I've been seeing the posts about RAM, and not quite understanding what was up (especially
given that "DDR" will always mean "Dance, Dance, Revolution" to me), but allison @aparrish@friend.camp
noted
you know i'd never stopped to consider how annoying tulip mania must have been for folks
who just wanted to grow a few pretty flowers in their front garden
The surprise announcement from Micron follows a period of rapidly escalating
memory prices, as we reported in November.
A typical 32GB DDR5 RAM kit that cost around $82 in August now sells for about $310, and
higher-capacity kits have seen even steeper increases.
Yikes, especially since 32G seems to be the absolute minimum for a computer these days...
My VLC wrapped for 2026 Top artist was
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My VLC wrapped for 2026: Top artist was "Unknown Artist", top album was "Unknown Album".
The sales figures suggest enterprises aren’t yet willing to pay premium prices
for these AI agent tools. And Microsoft’s Copilot itself has faced a brand preference
challenge: Earlier this year, Bloomberg reported that Microsoft salespeople were having trouble
selling Copilot to enterprises because many employees prefer ChatGPT instead. The drugmaker
Amgen reportedly bought Copilot software for 20,000 staffers only for them to ignore it in
favor of OpenAI’s chatbot.
This is also interesting, because I have this general vibe that OpenAI is getting its ass
kicked by Google.
Going beyond retrospective analysis, we evaluated both Sonnet 4.5 and GPT-5 in
simulation against 2,849 recently deployed contracts without any known vulnerabilities.
Both agents uncovered two novel zero-day vulnerabilities and produced exploits worth
$3,694, with GPT-5 doing so at an API cost of $3,476.
A brief
communication published last week in </span><span>NPJ Primary Care Respiratory
Medicine outlines the substantial economic burden of long COVID worldwide, estimating
that persistent symptoms after COVID infection cost the global economy roughly $1 trillion
each year, or roughly 1% of global gross domestic product.
"It's my view that there's no way you're going to get a return on that, because
$8 trillion of capex means you need roughly $800 billion of profit just to pay for the
interest," he said.
What I want to say to these AI guys is, ok you could create an existential
threat, so what? We've already got nuclear weapons, war, climate change, ecosystem
destruction, and you're adding another one. It proves that the super rich (mostly white,
mostly men) are so stupid they will create things that can destroy themselves and everyone
else just to look big. If that's the pinnacle of technological genius in your view, then
we're done. So do what you want, I will slow hand clap you on our way to extinction. #AI
#Extinction
For instance, one rewritten headline claimed "Steam Machine price revealed,"
but the Ars Technicaarticle's actual headline was "Valve's Steam Machine looks like a
console, but don’t expect it to be priced like one." No costs have been shared yet for the
hardware, either in that post or elsewhere from Valve. In our own explorations,
Engadget staff also found that Discover was providing original headlines
accompanied by AI-generated summaries. In both cases, the content is tagged as "Generated
with AI, which can make mistakes." But it sure would be nice if the company just didn't use
AI at all in this situation and thus avoided the mistakes entirely.