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Fujifilm Plans to Quintuple Tape Capacity. Seagate Says Most Nearline Supply Is Allocated Through 2028
LTO tape shipments are near record levels but small next to disk. The trends coincide, and no source proves a link or measures AI’s share.
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Big Tech Plans to Spend $730 Billion This Year. Part of It Is Higher Prices.
Microsoft, Amazon and Meta have said computer parts, like memory chips, now cost more. Their public statements do not reveal how much of the total reflects higher prices.
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Zero-Click Spyware Reached Al Jazeera Devices Through Ad Infrastructure, Citizen Lab Says
Citizen Lab says ads bought by an Israeli vendor helped deliver Candiru spyware to Al Jazeera, no click needed. It documents one route, not how common it is.
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Xbox Tried Twice to Find Ninja Theory a Future. Both Deals Fell Through.
Layoffs have started at the Hellblade studio after two agreements for its future fell through. The failure says more about Xbox’s reset than about one studio.
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Gotion Put a Price on Solid-State Batteries. Honda and Toyota Haven’t
Gotion has attached a long-term cost target to its solid-state cells. Honda and Toyota are showing factories. The next question is whether those cells can be manufactured at a competitive cost.
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AMD Paid $8.2 Billion for a Place Where Robots Can Fail Safely
World Labs builds simulated 3D worlds for training robots. The deal looks like a chip story, but it may be about who supplies those worlds.
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Unity’s Runtime Fee Is Gone. Its Consequences Aren’t.
Two years after Unity scrapped the pricing policy that triggered a developer exodus, Godot’s Steam presence keeps compounding. That gap between the specific fix and the lasting behavior is the real story.
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BMW Brings Pre-Chamber Ignition to the M3, M4, and M2
M Ignite, BMW’s new patented pre-chamber ignition system, enters production this summer. It cuts fuel consumption under high load, and BMW says it’s timed to meet Europe’s incoming Euro 7 requirements. The company won’t yet say if, or when, US cars get it.
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Big Tech Has Signed 10 GW+ in SMR Deals. Why Isn’t the Power Online Yet?
Meta, Amazon, and Google have committed billions to small modular reactors. Right now, only one commercial SMR is under construction in North America, and it’s in Canada.
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The $2 Trillion Market Where Nobody Can Independently Check the Price
Default rates just posted their sharpest climb in over a year. The bigger issue isn’t whether private credit can be valued — it’s how little outside checking exists on the price lenders set for themselves.