Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM
Samsung to halt SATA SSD production, leaker warns of up to 18 months of SSD price pressure, worse than Micron ending consumer RAM
Samsung is reportedly preparing to wind down its SATA SSD business, and a notable hardware leaker warns the move could have broader implications for consumer storage pricing than Micron’s decision to end its Crucial RAM lineup.Yetnesh Dubey (Notebookcheck)
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Old multiplayer
So general solutions are welcome, but a friend and I are both craving the old blizzard RTS games. The problem is: fuck that company, and they probably use a rootkit anti-cheat anyway
So is there a general solution for multiplayer in old PC games without company support, and is there a particular solution for, say, starcraft2?
Rain and rubble: Gaza families face a double threat in makeshift homes
By Ahmed Dremly in Gaza City, occupied Palestine
14 December 2025 12:47 GMT
Since winter began, Saber has lived in constant fear. Their fragile tent offered little protection from rain or wind, and he knew it could collapse at any moment.Two weeks earlier, rainwater had already flooded the tent, reaching nearly 30cm. His daughters fell ill with colds that lasted for days. Desperate to prevent it from happening again, Saber borrowed money from one of his relatives to buy a plastic tarpaulin and reinforced the tent with wooden poles.
But when the latest storm hit Gaza a few days ago, his efforts proved useless.
“I spent the first night of the rain holding the tent up with my own hands as rain poured in from every direction,” Saber told Middle East Eye.
“It felt like I had done nothing at all. The tent collapsed on us in the first hours of the rain.”
Rain and rubble: Gaza families face a double threat in makeshift homes
For the past several days, Saber Dawas and his wife have been struggling to keep their seven daughters warm and dry after heavy rain and strong winds destroyed their tent in Gaza.Ahmed Dremly (Middle East Eye)
How we got hit by Shai-Hulud: A complete post-mortem
How we got hit by Shai-Hulud: A complete post-mortem | Trigger.dev
On November 25th, one of our engineers was compromised by the Shai-Hulud npm supply chain worm. Here's what happened, how we responded, and what we've changed.trigger.dev
Anatomy of a settler abduction
Last Wednesday, Palestinian teenager Owais Hammam was on a walk near his home in the West Bank village of Kharbatha Bani Harith, when he was ambushed by a group of Israeli settlers, dragged to a hilltop outpost, and beaten unconscious. From his hospital bed in Ramallah, Hammam spoke to photojournalist Faiz Abu Rmeleh, recounting how both settlers and Israeli soldiers took part in his brutal torture.
from +972’s Sunday Recap
+972 Magazine [published in Israel]
Dec 14, 2025
Also:
* Israel preparing largest ever act of ‘archeological cleansing’ in West Bank
* Israel’s Gaza proxy strategy is collapsing
* After Israel-Hamas prisoner deal, ‘48 Palestinians ask when their turn will come
* Netanyahu’s pardon request is a lens into Israel’s political psyche
* The GOP fed the antisemitism monster. Now it’s turning on its masters
https://www.972mag.com/wp-content/themes/rgb/newsletter.php?page_id=8§ion_id=189049
How do I keep PulseAudio from randomly changing the volume?
I'm on OpenSuse Tumbleweed (although I'm pretty sure I noticed the behavior on Manjaro, too).
The problem is that the volume of e.g. Firefox gets turned down for no reason. I noticed that a youtube video was quite quiet. I then checkt pavu control and saw that the volume for Firefox was set to 83%. I set it back to 100, but after the pc resumed from standby, it was at 83 again. Sometimes it's enough to just pause the video for it to move the volume back down.
Why is that and how do I disable this functionality?
Jokes aside, it could be some setting of the DE you are using. If the audio output device is detected as headphones, there tend to be settings that reduce the master volume on certain events.
I remember KDE Plasma used to do that. Every time I switched the output device (or was it when I unplugged and re-plugged it?), it set the headphone volume to 60%.
Using E-Ink tablet as monitor for Linux - alavi.me
Using E-Ink tablet as monitor for Linux - alavi.me
We will explore how we can use an Android E-ink tablet (or any tablet) as a monitor for Linux computeralavi.me
YouTube’s AI is Breaking the Creator Ecosystem
Over the past four years, I've significantly reduced my social media footprint. There are countless reasons for this, all of which are beyond the scope of this article, but the point I want to make is this: despite my growing apathy and downright hostility towards social platforms, I've found YouTube to be an oasis of sorts.I am not going to pretend that YouTube hasn't played its part in the global disinformation epidemic or that it has somehow escaped the claws of enshittification. What I will say is that unlike other social platforms, its feed (unlike those of its competitors) are maleable using browser-based plugins (tools such as subscription managers). It is one of my primary learning platforms; without its vast array of tutorials, there is no way that I, a non-programmer, would have learnt Linux as fast or become as comfortable in a FOSS-based computing environment, as I have since the pandemic.
But enshittification is, like death and taxes, a certainty now. Which brings us to the subject of this column: AI moderation on YouTube.
YouTube’s AI is Breaking the Creator Ecosystem
A moderation system that leans on automation just knocked legitimate tech tutorials and even entire channels offline. The appeals felt automated, too.Theena Kumaragurunathan (It's FOSS)
SPhotonix 5D memory crystal: cold storage lasts 14B years
After decades of research and development, humanity finally has a data storage medium that will outlast us.The 5D Memory Crystal stores data by using tiny voxels – 3D pixels – in fused silica glass, etched by femtosecond laser pulses. These voxels possess "birefringence," meaning that their light refraction characteristics vary depending upon the polarization and direction of incoming light.
That difference in light orientation and strength can be read in conjunction with the voxel's location (x, y, z coordinates), allowing data to be encoded in five dimensional space.
And because the medium is silica crystal, similar to optical cable, it's highly durable. It's also capacious: The technology can store up to 360 TB of data on a 5-inch glass platter.
The future of long-term data storage is clear and will last 14 billion years
: SPhotoix moves its 5D Memory Crystalcold storage tech closer to deployment in data centersThomas Claburn (The Register)
First AI implosion: Oracle just lost $35 billion in market cap. In 48 hours
THE THERMODYNAMIC RECKONING
How a $610 Billion Circular Financing Architecture, the Laws of Physics, and the Ghosts of Railway Mania Are Converging to Reshape Global Financesubstack.com
The View From Inside the AI Bubble
The View From Inside the AI Bubble
Secret parties, lavish buffets, and talks of annihilation at one of the largest AI-research conferencesAlex Reisner (The Atlantic)
Shiru Anime Streaming! Open source and decentralized!
GitHub - RockinChaos/Shiru: Manage your personal media library, organize your collection, and stream your content in real time, no waiting required!
Manage your personal media library, organize your collection, and stream your content in real time, no waiting required! - RockinChaos/ShiruGitHub
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