It's 2026, and everyone already carries a high bandwidth digital radio with them. It's called a cell phone.

The only people still listening to AM radio at this point are Boomers listening to conservative talk radio. Even that is available on streaming now, so that AM spectrum would probably be better repurposed for something else.

The Macbook Neo set that standard. You're apparently allowed to make a cheap laptop in 2026 with a unusable amount of RAM and storage now as long as it has a good display.

After that NEOM debacle, do they even have enough money leftover to buy it?

If they do, I'd imagine that they can get it on the cheap. That business is hemorrhaging cash, the only value there is a handful of tech patents and the IP for their few remaining successful game franchises. I would think that you could buy the whole division for just a few billion dollars at this point and then scrap it for parts.

Honestly, who would want Microsoft's XBox division? Isn't it losing money in the billions every quarter right now?

Other than the IP for their few remaining successful game franchises, there isn't much worth buying here. They would be lucky to get pennies on the dollar for all the money they invested into it over the past 10 years.

That's the fun thing about Bitcoin.... it can be a both a pump and dump scam AND a highly profitable investment.

It just depends on when you bought it and when you sold it.

I don't think that Slashdot has an AI editorial slant one way or another. They just want to keep posting clickbait articles in either direction to get that sweet engagement revenue. I mean, there still has to be a few people still not using ad blockers, right?

Yeah... I think that the headline there is "Guy selling picks and shovels to the AI goldrush wants the goldrush to continue"

I'm sooo looking forward to the AI crash, so I can start buying graphics cards for around their original MSRP again.

Yeah, I have no idea who would be crazy enough to push for 50% (or ANY %) tax on Bitcoin sales. The people who founded Bitcoin are Silly Valley tech bros who are mostly Democrats, and the largest holders now are institutional investors who are mostly Republicans. So, you'll have bi-partisan support to kill any such legislation, and to launch a primary attack against anyone dumb enough to propose it.

You mean that every major company WAS working on blockchain projects back when blockchain was the cool buzzword from 2018 to 2021.

Most of those projects failed, and now the cool buzzword is "AI Integration" so all of the major companies are working on that instead.

Or, maybe they're hoping that the US will become less interested in Greenland once we see how much smaller it looks on the new map projection.

Bah... who am I kidding. The only changes we're going to be making to our maps for the next two years will be adding "America" to the names of places.

They used to do their own white label distribution of RHEL called Scientific Linux with lots of cool add on packages. I'm not sure why they stopped doing so?

Why not show both names in the US as well? Is Apple REALLY that afraid of the Trump administration?

Musk gets bonus points if he uses a Starship prototype to launch the rescue mission. Sure, it's totally oversized for a project like this, but Musk loves a good show for the fanboys and the SpaceX shareholders.

You're acting like this is the first ever RAM shortage. It's not. These things are cyclical, and things will get back to normal eventually. The AI tech bubble will eventually burst (but AI will stick around), everybody and their grandmother will stop trying to build data centers in everyone's back yards, and RAM and storage supply will return to normal.

Oh, and Nvidia will pretend to give a shit about gamers again for a few months until the next tech fad that requires GPU acceleration pops up.

If anything, we're eventually going to end up with a glut of specialized AI accelerator cards that someone will find a way to repurpose when they become obsolete and everyone is trying to unload them on eBay for $50 each. We've already seen that happen with crypto mining hardware.

At this point, I'm thinking that AI is really just work outsourcing in another form.

Really, that's what the last 25 years of IT has been about... outsourcing the boring repetitive coding and tech support overseas, outsourcing in-house data centers to cloud computing data centers, replacing locally installed software with SAAS solutions that run in a browser, and getting AI agents to (once again) outsource the boring repetitive coding and tech support to someone else.