fresh crew to the space station.

Posted by: PatBuckman at Sunday, January 11 2026 02:20 AM (rcPLc)

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