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All kicking off in the UK.

For those who haven't got the backstory here, a GenAI company basically pre-ordered 40% of the world's RAM to lock out competitors... then Micron, who make their profits by making RAM, decided to also stop making RAM to chase GenAI fad.

So now PCs and servers are basically unaffordable. Nobody is quite sure what will happen.

$3k RAM running Chrome.exe, might sell my PC and buy a car

the ram in my gaming PC is worth ten times how much I paid for it a few months ago

RIP CIO IT budgets, just as a spoiler - they'll burn through it in the next few months.

Also RIP their blood pressure when they get their Azure bill and E5 renewal quote.

Amazon launched a generative AI recap video system, to help viewers catch up with TV shows.

It launched with Fallout, its own TV show.

…however, Amazon have had to delete the video after viewers pointed out it got almost every detail wrong. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3r77j5nze5o

A new Postal game was announced yesterday, making extensive use of Generative AI. The announcement was a disaster, players widely rejected it, and now the publisher has cancelled the game - it’s gone from Steam and they’ve put out a statement apologising.

Can't wait to see Elon and the Trump administration's calm reaction to this. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4g9kejzvw0o

We have our first victim of overreacting to the React vuln - the Cloudflare global outage was them taking down their own service while trying to spot an actually very niche vuln.

The React vulns have the usual panicked nonsense going on - people posting fake PoCs (all of them are fake), people spraying fake PoCs over the whole internet, people posting screenshots of fake PoC activity thinking it real, doomsday scenario posts etc etc.

It’s actually a niche scenario bug for vast majority of orgs, just stay calm and patch if you are actually impacted (spoiler: you probably aren’t).

Vulnerability hype train derail time - these vulns only apply to React 19 (released within the past year) and only when using a specific new feature, React Server.

There is an unauthenticated remote code execution vulnerability in React Server Components.

Even if your app does not implement any React Server Function endpoints it may still be vulnerable if your app supports React Server Components.

If your app’s React code does not use a server, your app is not affected by this vulnerability.

CVE-2025-55182

Mastodon server not impacted btw.

https://react.dev/blog/2025/12/03/critical-security-vulnerability-in-react-server-components

Around a quarter of papers at an AI conference were found to have been written by AI. Additionally, a good portion of the peer reviews were also found to have been done by AI. People at the event are now raising concerns everything was essentially bollocks.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-025-03506-6

https://replaceyourboss.ai/

Stealing this phrase - “AI is a Dunning-Kruger accelerator”

#mastoadmin

Check and evict username ptorrone on your instances, he's making lots of accounts to get into conflict with somebody.

Also, don't buy from Adafruit until they apologise.

well now - PSA to Mastodon admins, suspend pubeurope.com and channels.im.

They're great big link farm spam engines, from looking at it.

also what's https://pubeurope.com/?

I'm not sure how great it is that half of the top Mastodon servers I see using CPU cycles are these? I don't even know what https://channels.im is

frame this modern art

Cloudflare say they are seeing signs of service recovery, but the failed queues are getting worse on my Mastodon server.