• Sony has announced it will stop releasing PlayStation games on disc in 2028.  (BBC)
  
  But that's okay.  Sony doesn't have a habit of abruptly cancelling access to content you've already bought and refusing to offer refunds.
  
  Oh.

• Anthropic's Fable is back.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  US customers already have access and apparently I'm in the US because so do I.
  
  I'll see if it actually makes a difference.
  
  
  
• Google has turned the rest of the internet into sopranos.  (9to5Google)
  
  Google acquired GIF library service Tenor in 2018, and just recently cut off API access so nobody else can integrate with it.
  
  If you're wondering why most of the GIFs on Twitter disappeared, well, wonder no more.  They've switched to an alternative service but it has a small fraction of the content.  The staples are there, like "Sure, Jan", and "Oh no...  Anyway", but it's a pretty spartan platter.
  
  
  
• You had one job.  (Easy Opt Outs)
  
  Apple's "Hide my email" service doesn't.
  
  
  
• Meta is looking to lease out its unused datacenter capacity to functional AI companies.  (Tech Crunch)
  
  Probably a good idea.
  
  
  
• Before the DRAM Apocalypse, Micron was viewed as nothing more than a commodity component manufacturer.  (WCCFTech)
  
  Now it's viewed as a commodity component mafia.
  
  
  

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• South Korea's national and regional governments and major industrial groups have jointly committed to $1 trillion in investment to expand production of chips and bots.  (Ars Technica)
  
  $585 billion to increase chip production, with a particular focus on doubling memory production within five years.
  
  $357 billion to construct new datacenters to, uh, use up all that extra memory.
  
  And still more billions to expand production of robots and build 8 gigawatts of new generating capacity to power it all.
  
  
  

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• Speaking of which, Henrico County in Virginia is asking schools to open the blinds and turn off the lights to save electricity.  (404 Media)  (archive site)
  
  Henrico County has 37 datacenters and is constructing 17 more right now.
  
  
  
• Meta - which is to say Facebook - is reusing its DDR4 memory in DDR5 servers.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  That doesn't work, so what they've done is create a custom CXL-to-DDR4 adapter chip, which allows the servers to access memory over PCIe.
  
  
  
• G Skill's new ultra low latency 32GB memory kits cost just $1100.  (Tom's Hardware)
  
  Thanks, but no.
  
  
  
• For those experiencing difficulties with the latest iteration of Microsoft Notepad, there is a solution.  (GitHub)
  
  Though you will need to assemble it yourself.
  
  It should come to about 2686 bytes and has full feature compatibility with classic Notepad.
  
  
  
• The Redmagic Astra 2 is a large small tablet with a 2400x1504 185Hz OLED display.  (Liliputing)
  
  With its 9" screen it's really pushing the boundaries of a small tablet, but it's only about 20% heavier than the 7" Nexus 7.
  
  It runs on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 5 and has up to 16GB of RAM and 1TB of storage.  Pricing in China starts at $780 for the base model with 12GB of RAM and 256GB of storage and goes up from there.
  
  The previous model - no longer available - started at $549, so it's gotten a lot more expensive.
  
  
  
• The GPD Win Max 3 is a mini-laptop with, curiously enough, a 9" 2400x1504 OLED display.  (Liliputing)
  
  With a 165Hz refresh so it's the display used in the previous Redmagic Astra tablet.
  
  Apart from that, it has up to a Ryzen 395 processor with 128GB of RAM, and M.2 2280 and 2230 slots for storage.
  
  And a detachable 97Wh battery, which is a lot given its size.

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