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The world is heading towards its most severe memory chip shortage in decades, with the explosive growth of datacentres set to squeeze supplies for everything from smartphones and cars to household appliances.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2026/data

Datacentre growth triggers global memory chip crunch
The world is heading towards its most severe memory chip shortage in decades, with the explosive growth of datacentres set to squeeze supplies for everything ...

Meta confirms a critical security incident after an internal rogue AI agent's actions led to the exposure of sensitive data to employees without authorization (Jyoti Mann/The Information)
https://www.theinformation.com/articles/inside-meta-rogue…

Inside Meta, a Rogue AI Agent Triggers Security Alert
A rogue AI agent recently triggered a major security alert at Meta Platforms, by taking action without approval that led to the exposure of sensitive company and user data to Meta employees who didn’t have authorization to access the data. A Meta spokesperson confirmed the incident, while adding ...

Psilocybin triggers an activity-dependent rewiring of large-scale cortical networks (in mice) https://www.cell.com/cell/fulltext/S0092-8674(25)01305-4

Strait of Hormuz Closure Triggers Work From Home, 4-Day Weeks In Asia - Slashdot
https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/03/12/0710204/strait-of-hormuz-closure-triggers-work-from-home-4-day-weeks-in-asia

I've decided to open the #DualShock and try cleaning it up.
Took me about an hour to find the right tools and disassemble it, getting to the analog stick potentiometers. Used compressed air (read: lungs) to clean them up. Found a bit of cat hair. Took me about half an hour to figure out how to reassemble it properly, with my back aching already. After reassembly, it turned out that side triggers randomly… well, trigger.
Disassembled it again. Started reassembling while making sure that the mainboard is tightly in place. After putting the battery back in, noticed that I didn't connect the touchpad ribbon. Disassembled again, reassembled. Miraculously, it works.
The analog stick causes no trouble so far, so maybe it won't need replacement for a while still. After all, I'm not using it much.

Ukraine’s grid failure triggers widespread outages and a blackout in Moldova: https://benborges.xyz/2026/01/31/ukraines-grid-failure-triggers-widespread.html

House Republican's Shock Racist Post Triggers Instant Backlash (Leigh Kimmins/The Daily Beast)
https://www.thedailybeast.com/house-republican-andy-ogles-shock-racist-post-triggers-instant-furious-backlash/
http://www.memeorandum.com/260309/p78#a260309p78

At least 22 dead after record rainfall triggers floods and landslides in Minas Gerais, Brazil.
Up to 191 mm within a day, of which 100 mm in 3 hours!
https://watchers.news/2026/02/24/at-least-22-dead-after-rec…

At least 22 dead after record rainfall triggers floods and landslides in Minas Gerais, Brazil
At least 22 people have died in the state of Minas Gerais in Southeastern Brazil, after a severe storm brought heavy rain, triggering floods and landslides between February 23 and 24, 2026.

"This instinct—to ignore existing borders, laws, and treaties; to treat other countries as artificial; to break up trade links and destroy friendships, all because the Leader wants to look powerful—is one that Trump shares with imperialists of the past."

Trump Triggers a Crisis in Denmark—And Europe
What a single phone call from the president-elect did to an unswerving American ally

The Guardian: A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this, by Simon Tisdal.
If you want an extract from that article:
"Despite all the hate-mongering, mutual ignorance and disinformation, the vast majority of Americans and Iranians are on the same side. Their common foe is tyranny. Their leaders are the problem. There is no need for this fight."

A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this
We cannot know where this foolish, reckless attack will end – but new hatreds will be seeded, terrorist vendettas sown and, ultimately, little will be achieved, says Guardian foreign affairs commentator Simon Tisdall

New Cowboys 2026 Mock Draft, Wild Trade Gift Wraps Perfect Defensive Haul https://www.si.com/nfl/cowboys/onsi/draft/new-dallas-cowboys-2026-nfl-mock-draft-wild-trade-gift-wraps-perfect-defensive-haul

One of the triggers for the Peasants' Revolt in England in 1381 was a new poll tax, levied on all adults; and particularly, the fact that the test for adulthood was having pubic hair. This led to the contractors collecting the tax systematically looking up young women's skirts.
It strikes me that one really powerful way to oppose anti #Trans legislation is to ask 'do you want the p…

A bit overshadowed by Vulkan descriptor heaps and HDR extensions: the latest #Nvidia beta drivers for #Linux (595.45.04) also introduce an alternative to the current systemd-based power management triggers, instead relying on the kernel's own suspend and hibernate notifiers when NVreg_UseKern…

I just finished¹ building a QRP Labs QMX this weekend, and after a few tests, tonight I got on the air with it and made my first QSO with it. All the way to the Kansas City, MO area, with AK0A Ken. Using a radio about the size of a deck of playing cards. The radio is smaller than the USB power bank I was using for power. 🤯
¹It triggers SWR protection transmitting into a dummy load, so I guess "finished" is modulo taking it apart and rewinding the transformer that senses SWR. But also I…

Solar power surplus in Spain triggers ‘discount season’ for plants
https://www.ft.com/content/5b0572e3-51f1-4d00-a7c5-b99737e1184f

Have tidied up kwin_wayland patch to change the hardcoded gestures to sensible defaults, and I am working my way through implementing a file-based configuration interface for all possible inbuilt gestures that kwin_wayland can send. I'm not sure if this is all going to work thanks to Wayland's certifiably insane paranoid security model, but at least I should be able to let you decide how many fingers to swipe with what direction of swipe triggers a built-in gesture in the wm.

Russia launches mass attack on Ukraine, triggers emergency power outages: https://benborges.xyz/2026/02/07/russia-launches-mass-attack-on.html

Is it possible to disable the long press action on the iPhone’s right side button in iOS26, the one that triggers AI or something like that?

A world on edge as Trump bombs Iran and triggers war in the Middle East. There was no need for this (Simon Tisdall/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/feb/28/donald-trump-bombs-iran-war-middle-east
http://www.memeorandum.com/260228/p47#a260228p47

‘Situation is dire’ for Sicily town of Niscemi teetering on cliff edge after landslide. Cyclone Harry brought over 300 mm of rain in 48 hours in some places.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/27/niscemi-sici…

Chaos as Trump [immigration] crackdown triggers massive nursing home crisis: 'I'm expecting the worst' - Raw Story
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-immigration-2674831031/

Since it looks like it might be a while until the Steam Machines are released, due to market bullshit around AI malinvestment and the subsequent price of RAM, I gave up waiting and Installed Jellyfin on a temporary machine.
Jellyfin is pretty nice. I like the sync-play feature so the machines in the kitchen and bedroom and studio can all be playing the same thing. Walking between rooms and detecting which is slightly ahead, makes me smile. Watching a TV show as I cook and being able to wonder around the flat viewing uninterupted.
A bit flakey with video though. Sync failure means they all pause sometimes. Might just be the wifi signal strength I guess.
Ripped all the old archive folders of DVDs and CDs. DVDs have a quite high failure rate after fifteen years in a cupboard eh? CDs faired better.
Expect I'll buy charity shop DVDs more now. Though also expecting half of 'em won't work.
I'm listening to music a bit more now I have a one button shuffle that triggers everywhere in the flat.
I set up a ytdl-sub to copy a few youtube playlists into the TV shows folders. Keeping like the last month's worth. Some shows, like the Dust sci-fi channel say, work really well as being part of the synced TV system instead.
Also made it slurp up all my old youtube videos into a folder too, so yet another local copy of everything I made, in there with all the other ripped shows.
I have spent far too long this month fussing with directory structures and tweeking icon images and things to make it look all pretty. Enjoy that sort of thing though.
#jellyfin #music #dvd