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”Assuming a cost of $15 per Terabyte, a 30TB drive would cost about $450 which is a steal, putting the cost of 1PB storage capacity, capable of storing more than 30,000 Blu-ray movies, at around $14,000.”

https://www.techradar.com/pro/seagate-launches-biggest-hard-drive-ever-30tb-exos-mozaic-3-hdd-can-store-more-than-1000-blu-ray-movies-and-yes-everyone-will-be-able-to-buy-them

"YouTube recently started slowing down its entire site whenever ad blockers are used. A new wave of slowdowns is hitting users, with the only resolutions being disabling the ad blocker or upgrading to premium."

https://9to5google.com/2024/01/13/youtube-new-wave-slow-downs-ad-blocker/

"South Korea unveiled plans by leading firms such as Samsung Electronics Co. and SK Hynix Inc. to spend more than $470 billion establishing the world’s largest chipmaking cluster, joining a global race to safeguard domestic supply."

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-01-15/south-korea-lays-out-470-billion-plan-to-build-chipmaking-hub

”The fact that rebuilding Ukraine could end up costing $1 trillion – more than three times the assets’ value – might mollify those who are still reluctant to use them to fund the reconstruction effort.”

https://kyivindependent.com/opinion-seizing-russias-frozen-assets-is-the-right-move/

”Europe is more food dependent on Moscow now than we were before the war, with the bloc replacing energy dependency with fertiliser dependency”

https://www.euractiv.com/section/agriculture-food/news/eu-increasingly-food-dependent-on-russia-fertiliser-company-ceo-warns/

Here’s the Christmas edition: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JN6W4sSHKQY

It’s a Finnish company which explains the snow drifting scenery.

The West sides with Russia

”Putin’s nuclear brinkmanship had gained him time — not just to prevent a military collapse, but also for indispensable military aid to Ukraine to get caught up in the United States’ own domestic politics.”

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2024/01/09/ukraine-war-win-chance-west-lost/

”There are now about 200 companies in Ukraine making drones, and approximately 70 local firms have now signed contracts to supply drones to the state.”

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/ukraine-producing-more-drones-than-state-can-purchase-minister-says-2024-01-09/

Some thoughts about this topic late last year

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”An oligarch who has supplied building materials to the Russian military machine and for construction in occupied areas of Ukraine is being assisted by Morgan Stanley and Allen & Overy in his attempt to gain control of a huge Russian oil asset”

https://www.theguardian.com/business/2024/jan/08/morgan-stanley-allen-overy-helping-oligarch-efforts-seize-russian-oil-firm-sergey-kolesnikov

The parody called EU has dropped a few new episodes today

https://techcrunch.com/2024/01/09/openai-microsoft-eu-merger-rules/

"With capacity of 8,212 megawatts (MW), the plant has been offline since 2012 after the Fukushima disaster a year earlier led to the shutdown of all nuclear power plants in Japan at the time."

https://www.reuters.com/business/energy/worlds-biggest-nuclear-plant-japan-resume-path-towards-restart-2023-12-27