Google Fires Executives After Failing to Secure AI Memory Chips Amid Shortage
The situation has become so intense that it feels more like a diplomatic crisis than a business deal. Sedaily outlet reports that teams from Google, Microsoft, and Meta have practically moved to South Korea, stationing themselves near the headquarters of Samsung and SK Hynix. They aren’t just there for meetings but to plead for whatever supply is available (via @jukan05).
Many consumer electronics manufacturers ‘will go bankrupt or exit product lines’ by the end of 2026 due to the AI memory crisis, Phison CEO reportedly says
Is it just me, or does it feel like everything is just about to spiral out of control with this AI-memory-boom-chatbot-slop-crisis thing? We already know that memory prices have gone bananas and that the crisis is complicating the production of all kinds of computing-adjacent devices. Now the CEO of memory specialist Phison is reported to be claiming that the situation is going to drive some makers of consumer electronics to the wall. Many will go bust by the end of 2026.
Mount Mayhem at Netflix: Scaling Containers on Modern CPUs
Imagine this — you click play on Netflix on a Friday night and behind the scenes hundreds of containers spring to action in a few seconds to answer your call. At Netflix, scaling containers efficiently is critical to delivering a seamless streaming experience to millions of members worldwide. To keep up with responsiveness at this scale, we modernized our container runtime, only to hit a surprising bottleneck: the CPU architecture itself.
On February 24, GitHub published two High severity security advisories for the widely used npm package minimatch. A third High severity advisory was published earlier on February 16.
All three vulnerabilities can lead to Regular Expression Denial of Service (ReDoS) and event loop starvation in Node.js when malicious glob patterns are processed.
An ode to houseplant programming
Houseplant programming: tiny software just for yourself. Perfection. At the risk of overexplaining and thus cheapening the analogy, I feel the need to wax poetic.🪴
Burger King will use AI to check if employees say ‘please’ and ‘thank you’
Burger King is launching an AI chatbot that will live in the headsets used by employees. The voice-enabled chatbot, called “Patty,” is part of an overarching BK Assistant platform that will not only assist employees with meal preparation but also evaluate their interactions with customers for “friendliness.”
Is “Testing in Production” Actually the Safest Way to Ship?
The RAM Crisis Keeps Getting Worse
Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Khamenei is dead after US, Israeli strikes
U.S. President Donald Trump confirmed on Saturday Iran’s Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei is dead.
3 US service members killed during Iran operation; Iran, Israel trade strikes
Three U.S. service members were killed and five “seriously wounded” during the United States and Israel’s military operation against Iran, U.S. Central Command said Sunday. Several service members also received minor shrapnel injuries and concussions.