The narrative in AI infrastructure over the last two years has been dominated by the enormous and growing demand for compute capacity and its economic consequences, such as the buildout of data centers and the consequent shortages of key resources such as land, water, power, and copper.

But of all these bottlenecks, memory is by far the most significant. The demand for memory is now outpacing the demand for other drivers of compute capacity. The implications of this will ripple through not just the economics of data centers, but the cost of every single consumer and enterprise hardware device.

In this piece, we unpack the market action around memory prices, its ripple effects across the consumer and industrial electronics market, and the supply and demand curve that is emerging around AI. Critically, we explain why the amount of memory being purchased by AI companies like OpenAI seems to be more than what they need, and how the threat of on-device inference might actually be incentivizing an engineered memory shortage.

For months, callers to the Washington state Department of Licensing who have requested automated service in Spanish have instead heard an AI voice speaking English in a strong Spanish accent. The agency has since apologized and says it’s trying to fix the problem.

AI is putting threatening to put The Onion out of business, not because The Onion articles can be written by AI, rather AI has just made this kind of satire nearly obsolete. The Onion is forced to retreat into existential screaming into the void humor, which they have done magnificently in the face of an unstoppable foe. The Onion will prevail and outlive AI though, mark my words!

https://github.com/c3d/db48x/commit/7819972b641ac808d46c54d3f5d1df70d706d286

license: Add legal notice regarding California and Colorado bills As a consequence of recent legislative activity in [California][cal] and [Colororado][col]:

• California residents may no longer use DB48x after Jan 1st, 2027.
• Colorado residents may no longer use DB48x after Jan 1st, 2028.

DB48x is probably an operating system under these laws. However, it does not, cannot and will not implement age verification.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ca/post/61071136

Apparently this will include Linux...

According to Zelensky, the U.S. has the power to bring the war to an end but only by exerting stronger pressure on Putin through sanctions and supplies of advanced weapons to Ukraine.

Ukraine has a chance to end the war with Russia before the U.S. midterm elections in November, President Volodymyr Zelensky said in an interview with Sky News published on Feb. 27.

"Now I think that we have a chance... it depends on these months, if we will have a chance to finish the war before autumn," the president said.

"Before elections, important, influential, elections in the United States. If it will be possible to achieve a peace... now we have this window."

The comments come amid ongoing U.S.-mediated efforts to broker peace between Kyiv and Moscow, which have yet to achieve a breakthrough on ceasefire and territorial issues.

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Critics of the proposed bill say it is designed to keep the ruling parties in power.

Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni was accused of trying to rig the next elections in her favor, after her ruling coalition struck a late-night deal on a new electoral law.

The coalition parties say the bill, which regulates how seats are allocated after an election, would give the winner a strong working majority and avoid technocratic governments. But the law’s critics say it is designed to bolster Meloni’s government and keep the left out of power.

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The opposition was caught off-guard when Meloni’s party, the right-wing Brothers of Italy, alongside her coalition partners the center-right Forza Italia and far-right League, negotiated a deal on the law late on Wednesday, bypassing dialogue with the opposition.

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Wishful thinking, but, with Democrats showing their cards by helping Republicans fund ICE who've been terrorizing Minnesota and murdering Americans. I can't really say for certain that I'm going to be voting for them anymore in the future, their track record of holding corrupt people accountable has been atrocious. Stern wording is not what we want, we want to see impeachments, we want to see stubborness, we want to see actions that side with the people than self-interests.

Yet, that's what we're really seeing, is self-interests being practiced. No Democrat is going to own their mistakes either, just like Republicans won't.

If there's any other candidate in America who we can vote for, who? Because I'm tired of voting for Democrat who've proven that they only govern if it means making themselves look good than helping the public get in shape.

cross-posted from: https://piefed.social/c/politics/p/1819063/americans-are-leaving-the-u-s-in-record-numbers

Last year the U.S. experienced something that hasn’t definitively occurred since the Great Depression: More people moved out than moved in. The Trump administration has hailed the exodus—negative net migration—as the fulfillment of its promise to ramp up deportations and restrict new visas. Beneath the stormy optics of that immigration crackdown, however, lies a less-noticed reversal: America’s own citizens are leaving in record numbers, replanting themselves and their families in lands they find more affordable and safe.

“As a part of his guilty plea today, Smith admitted signing the name of a deceased woman on one of his candidate nomination petitions in March of 2024,” Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes said in a statement. “He also admitted that he attempted to deceive the Secretary of State’s Office by knowingly filing petitions containing forged signatures of purported supporters of his nomination for the Republican primary for State Representative from LD 29.”

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A Ghanaian delegation led by Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa arrived in Kyiv to discuss, among other issues, the fate of its citizens who fought in the ranks of Russia’s Armed Forces.

On February 26, a delegation from Ghana - the West African republic - arrived in Ukraine. A key focus of the visit is the fate of Ghanaian citizens who fought with Russia’s forces and were captured by Ukraine’s military, reports Ukraine’s “I Want to Live” project.

The delegation, led by Foreign Minister Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, visited Ukraine’s Coordinating Headquarters for the Treatment of Prisoners of War. Members also spoke via video link with Ghanaian nationals currently held in a Ukrainian POW camp.

Ukrainian officials presented data showing a growing number of cases in which Russia’s military has illegally recruited Ghanaians to take part in aggression against Ukraine.

According to the “I Want to Live” project, since the start of the full-scale war, the identities of 272 Ghanaian citizens who fought in the ranks of Russia’s occupying forces have been established. The deaths of 55 of them have been confirmed.

Ukrainian officials stressed that recruiting foreigners to fight in an aggressive war poses threats not only to Ukraine but also to the national security of the countries whose citizens are drawn into the conflict, with the potential to destabilize entire regions.

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In stark contrast to Russian expectations of a walkover in February 2022, the full-scale invasion, the largest conflict in Europe since World War II, has turned out to be one of the slowest-moving military campaigns in history, the Estonian Defence Forces (EDF) Intelligence Center has stated in an overview.

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In stark contrast to Russian expectations of a walkover in February 2022, the full-scale invasion, the largest conflict in Europe since World War II, has turned out to be one of the slowest-moving military campaigns in history, the Estonian Defence Forces (EDF) Intelligence Center has stated in an overview.

In order to turn things around, Russia will have to take steps even more unpopular with its people than its mobilization efforts have already been, the report added.

At the same time, while Russia has far from achieved its strategic goals in its invasion of Ukraine, drones have rendered the front both more hazardous and unprecedentedly transparent, the overview went on.

Also noteworthy has been Ukraine's successes in longer-range strikes inside Russian territory, including when using its own Flamingo cruise missiles.

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"This week marks four years since the moment when the Russian Federation launched a full-scale war against Ukraine with the aim of demilitarizing Ukraine, replacing the Ukrainian government, and turning Ukraine into a Russian-controlled puppet state in which all key decisions would be made in Moscow. In total, the war in Ukraine has lasted 12 years," the intelligence center wrote in its overview of the situation on the front line.

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In purely military terms, the intelligence center said Russia's advances have been highly limited, and in some aspects Russia's situation at the start of the fifth year of the full-scale war is even worse than it was before 2022.

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The intelligence center added that in 2025 Russia's armed forces were recruiting 30,000 to 35,000 men each month, most of whom were used to replace frontline losses. "By the end of the fourth year of the full-scale war this recruitment model began to exhaust itself, and Russia has created the possibility of calling reservists into service and using them in military operations outside Russia's borders. In essence, this amounts to creating the conditions for concealed and gradual mobilization. Considering Russia's economic slowdown and other problems, the mobilization and deployment of reservists in the war in Ukraine could further increase internal tensions in Russia," was the intelligence center's assessment.

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cross-posted from: https://news.abolish.capital/post/31523

According to a peer-reviewed study in Lancet Global Health Research journal, the death toll in Gaza for the first 16 months of war was far higher than reported, totalling over 75,000 killed during that period, or 25,000 more than announced at the time. Protest in Washington, D.C., Nov. 4, 2023, . . .

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Ana Tiburcio won Pennsylvania House District 22 in Lehigh County, defeating Republican Robert E. Smith Jr. in a race that the party had to hold at all costs. Across the state, Jennifer Mazzocco claimed District 42 in Allegheny County, beating Republican Joseph Leckenby in the South Hills area near Pittsburgh. Both races were called on Tuesday night, and both winners wasted no time celebrating what felt like more than just a local political victory.

Trump has no power to “decree” that voters must present ID or to end mail-in balloting. But that doesn’t mean he can’t at least try both. Under the Insurrection Act or some other dusty statute, he can declare a state of emergency. Then he can decide that said state permits, nay requires, him to take extraordinary measures. On October 5, say, that might mean outlawing early voting. By October 13, it might mean no mail-in voting. By October 29, a reminder that all voters must present ID to vote. And by Sunday, November 1, two days before the election—an announcement that all these “reasonable” measures have alas failed, and he is now forced, against his will, to postpone the election.

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