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Researchers at Nitrokey are raising fresh concerns about Qualcomm's mobile chips, reporting that smartphones running popular Qualcomm hardware are quietly transmitting private user data back to Qualcomm's own servers — without user consent or clear disclosure. The findings touch on location data and device identifiers, and they arrive at a moment when scrutiny of chip-level data collection is only intensifying.
Shifting from privacy to economics, Stanford's database tracking memory prices from nineteen sixty through two thousand twenty six offers a striking long view on how dramatically computing has changed. What once cost millions of dollars per megabyte now costs fractions of a cent. It's a reminder that the entire modern technology industry was built on a single relentless trend — storage getting cheaper, faster, than almost anyone predicted.
And Tesla is pushing into AI infrastructure with a concept it calls Megapod, a modular data center kit aimed at competing in the booming market for AI compute. The trouble is, the trademark is already taken, the concept already exists elsewhere, and Nvidia dominates the space Tesla wants to enter. Ambition is rarely the problem for Elon Musk's companies — execution against entrenched competition is another matter entirely.
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