Samsung just gave Google and the AI gang the perfect reason to buy all-new storage — so don’t expect SSD prices to drop anytime soon

Samsung, Google, and partners create TP4193, moving SSD virtualization into hardware while increasing AI data center efficiency and hardware demands.

Samsung set to launch cheap PCIe 4.0 990 SSD as “RAMpocalypse” pushes even the world’s largest SSD vendor to remove DRAM from product

Samsung briefly listed a DRAM-free 1TB PCIe 4.0 SSD featuring Host Memory Buffer before quietly removing the product page completely.

Ukrainians are using VPNs to cause havoc in Russia by changing fuel station statuses on maps in a bid to cause chaos and confusion

A Ukraine-linked online campaign reportedly alters Russian fuel station map data, creating confusion among drivers through coordinated digital participation.

Tiny European chips power thousands of lethal Russian drones, and almost nobody can stop this

A European STM32 chip found in Russian drones reveals complex Chinese supply chains that challenge Western efforts to restrict technology transfers.

Castlelion sells affordable hypersonic Mach 5 missiles for the price of a supercar by tapping into the O&G and audio industries to get cheaper components faster

Castelion’s Blackbeard hypersonic missile now costs under $300,000 per round, prompting the Navy to order 50 production units.

Autonomous AI Russian ‘Molniya’ drone could be using the Nvidia Jetson Orin platform by exploiting a common COTS loophole

A Russian drone stripped of antennas may signal autonomous strike capability, with speculation pointing to commercial Nvidia hardware inside.

Quote of the day by Netscape founder Marc Andreessen: ‘We believe any deceleration of AI will cost lives’ — a full-throated defense of the AI buildout

A man who’s deeply embedded in the technology ecosystem sees no other way forward than going full speed ahead on the AI buildout

AMD abandons HBM for inferior LPDDR5x as AI monster devours precious high-bandwidth memory

AMD is moving away from HBM to LPDDR5x for its SoCs as AI hyperscalers continue to snap up all available wafers of the former.