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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.

Vikings' 294-game scoring streak comes to an end in 26-0 loss to Seahawks

https://www.cbssports.com/nfl/news/vikings-294-game-scoring-streak-comes-to-an-…

In this post, guest author Maxi shares her experience in reusing data and machine learning models.
The short version:
It's frustrating, because people don't share or don't even respond to a clearly "reasonable request". We cannot build on other researchers' work if they don't share anything. Model weights offer the possibility to share information without sharing sensitive data, but even those are not shared.
Check out the long version for mor…

Data sharing (un)culture

Kenny Pickett and Aidan O'Connell Scrums | Week 18 vs. Chiefs https://www.raiders.com/video/kenny-pickett-aidan-o-connell-scrums-nfl-week-18-chiefs

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…

🇭🇺 Why is Orbšn scaring Europe with a "war with Russia"? Oil depots burning in Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2025/10/29/why-is-orbn-scaring-europe.html

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…

Republicans refuse to swear in Adelita Grijalva, delaying Jeffrey Epstein petition
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5529055-republicans-grijalva-swearing-in-house/

Resource Allocation under Stochastic Demands using Shrinking Horizon Optimization
Alexandros E. Tzikas, Nazim Kemal Ure, Mansur Arief, Mykel J. Kochenderfer, Stephen P. Boyd
https://arxiv.org/abs/2509.25412

Resource Allocation under Stochastic Demands using Shrinking Horizon Optimization
We consider the problem of optimally allocating a limited number of resources across time to maximize revenue under stochastic demands. This formulation is relevant in various areas of control, such as supply chain, ticket revenue maximization, healthcare operations, and energy allocation in power grids. We propose a bisection method to solve the static optimization problem and extend our approach to a shrinking horizon algorithm for the sequential problem. The shrinking horizon algorithm compu…

And this is why not just any program can take screenshots on most #Wayland compositors:
https://www.pixnapping.com/
Google despite the difficulties when exploiting this, classified