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Indexed articles, last 90 days
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Oct 1, 2026
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Jul 7, 2026

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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Scharon Harding

    Memory executives expect RAM shortage to continue through 2028 (opens the original)

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    Micron and Samsung executives this week said the memory shortage will continue for at least the next couple of years. Micron CEO Sanjay Mehrotra expects demand for the firm’s memory to exceed its available supply over that period, he told investors last night. Micron no longer sells consumer RAM, and Mehrotra’s statements refer to Micron’s business-to-business sales of high-bandwidth memory (HBM) for AI and DRAM for servers. However, his comments also have implications for consumer devices. Manu

  2. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Scharon Harding

    Reddit is putting more limits on Old.Reddit.com (opens the original)

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    Soon, Reddit won’t let people use Old.Reddit.com unless they have used the site while logged in within the previous six months. In July, Reddit started requiring that users be logged in to access Old Reddit. This new requirement is an effort to reduce Reddit’s biggest source of scraping and automated traffic, the company says. Today, the social media platform announced additional upcoming restrictions on Old Reddit. A Reddit post from an employee, known as “judy-funnie” on the platform, says tha

  3. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Scharon Harding

    The Disney protests were a wake-up call about the risks of streaming mergers (opens the original)

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    There was a call to boycott Disney last fall. The owner of the ABC network had taken Jimmy Kimmel Live! off the air over comments Kimmel made about responses to Charlie Kirk’s murder, sending free speech proponents into a frenzy. Those free speech proponents include me, who, as a reporter, has clear stakes in protecting that right. Although I was on board with halting support for a company I felt had acted wrongfully, truly boycotting Disney proved harder than I expected. Canceling Disney+ was s

  4. Article · Sep 30, 2026 · Scharon Harding

    Discord gives more advertisers more tools to target its users (opens the original)

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    Discord has announced tools aimed at expanding the number and types of companies that advertise on the platform. This week, the social media firm announced Discord Ads Manager, an ad campaign management platform that lets companies manage ads shown on Discord in one place. The tool can be used to perform forecasting, build “a campaign with objective-based bidding,” and monitor an ad campaign’s performance, according to the announcement. “Self-service access extends Discord advertising to smaller

  5. Article · Sep 25, 2026 · Scharon Harding

    Microsoft stops insisting you need a "Copilot+ PC" (opens the original)

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    Since 2024, Microsoft has tried to sell “Copilot+ PC.” The marketing initiative was aimed at making it easy for people to know which Windows systems were approved to run AI-accelerated workloads locally. But Copilot+ PC branding is nowhere to be found on the new Surface PCs Microsoft announced this week. Speaking with Windows Central, Brett Ostrum, corporate VP of Surface, said that the new Surface computers “are not called Copilot+ PCs” despite meeting the label’s requirements. “They do meet al

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