Daily Tech News 16 March 2026

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The Big Three memory makers are publicly saying they expect the AI bubble to pop - or at least fizzle - by 2028, which is why they're slow-walking expansion plans in the face of unprecedented demand. (WCCFTech)

That does mean that if you need memory now you're kind of screwed.

It also means that Taiwan's Nanya and West Taiwan's CXMT - the fourth and fifth largest memory manufacturers - are making hay while the sun shines.

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North Korea's latest scam is placing remote workers with tech companies. (NBC)

They've actually been doing this for a while. They fake their ID, phone a friend for interviews, send the money to the government, and steal secrets if they get a chance.
Electric vehicle sales are booming in countries where a hundred miles is a long distance and nobody has children. (Electrek)

Less so in places with a future.
Myrient, the 385TB archive of retro games that was dying of exorbitant hosting fees, has been saved. (Tom's Hardware)

The entire archive has been backed up and volunteers are working on a new website and torrent server.

I took a look myself, but I don't have 385TB of space available and it was hard to know where to start with a partial archive.
Britain is investing $2.5 billion in nuclear power to protect itself from future energy price shocks. (GB News)

Not fission which exists and actually works, but fusion which doesn't. Except on an inconveniently abrupt scale.
What good is a glass worm? (Aikido)

Glassworm, an attack that injects vulnerabilities into open-source projects by slipping invisible Unicode characters into sensitive places, is back.

Unicode merges all human languages, ever, into a single character set. Its creators never bothered to ask if this was a good idea.

Musical Interlude

Disclaimer: Well fix it, dear Henry, dear Henry, dear Henry.

Posted by: Pixy Misa at 04:00 AM

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1 Morning all

Posted by: Tuna at March 16, 2026 04:02 AM (lJ0H4)

2 w00t

Posted by: m at March 16, 2026 04:03 AM (+YA9H)

3 anti-woot!

Posted by: w at March 16, 2026 04:03 AM (gMiXt)

4 a day late:
"Pixy" contains "pi"!

Posted by: m at March 16, 2026 04:04 AM (+YA9H)

5 Guten morgen, horde.

Posted by: clarence at March 16, 2026 04:04 AM (A4VRU)

6 Morning horde.

Posted by: Pete Bog at March 16, 2026 04:08 AM (qlUA+)

7
Doof posted a version of

Ides of March - "Vehicle" (1970)

on the ONT. Featuring NASA spaceshots.

Posted by: m at March 16, 2026 04:08 AM (+YA9H)

8 Not fission which exists and actually works, but fusion which doesn't. Except on an inconveniently abrupt scale.
****

For those who can do fusion, it is entirely at their convenience. And they do not like it to be abrupt.

Posted by: clarence at March 16, 2026 04:09 AM (A4VRU)

9 Ice-Worm > Glassworm

Posted by: Robert Service at March 16, 2026 04:11 AM (D0HYP)

10 Wikipedia:

The w00t spelling (with double-zero "00") is a leetspeak variant of woot; alternative spellings include whoot, wOOt, wh00t, wewt, wought, etc.

Posted by: m at March 16, 2026 04:11 AM (+YA9H)

11 10 Wikipedia:

The w00t spelling (with double-zero "00") is a leetspeak variant of woot; alternative spellings include whoot, wOOt, wh00t, wewt, wought, etc.
Posted by: m at March 16, 2026 04:11 AM (+YA9H

And now, simply, woot!

Or anti-woot!

Posted by: w at March 16, 2026 04:13 AM (gMiXt)

12 In fact, double anti-woot!

Posted by: w at March 16, 2026 04:15 AM (gMiXt)

13 Triple anti-woot!

Posted by: w at March 16, 2026 04:15 AM (gMiXt)

14 Quadruple anti-woot!

Posted by: w at March 16, 2026 04:15 AM (gMiXt)

15 Quintuple anti-woot!

Posted by: w at March 16, 2026 04:16 AM (gMiXt)

16 Sextuple ani-woot!

Posted by: w at March 16, 2026 04:16 AM (gMiXt)

17 The point is: anti-woot!

Posted by: w at March 16, 2026 04:17 AM (gMiXt)

18 The ONT Florida man story is very sad. The Philadelphia (maybe?) PD scanner stories are much more fun!

Posted by: m at March 16, 2026 04:18 AM (+YA9H)

19 There's a hole in the bucket, dear Liza, a hole.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at March 16, 2026 04:18 AM (M9gjJ)

20 The electrek writer elides over the US response to an expensive fad/scam. If electric vehicles could be the wave of the future, it would take growth at 10x or more of the current sales.

Posted by: clarence at March 16, 2026 04:19 AM (A4VRU)

21 18: Pittsburgh

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 16, 2026 04:25 AM (sAmhv)

22 Unless, of course, the point is not anti-woot!

I could be mistaken.

Posted by: w at March 16, 2026 04:31 AM (gMiXt)

23 I don't want to get up

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2026 04:34 AM (Ia/+0)

24 Split Enz - Six Months In A Leaky Boat

www.lyrics.com
https://archive.is/V7F29

"Six Months in a Leaky Boat" is a single from New Zealand art rock group Split Enz's album Time and Tide. It was written by Tim Finn and released as a single in 1982. The song is a reference to the time it took pioneers to sail to New Zealand....

Posted by: m at March 16, 2026 04:41 AM (+YA9H)

25 21 18: Pittsburgh
Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 16, 2026 04:25 AM (sAmhv)

Thanks!

I had meanwhile been browsing the 𝕏 site of

@PhillyPolice

and it is full of sadness.

Posted by: m at March 16, 2026 04:43 AM (+YA9H)

26 G'Day everyone

Posted by: Skip at March 16, 2026 04:44 AM (Ia/+0)

27
Pittsburgh Scanner
@pgh_scanner
Two guys with a couple radios. Always listening to Pittsburgh Police/Fire/EMS. linktr.ee/pghscanner
Pittsburgh, PA
pgh-scanner.com

Posted by: m at March 16, 2026 04:46 AM (+YA9H)

28 Oh. Thanks, m

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 16, 2026 04:47 AM (sAmhv)

29 23 I don't want to get up
Posted by: Skip
................................
A Rick Astley b-side?

Posted by: Puddleglum, cheer up for the worst is yet to come at March 16, 2026 04:49 AM (sAmhv)

30 Wondering if these guys are AoSHq Morons:

Pittsburgh Scanner
@pgh_scanner
Mar 14
South Side. South 11th Street. Caller says that there are multiple loud parties in the area. Caller doesn't like a single one of them. Happy St. Patrick's Day weekend.

Posted by: m at March 16, 2026 04:51 AM (+YA9H)

31 Birdbath status?

Posted by: Just Wondering at March 16, 2026 04:53 AM (2Ez/1)

32 tech 𝕏:
I mean, maybe?

Bonchie retweeted
Max 📟
@MaxNordau
12h
There’s very little downside to just banning these people, in terms of societal hygiene.

Sulaiman Ahmed
@ShaykhSulaiman
BREAKING: NETANYAHU NEW VIDEO IS 78.9% LIKELY TO BE AI GENERATED

Posted by: m at March 16, 2026 04:56 AM (+YA9H)

33 Fussion or Fission...Local builder has been told their just isn't enough power in the grid to supply power for the project. So go take a walk off a short pier. All of our coal and gas plants have been shut down and torn down to make way for solar panels, as soon as the ship comes in from China.

Posted by: Colin at March 16, 2026 04:57 AM (e8qy3)

34 Electric vehicle sales are booming in countries where a hundred miles is a long distance and nobody has children. (Electrek)

https://archive.is/nhIbF

Posted by: m at March 16, 2026 05:10 AM (+YA9H)

35 ... and where governments require taxi drivers to transition to EV.

Posted by: m at March 16, 2026 05:14 AM (+YA9H)

36 from the Electrek article:

While Europe’s EV sales are surging, North America is seeing a steep slowdown, and China is adjusting to new policies at home. ... Europe is currently the main growth engine, while North America is seeing a steep slowdown and China is adjusting to policy changes at home.

At which point I quit reading.

Posted by: m at March 16, 2026 05:19 AM (+YA9H)

37 At which point I quit reading.
****

And saved yourself from the risk of damaging brain cells.

Posted by: clarence at March 16, 2026 05:22 AM (A4VRU)

38 So according to the Electrek article, EV sales grow when the rest of society is taxed to help pay for them and decline when subsidies are removed. Odd....

Posted by: Button-Pushing-Monkey at March 16, 2026 05:25 AM (EcHpA)

39 Oh, wait! But then, later in the Electrek article, there are these subheadings!

Europe continues to grow
North America is struggling
China adjusts to policy changes

Posted by: m at March 16, 2026 05:29 AM (+YA9H)

40 G'mornin' everyone!

investing in fusion will produce lots of useful graft, and zero electricity in the near term, which seems to be the point.

freeze in the dark, peasants! know your place!

Posted by: sock_rat_eez at March 16, 2026 05:31 AM (MIIRH)

41 Belated BOING!

And to work!

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 16, 2026 05:37 AM (1o8D5)

42 Winter has gone past
The Sun awaits its wakeing
Time slowly moves on

fin

Posted by: clarence at March 16, 2026 05:38 AM (A4VRU)

43 fin

Posted by: clarence at March 16, 2026 05:38 AM (A4VRU)
-

/set fish-puns

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 16, 2026 05:42 AM (1o8D5)

44 Open the asylums!

https://tinyurl.com/5866nnbb

Posted by: Biden's Dog sniffs a whole lotta malarkey, at March 16, 2026 05:44 AM (1o8D5)

45 Tim Tebow encourages people in their faith. Faithpot site:

https://tinyurl.com/4wn8r8aw

Posted by: FenelonSpoke at March 16, 2026 05:44 AM (Nx5jP)

46 Good morning! It's close to freezing and the winds are blowing out of the north at about 20 kts. It was in the 70s yesterday.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at March 16, 2026 05:46 AM (3Ope8)

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