• 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.

• 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.

Posted by: Rick C at Monday, March 16 2026 10:07 PM (1zWbY)

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