Archive for the 'Economy' Category
The Corrupt Memory Industry & Micron
December 5th, 2025Via: Gamers Nexus: More: The DDR5 issue just got INFINITELY worse…
Trump Administration Encouraging Development of Humanoid Robots
December 5th, 2025Running… https://t.co/tPmp2Hq1mw pic.twitter.com/VChAa8p7j9 — Brett Adcock (@adcock_brett) December 4, 2025 Just set a new PR in the lab pic.twitter.com/8kJ2om7uV7 — Tesla Optimus (@Tesla_Optimus) December 2, 2025 Via: ZeroHedge: President Trump’s national industrial strategy centers on expanding U.S. dominance in semiconductors, AI, rare earth production, clean technology, space, and other emerging technologies expected to dominate the […]
WHO–Gates Blueprint for Global Digital ID, AI-Driven Surveillance, and Life-Long Vaccine Tracking for Every Person
December 5th, 2025Via: Jon Fleetwood: In a document published in the October Bulletin of the World Health Organization and funded by the Gates Foundation, the World Health Organization (WHO) is proposing a globally interoperable digital-identity infrastructure that permanently tracks every individual’s vaccination status from birth. The dystopian proposal raises far more than privacy and autonomy concerns: it […]
Micron Will Stop Selling RAM to Consumers
December 4th, 2025Update: — Via: Ars Technica: On Wednesday, Micron Technology announced it will exit the consumer RAM business in 2026, ending 29 years of selling RAM and SSDs to PC builders and enthusiasts under the Crucial brand. The company cited heavy demand from AI data centers as the reason for abandoning its consumer brand, a move […]
People Living in Hotels Instead of Renting Homes or Apartments
December 3rd, 2025I don’t think this is a new phenomenon, but please correct me if I’m wrong. A friend of mine did this over 20 years ago in Oregon. Via: Epic Economist:
IBM CEO Says There’s ‘No Way’ Spending Trillions on AI Data Centers Will Pay Off
December 2nd, 2025Via: Business Insider: AI companies are spending billions on data centers in the race to AGI. IBM CEO Arvind Krishna has some thoughts on the math behind those bets. Data center spending is on the rise. During Meta’s recent earnings call, words like “capacity” and AI “infrastructure” were frequently used. Google just announced that it […]
San Francisco: Brownstone Shared Housing
November 26th, 2025Via: Nick Johnson: Flashback 2017: “This is bum living with running water and wi-fi.”
Layoffs Accelerating
November 25th, 2025Via: CNBC: The U.S. labor market is showing further signs of weakening as the pace of layoffs has picked up over the past four weeks, payrolls processing firm ADP reported Tuesday. Private companies lost an average of 13,500 jobs a week over the past four weeks, ADP said as part of a running update it […]
Trump Orders Moonshot-Like ‘Genesis Mission’ Relying on AI to Merge Science Data Across the U.S.
November 25th, 2025I wonder if this will be used to launder technologies out of the black world… Via: Independent: That’s one giant leap for AI. The Trump administration is unleashing thousands of massive data sets — compiled by agencies throughout the federal government — and the capabilities of America’s world-renowned national laboratories into a government-wide effort to […]
Google Producing AI Processors, Negotiating Partnership with Meta
November 25th, 2025Via: Tom’s Hardware: Meta may be on the cusp of spending billions on Google AI chips to power its future developments, as the social-media giant is reportedly in talks to both buy and rent Google compute power for its future AI endeavours, as reported by The Information, via Reuters. The ongoing negotiations reportedly involve Meta […]
