Author: Awais
External 4TB SSDs now undercut slower internal SATA storage on priceMemory production shifts are reshaping NAND supply and storage pricing dynamicsSATA SSDs face shrinking relevance as NVMe and external drives convergeLarge capacity external SSDs are now selling for less than internal 4TB SATA drives, a situation driven by the ongoing changes in NAND flash production and pricing.The gap has narrowed to the point where slower internal SATA SSDs are becoming harder to justify, even as demand for high capacity storage continues to grow.Current supply pressures mean memory manufacturers such as Micron and Samsung are prioritizing DRAM over NAND. That allocation…
Why It Works Blending the topping into a cohesive mixture ensures it browns evenly and stays in place, amplifying the oyster’s natural salinity instead of sliding off or overwhelming it.Broiling instead of baking the oysters ensures they brown on top without overcooking. I am, by default, a raw-oyster absolutist. Give me a pristine oyster—fresh out of cold water, properly shucked, still slick with its own briny liquor—and I want nothing more than to tilt the shell to my lips and let it speak for itself. No hot sauce, no mignonette, no horseradish. Just salt, sea, and place. That clean, mineral…
Generative AI is everywhere right now. It dominates conference agendas, fills LinkedIn feeds, and is reshaping how many businesses think about organic search. Brands are racing to optimize for AI Overviews, build vector embeddings, map semantic clusters, and rework content models around LLMs. What gets far less attention is a basic reality: for most websites, AI platforms still drive a small share of overall traffic. AI search is growing, no question. But in most cases, total referral sessions from all LLM platforms combined amount to only about 2% to 3% of the organic traffic Google alone delivers. Despite that gap,…
Marketers use AEO and GEO interchangeably, but there is a difference, and that’s what will be defined and explained in this article. In brief, AEO optimizes content for answer boxes and voice search results, while GEO targets AI chatbot citations and generated summaries.
[Submitted on 16 Dec 2025 (v1), last revised 19 Dec 2025 (this version, v3)] Authors:Audrey Cheng, Shu Liu, Melissa Pan, Zhifei Li, Shubham Agarwal, Mert Cemri, Bowen Wang, Alexander Krentsel, Tian Xia, Jongseok Park, Shuo Yang, Jeff Chen, Lakshya Agrawal, Ashwin Naren, Shulu Li, Ruiying Ma, Aditya Desai, Jiarong Xing, Koushik Sen, Matei Zaharia, Ion Stoica View a PDF of the paper titled Let the Barbarians In: How AI Can Accelerate Systems Performance Research, by Audrey Cheng and 20 other authors View PDF HTML (experimental) Abstract:Artificial Intelligence (AI) is beginning to transform the research process by automating the discovery of…
ChatGPT is releasing its own version of Spotify Wrapped. That is, the OpenAI-owned chatbot is now rolling out an annual review feature called “Your Year with ChatGPT” to eligible consumers in select markets, including the United States. Other English-speaking markets with access to the new offering include Canada, the U.K., Australia, and New Zealand. At launch, the feature will be offered to those with the free, Plus, and Pro plans who have the “reference saved memories” and “reference chat history” options turned on and have met a minimum conversation activity threshold, the company told TechCrunch via email. Image Credits:OpenAI Team,…
Christmas is fast-approaching — and if you’re looking to grab some last-minute gifts or holiday essentials, you’re in luck. Amazon is hosting a huge holiday sale, and smart home devices are seeing the deepest discounts.Amazon is knocking up to 60% off Fire TV Sticks, Ring Video Doorbells, Blink security cameras and more devices. Even better, if you place your orders ASAP, you can have them in time for Christmas morning. However, you’ll need to be an Amazon Prime member if you want to get them quickly.So whether you’re looking to add some extra security to your home while you’re traveling…
As we head into the new year, the age of experimentation is giving way to the age of execution. The past few years have been about “Can we do it?” – generative AI, the decline of cookies, retail media networks (RMNs), shoppable video, immersive experiences. Now, the question is: “Are we doing it, and doing it well?” I’m going to walk through the top 10 digital marketing trends that I believe every forward-looking marketer must own in 2026. These aren’t just buzzwords; they reflect profound shifts in how consumers behave, how platforms operate, and how marketers must integrate strategy across…
about a failure that turned into something interesting. For months, I — along with hundreds of others — have tried to build a neural network that could learn to detect when AI systems hallucinate — when they confidently generate plausible-sounding nonsense instead of actually engaging with the information they were given. The idea is straightforward: train a model to recognize the subtle signatures of fabrication in how language models respond. But it didn’t work. The learned detectors I designed collapsed. They found shortcuts. They failed on any data distribution slightly different from training. Every approach I tried hit the same wall. So…
Spotify’s library was scraped and released by pirate activists Anna’s Archive just two weeks after the streaming giant released its “largest Wrapped ever.” The unprecedented data grab of nearly 300 terabytes was announced by the website in a Dec. 20 blog post. The archive says it obtained metadata for 99.9 percent of Spotify’s 256 million tracks and audio files for 86 million pieces of music, or a library that represents about 99.6 percent of listens on the platform. SEE ALSO: Barack Obama just dropped his 2025 ‘Best Of’ list. The internet has thoughts. “It’s the world’s first ‘preservation archive’ for…