The CEO of SK Hynix, one of the three largest DRAM producers, predicted to Reuters that the memory industry will see its "worst-ever" supply shortages in 2027, reports the hardware/gaming news site Wccftech:



SK Hynix has also forecasted that, given the current market demand, they will fall way short of fulfilling the market demand, and that will continue beyond 2030. The comments from SK Hynix are in line with what Samsung and Micron executives have already said. Samsung has warned of 2027 being the worst year in terms of shortages and that things will continue this way till 2028 and beyond. Meanwhile, Micron has said that the current shortages are only the "first innings" and that both DRAM/NAND supply will be tight, as they are only able to meet 40-50% of the total market demand in the coming years.


Heightened demand from AI customers and multi-year agreements further put pressure on the market. The big three DRAM makers have already prioritized premium DRAM segments such as HBM and LPDDR5X, while commodity memory such as DDR5, DDR4, and entry-level LPDDR RAM has taken a back seat. While these have boosted the profits of SK Hynix, Micron, and Samsung, they have devastated the consumer segment, which is facing the worst kind of price hikes that are affecting all sorts of components and platforms, including PCs, Smartphones, Consoles, etc...

SK Hynix, like Samsung and Micron, is also preparing to embark on a multi-year and multi-billion dollar expansion plan with new fabs and facilities being laid out across South Korea. SK Hynix is also considering the construction of Fabs in the US, Japan, and Southeast Asia, though the final plans are yet to be cemented. Micron recently started construction of its new facility that will be used for DRAM production. As SK Hynix proudly marks its Nasdaq debut, its CEO's sobering forecast serves as a clear reminder: the memory industry is entering its most challenging chapter yet. With 2027 poised to bring the worst supply shortages in history and tight conditions likely persisting beyond 2030, the AI boom is reshaping the entire semiconductor landscape.

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The Wall Street Journal says "an intense 27-year-old activist who had been leading sit-ins at OpenAI to protest the dangers of AI" was just part of a larger movement.

"The Bay Area's AI boom is drawing young disillusioned men and women to join the fight against it. They are upending their lives and leaving behind careers for think tanks, nonprofits and street protest groups."

Their cause is now riding a surge of anti-AI backlash. Many Americans are souring on the technology amid mass layoffs, data center sprawl, reports of chatbot-fueled attacks by unstable users and hacking tools that have panicked cybersecurity professionals. Seventy percent of U.S. adults believe AI will cost jobs, and 55% believe it will do more harm than good in their daily lives, according to a recent Quinnipiac University poll. But for activists on the front lines, the driving fear is often more dramatic: human extinction. They cling to dire predictions, like Geoffrey Hinton's. The Nobel laureate, dubbed the "godfather of AI" for his work on artificial neural networks, warns of a 10% to 20% chance AI will wipe out humans.
At its most extreme and troubling end, some believe they must stop an AI apocalypse by any means necessary. In April, an unknown assailant fired 13 shots at the home of an Indianapolis councilman, leaving a note: "no data centers." That same month, authorities arrested a 20-year-old Texas college student for an attack on OpenAI CEO Sam Altman's home in San Francisco, and charged him with attempted murder and arson. The student was carrying an anti-AI document with a section on "our impending extinction," according to a federal criminal complaint. He has pleaded not guilty and his lawyers have said his actions appear to have been driven by an "acute mental-health crisis, not a desire to harm."

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"While KDE and GNOME dominate the landscape, a relative newcomer is starting to make waves with features other desktops still don't fully support," argues XDA Developers:


Linux 7.0 was the first release of the kernel to officially support Rust, but COSMIC has been all-in on Rust since the very beginning, and COSMIC 1.1 finally stripped all the leftovers of C language from the desktop. It no longer has any traces of Nautilus (the GNOME file manager), and then there's now a COSMIC-native system monitor to replace the GNOME System Monitor, so you have even fewer chances of being afflicted by C-related problems. [The article calls COSMIC's system monitor "much better at showing detailed information about everything from processes to network and disk usage compared to the GNOME and KDE alternatives."]

Stacking Windows
As someone who used to love following Windows news, one of the most disheartening announcements was when Microsoft gave up on Sets, a feature that essentially turned every app window into a tab you could combine with other apps in the same window. I never thought I'd see that feature again, until COSMIC came along. Simply called "stacking", COSMIC has a feature that is exactly what Sets was supposed to be, though this time, you have more control. By default, apps still open in their proper, typical windows, with a title bar as you'd expect. But if you do want to combine multiple apps into one, you can right-click the title bar (or press Super + S) to enable stacking for that window. Then, simply drag another window over that one to start stacking them as tabs. This essentially gives you a whole new way to create "workspaces", as you can have a single window with all the tools you need, so you don't need to jump between different windows all the time, and you can keep a given window focused on a specific workload, but have multiple apps within it. It's a great reminder of what Microsoft took from us, too.

Tiling, But On Demand
Tiling windows is one of those features some power users simply love, and yes, there are ways to make it happen on KDE and GNOME with third-party apps or extensions, but those aren't ideal. It's an extra step to set them up, and very often they don't play nice with all the features those desktops offer, especially as new updates come out and those tools may have a hard time keeping up with the development of the desktops themselves. COSMIC is fantastic because not only does it have built-in window tiling, it's entirely controllable by the user. You can set any workspace to use tiling or floating windows depending on your preference, all completely independent of each other, and you can also choose the new default behavior for new workspaces so things are always tuned to your preferences. You can turn tiling on or off for a given workspace easily, and of course, even while tiling is on, you can allow certain apps to ignore it and still float above others. Not all these capabilities are exclusive to COSMIC, but to have this kind of feature built in with this level of control is still leagues better than anything KDE or GNOME offer in this regard.


The article argues COSMIC also makes customization extremely simple without stifling your options (like tweaking color options for your desktop). "This desktop environment just keeps getting better, and it's quickly establishing itself as a major competitor to long-standing alternatives."

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Microsoft released its 2026 Environmental Sustainability Report showing that last year it matched its entire electricity consumption with renewable energy, reports The Register.

"The bad news is it also increased greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by 25%" — mostly due to datacenter construction and a decision to stop purchasing some renewable energy certificates:

In 2020, Microsoft set itself the goal of becoming "carbon-negative" by 2030. Its own figures show emissions heading only upwards, from 13 million tons of CO2 equivalent in 2020, to 20 million tons in 2025. However, Microsoft estimates that without the carbon reduction initiatives it has already put in place, emissions would now stand at 34 million tons...

For the first time, Microsoft claims to have replenished more [water] than it withdrew during 2025, returning 14,278 million liters (3,771 million gallons). Elsewhere, the corporation says its Circular Centers program reused 92% of decommissioned servers and their components.

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Tim Hofman is zuiver op de graat. Tim Hofman is zó zuiver op de graat dat-ie helemaal aan het einde van de graat zit qua zuiverheid. Probleem: ergens gaat zuiver op de graat over in zuiver op de gratuit, en dan wordt het vervelend. En leer ons dan Victor Vlam kennen! In z'n podcast 'Victor duidt tv' heeft de Vlaminator een nieuwe aflevering met de titel 'TIM HOFMAN ONDER VUUR OM MOGELIJK VERZWEGEN BELANG BIJ VEELBESPROKEN BOOS-AFLEVERING' - daar gaan we Chips Nootjes Bier dan eens goed voor zitten. Het gaat om dat verhaal van BOOS dat oud-profvoetballer Redouan El Yaakoubi, naast zijn voetbalcarrière eigenaar van een stichting en een bedrijf voor de talentontwikkeling van kinderen, scholen had misleid met een misleidende shuffle: de commerciële onderneming heet 'DTD' en de stichting heet 'Durf te Dromen' en scholen zouden dan niet weten met wie ze in zee waren gegaan. Heeeeeeeel interessant, echt heel interessant, bijna net zo interessant als die keer dat Redouan El Yaakoubi een regenoogbandje weigerde omdat hij lijdt aan het Syndroom van Allah.

WELNU, de Vlaminator meldt in zijn podcast dus dat Tim Hofman zelf betrokken is bij BrainBoost, een commerciële bijles- en huiswerkschool voor talentontwikkeling van jongeren. Dezelfde onderwijsmarkt als El Yaakoubi dus, die ook nog eens actief wilde worden in het verzorgingsgebied van Tim Hofman. Wat negatieve publiciteit voor El Yaakoubi zou Hofman dus niet slecht uitkomen. Vlam: "Dat is natuurlijk iets wat journalistiek gezien niet kan." El Yaakoubi heeft inmiddels een 'formele klacht' ingediend bij BNNVARA, de NPO Ombudsman en de Raad voor de Journalistiek. Sjonge jonge, wat spannend!

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Some highlights from special collections libraries' blogs this week.
Rare Books on Sex Have Spiced Things Up at a Library Franklin Founded (NYT gift link)
Public Schools and Empire Selling South Africa to the sons of Britain's elite.
Napoleon, Henry VIII, Beethoven, Poe: The Amazing Autograph Collection of John D. Batchelder
The Other Declaration of Independence The 1876 Declaration of the Rights of the Women of the United States

Nick Offerman's Wife Came to Work and Chose Chaos [YouTube 21:18] Megan Mullally joins real life husband Nick as his unpredictable ex-wife Tammy - a collection of scenes pulled together by the Parks and Recreation channel. (Includes scenes with Aziz Ansari if that bothers anyone.) Nick and Megan previously

A break from the news if you are following it. Charming and nearly wholesome.

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Na de eerste Tourweek lijkt de winnaar van het geel al vast te staan: Tadej Pogacar. Zijn hegemonie – en die van zijn ploeg UAE – is nóg completer dan bij voorgaande patrons als Froome en Armstrong. „We houden van koersen.”

De zondag overleden sjeik Hamad was tussen 1995 en 2013 emir van Qatar. Hij maakte van de „rijke maar zwakke” Golfstaat een belangrijke speler in het Midden-Oosten en haalde het WK voetbal binnen. Vrijheid van meningsuiting is er echter beperkt, en vrouwen en LHBTI’ers worden bij wet gediscrimineerd.