GoKawiil - Tech News

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TSMC's average wafer prices increased by over 15% each year since 2019, report suggests — gross profit margins increase by 3.3x in 2025 alone, facing no real challengers (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-29 | by Anton Shilov | get Semiconductor → | tags: capacity, increased, leading

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Fujifilm to begin shipping 40TB Ultrium tape cartridges in January 2026 — updated LTO Ultrium 10 archival storage can hold 100TB of compressed data in 0.8-inch thick cartridge (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-29 | by Luke James | get Ultrium Tape Cartridges → | tags: capacity, cartridge, fujifilm

393.

You can't design software you don't work on (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-29 | get Database → | tags: advice, concrete, design

394.

Framework announces another memory price hike — and it likely won’t be its last (theverge.com)

2025-12-26 | by Emma Roth | get RAM → | tags: framework, increase, memory

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China chipmaker SMIC raises wafer prices by about 10% as memory demand tightens capacity (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-25 | by Luke James | get Memory chips → | tags: capacity, china, demand

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5 of the hottest jobs in 2025 (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-25 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: adapters, adapters experimented, ai increase

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Microsoft promises to nearly double Windows storage performance after forcing slow software-accelerated BitLocker on Windows — new CPU hardware-accelerated crypto will also improve battery life, but requires new CPUs (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-24 | by Kunal Khullar | get Windows Storage → | tags: accelerated, accelerated bitlocker, bitlocker

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After forcing slow software-accelerated BitLocker on Windows, Microsoft will nearly double storage performance with new CPU hardware-accelerated crypto — will improve battery life also, but feature requires new CPUs that aren't available on the market yet (tomshardware.com)

2025-12-24 | by Kunal Khullar | get BitLocker → | tags: accelerated, accelerated bitlocker, bitlocker

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Microsoft wants to fix BitLocker's slowdown with hardware acceleration (techspot.com)

2025-12-24 | get Hardware Accelerator → | tags: accelerated, accelerated encryption, accelerating

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OpenAI’s child exploitation reports increased sharply this year (arstechnica.com)

2025-12-23 | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: child, child exploitation, exploitation

401.

There Is No Future for Online Safety Without Privacy and Security (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-22 | by Session Token | get Data → | tags: encryption, foundation, privacy

402.

Vince Zampella, Call of Duty and Respawn cofounder, has died at 55 (techspot.com)

2025-12-22 | get Call of Duty → | tags: barrier, barrier shortly, concrete

403.

Is the golden age of Indie software over? (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-22 | by Andy Brice | get OpenOffice → | tags: increasingly, indie, software

404.

OpenAI’s Child Exploitation Reports Increased Sharply This Year (wired.com)

2025-12-22 | by Maddy Varner | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: cybertipline, increase, ncmec

405.

Coupang breach affecting 33.7 million users raises data protection questions (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-12-22 | get E-commerce platform → | tags: breach, coupang, encryption

406.

RansomHouse upgrades encryption with multi-layered data processing (bleepingcomputer.com)

2025-12-20 | get DataGuard → | tags: encryption, encryptor, file

407.

Hotspots Capable of Driving Catastrophic Mega-Hurricanes Are Spreading Across the Oceans (gizmodo.com)

2025-12-19 | get Satellite → | tags: areas, category, category tropical

408.

Apple stops signing iOS 26.1, here’s what that means (9to5mac.com)

2025-12-19 | by Marcus Mendes | get iPhone → | tags: apple, downgrading, impossible

409.

Graphite is joining Cursor (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-19 | by Cursor Team | get SmartCursor → | tags: code, code review, graphite

410.

Graphite Is Joining Cursor (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-19 | by Cursor Team | get Graphene → | tags: code, code review, graphite

411.

Food Becoming More Calorific But Less Nutritious Due To Rising Carbon Dioxide (slashdot.org)

2025-12-19 | by Posted | get Food → | tags: compare, effect, food

412.

Independent review of UK national security law warns of overreach (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-18 | by Chiara Castro | get National Security Law → | tags: encryption, lawmakers, national

413.

Creating apps like Signal could be 'hostile activity' claims UK watchdog (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-18 | by Chiara Castro | get Secure Messaging → | tags: encryption, lawmakers, national

414.

Nvidia stock price takes another hit as Wall Street debates an AI bubble. Here’s why it’s down today (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-17 | get Graphics Card → | tags: ai bubble, ai spending, bubble

415.

Beyond RC4 for Windows Authentication (news.ycombinator.com)

2025-12-17 | by Matthew Palko | get OpenSSL → | tags: account, accounts, authentication

416.

How a VPN works (and why you should care) (engadget.com)

2025-12-17 | get Virtual Private Network → | tags: advertisement, encryption, server

417.

AI is starting to shop for you. Here’s how Visa is making sure it doesn’t scam you (feeds.feedburner.com)

2025-12-17 | get E-commerce platform → | tags: agents, agents increasingly, ai agents

418.

Microsoft Will Finally Kill an Encryption Cipher That Enabled a Decade of Windows Hacks (wired.com)

2025-12-17 | by Dan Goodin | get Encryption cipher → | tags: cipher, default, encryption

419.

Top Spy Says Tech Corporations Are Closer to Running Entire World Than Governments (futurism.com)

2025-12-17 | by Joe Wilkins | get Artificial Intelligence → | tags: british, corporations, economic

420.

Need to encrypt Mac files? I found a free app that makes it super easy (zdnet.com)

2025-12-17 | by Jack Wallen | get FileVault → | tags: encrypted, encrypto, file