Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
Crucial is shutting down — because Micron wants to sell its RAM and SSDs to AI companies instead
Micron is shutting down Crucial, its longstanding brand for consumer-focused RAM kits and SSDs, as it shifts its attention to supplying memory for AI companies.Emma Roth (The Verge)
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I guess here is fine... the link i posted is a video of the waiting screen of Roku... I used to be a drug addict at the ends of his ropes... during my recovery I would put on this Roku "waiting" channel and I would watch things go by for hours. I felt transported into a world beyond my own... I could exist somewhere else...
I have no idea why, but seeing this place go by is so fucking comforting... in fact, im going to go there now...
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A 6 year old boy is ‘missing’ after ICE detained his father, advocates say
A 6-year-old Chinese boy has been separated from his father after federal agents arrested the family following a routine immigration appointment in New York City.
The boy’s father, Fei Zheng, is detained inside Orange County Correctional Facility in upstate New York, according to Immigration and Customs Enforcement’s custody records.
In a statement to The Independent, Homeland Security assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin disputed that ICE had separated the father and son while acknowledging that they were in separate custody.
A 6-year-old boy is ‘missing’ after ICE detained his father. NYC Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani calls for ‘cruelty’ to end
‘Nobody knows’ where first-grader Yuanxin is being held, according to immigrants’ rights advocatesAlex Woodward (The Independent)
On Dec. 8, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments on the president’s ability to fire the heads of independent, multi-member federal agencies like the Federal Trade Commission
The president and his supporters are proponents of a doctrine known as the “unitary executive” theory – the idea that the president should have complete control over the executive branch. Under this theory, the president should be able to fire any member of the executive branch, and laws – like the one at the center of this case – that restrict his ability to do so violate the constitutional separation of powers between the three branches of government.
The dispute before the court next week began in March, when Trump fired Rebecca Slaughter, whom he originally nominated to the FTC in 2018. In 2023, then-President Joe Biden renominated her to serve a second term, which was scheduled to end in 2029.
Slaughter pointed to a long history – dating back to the founding of the United States – of “multimember agencies whose members are protected from at-will removal.” All three branches of government, she said, “have recognized that this agency structure advances the liberty interest that the separation of powers exists to protect”: Congress has created such agencies, presidents “have signed into law numerous bills creating, funding, and empowering ‘some two-dozen multimember independent agencies,’” and the Supreme Court has upheld those laws “time and again.”
Trump v. Slaughter: An explainer
On Monday, Dec. 8, the Supreme Court will hear oral arguments in Trump v. Slaughter, a battle that has been brewing, on one hand, since soon after President Donald Trump […]Amy Howe (SCOTUSblog)
Democrats seek limits on who can serve as immigration judges amid mass layoffs
A bill introduced on Wednesday by California's Sen. Adam Schiff and Rep. Juan Vargas would authorize the attorney general to appoint temporary immigration judges that have served on appellate panels, are administrative judges in other agencies, or have 10 years of immigration law experience.
Such limits would preclude much of the administration's effort to authorize up to 600 military lawyers to be temporary immigration judges; as part of that move, the White House scrapped the requirement that temporary immigration judges should have immigration law experience.
Texas lawmakers criticized Kerr leaders for rejecting state flood money-two lawmakers who approved the program acknowledged it was flawed
Three weeks after flash floods in Texas’ Hill Country killed more than 100 people, state lawmakers chastised Kerr County leaders for rejecting money a year earlier to create a warning system that could have alerted residents to rapidly rising water.
But Kerr leaders were not the only ones who rejected the state’s offer, ProPublica and The Texas Tribune found. In the five years since the fund’s launch, at least 90 local governments turned down tens of millions of dollars in state grants and loans.
Leaders from about 30 local governments that the news organizations spoke with said the state grants paid for so little of the total project costs that they simply could not move forward, even with the program’s offer to cover the rest through interest-free loans. Many hoped the state program would provide grants that paid the bulk of the costs, such as the ones from the Federal Emergency Management Agency, which typically supply at least 75%. They believed that they could raise the rest.
Texas Lawmakers Criticized Kerr Leaders for Rejecting State Flood Money. Other Communities Did the Same.
Texas created a $1.4 billion fund to help pay for projects to guard against destructive flooding. But after learning that so many local communities turned down the money, two lawmakers who approved the program acknowledged it was flawed.cengiz.yar@propublica.org (ProPublica)
Never before seen images of Epstein's private island home released by House Democrats - follow live
The US Virgin Islands, where Epstein's two private islands were located, provided the files to the committee following a subpoena for the content on 18 November
There are four video files in the new batch of files released by the House Oversight Committee.
They're all captured on Epstein Island and show us the swimming pool, inside bedrooms and their adjoining bathrooms - where there are products still on the shelves.
We've put some of the key parts together in the short video below.
New images of Epstein's private island home released by House Democrats - follow live
Democrats on the House Oversight Committee released the new trove of pictures and videos from disgraced financier Jeffrey Epstein's private island.BBC News
PS5, nuovo aggiornamento di sistema 25.08-12.40.00: cosa cambia con l’update del 3 dicembre 2025
PS5 ha ricevuto oggi 3 dicembre 2025 un nuovo aggiornamento di sistema, distribuito a sorpresa da Sony e già in fase di rilascio anche in Europa. Si tratta del firmware identificato con il codice 25.08-12.40.00, un update di dimensioni contenute – circa 1,3 GB – che però interviene su alcuni aspetti pratici dell’esperienza d’uso, in particolare sui messaggi e sulla stabilità generale della console.
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PS5 aggiornamento 25.08-12.40.00: novità e miglioramenti a messaggi e stabilità
PS5 aggiornamento 25.08-12.40.00: il nuovo firmware di dicembre 2025 migliora messaggi, usabilità di alcune schermate e stabilità generale del sistema.Redazione (Atom Heart Magazine)
Germany’s China playbook: if you can’t beat them, partner up
‘Buy China’ trend, price wars push German industry to localise, seeing rivals as leaders
More than half of surveyed German firms plan deeper ties with local partners in China to match the rapid innovation cycles of domestic competitors, the German Chamber of Commerce has found.Xinyi Wu (South China Morning Post)
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German firms
As in the German bourgeoisie.
Make no mistake, German "firms" are not and never will be China's "friends." They're not even Germany's friends. This is just a further extension of the West's outsourcing of labour to China, a decidedly one sided relationship where any benefit to China is a happy accident at best and a terrible side effect at worst in the eyes of German businesspeople.
Judge issues injunction restricting immigration arrests in nation's capital
A federal judge late Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from making widespread immigration arrests in the nation’s capital without warrants or probable cause that the person is an imminent flight risk.
U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell in Washington granted a preliminary injunction sought by civil liberties and immigrants rights groups in a lawsuit against the U.S. Department of Homeland Security.
In addition to blocking the policy, she ordered any agent who conducts a warrantless civil immigration arrest in Washington to document “the specific, particularized facts that supported the agent’s pre-arrest probable cause to believe that the person is likely to escape before a warrant can be obtained.”
Howell also required the government to submit that documentation to plaintiffs’ attorneys.
The ruling is similar to two others in federal lawsuits that also involved the ACLU, one in Colorado and another in California.
Another judge had issued a restraining order barring federal agents from stopping people based solely on their race, language, job or location in the Los Angeles area after finding that they were conducting indiscriminate stops, but the Supreme Court lifted that order in September.
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French President Macron should privately and publicly address Beijing's transnational repression, human rights violations in his China visit, rights group says
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French President Emmanuel Macron should privately and publicly stress the importance of human rights in Sino-French relations during his visit to China from December 3 to 5, 2025, Human Rights Watch said today. Macron’s visit is one of several top-level engagements between European and Chinese leaders amid the complex and shifting geopolitical relationships among Europe, China, and the United States.President Macron should signal his commitment to taking concrete action in response to deepening repression by China. Key issues include
- labor rights abuses in China’s supply chains;
- commercial drones produced by China-based companies being used by Russia to attack civilians in Ukraine;
- and China’s use of transnational repression to target critics abroad, including in France.
“China’s disregard for human rights has important implications for France, from weapons used in unlawful Russian attacks in Ukraine to abusive supply chains that hinders fair competition for European industries,” said Bénédicte Jeannerod, France director at Human Rights Watch. “Macron should break the silos between human rights and other issues and show leadership by including rights concerns in high-level policy discussions with China.”
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France: Macron Should Address Repression in China Visit
French President Emmanuel Macron should privately and publicly stress the importance of human rights in Sino-French relations during his visit to China on December 3-5, 2025.Human Rights Watch
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macron will probably just talk about trade deals and ignore the human rights stuff like most western leaders do when they visit china, they always say theyll bring it up but then nothing happens, china has been doing this stuff for years and europe keeps doing business with them anyway, the drone thing is especially messed up though chinese companies selling drones to russia that kill ukrainian civilians and we just keep trading with them, its all about money at the end of the day, human rights are just something they mention in press releases to make themselves look good,
i doubt macron will actually do anything concrete about it, he might say something vague about being concerned but wont actually take action that would hurt trade relations, the supply chain labor abuses are also a huge issue but nobody wants to pay more for stuff so they look the other way, transnational repression is scary too china going after critics even when theyre in france, but yeah macron will probably just shake hands, sign some deals, and come home without really addressing any of this, same old story
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The China rare earths problem isn't as bad as we think. It's much worse: a look at gallium
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December 2025 ForumWG Meeting
Monthly meetings are held on the first Thursday of each month, at 13h00 to 14h00 Eastern Time (currently 18h00 to 19h00 UTC). You can find them listed in the SocialCG Calendar. The next meeting will be held (tomorrow) on 4 December 2025.
Meeting link: meet.jit.si/ap-forum-wg
Discussions will continue re:
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Build Your Own Glasshole Detector
Build Your Own Glasshole Detector
Connected devices are ubiquitous in our era of wireless chips heavily relying on streaming data to someone else’s servers. This sentence might already start to sound dodgy, and it doesn’…Hackaday
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~~Read the short article?~~
Edit: fine. Leagues less complex and standalone.
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I read the article and that's why I'm asking what's the difference.
For example I use an app, AirGuard, which can tell what devices are around me and I think it could tell the difference like it can spot AirTags and such.
Leagues less complex and standalone.
I have no idea what you just said.
I logged unique broadcasting Bluetooth devices for fun for a few months and I was amazed at how many hundreds if not thousands of devices it found.
And that logger was stationary. Unless you know and filter the Bluetooth address ranges of what you are looking for, you will be swamped with irrelevant data.
Side note: those Bluetooth beacons tracking people in stores are absolutely gobbling data.
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Israel to open Rafah crossing for exits only; RSF holding trapped El-Fasher residents for ransom; ICE plans for mega warehouse detention centers
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Israel to open Rafah crossing for exits only; RSF holding trapped El-Fasher residents for ransom; ICE plans for mega warehouse detention centers
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Israel announces it will open the Rafah border crossing but only for Palestinians leaving. Hamas to hand over the body of another Israeli captive. Over 200 prominent cultural figures sign a letter calling for the release of Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti. ICE begins targeting Somali Americans in Minnesota. President Donald Trump gives this new antagonism rhetorical support, calling Ilhan Omar and Somalis in general “garbage.” Trump Department of Justice official Harmeet Dillon slanders Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani as an “antisemitic demagogue,” and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blames youth solidarity with Palestine on TikTok. Israel launders its talking points through actress Noa Tishby and her foundation, a new report alleges, and may have violated FARA in the process. Trump admin threatens to cut off SNAP funding in blue states. ICE moves toward a “mega-warehouse” detention facility. Ex-Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández is released from prison after a Trump pardon. Centrist candidate Salvador Nasralla takes a slim lead in Honduras’ elections. More violence in Pakistan’s northwest. The Ukrainian military disputes Russian claims of gains in the Donbas. Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to cut off Ukrainian access to the sea. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces are systematically holding trapped residents for ransom in El-Fasher. Venezuela resumes repatriation flights. The Philippine military is using U.S. hardware in its counter-insurgency efforts, a new Drop Site report shows. As the feds closed in on Jeffrey Epstein, he estimated in a private email that there might be as many as 20 underage victims, Saagar Enjeti reports for Drop Site.
Israel to open Rafah crossing for exits only; RSF holding trapped El-Fasher residents for ransom; ICE plans for mega warehouse detention centers
Israel announces it will open the Rafah border crossing but only for Palestinians leaving. Hamas to hand over the body of another Israeli captive. Over 200 prominent cultural figures sign a letter calling for the release of Palestinian political prisoner Marwan Barghouti. ICE begins targeting Somali Americans in Minnesota. President Donald Trump gives this new antagonism rhetorical support, calling Ilhan Omar and Somalis in general “garbage.” Trump Department of Justice official Harmeet Dillon slanders Mayor-elect Zohran Mamdani as an “antisemitic demagogue,” and former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton blames youth solidarity with Palestine on TikTok. Israel launders its talking points through actress Noa Tishby and her foundation, a new report alleges, and may have violated FARA in the process. Trump admin threatens to cut off SNAP funding in blue states. ICE moves toward a “mega-warehouse” detention facility. Ex-Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernández is released from prison after a Trump pardon. Centrist candidate Salvador Nasralla takes a slim lead in Honduras’ elections. More violence in Pakistan’s northwest. The Ukrainian military disputes Russian claims of gains in the Donbas. Russian President Vladimir Putin wants to cut off Ukrainian access to the sea. Sudan’s Rapid Support Forces are systematically holding trapped residents for ransom in El-Fasher. Venezuela resumes repatriation flights. The Philippine military is using U.S. hardware in its counter-insurgency efforts, a new Drop Site report shows. As the feds closed in on Jeffrey Epstein, he estimated in a private email that there might be as many as 20 underage victims, Saagar Enjeti reports for Drop Site.
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Young Ants Beg For Death When Sick, New Study Reveals
Young Ants Beg For Death When Sick, New Study Reveals : ScienceAlert
Sick young ants release a smell to tell worker ants to destroy them to protect the colony from infection, scientists said Tuesday, adding that queens do not seem to commit this act of self-sacrifice.AFP (ScienceAlert)
LOL ok, let's do this, I have time to waste:
- "Young Ants Beg For Death" No, they don't and saying it is just projecting human behavior on them.
- "queens do not seem to commit this act of self-sacrifice" There is no self-sacrifice since they don't know what will happen to them, until proven otherwise.
- "similar to how infected cells in our bodies send out a "find-me and eat-me"" Again, until proven otherwise, cells don't have such knowledge, it is just a biological mechanism.
- "the scientists wanted to figure out whether the pupae "were actively saying: 'hey, come and kill me'" They don't, we are just projecting human reasoning to ant pupae, two very different animals.
- "Altruistic act" LMAO, I won't elaborate further.
- "While it is a sacrifice – an altruistic act – it's also in their own interest, because it means that their genes are going to survive and be passed on to the next generation" Sacrifice, altruism, interest, have nothing to do with what is happening here, which is just a biological mechanism, as far as we can tell, naturally selected without the ants even remotely knowing about it, until proven otherwise.
- "Are they cheating the system?" Huh... No? They are fucking pupae, they just exist and don't even know what is this supposed system.
- "queen pupae have much better immune systems than the worker pupae, and so they were able to fight off the infection – and that's why we think that they weren't signalling" Or... Being a different kind of pupae they also differ in not having that self-destruction mechanism.
This is MOST (I decided to be kind and ignore some things pretending they were just "funnily phrased") of the unscientific bullshit added to make it more appealing (I guess?) to the average human reader, while also creating a lot of specist misconceptions regarding ants (and animals in general in my opinion) and the already mentioned substrate for pseudoscience and all those funny things we have to endure in today's internet.
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Well, all your arguments can be summarized in "projection of human behavior" onto those ants and pupae.
Okay, let's go down this rabbit hole.
Do you really think anyone would express her/himself by avoiding this "projectionism"? I don't think it is even possible. You see this projection in every aspect of our life.
"Time/Computer/etc. is running"
"The train is coming"
"The wind is blowing"
"The storm is raging"
"The city never sleeps"
"The phone died"
"Time flies"
"The night wrapped its arms"
And many, many more. You find those projections everywhere. And you know why? Yes, exactly! They help you understand the situation better. So what's wrong with using then here too?
Figurative speech is not equal to what we have here, my dear.
And if you can't even imagine how to explain yourself without avoiding those embarrassing sentences in the article then we have here a tangible example of why this is dangerous and feeds ignorance.
And you are also in bad faith now, because you said in your very first comment that this is just to make science "accessible". Now it turns out you think it is not possible to communicate in a scientifically accurate way?
Nice try, but you have to put more effort here if you want to defend such a shitshow.
Just analyzing this mechanism as it is, a biological response for both the pupae and the adult ants, would be already enough to be accurate and clear.
Saying pupae are making an "altruistic act" is laughable and it's like assuming the target audience is made of mentally challenged people. Which we are not, I think.
Just analyzing this mechanism as it is, a biological response for both the pupae and the adult ants, [...]
This is exactly what I'm talking about. Do you really believe the average person would understand this? This is already scientific jargon which most people wouldn't understand correctly. Well, let me be truthfully I had to look up the scientific definition to verify if it is accurate.
So what is wrong with making it accessible?
Your hate-speech is just pointing at inaccuracy and the entertaining way of that online magazine. And I kept stating it is okay and they have their right to exist. And do you really understand why? Because they make science accessible and interesting.
If you really work in science, what made you work in science? The money? I hope not. I bet a curiosity that is rooted or at least was expanded by consuming exactly these inaccurate, false, but entertaining articles and documentaries. If it's not you, what I would doubt, then ask your colleagues why they ended up in science.
So in my eyes, organizations like sciencealart and their way of rewriting scientific publications, are playing their part in the science world, even when it is inaccurate and aspects are false.
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Yes, we should stop here.
Based on what I’m reading here, our little conversation really shouldn’t have reached this point..
Please rethink before posting. Starting of with a hateful post is never good. With a more objective approach I wouldn't have reacted.
Anyway,
Have a nice weekend!
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No, what I've said is well thought and my hate against pseudoscience is motivated.
This article is still full of unscientific bullshit, no matter if you were triggered or not by that.
If you disagree or don't understand where the problem is that's ok, but your "reaction" doesn't change the facts I've stated and that I would loudly state again.
Do not tell others to be objective if you can't see objectively.
And you know what, you could even be scientifically accurate while also doing some less dangerous clickbait just by calling it a self destruction mechanism or something like that, same goes for the cells. It would still be useless fluff added to the topic, but at least it isn't completely nonsensical.
But no, they decided to go for the romantic route of the self sacrifice for the greater good.
I'm sorry but it is repulsive to me.
It’s Official: Linux Kernel 6.18 Will Be LTS, Supported Until December 2027
As expected, the recently released Linux 6.18 kernel series has been officially marked as LTS (Long Term Support) on the kernel.org website with a predicted life expectancy of at least two years.Linux kernel 6.18 was released at the end of November 2025 with new features like support for the Rust Binder driver, a new dm-pcache device-mapper target to enable persistent memory as a cache for slower block devices, and a new microcode= command-line option to control the microcode loader’s behavior on x86 platforms.
While Linux 6.18 is making its way into the stable software repositories of various popular GNU/Linux distributions, such as Arch Linux, openSUSE Tumbleweed, Fedora Linux, and others, it has already received LTS (Long Term Support) status on the kernel.org website, supported until December 2027.
It’s Official: Linux Kernel 6.18 Will Be LTS, Supported Until December 2027 - 9to5Linux
Linux kernel 6.18 is now officially marked as LTS (Long-Term Support) on the kernel.org website and it will be supported until December 2027.Marcus Nestor (9to5Linux)
Lawmakers ask AG Pam Bondi for a status update on releasing the Epstein files
Five members of Congress spanning both parties and both chambers want a briefing by Friday on the Trump administration's progress in releasing the Epstein files.
Epstein files: Lawmakers ask AG Pam Bondi for a status update
Five members of Congress spanning both parties and chambers are asking Attorney General Pam Bondi for a briefing and a status update by the end of this week on the legally mandated release of the Jeffrey Epstein files.Sahil Kapur (NBC News)
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Retired Colonel Lawrence Wilkerson: Legitimacy of the U.S. Empire Collapses
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Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update improves and breaks dark mode
Microsoft’s latest Windows 11 update improves and breaks dark mode
Microsoft has added a white screen bug to File Explorer in Windows 11. It’s part of an update that was supposed to improve dark mode in Windows 11.Tom Warren (The Verge)
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yes i have launched it from terminal. it only launches with sudo, it works completely normally then. funny that it nags that it's unnecessary to run it with sudo. without sudo it's just silent, nothing appears in terminal.
there's also 4 updates always available, but they keep coming back after restarting discover. sometimes it gives an error complaining about color schemes, wallpapers, cursors etc. even if I remove everything i downloaded...
India scraps order to pre-install state-run cyber safety app on smartphone
Sanchar Saathi: India scraps order to pre-install state-run cyber safety app on smartphones
The order to make the registration mandatory had led to a major backlash from several cyber experts.Nikhil Inamdar (BBC News)
How Expiring Subsidies And Medicaid Cuts Could Reshape U.S. Access To Care
Young Republicans chapter plans to host far-right German leader after ‘I love Hitler’ chat
The New York Young Republican Club will host Markus Frohnmaier, an AfD deputy chairman, at its annual gala after calling for a ‘new civic order’ in Germany.
Obamacare subsidies expire this month. Many Republicans are shrugging.
Obamacare premiums are set to spike for tens of millions of Americans next month. Plenty of rank-and-file Republicans are happy to sit back and ride it out.
Some vulnerable GOP lawmakers up for reelection are scrambling for a last-minute fix to renew the enhanced federal health care subsidies keeping costs down. But even if party leaders and Donald Trump were to rally around a plan in the coming days — and there’s no sign of that happening — many conservatives are likely to revolt.
Democrats have vowed to hammer the GOP in the midterms if they allow the federal aid to expire, but many on the right expect the political fallout to be minimal, or even to backfire on Democrats. For other conservatives, any blowback will be worth it if it means they get to rein in a system the party has fundamentally opposed since its launch more than a decade ago.
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Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure
Porsche Cars in Russia Shut Down After Satellite System Failure
Hundreds of Porsche cars across Russia have shut down after a Vehicle Tracking System failure caused engine lockouts. Here’s what happened, which models are affected, and what owners can do next.Jeet Patel (Head Lines Monitor)
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I feel like I got my car at the perfect time:
It has Android Auto and CarPlay, and it's a manual so there's no way for it to turn on or off remotely.
Now I just have to make sure it survives until I die.
It's a voluntary anti-theft measure I believe. Prevents it from being started without the owner's consent. Which immobilizers are also supposed to do, but we all know how well those work.
If I owned a Porsche in Russia, I would also get something like that tbh. Luckily I don't live in Russia, nor do I have a Porsche anymore and mine was too old for this kinda shit anyway
Leaked memo reveals US veterans affairs officials vetting non-citizen workers
Exclusive: Compilation of data to be shared with ‘appropriate agencies’ prompts fears of immigration crackdown
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) is in the process of creating an urgent and massive new internal database of non-US citizens who are “employed or affiliated” with the government department, a sensitive memo leaked to the Guardian has revealed – prompting alarm within the sprawling agency over a potential immigration crackdown.
A VA spokesperson confirmed to the Guardian that the department would share some of the data it is now gathering with other federal agencies, including for immigration enforcement purposes.
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Anthropic makes first acquisition with purchase of Bun to accelerate Claude Code
Artificial intelligence company Anthropic PBC today announced it had made its first acquisition in acquiring developer tools startup Bun for an undisclosed price.
Founded in 2019, Bun offers an all-in-one JavaScript/TypeScript toolkit that aims to simplify and accelerate full-stack development. The company’s offering is similar in purpose to Node.js but also includes tools developers usually pull in separately, including a package manager, a bundler, a test runner and script runner, all shipped as a single executable.
Bun is built using the Zig programming language and leverages Apple’s JavaScriptCore under the hood to yield much faster startup times and lower memory usage compared with runtimes based on the V8 engine, the engine used by Node.js and others. Bun is often significantly faster in key developer workflows, such as package installation, build/bundling, test execution and runtime, making it appealing to Anthropic.
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in reply to pinheadednightmare • • •That out of context quote takes a lot of shit for something that was supposed to represent a futuristic socialist utopia.
The idea was that 14 years after that article was published, mankind would have such immediate access to services and those services would be free, that people would just sorta stop caring about owning things. For example, since food and necessities would be free, you could go home and print your dinner. If you wanted someone else to cook, you'd get something delivered. But, if you wanted to try something truly novel that most people don't do anymore in this society, you could rent kitchen equipment and it'd be ready as soon as you need it, and you'd use socialized appliances and utensils. Why? Because your home doesn't need that clutter. If you wanna cook all the time, you can own whatever you want. But most people will want to use that space for something else, so they'll just print their meals.
You would have quick and easy access to transport, so why waste the money and space to own a car? You wanna drive? Push a button in your app and a car arrives for free. Or take the free train or bus.
The essay isn't about "you won't be able to own anything," it's about "you won't want to own anything, but you'll have everything you could ever want or need."
And we're really headed in the right direction for this amazing future. Except, you know... Corporations are bleeding us dry instead of supporting us...
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in reply to empireOfLove2 • • •tal
in reply to Dudewitbow • • •Lenovo is stockpiling memory to try to make it through the RAM winter.
tomshardware.com/pc-components…
I don't think that Lenovo is getting special deals with memory makers either, or they wouldn't need to stockpile.
TeamAssimilation
in reply to empireOfLove2 • • •Holy cow that’s a very real danger I hadn’t thought of! The industry needs a new trend to reuse all this capacity they built, because AI will likely scale back as many startups fail to reach profit.
Renting your home computer might be the next trend, and it could be gratis at first so people get used to it. Why spy on users when you can actually own their computers?
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in reply to empireOfLove2 • • •deliriousdreams
in reply to empireOfLove2 • • •Aren't we already seeing that though?
The vast majority of people who surf the web don't use a computer to do it. People who do belong to niches. People over a certain age grew up with and still buy computers. People who game still buy computers or consoles. People who stream/create content still use computers and other electronics for that purpose, same with like. Engineers and hobbyists using CAD and other software in creative spaces.
But the smart phone has overtaken the computer as a personal computing device by quite a large margin now. And at every turn companies are trying to make cell phones a den of ad service, slop, and addictive content while stealing any user data that's not nailed down to increase their revenue and continue the circle.
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in reply to Thomas • • •givesomefucks
in reply to Thomas • • •Good luck...
Even when the bubble bursts, they're going to have an insane amount of computing power just sitting there, it will get sold off in bankruptcy proceedings, and some company will gobble it up and operate at a loss while continuing to secure future supply contracts.
There's a very real chance that we're witnessing the slow death of home computing.
The way things shake out it might end up being prohibitively expensive compared to cloud computing, and once that's the norm they price gouge like Walmart did to destroy small businesses.
Instead of dropping a couple grand for a PC every couple years, we'll have steady contracts paying for month at a time indefinitely.
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Fluffy Kitty Cat
in reply to givesomefucks • • •jollyrogue
in reply to givesomefucks • • •Nah. Web devs will create even more bloated web pages to keep home computing in business.
For real though, most people don’t need that much computing power, and we reached the plateau 12 years ago. That’s why we’re seeing crypto and AI grifts happen. They recentralize decentralized systems. The elites are striking back.
You know the saying“information wants to be free; information wants to be expensive”? This is the expensive part where people try to horde knowledge by making it inaccessible to everyday people.
givesomefucks
in reply to jollyrogue • • •jollyrogue
in reply to givesomefucks • • •How is this applicable to the comment? Companies never figured out how to charge rent for those.
Devs see home computers as a free resource, and the burden is on the consumer to buy a computer which runs their software.
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ZoteTheMighty
in reply to Thomas • • •hark
in reply to ZoteTheMighty • • •tal
in reply to ZoteTheMighty • • •Serial compute isn't doing the double-every-18-months-in-speed since something like the early 2000s.
Unlike with serial compute, not all problems can be solved, run faster, with parallel compute. But at some point, unless we figure out some sort of new way to play with physics, we pretty much have to move to parallel compute where we can if we want much more performance.
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in reply to Mark with a Z • • •If that happens, prior Crucial consumers (like myself) should boycott because they already showed what they actually care about and it isn't their loyal customer base. They don't want us to buy their products? We should happily give them what they want now should they change their mind later.
Anyway yeah, if they come back, they're officially on my shit list.
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in reply to Optional • • •tal
in reply to Optional • • •Why? I mean, they aren't compelled to manufacture DIMMs.
Right now, there is a window in time where there are companies willing to pay tons of money for HBM, more than most people and companies are for DIMMs. It'd be crazy for memory manufacturers not to make HBM if they have the capacity to do so, if they're doing way better by doing so.
SirEDCaLot
in reply to Optional • • •crank0271
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in reply to crank0271 • • •9point6
in reply to Tony Bark • • •Damn I've bought a lot of crucial stuff over the years
I assume they're my current memory kit too since I pretty much always go with them
db2
in reply to Tony Bark • • •Generic Person
in reply to Tony Bark • • •First it was GPUs, and now it's RAM.
This seriously sucks. Maybe I'll have to stick with my mom's laptop for a little while longer if prices are going to be impacted (which I having a feeling they probably will be unless they already are).
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in reply to Buffalox • • •saltesc
in reply to Tony Bark • • •I'm a follower and just go with Corsair Vengeance. Hasn't ever let me down.
I think all my SSDs are Samsung. Nvme are Kingston and so I like to think they have thick Jamaican accents, mon. No issues with any of it and some of that storage is getting real old.
Thing with PC parts is it's worth paying a bit more for quality. Ends up being much cheaper in the long term.
Chronographs
in reply to saltesc • • •suicidaleggroll
in reply to Chronographs • • •They do both. This is what I have in my server, for example:
semiconductor.samsung.com/dram…
M321R8GA0EB2-CCP(DDR5) | DRAM | Samsung Semiconductor Global
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in reply to Tony Bark • • •I read an article yesterday that Samsung's memory division wasn't even willing to let Samsung's own cell phone division lock in any long-term memory buying agreement with them, which the cell phone division hsd been trying to do. Too much money in selling HBM memory for parallel compute to datacenters.
reuters.com/world/china/ai-fre…
I threw away a bunch of large-capacity DDR4 DIMMs last year, figured that they'd be useless in the future. Kind of wish I hadn't, now. Reusing old DIMMs is probably the only source of supply that can be ramped up in the near term.
Two or three years until manufacturing capacity will be ramped up.
buddascrayon
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in reply to tal • • •Jarix
in reply to NotMyOldRedditName • • •NotMyOldRedditName
in reply to Jarix • • •In this case wouldn't it be the leopards eating itself?
A nice roasted tail maybe?
Jarix
in reply to NotMyOldRedditName • • •FackCurs
in reply to NotMyOldRedditName • • •Imagine the ship of Theseus, but they don’t replace the parts. They just take them off. It will be very cost efficient, until the ship sinks.
Who needs ram in a phone anyway?
EndlessNightmare
in reply to tal • • •"Fortune, fame, mirror vain
Gone insane, but the memory remains"
horn_e4_beaver
in reply to Tony Bark • • •Devolution
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masterofn001
in reply to Devolution • • •So was:
1984, Brave New World, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep (Bladerunner) and other pk dick novels/film adaptations, , etc.
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Contributors to Wikimedia projects (Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.)naught101
in reply to masterofn001 • • •Those are all great books/stories. But they are all off the mark for the AI bubble.
The book you wanna read is John Steinbeck's The Grapes Of Wrath.
tehn00bi
in reply to Devolution • • •Elgenzay
in reply to Tony Bark • • •Psythik
in reply to Elgenzay • • •I used to hate on RGB in PCs, until I realized that they can do more than just rainbow vomit; with enough LEDs you can actually get a visible image... If you squint...
One of my favorite things to do with RGB is use the RAM sticks as VU meters and the CPU radiator fans as visualizers when playing music; gives off oldschool HiFi vibes and reminds me of my Winamp days.
ripcord
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in reply to Psythik • • •Psythik
in reply to Rekorse • • •That's a brilliant idea, but why does your PC have cooling issues? I literally never worry about overheating because I sized my radiators and heatsinks adequately for my equipment, fans set in a positive pressure configuration to minimize dust accumulation. All I gotta do is clean the filters once every few months, and everything stays cool and clean.
If your overheating issues are a result of budgeting issues, I feel for you. Otherwise it wouldn't be a bad idea to invest in better cooling so that you never have to worry about temps.
Tigeroovy
in reply to Psythik • • •Landless2029
in reply to Psythik • • •Functional RGB isn't bad when tastefully done like that. Nice little effect.
That said I have all of mine turned off and prefer my tower under my desk and out of sight.
toddestan
in reply to Psythik • • •That's interesting. I've always wanted a bunch of blinkenlights but they also needed to be functional and serve some purpose. Kind of like the old Thinkpad I have that has a whole row of status LEDs under the screen. A bunch of meaningless lights just for the sake of having lights always seemed pointless.
Anyway, with the last PC I built, the RGB stuff was pretty much unavoidable. I still went out of my way to get a case without a window though. I do have the RGB on, but it's a solid blue-greenish color so there's a bit of glow coming out the back of the case.
This is fine🔥🐶☕🔥
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in reply to Elgenzay • • •hits Google Shopping
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Aside from being a black circuit board rather than green, that PNY DIMM doesn't look especially blinged up.
katy ✨
in reply to Tony Bark • • •Th4tGuyII
in reply to Tony Bark • • •All I can do is pray that my current RAM survives long enough for this stupid AI bubble to burst, like with the Crypto-Bro GPUs.
But it is kind of horrifying how easily consumers have been priced out of the RAM market - at least for newer stuff anyways
Jarix
in reply to Th4tGuyII • • •I might upgrade to GabeCube from my current rig i7 6820k from 10 years ago, but still a year or 2 away from replacing this rig.
I also hope my RAM survives. Good luck friend! This rando from Lemmy wishes you the best (if I win a lottery I'll buy you a new rig!)
Kazumara
in reply to Th4tGuyII • • •Last weekend my PC didn't start up, it was beeping an error code. I was so scared of it being a memory issue while diagnosing.
But luckily it was a video error code. And after swapping out the GPU and still getting the beep, even more luckily, it turned out to be the display being stuck in a bad state and just needing a reboot.
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in reply to khannie • • •khannie
in reply to Typhoon • • •Ah you say that, but I lived through the internet bubble. Jeez it was gruesome and then 9/11 hit the next year. Savage times.
Unless it's considered a national security issue, which it might be, they're getting fucked without the lube.
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in reply to buddascrayon • • •So far, AI has cost me a few hobbies (as in, made them a lot less enjoyable) and one job.
If there's an uprising against clankers, you'll find me at the front lines.
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in reply to buddascrayon • • •chronicledmonocle
in reply to hayvan • • •Yeah that's the annoying thing. Generative AI is actually really useful.....in SPECIFIC situations. Discovering new battery tech, new medicines, etc. are all good use cases because it's basically a parrot and blender combined and most of these things are rehashes if existing technologies in new and novel ways.
It is not a fucking good solution for a search engine replacement to ask "Why do farts smell?". It uses way too much energy for that and it hallucinates bullshit.
chiliedogg
in reply to chronicledmonocle • • •Yeah. They solved protien folding with ML a few years back. And I like using it for things like noise removal in Lightroom.
But so much of it has been focused on useless (at best) bullshit that I just want the bubble to burst already.
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in reply to buddascrayon • • •LoafedBurrito
in reply to Tony Bark • • •Crucial is the only good brand I can afford. This sucks ass and I HATE AI. I hope AI companies lose all their money and go bankrupt.
AI is destroying so many awesome things, all for profit.
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in reply to finitebanjo • • •FlashMobOfOne
in reply to Tony Bark • • •I am really, really glad I replaced my PC's a year ago.
This is insane. I'm kinda sorta rooting for the crash now. These unregulated billionaires are ruining all the things.
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in reply to Tony Bark • • •anon_8675309
in reply to Tony Bark • • •I hope when the AI bubble pops, Micron goes with it then.
Also, I can’t wait to buy up used RAM for pennys when the bubble pops.
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in reply to anon_8675309 • • •US Mint to strike 'final circulating penny' on Wednesday, Nov. 12
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in reply to anon_8675309 • • •Krompus
in reply to That Weird Vegan • • •tal
in reply to anon_8675309 • • •The memory that manufacturers are producing is HBM; they're transitioning facilities that had been producing memory for DIMMs to producing HBM. HBM won't be in DIMM form factor --- you can't just stick it into the slots on a PC motherboard.
GargleBlaster
in reply to tal • • •Credibly_Human
in reply to anon_8675309 • • •I gotta be real with you. This comment very much sounds like the delusional super stonk member who think eventually the big system they believe is colluding to fuck them trips up on a technicality and makes them uber rich.
Basically, you're just imagining a reality that wont exist for so many reasons.
The biggest reason is that the AI GPUs do not use DIMMs largely, and even server dimms (ecc rdimms) won't fit in your PC.
More than that, by the time anything does happen, technology will have moved on.
If you're about to say "but I don't have to", Id ask you why you arent on a 10 year old computer right now.
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in reply to bthest • • •Saledovil
in reply to petersr • • •Well, we're still at least one breakthrough away from AGI, and we don't even know how it will go from there. Could be that humans are already near the maximum of what is possible intelligence wise. As in, the smartest being possible is not that much smarter than the average human. In which case, AGI taking over the world would not be a given.
Essentially, talking about the threat posed by ASI is like talking about the threat posed by Cthulhu.
humanspiral
in reply to Tony Bark • • •I don't believe this, because it is too stupid. 2026 demand forecasts for HBM I don't believe will materialize, as customers can't pay those crazy RAM prices either, OpenAI can't pay for all of their promises, demand isn't high enough for the planned data centers, and power and labour constraints.
I don't believe it because Micron is a brand that has value premium to it. Even if they just keep charging extortionist prices while HBM demand fantasy remains propagandized, there will eventually be worthwhile consumer demand for RAM, right? Killing the division and firing everyone in it, is Micron saying "making too much money from HBM must forever put all eggs in HBM basket"
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in reply to Tony Bark • • •Agent641
in reply to Dawn_Vibration • • •Credibly_Human
in reply to Dawn_Vibration • • •The fact people are blaming the tech rather than the tech bros is a big part of why this keeps happening.
Its the decision of real people that make this situation suck.
Soggy
in reply to Credibly_Human • • •Appoxo
in reply to Soggy • • •hayvan
in reply to Soggy • • •Capitalism is the biggest religion of today, and it's su successful it can coexist with a lot of other religions.
It's not AI destroying the environment and making us miserable, it's th pursuit of profit.
It's not "corporate greed" sucking us dry. Corporations are greedy by design under Capitalism, that's the whole point.
It's not bad CEOs making evil decisions. It's the system that allows such wealth and power to exist.
All of those problems are systemic, not bad people making bad decisions. Treating capitalism like law of nature won't fix anything.
phx
in reply to Dawn_Vibration • • •No, corporate greed is ruining everything with AI.
Because you know if they built a super-AI that give them perfect instructions on how to build Earth into a paradise, but it would require they give up 1/4 of their wealth, they'd be reaching for the reset button before it finished printing them out...
Xenny
in reply to phx • • •NoForwardslashS
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in reply to Tony Bark • • •dil
in reply to danhab99 • • •Velypso
in reply to Tony Bark • • •I built a god rig in 2022, i bought the best 64gb ddr5 4-stick ram kit i could, an nvidia 4090, the best processor i could, and attached it to the best mobo i could.
I spent about 4800.
My pc is now worth about 6500.
This is some crazy ass shit. Never should a pc appreciate in value.
What the hell is going on?????
Agent641
in reply to Velypso • • •I bought a fairly good custom build in April of this year for A$3218.
The same approximate build now costs A$4783 on their website.
Saledovil
in reply to Velypso • • •EndlessNightmare
in reply to Tony Bark • • •Right after Windows 10 stopped being supported, rendering a lot of computers "obsolete".
/yes I know about Linux
viking
in reply to EndlessNightmare • • •But do you know about Windows 10 IoT LTSC?
Supported until 2032, and comes without copilot and any other garbage, fully supports local accounts, etc.
LiveLM
in reply to Tony Bark • • •themachinestops
in reply to Tony Bark • • •China might dominate the ram market if things go this way:
m.made-in-china.com/hot-china-…
China Ram Memory, Ram Memory Wholesale, Manufacturers, Price | Made-in-China.com
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in reply to SapphironZA • • •claymore
in reply to Tony Bark • • •Great. What SSDs are worth buying then? Kioxia? Solidigm? Never going to buy WD, Samsung is on my shit list too but if there's no other options left....
edit: just read that solidigm also exited the consumer business at the start of the 2025, amazing
HazardousBanjo
in reply to Tony Bark • • •AI was never meant to benefit the working class in any capacity.
Its a great rule of thumb that if you see oligarchs hype up something and push for it to be everywhere, its a BAD fucking thing.
andrew_bidlaw
in reply to HazardousBanjo • • •Alaknár
in reply to andrew_bidlaw • • •But that's completely not true! Like, not a single thing you said is even slightly correct!
LLMs are relatively cheap to run - at small scales. You can run an LLM on your own computer right now. It won't be super fast, it won't have super skills, but you can run it, and you can train it yourself.
Massive LLMs like ChatGPT require tremendous resources precisely because they are not just tools available only to big players. Everybody on the planet has access to them - for free. The only actual difference there is between running an LLM locally and through a provider is that you get better speed and (sometimes, depending on context) better training through a provider.
As for "there's a lot to milk from its growing adoption" - maybe? Probably? Who knows? That's the "magic" of the AI bubble we're experiencing right now - the big players keep saying that it will "make work and money obsolete", that "anyone will be able to do anything", that "a time of post-scarcity approaches", and a billion other bullshit marketing slogans like that. But the reality is that nobody has yet figured out how to make money on that thing.
Right now, the only reason it's "growing", is because that's going on at the very top - Nvidia invests in OpenAI, which invests in Oracle, which invests in Nvidia - and so on. No money is actually being made or (often) even changing hands, but everyone can now show they've received a lot of investment which pumps up their stock prices. The only reason this hasn't popped yet is probably because the main investing parties are using tonnes of cash they had stored.
Growing adoption means nothing. It's a marketing tool for them to keep shareholders happy while they keep a literal investing circlejerk going, every now and again inviting another player into the fold.
- YouTube
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in reply to Alaknár • • •Alaknár
in reply to sfgifz • • •You're not training it from scratch, though. There are people, enthusiasts, doing it for you. I can fire up LM Studio and browse through thousands of models to then have a conversation with, or have them write stories, etc., etc.
As for "nothing of economic value" - that's, again, just plain misunderstanding what AI can be used for. Corridor Crew - a VFX team publishing on YouTube - used self-trained AI to boost their film making options. For example, to copy the "bullet time" effect from The Matrix, they were able to use around a dozen cameras instead of hundreds, and then used AI to create the "in between" frames.
How does that have "no economic value", mate?
sfgifz
in reply to Alaknár • • •Right, spend all this time to self train a hobby model for one specific scenario which "Big LLM" would deliver by the time you're back from lunch.
This illusion that plebs can easily use personal LLMs is the argument that AI companies will use to justify why they shouldn't be reigned in or held accountable for their impact on society and economy.
Alaknár
in reply to sfgifz • • •sfgifz
in reply to Alaknár • • •Alaknár
in reply to sfgifz • • •Only if you literally ignore the two points I was making, then yes.
What are you trying to say here?