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Happy Easter. Guess what the Easter Bunny got you?

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>> Chocolate! >> What? No, it's It's It's tech news. Chocolate for

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everybody? Can you imagine the shipping? Chinese DDR5 prices are plummeting, and

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resellers who stockpiled RAM during the shortage are stuck with mountains of

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products they can't move. So, that's where that all went. Clips on Twitter

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show vendors in a Shenzhen market surrounded by piles of modules saying

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they're, quote, doomed. Though, how real any of this is remains an open question,

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especially after WCCFTech illustrated their coverage with what appears to be

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an AI-generated image of a man ripping his hair out while his RAM flies all

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over the place in a warehouse. I hate it when that happens. Look how sad he is.

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It's It's real. Reports out of China say the biggest drops are hitting the gray

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market, meaning these are recycled and repackaged sticks, not factory-fresh

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kits, with prices down 25%

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to 30% earlier this year. But before you get too excited rubbing your little fly

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hands together, industry sources told ET News that Samsung just bumped Q2 DRAM

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contract prices another 30% on top of

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already doubling them in Q1. So, the people who actually make this stuff,

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they're not sweating it, which probably explains why this higher tier of the

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Lenovo Legion Go 2 just received a $650

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price hike from its $1,350 launch price just 6 months ago for a

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handheld that runs Windows. >> worst part.

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The eyes of the world are on NASA's Artemis 2 crew as they conduct their

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lunar flyby, which is happening right now as we're filming this in a rare

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moment that seems to be bringing the world together. Also, they just broke

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Apollo 13's record for the farthest humans have ever traveled from Earth.

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Suck it, Apollo 13 crew. You got nothing on Canadian dreamboat Jeremy Hansen.

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Suck it, Tom Hanks. you. >> Woah! Canada. Canada. At the time of

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writing, the four astronauts are in a 6-hour observation window photographing

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craters, lava flows, and future landing zones on the far side of the moon, the

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better side, measuring surface albedo, and snapping shots of nearby planets.

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Right now, the life feed is coming from modified GoPro cameras on Orion's solar

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array wings, but the spacecraft is also testing a laser system called O2O that

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can beam 4K video from the moon at 260

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megabit per second, which means future missions could livestream higher-quality

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footage from the moon than Netflix allows on its cheapest plan. Ultimately,

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the whole mission has been going so well that the biggest talking point so far is

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the astronauts' bathroom situation. Evidently, their urine froze in the

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collection tank breaking the mechanism that allows them to go number one aboard

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the ship, meaning that the crew has resorted to peeing in bags. It's

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The internet has also been going nuts for a jar of Nutella that keeps floating

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through the cabin on a livestream. Is it poop? Prompting NASA to have to make a

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public statement that they don't have a product placement deal with Nutella.

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Could be pretty sweet, though. LinkedIn is silently scanning visitors' browsers

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for over 6,000 Chrome extensions every time they load the site, according to a

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new report called BrowserGate, published by a European group called Fairlink, no

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relation. The exposé claims that LinkedIn performs hidden JavaScript

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checks for job search tools, competitor products, and extensions tied to

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religious beliefs, political views, and neurodivergence, then sends the results

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back to LinkedIn's servers, where no one cool works. Funnily enough, none of this

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is mentioned in LinkedIn's privacy policy. Bleeping Computer independently

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verified the scanning behavior through their own testing and confirmed the script checks for 6,236

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extensions, up from about 2,000 just last year. Now, LinkedIn says the

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report's claims are plain wrong, and that the person behind the BrowserGate

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website is the developer of a browser extension called Team Fluence, whose

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account was banned for scraping and violating LinkedIn's terms of service. A

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German court did deny Team Fluence's injunction against LinkedIn, so there's

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clearly some beef here, but that doesn't change the fact that LinkedIn is

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verifiably scanning your browser for extensions every time you visit the site

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without telling you. And since LinkedIn already knows your real name, your

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employer, and your job title, that's not exactly an anonymous data point. You

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Speaking of things rising from the dead, let's resurrect some stories that didn't

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quite make the main lineup. It's quick bits time.

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NVIDIA demoed a new compression method to shrink the textures in games last

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weekend. You know, the surface details that make walls look like walls and skin

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look like skin. Their new neural texture

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compression uses tiny neural networks to unpack those details on the fly, and in

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one demo, it cut VRAM usage from 6.5 GB

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down to under a gig while looking basically identical. Intel showed off

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their own version, too, probably suckier, but let's hear them out,

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claiming up to 18 times smaller textures. No games use it yet, but if

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they did, your GPU might finally stop running out of memory all the time, or

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GPU makers will just use it as an excuse to give you less. I mean, you're just

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going to put DLSS 5 on top of it anyway. What are you going to do with it?

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>> going to chat GPT it anyway. Chat GPT is the one who needs it. A court in Rome

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has ruled that Netflix's price hikes in Italy between 2017 and 2024 were all

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unlawful and ordered the company to refund affected subscribers. Consumer

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group Movimento Consumatori, which,

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despite sounding like an Italian vampire coven, is actually an Italian consumer

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rights organization that brought the suit arguing Netflix violated Italy's

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consumer code by hiking prices without proper justification. Premium customers

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could be owed up to 500 euros with standard subscribers entitled to around

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250. This is a decent class action. >> Yeah. Netflix says it plans to appeal.

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OpenAI has just announced that it's acquiring the TBPN podcast, a daily live

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tech show that's popular with tech bros, but that most of the rest of us know as

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the greenest podcast in the universe. According to OpenAI, they acquired the

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podcast to help with shaping the conversation around AI, but claim the

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podcast will maintain editorial independence, which seems like two

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completely opposing statements. It seems like all scammy boys just pulling a page

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out of the Ellison playbook, joining a trend of billionaires snapping up media

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to help control the narratives around their products. I think I speak for all

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of us, though, when I say that the only thing I care about is that it stays

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overwhelmingly green, so I know to swipe past it as quickly as possible during my

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doom scroll sessions. And if you're a fan of that show and you watch this show, well, now you can just only watch

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this show if you don't like them all. >> Oh, so easy. Thanks, James. Keep

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watching us. That's actually green behind me, too.

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>> OH, NO! WE MIGHT BE THE GREENER than >> SpaceX filed with the SEC last week for

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what could be the biggest IPO ever, targeting a valuation of more than a

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trillion dollars, cuz it's Elon scale.

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For this historic milestone, SpaceX CEO Elon Musk has made a demand that the

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banks advising on the deal buy Grok subscriptions, with some already

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agreeing to spend tens of millions on the chatbot. It's not surprising that

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the banks acquiesced as with an IPO of this magnitude, they stand to make over

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500 million dollars in fees. And I'm sure that plugging the nudifying

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mecha-Hitler AI into the companies that triggered the 2008 financial

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>> yeah. I mean, if he's a good guy if you get to know

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him. And Cleveland Clinic researchers

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just published results showing that a one-time CRISPR gene editing therapy can

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functionally cure severe sickle cell disease. The RUBY trial, published in

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the New England Journal of Medicine, treated 28 patients with a therapy

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called reni-cel that edits their own stem cells to correct the mutation

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causing the disease. 27 out of 28 had

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zero painful crises after treatment with hemoglobin levels normalizing within 6

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months, which is great news for people suffering from debilitating genetic

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diseases, and also for everyone who's been hoping for a Captain America-style

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super serum to be available so they don't have to go to the gym anymore. And

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that's all the tech news for this Easter Monday. Enjoy your chocolate, hug your

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loved ones, and remember, if the Easter Bunny asks for your phone number, don't

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give it to him, no matter how much candy he offers. He's been trying to get

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people into a multi-level marketing scheme. See you on my downline

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Wednesday. Downline?