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IDC expects shipments of PCs could shrink by up to 9% YoY in 2026 due to global memory shortages, as demand from AI data centers continues to outstrip supply (Zak Killian/Tom's Hardware)

IDC warns PC market could shrink up to 9% in 2026 due to skyrocketing RAM pricing — even moderate forecast hits 5% drop as AI-driven shortages slam into PC market
Memory shortages are expected to have a serious impact on the PC and smartphone market.

Soaring Industrial Shares Face Headwinds From Trump Trade Policy (Matthew Griffin/Bloomberg)
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2026-01-30/soaring-industrial-shares-face-headwinds-from-trump-trade-policy
http://www.memeorandum.com/260130/p106#a260130p106

Right, folks, so there is an account on mastodon.social (@8124@mastodon.social) that has been libelling me and others, defaming us as antisemites for the longest time.
They just sent the posts attached.
They have been reported to mastodon.social and I have raised my concerns with them and yet no action has been taken against that account even though the account has been suspended on at least three major Mastodon servers and limited on at least four others.
It is not limited…

Researching DIY solutions for preparing digital negatives for my salt/kallitype printing experiments. Working on a little curve fitting tool/library (of course using https://thi.ng/umbrella) for computing tone mapping curves derived from sample swatches (here 5% steps of gray/density). The screenshot shows 2nd - 5th d…

Okay, okay, Welt, Verbrennungsmotoren sind zwar nicht hocheffizient, aber immerhin Hochkultur, oder?
https://www.welt.de/motor/news/article6929b241e9b1296b9ef96efd/hocheffiziente-verbrennungsmotoren.html

A language processing time window of around three seconds https://www.nature.com/articles/s44159-026-…

Back on the SEM-EDS for a class exercise in measuring chemical composition of "unknowns"

For my linked dipole, I came up with using high-shrink (I use 4:1) marine (lined with heat-activated glue) heat shrink tubing and dacron line for making neat links that wind nicely and avoid putting stress on the wire.
Today I realized that I could use the same technique to put loops at the ends of my end-fed antenna and …

🤬 National poll: Less than half of parents say swearing is never OK for kids
#swearing

National poll: Less than half of parents say swearing is never OK for kids
Today's parents may be growing more relaxed about their children using curse words, according to a national poll.

This just came up in conversation elsewhere and it feels worth sharing again for the benefit of those who haven't seen it: https://ourworldindata.org/much-better-awful-can-be-better.