Samsung, Micron, and SK Hynix production capacity is fully booked through 2027. Digitimes reports that current contracts are running 3 to 5 years, driven by AI infrastructure demand that industry sources describe as still accelerating. Consumers and smaller buyers are locked out of the queue, and new entrants cannot spin up competing DRAM fabs fast enough to matter in the near term.
Framework has notified its entire customer base of a data breach exposing names, email addresses, phone numbers, and physical addresses. The attack was a zero-day against database provider Metabase, disclosed by Metabase on August 3rd. Framework has made no public statement beyond the customer email, which only became visible because users posted it to Reddit. The company has refused to confirm how many customers were affected, and that silence is the detail worth scrutinizing.
Developer Justin Marshall ported Word for Windows 1.1a, using Microsoft's own 2014 source code release, to run natively on 64-bit Windows 11 without emulation. The Microsoft Research License covering that code permits personal use but explicitly prohibits redistribution, meaning Marshall's project ships Microsoft code it legally cannot ship. The original article walks through the technical rewrite required to strip out early-90s platform dependencies. Download a local copy now if you want it.
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