I don't care what he thinks either, but him and his AI buddies are making RAM and storage so expensive that many people can't afford to build or buy themselves a high end workstation anymore.

By jacking up the prices for hardware, the AI cabal is forcing people to rent their compute from the cloud instead.

Oh, I'm sure that they will. Unfortunately, by the time the federal safety inspectors are done requesting modifications to this thing to make it street legal, they probably will have nerfed it to the point where it's no better than the other electric hypercars like the Rimac or the McMurtry.

Alas, the "cool" rocket powered version that Tesla was demoing will probably never be seen outside of a test track.

That's the thing... current AI models don't seem to push back on bad assumptions. If you tell it "Plan for 1000% growth over the next 18 months and order hardware to scale", it will just say "sure thing boss!" and spit out a hardware order. It will likely not even bother to say something like "Are you sure you REALLY need this much hardware"?

I'm stunned! I mean, who doesn't want to pay 25% more for their new desktop or laptop than they did around this time last year because of the huge price jumps for memory and storage?

They did a better job of making Zuckerberg seem more human in the original movie. In this one, he kind of felt more like a soulless profit obsessed comic book villain.

Sure, he wasn't a likeable character in either movie, but at least he was an Interesting character in the original movie. They could have added some fun portraying this Facebook timeline, and added a scene where the Internet was making fun of him while he was grilling meats in his backyard. Or, perhaps they could have added a scene where he was demonstrating some of horrible early Oculus VR chatroom experiments. It would have made him more relatable and believable antagonist.

It's 2026, and everyone already carries a high bandwidth digital radio with them. It's called a cell phone.

The only people still listening to AM radio at this point are Boomers listening to conservative talk radio. Even that is available on streaming now, so that AM spectrum would probably be better repurposed for something else.

The Macbook Neo set that standard. You're apparently allowed to make a cheap laptop in 2026 with a unusable amount of RAM and storage now as long as it has a good display.

After that NEOM debacle, do they even have enough money leftover to buy it?

If they do, I'd imagine that they can get it on the cheap. That business is hemorrhaging cash, the only value there is a handful of tech patents and the IP for their few remaining successful game franchises. I would think that you could buy the whole division for just a few billion dollars at this point and then scrap it for parts.

Honestly, who would want Microsoft's XBox division? Isn't it losing money in the billions every quarter right now?

Other than the IP for their few remaining successful game franchises, there isn't much worth buying here. They would be lucky to get pennies on the dollar for all the money they invested into it over the past 10 years.

That's the fun thing about Bitcoin.... it can be a both a pump and dump scam AND a highly profitable investment.

It just depends on when you bought it and when you sold it.

I don't think that Slashdot has an AI editorial slant one way or another. They just want to keep posting clickbait articles in either direction to get that sweet engagement revenue. I mean, there still has to be a few people still not using ad blockers, right?

Yeah... I think that the headline there is "Guy selling picks and shovels to the AI goldrush wants the goldrush to continue"

I'm sooo looking forward to the AI crash, so I can start buying graphics cards for around their original MSRP again.

Yeah, I have no idea who would be crazy enough to push for 50% (or ANY %) tax on Bitcoin sales. The people who founded Bitcoin are Silly Valley tech bros who are mostly Democrats, and the largest holders now are institutional investors who are mostly Republicans. So, you'll have bi-partisan support to kill any such legislation, and to launch a primary attack against anyone dumb enough to propose it.

You mean that every major company WAS working on blockchain projects back when blockchain was the cool buzzword from 2018 to 2021.

Most of those projects failed, and now the cool buzzword is "AI Integration" so all of the major companies are working on that instead.

Or, maybe they're hoping that the US will become less interested in Greenland once we see how much smaller it looks on the new map projection.

Bah... who am I kidding. The only changes we're going to be making to our maps for the next two years will be adding "America" to the names of places.