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Memory and storage company Crucial is throwing in the towel after thirty years in the business. Sort of. (Tom's Hardware)

They're not going to stop producing stuff. They're a division of Micron.

They're just going to stop producing stuff that you can buy because they can make more money out of the AI bubble.

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It was India. (AppleInsider)

Who rusted first, that is.

India insisted that Apple pre-install its state-sponsored spyware on all new iPhones sold in the country.

Apple said not just no, but fuck no.

India said yeah, okay.
The CEO of IBM says that spending in the AI boom is obviously unsustainable. (Tom's Hardware)

Current buildout plans would require industry profits of $800 billion per year just to make payment on the interest.

Current industry profits are less than zero. Significantly less.
An AI tool for lawyers produced by a billion dollar company had no security. (Alex Schapiro)

As in, literally none. Anyone could access any document.

We're all going to die, aren't we?
Microsoft is lowering its AI sales targets because nobody is buying. (Reuters) (archive site)

It's hard to sell what you can't even give away for free.
Case in point: Programming language Zig is leaving GitHub because Microsoft's obsession with AI is tanking the site's reliability. (The Register)
Jeremy Howard, co-founder of Answer.AI and Fast.AI, said in a series of social media posts that users' claims about GitHub Actions being in a poor state of repair appear to be justified.
"The bug," he wrote, "was implemented in a way that, very obviously to nearly anyone at first glance, uses 100 percent CPU all the time, and will run forever unless the task happens to check the time during the correct second."
A fix for the bug was proposed by a user.

The fix was correct.

The fix was ignored, and the comment thread was closed by AI.
Windows 11 is barely ahead of Windows 10 in install base, despite Microsoft stabbing Windows 10 in the back, the front, the sides, and from several other directions. (The Register)

It's hard to sell what you can't even give away for free.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: You rush a miracle man, you get rotten miracles.

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