• Windows crashes three times as often as MacOS.  (TechSpot)
  
  MacOS is that bad, huh?
  
  Some glitches with the sites aside, this server has been running nonstop for two years, and that's pretty typical for Linux.  It only reboots when you reboot it.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile some people at Microsoft are fighting to bring an end to mandatory online accounts for Windows.  (Windows Centra)
  
  Nice to have a hobby.
  
  I'm not expecting them to succeed here.

• LG is shipping 1Hz display panels for laptops.  (PC World)
  
  That is they can refresh as little as once per second, if you're just sitting there looking at a static screen - or up to 120Hz if the display is active.
  
  Apple's new MacBook Neo has a phone CPU that uses as little as 4W, but still has fairly mid-tier battery life.  What's draining all that power?  
  
  You guessed it.
  
  The panels are already shipping as the default choice in Dell's latest XPS models.
  
  
  
• SK Hynix, the third of the big three memory manufacturers, is planning a US IPO this year to raise funds for expansion.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  The share offering is expected to be small - about 2% of the total stock - but will value the company at $500 to $700 billion.
  
  SK Hynix reported 50% revenue growth and 100% growth in profits in 2025 - and only the last couple of months of that were in the DRAM Apocalypse - so I don't think they'll have a hard time finding buyers.
  
  
  
• Meanwhile production constraints at TSMC are pushing customers to look to Samsung for their chips.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Not that TSMC is having problems, just that demand is outstripping supply.
  
  To the point that Tesla is building its own chips foundry.
  
  
  
• On the AI side of things, it's not all slop.  (The Register)
  
  Recent reports of open-source projects - including Linux - being overwhelmed by useless AI-generated bug reports have ameliorated into useful AI-generated bug reports.
  
  Nobody knows exactly why the change, but this is something I am personally in favour of.  Testing in-depth is time-consuming and painfully boring, precisely the sort of job you'd give to an junior developer with clinical OCD in the good old days.
  
  Now everyone has a junior developer with clinical levels of OCD.

Posted by: PatBuckman at Sunday, March 29 2026 05:23 AM (s6adZ)

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