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Memory Companies Have Destroyed the Consumer Market

Memory suppliers are destroying the consumer market by moving to long-term, large‑volume agreements (LTAs) that prioritize cloud providers over individuals. Micron, Samsung, and SK Hynix are locking in 3–5 year LTAs and allocating 50–70% of output to top customers, shrinking RAM/SSD supply for consumers. This fuels cloud‑infrastructure growth, drives steep price increases for RAM and SSDs, and may reduce volatility but raise the floor for consumer costs for years. NAND may loosen sooner, but DRAM remains tight; policy and Chinese memory players add further uncertainty.

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Show HN: TurboGPT: train 22KiB transformer in 13s

TurboGPT is a CUDA-only tiny byte-level GPT trainer. It builds with Windows Visual Studio 2022 and CUDA 13.4 using build.ps1. The repo contains C++/CUDA training code (train.cpp, trainer.cpp, model.h, etc.). Run turbogpt.exe --data hn1g.txt --log to produce a checkpoint at runs/ctx4/ctx4.pt and TensorBoard-compatible logs; report.json is at runs/ctx4/report.json. Resume with --load CHECKPOINT.pt. After 1.5B training tokens, the result is 2.52435 BPB. MIT licensed; includes tests/verify.py.

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GLM-5.3 and the spread of advanced cyber capabilities

Anthropic analyzes GLM-5.3 from Zhipu AI, released without robust safeguards, finding attackers can bypass protections in 64–100% of tests using simple techniques, unlike Claude models. In end-to-end exploit benchmarks, GLM-5.3 produced working exploits in 50/410 attempts; in OSS-Fuzz, full control-flow hijacks in 4% (vs 6% for Mythos Preview). Human experiments uncovered unknown browser vulnerabilities and chains enabling remote file reads; GLM-5.3-Flash exploited CVE-2026-11645, bypassing PAC on ARM64. Abliteration and deceptive prompts further erode safeguards, expanding attacker capability. The report urges safety testing, wider defender access, and caution about open-weight models.

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Stuck in the Suez Canal – the short version (2021)

During the June 1967 Six‑Day War, 14 ships from eight nations were trapped in the Great Bitter Lake inside the Suez Canal. The Agapenor’s crew witnessed air attacks and lived in limbo for years as food dwindled and communications faded. They formed the Great Bitter Lake Association (GBLA), abolishing nationalities and organizing church services, sailing, football, and stamp‑making. After negotiations, ships were finally released when the canal reopened in 1975. A 2017 reunion at Merseyside Maritime Museum recalled a multinational, cooperative community born from crisis.

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AI needs $6T in annual revenue to justify data centre boom

A Bain & Company report argues the AI industry must generate about $6 trillion in annual revenue by 2031 to justify the surge in data-centre investment, with roughly $4.2 trillion from new products (search, advertising, autonomy, physical AI), $1–1.4 trillion from enterprise productivity, and $200–400 billion from consumer services. AI infra spend could hit about $1.5 trillion a year by 2031 for new facilities, GPUs, memory and networking. Data centres scale ~every 12–16 months; Meta's Prometheus could reach 9 GW of capacity and around $200 billion by 2030. Key challenges: power grids, GPU supply, skilled staff, and regulation; governments backing growth and partnerships.

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What if Jev spoke Arrow?

TypeSafe AI's Jev is a model that converts context and possible answers into typed decisions, returning choices, scores, and probabilities as JSON. It supports speculative fan-out, confidence-gated routing, composite scoring, and intent routing, enabling probabilistic, scalable pipelines. To sidestep JSON bottlenecks, the authors designed an Arrow schema for Jev’s answers (Choice, Noul, Score) with metadata, allowing consumption by analytics tools. Since Jev lacks a bulk endpoint, they built Jevaro, a Python/JS proxy that batches states and questions and streams Arrow results. Throughput: ~464 states/s on 10k tests; cost about $0.20/30k answers. They want a native bulk Arrow endpoint.

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The End of a Fair Price: Dynamic Pricing and the Normalization of Gouging

Gouged argues inflation-era price hikes come from corporate price-setting, not demand, aided by pricing consultancies, consolidation, and AI. It details RealPage’s rent pricing, Uber’s upfront pricing, Instacart price variation, and data-driven discrimination by insurers, McDonald’s, and Starbucks. Owens calls for a modern Shoppers’ Bill of Rights to ban algorithmic price fixing and surveillance pricing, require upfront all-in prices, curb daily price changes, and ensure fair wages—urging lawmakers to curb anti-competitive practices.

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NAND-16: a computer built from 277,248 NAND gates

NAND-16 is a computer built entirely from 277,248 NAND gates.

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New PlayStation 5 Console Jailbreak Released

Relapse-Exploit is a PS5 exploit chain for firmware 7.00–13.60. It guides users to configure network DNS (45.56.67.85), run python serve.py locally or open ntfargo.github.io/Relapse-Exploit/ on PS5, and use payloads stored in payloads/ with the ELF loader listening on port 9021. The browser stage uses JSC info leaks and a structured clone pool mismatch to corrupt a typedarray; the kernel stage combines an address leak with an aio_multi_wait UAF race to achieve kernel read/write. Credits and a safety disclaimer emphasize educational/security research and legality.

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