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The storage world hit a milestone worth pausing on this week. Kioxia and Dell have managed to pack ten petabytes of flash storage into a two rack unit server — a chassis roughly the height of two pizza boxes. That is a staggering density, and it signals how enterprise data centers are quietly being reshaped by the economics of solid state storage at scale.
Shifting to the world of AI research, a new piece making the rounds argues that DeepSeek V four Flash has made LLM steering vectors genuinely interesting again. The idea is that you can nudge a language model's internal representations to shape its behavior in precise ways — and with a more transparent architecture to work with, researchers think the technique finally has real traction beyond the lab.
And in a story that sounds technical but is really about writing and human connection, essayist Henrik Karlsson makes a compelling case that publishing a blog post is less about broadcasting and more about running a search query — sending a signal into the world that attracts exactly the kind of people who will bring interesting things back to you. It reframes what it means to write publicly in the internet age.
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