I can't really tell what the point of the article was because (as usual) most of it was paywalled.

But... are we supposed to be HAPPY that US corporations have been outsourcing millions of highly skilled technology and healthcare jobs to cheaper Indian labor for the past 30 years? I guess that you would be if your last name was Kumar or Patel, but I kinda liked having my job protected from foreign H1-B invaders during the first Trump administration. It's too bad that Trump sold out to Big Tech for his second term and they now have the ability to replace US workers again if they're willing to cut the government a big check.

Yeah, this doesn't really help unless a bunch of DDR5 DRAM chips fall off of the truck somewhere. Probably one headed to an OpenAI data center being built somewhere that doesn't have power yet.

I don't know, I've encountered more obnoxious things recently... like a tech news site that constantly links to paywalled news articles :)

Windows 11 was a forced upgrade from 10 as well... assuming that your hardware was new enough to support it.

Yeah... we went from our favorite Sci-Fi series getting 25 episode season runs on network TV that you could watch with an antenna to 8 episode runs behind a premium streaming subscription paywall for $15 a month.

I'm not sure why the networks are stunned that people aren't subscribing to watch them, especially when there are 6 major competing streaming services with their own unique Sci-Fi content. If anything, I'm stunned that people have put up with this garbage for as long as they have.

I'd imagine that millions of people will be getting bad tax advice from LLM's this year. These remote testers are just ahead of the curve!

It's not just memory costs, either. SSD storage prices have also shot up about 40% over the past few months. We seem to back to 2021 era SSD pricing, where a TB of NVME SSD storage costs around $120. Four months ago, it would have cost around $90, or even around $80 on sale.

Plus, it doesn't really fix the real problem that I have with my GMail address. I get tons of spam thanks to my 15 year old e-mail address being part of about 2 dozen security breaches over that time.

What I should really do is just start over and change my e-mail address on most of my commonly used accounts, but even that's a temporary solution. I know that they'll be another breach or someone will just flat out sell my e-mail address to a mailing list without my consent.

You don't think that Elon could make all those copies posted on X disappear if he really wanted them to? I think that all it would take was one phone call from Trump to make that happen.

Yeah... forget gaming. Asking Copilot to generate dumb memes for you is the best source of entertainment in 2025!

Considering that the major backers are Meta, Oracle, XAi, and Palantir, they'll probably spend the rest of their first year of their two year stint arguing over which AI framework and hosting providers to use.

Couldn't they run the EU data centers in some independent LLC HQ'ed somewhere in Europe?

You would that they could structure this somehow so it would be independent of the US regulatory framework.

That's been a problem in tech since the beginning. Take a look at the PC ads from the 1980's... They always have some old white bossman with the keyboard in their lap and another happy smiling person standing behind the computer (?!?) looking at the screen from a 90 degree angle. Nobody actually types that way, and the other person could never actually see the screen from where they're sitting.

Meta has a knack for building/buying the replacement for the "thing" that becomes cool after their original service starts to die.

Facebook started becoming uncool, so they bought and expanded Instagram.

Then TikTok became cooler than Instagram, so they added Instagram Reels for a similar bite sized mindless video experience.

People got mad at Twitter after Musk turned it into X, so then they built Threads and started migrating Instagram users to it.

Then Open AI released Sora, so they created Meta AI "Vibes" to compete in the AI generated slop video space.

If someone else comes up with a new social media platform, I'm sure that they'll either buy them as well or compete a competing product and crush them with advertising and cross promotion.

Isn't Texas one of those states that requires ID verification to watch adult content? If so, you might actually have a valid case here. Watching someone else's porn without consent AND with no ID verification is probably a double whammy in Texas law.