SK Hynix has broken ground on a new nearly-$13 billion memory-chip plant. While it shouldn’t pose an immediate threat to its rival Micron Technology investors should keep an eye on rising manufacturing capacity across the industry.

But memory is a notoriously cyclical sector, prone to bouts of overbuilding during the boom time which leads to gluts in a downturn. Demand for memory is expected to outstrip supply until at least the middle of next year when substantial new manufacturing capacity will come online. That will include SK Hynix’s new Cheongju packaging plant, which is expected to begin testing operations in October 2027, followed by packaging in February 2028.

Micron is expected to begin wafer output from a $50 billion expansion of its facilities in Idaho around the middle of next year. SK Hynix’s $21 billion Yongin cluster should reach volume production in late 2027, followed by further additions in 2028 and Micron’s $100 billion New York project in 2030.

A new form of capital is ascending: cloud capital—networked algorithmic machines that grant their owners remarkable powers to modify our behaviour. And just as financiers needed neoliberalism, today’s tech lords need a new ideology to legitimise their rule. I call it techlordism.

Citizen Lab uncovers Israeli-linked AI operation using deepfakes to destabilise Iran during conflict.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/45926481

🤖 Honestly you can't make this up:

Human Robot #Zuckerberg is gonna put an #AI based smart keylogger on his employees computers.

Nothing says we don't trust you and don't appreciate you like a regular screenshot of your work screen.

No more NSFW! Welcome to the future baby!

Guess them employees are gonna get a taste of their own medicine for once.

Seems like everything is going according to plan.

Use the employees data to train MaiRK, so Meta can finally become a synonym for MaiRK. https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/116402482806274908

Eventually we will only see his superintelligence controlling everything. https://mastodon.social/@madeindex/115871208581092120

Narcissism 2026 version 😋

If you are thinking: Wouldn't this make people quit? Meta is banking on it: https://www.reuters.com/world/meta-targets-may-20-first-wave-layoffs-additional-cuts-later-2026-2026-04-17/

It's amazing what a difference a little bit of time can make: Two years after kicking off what looked to be a long-shot campaign to push back on the practice of shutting down server-dependent videogames once they're no longer profitable, Stop Killing Games founder Ross Scott and organizer Moritz Katzner appeared in front of the European Parliament to present their case—and it seemed to go very well.

Official Stream: https://multimedia.europarl.europa.eu/en/webstreaming/committee-on-internal-market-and-consumer-protection-ordinary-meeting-committee-on-legal-affairs-com_20260416-1100-COMMITTEE-IMCO-JURI-PETI

Digital Fairness Act: https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/better-regulation/have-your-say/initiatives/14622-Digital-Fairness-Act/F33096034_en

Microsoft face a mass lawsuit alleging it overcharged thousands of British businesses to use Windows Server software ​on cloud computing services provided by Amazon, Google and Alibaba, a ‌London tribunal ruled on Tuesday.

Sullivan & Cromwell told a US federal bankruptcy court that a major filing it made in a high-profile case contained multiple “hallucinations” made by AI software.

Andrew Dietderich, the head of S&C’s restructuring practice, apologised in a letter to New York federal judge Martin Glenn on Saturday for mistakes that included misquoting the US bankruptcy code and citing cases incorrectly in a court filing made on April 9.

“We deeply regret that this has occurred,” he said in the letter.

Meta is installing new tracking software on U.S.-based employees’ computers ​to capture mouse movements, clicks and keystrokes for use in training its artificial intelligence models, part of a broad initiative to build AI agents ‌that can perform work tasks autonomously, the company told staffers in internal memos seen by Reuters.

Its getting to a point where It’s getting just depressing.

NHS is the UK National Health Service

Google confirms its latest update can scan all your photos to “use actual images of you and your loved ones” in AI image generation. That means Gemini seeing who you know and what you do. You likely have tens or hundreds of thousands of photos. They’re all exposed if you update.