A federal judge in Mississippi has punished all four lawyers on opposing sides in a civil trial and canceled the proceedings after some of them, relying on artificial intelligence, cited fake legal cases in court filings.

https://www.nytimes.com/2026/06/09/us/ai-lawyers-sanctioned-mississippi.html

In an order filed on Monday, Sharion Aycock, a senior U.S. District Court judge, wrote that the four lawyers had violated Rule 11 of the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure when they certified that the information in their filings was factual.

I think one concerning thing is that this is the easiest thing to check. I mean, at some point, I assume that someone is going to rig something up to LexisNexis to actually validate the existence of cited cases, because that’s pretty simple and mechanical. Heck, even those lawyers, even if they don’t have any tech people at their fingertips, could have had a paralegal check citations or something. It really shouldn’t be that fundamentally hard for a lawyer to avoid getting in trouble for this specific issue, even if they generated the text with an LLM.

My bigger concern is that if lawyers are willing to put stuff like this out, they’re presumably also willing to put out information that hasn’t been checked where the errors are subtler and it’s harder to find erroneous material. In the case of citing nonexistent cases, it’s really easy to say “the lawyer clearly didn’t even look at this”, because it’s hard to make that kind of error if you have read over it. This is, once highlighted, flagrant and obvious. But…there’s potential for subtler errors, where it’s harder to tell whether the lawyer did at least try to review the material and just made a basic error, and thus it’s harder to impose punishments for it.

I mean, the real sin here is from the Bluetooth SIG. If you make a radio protocol that broadcasts a unique identifier, it’s going to be abused sooner or later.

Google and Apple already know where Bluetooth devices have traveled if an iOS or Android phone using Location Services has come near them at any point.

Other people, like these ALPR guys, can probably harvest a little more data from users of Bluetooth devices, but they aren’t going to be the most meaningful harvester, as they have far fewer collection points.

Magewell Pro Capture card

I’ve been kind of shifting towards use of USB devices over internal cards.

All of the USB devices that I have still can be connected to computers. Ditto for DE-9 serial ports, though I might need a USB adapter.

But I’ve seen ISA->PCI/AGP->PCIe obsolete a lot of old hardware that I’ve had sitting around, and that’s just on the PC. That includes my video capture hardware.

but definitely don’t come across as murderers

Well, I mean, the charge is manslaughter, not murder.

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https://www.humaneworld.org/en/campaign/ending-chinas-dog-and-cat-meat-trades

Globally, an estimated 20 million dogs and 6 million cats are slaughtered annually for human consumption. Of these, approximately 10 million dogs and 4 million cats are killed each year in China alone.

Sounds like it.

The article title and body don’t match in the amount of the sale:

sold for US$25

He was later told that Chutou had been sold to a dog meat restaurant for 180 yuan (US$27) and the pet had been eaten.

I mean, not that it’s that far off, but seems odd to have an article where the two don’t match.

There are three major DRAM chip manufacturers: Micron, in the US, and Samsung and SK Hynix, both in South Korea.

Micron has two new fabs coming online in Boise, Idaho. The earliest one is scheduled to start operation in the first half of 2027 (they recently announced that they’d moved that timeline up from the second half of 2027) though it’ll take time to ramp up; it will not be doing output at full capacity immediately when it first starts up.

https://www.micron.com/us-expansion/id

They announced late last year that they were going to do a second Boise one as well for more capacity.

They also have New York fabs that they’re doing:

https://www.micron.com/us-expansion/ny

For the South Korean manufacturers:

https://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/2026-03-12/business/industry/Samsung-and-SK-are-expanding-fast-but-why-is-memory-still-in-short-supply/2540153

Samsung

This year, Samsung is prioritizing the conversion of its lines to memory chips at its Pyeongtaek campus in Gyeonggi and the acceleration of new facility construction at the site.

At the P4 plant, the company is upgrading dynamic random-access memory (DRAM) production to its latest 1c process, which will be used for high bandwidth memory (HBM) and advanced DRAM chips. Samsung aims to secure 1c capacity of more than 200,000 wafers per month by the end of the year through line conversion and additional equipment installation.

Construction of P5, which had previously been delayed during the semiconductor downturn, resumed this year with a timeline accelerated by roughly six months compared to earlier plans. The chipmaker is bringing in tens of thousands of new workers to construct the megafab, capable of producing HBM, DRAM, NAND flash and potentially foundry chips. Construction is expected to be completed in the first half of 2027, with equipment installation beginning shortly afterward and mass production targeted for the latter part of 2028.

Construction of the last Pyeongtaek facility, P6, is currently expected to start in the third quarter of 2028.

SK Hynix

SK hynix is currently concentrating short-term investment on expanding capacity at its M15X fab in Cheongju, North Chungcheong, while also upgrading older lines.

The company is adding 1b DRAM capacity at M15X, while accelerating 1c node conversions at its M14 and M16 fabs for production of HBM and server DRAM. After hitting a capacity of 10,000 wafers per month last year, it is expected to expand capacity by up to 70,000 wafers per month this year.

For a new greenfield project, SK hynix is advancing construction at the Yongin semiconductor cluster in Gyeonggi, one of the largest semiconductor manufacturing projects globally. The cluster will ultimately host six Samsung fabs from Samsung and four SK hynix facilities, and the latter is moving ahead first.

Construction of the first fab, Y1, is expected to be completed in February of next year, earlier than previously planned. Equipment installation is scheduled to begin in the second quarter of 2027.

Y1 will be built in six cleanroom “phases,” a unit used in fab construction for the capacity expansion stage. Each phase adds more floor space and related equipment for wafer capacity expansion. The first three phases are expected to begin operation within the same year, providing a capacity of 150,000 wafers per month, with the remaining phases adding another 150,000 wafers per month once fully operational.

The second fab in the cluster, Y2, is expected to begin construction around the third quarter of 2028.

So, two points.

First, new memory fabs start coming online in 2027, and there are more being constructed that will be coming online in subsequent years.

But, second…I think that some perspective is in order. Set new production aside. Let’s imagine a world where that didn’t happen. In fact, let’s imagine that not a single additional memory chip was going to be produced. Video games were around when I played games on an Atari 2600, to pick an early video game console. I had fun with it. It didn’t have the latest, real-time rendered photorealistic graphics. But…the Atari 2600 had 128 bytes of memory. Not gigabytes, not megabytes, not kilobytes. Bytes.

There are people building microcontrollers right now that have onboard memory, and those aren’t impacted by this. It’s just the high-density dedicated memory chips that go on DIMMs that are seeing all that demand.

According to Wikipedia, there were 30 million Atari 2600s made. The CPU I currently have in my desktop has a little over 145MB of onboard cache. Twenty-six of those CPUs, looking just at their onboard cache, no external memory from Micron/Samsung/SK Hynix, have more memory than all of the 30 million Atari 2600s ever manufactured, combined.

Like, don’t get me wrong. I enjoy using all this memory that we have had available in recent years. But…video games are here to stay and would be even if no dedicated memory chips were around.

As you can imagine, this is enormous pricing pressure for enthusiasts trying to build gaming PCs or upgrade their rigs in 2026.

Waiting until 2028 for anything involving RAM would be a good idea, if possible. You’re likely to get more for your money.

If you’ve got money burning a hole in your pocket and are determined to spend on gaming computer hardware in 2026/2027, it might be a good idea to consider things like game controllers, displays, or something like that, since those don’t have prices driven by memory price.

They’re building out. The first ones are going to be mid-late 2027, but those aren’t expected to be at full production until about 2028.

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Hmm. Micron says that they’re aiming to move up their first fab becoming active to the first half of 2027, now:

https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/business/article314253330.html

Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra says the company is pushing up its timelines for opening its first semiconductor fabrication plant, or fab, into the first half of 2027, instead of the second half. His announcement in a Dec. 17 earnings call came months after the chipmaker unveiled plans to start construction on a second fab in 2026, eyeing a 2028 ribbon-cutting.

They also have a second fab in Boise, Idaho, and some in New York that theylre building.

Both Samsung and SK Hynix have fabs in South Korea that they’re building.

I’d have some real questions about rollover risk on these. Three-wheel ATVs have a bad history and were banned in the US back in the 1980s — they’re less stable than quads and heavy enough to incur severe crush injuries in a rollover — and I’d expect that the batteries make these even heavier.

And these aren’t just personal vehicles, like the ATVs, but being used to run a commercial service. The government probably has a heightened interest in safety of passengers of commercial service.

Lives are cheaper in some places in the world, and maybe that’s not a luxury that that Zimbabwe can afford, if it needs inexpensive transport. But if there is one kind of vehicle that I’d be dubious about, it’d be something like these.

Yeah, but he’s got a point. The GOG new game library is much smaller than on Steam.

I hope that Micron, SK Hynix, and Samsung don’t hit any hiccups with their memory chip production buildouts.

The attack targeted a wide range of sensitive credentials typically found in developer and CI/CD environments. Aikido’s analysis shows the malware attempted to collect GitHub Actions tokens, AWS, Google Cloud, and Azure credentials, HashiCorp Vault tokens, Kubernetes service account tokens and kubeconfig files, npm and PyPI publishing tokens, SSH private keys, Docker registry credentials, GPG keys, and .env files.

This doesn’t solve the problem of people storing credentials where credential-stealers can steal them, but it’s not a bad idea to periodically invalidate your credentials and generate new ones, even if you don’t know that they’ve been compromised, just on the off change that someone has grabbed yours and has them stored up, ready to use them at some point in the future.

That’s especially true if you develop or package software (and thus users of your software trust you to keep their systems secure) or have administrator access to any networks or multiuser systems (and thus your users trust you to keep their data secure).

I’d personally rather like to see external hardware keystores used where possible. YubiKey-type things aren’t perfect — they don’t have a display, so you can’t use trusted hardware to visually validate whatever you’re signing — but at least they’re relatively cheap and keep someone who compromises a computer from grabbing credentials.

I’d just stick screens on one’s windows and maybe use DEET if you’re really at the height of mosquito season in a bad area.

Like, this has a DSLR camera, a GPU constantly churning away, a laser…

They’re charging for premium features, not for basic access to the service.

https://www.espn.com/soccer/story/_/id/48707727/fifa-triples-best-available-world-cup-final-ticket-33k

FIFA tripled the price of its best available tickets to the FIFA World Cup final, making $32,970 seats available Thursday for the July 19 match at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, New Jersey.

Soccer’s governing body listed those seats as front category 1 on its sales site on a day that saw members of Congress question the pricing structure for World Cup tickets and ask FIFA for more transparency on asking prices.

FIFA previously had a high price of $10,990 for category 1 at the final. However, that ticket was now available Thursday night only as wheelchair and easy access amenity category 1.

Tickets for the July 14 semifinal at AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas, were listed at $11,130, $4,330, $3,710 and $2,705. Seats for the following day’s semifinal at Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium were at $10,635, $3,545 and $2,725.

More expensive than for NFL tickets!

https://www.usatoday.com/story/sports/nfl/super-bowl/2026/01/21/super-bowl-60-ticket-prices-purchase-cheapest/88274794007/

Face value for tickets to Super Bowl 60 range from $950 to $8,500, according to Friedman, who provided USA TODAY Sports a screenshot of a seating chart with ticket prices.

“They really know what they need,” and are putting “serious effort” into acquiring advanced machine tools, factory equipment, research and dual-use technology, said Christoffer Wedelin, deputy head of operations at the Swedish Security Service.

Russia also needs sanctioned computer technology and software updates for machine tools, Martelius said.

Even more important to the KGB was obtaining research data about Western technology, including integrated circuit design, computer-aided manufacturing, and, especially, operating system software that was under U.S. export control. They offered 250,000 Deutschmarks for copies of Digital Equipment’s VMS operating system.

Peter Carl and Dirk Brezinski apparently met with the KGB a dozen times, filling many of their requests: source code to the Unix operating system, designs for high-speed gallium-arsenide integrated circuits, and computer programs used to engineer computer memory chips.

Alone, the source code to Unix isn’t worth $130,000. Chip designs? Perhaps. But a sophisticated computer design program . . . well, maybe the KGB did get its money’s worth.

— The Cuckoo’s Egg, discussing the situation in 1986

That was 40 years back and when the Soviet Union was still around. Some things haven’t changed all that much.

Yeah, they mention it in the article, but I figure that whatever this guy wants, it’s more than whatever they’re generating.

For passionate enthusiasts, Ferraris are not merely cars but works of art…the sound of the engine revving evokes a sensation comparable to listening to the music of Giuseppe Verdi or Giacomo Puccini.

“I agree with him – the horse needs to be removed,” said Barone, adding that his main gripe was its lack of sound. “How can you have a Ferrari without any vroom?”

I suppose that someone could make a device that polls OBD-II for the current RPM and feeds more synthetic ICE engine sound into the sound system.

EDIT: Hell, if you’re freed from the constraints of an actual ICE engine, there’s probably some sort of sound that’s more psychologically-optimized to make the guy happy than whatever an actual engine puts out.