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so let's just run through it because there was genuinely a lot this week. first up, Samsung, SK Hynix, and Micron are getting hit with a class action lawsuit. three PC retailers and 17 individuals are alleging these companies coordinated to tighten consumer DDR memory supply on purpose, which is basically the reason RAM prices have been absolutely unhinged lately. whether this goes anywhere legally is a different conversation but the fact that someone finally filed is kind of satisfying.

meanwhile Apple quietly applied for US approval to source memory from CXMT, a blacklisted Chinese chip maker. this is the same Apple that just raised MacBook Neo prices from $600 to $700 because of the RAM situation. so they raised prices on us and are now trying to cut costs by buying from a blacklisted supplier. cool cool cool. Intel's upcoming Nova Lake flagship reportedly pulls 474 watts at full load. for context that's roughly the same as a small space heater. it has 52 cores which is basically two chips fused together in what is genuinely just a trench coat situation. new socket, new power supply, probably new cooling setup required. don't sell your rig yet though because none of this is official and running it is going to cost a fortune.

and then there's the PS6. Sony executives said they don't plan to sell it at a loss. hardware component costs have reportedly shot up. you can do the math on that one yourself. the only upside is hints at a portable version which is either exciting or means worse graphics depending on how you look at it. genuinely a rough week to be a consumer in tech. everything is expensive, everything uses more power, and the companies making it all are allegedly colluding. living the dream.

okay so Fable 5 is literally back as of today. July 1. three weeks offline and it's finally live again on Claude.ai, Claude Code, and Claude Platform after the Commerce Department quietly lifted the export controls yesterday.

here's the thing though. the reason it came back is just as wild as why it got pulled in the first place. Anthropic basically had to build a new safety filter that blocks the specific jailbreak Amazon researchers found, the one that let the model flag vulnerabilities and spit out exploit code. the downside is it'll also flag some normal coding and debugging work as false positives, so enjoy that.

and yeah Anthropic had to make some promises to get the keys back. earlier government access before future launches, proactive security monitoring, reporting any malicious use they spot, and working with Amazon, Microsoft, and Google on shared standards for rating jailbreaks. OpenAI did the same thing on their end, actually held back GPT-5.6 from public release at the government's request and limited it to vetted partners only.

the real reason Washington backed off though is China. Chinese models have zero export controls. they're open weight, they ship instantly, and anyone can use them. every single day Fable 5 stayed offline was another day companies had a reason to just switch to a Chinese model instead. the government did the math and decided that was worse. so this is just the new normal now apparently. frontier model launches aren't really launches anymore. they're negotiations.

sent 367 cold emails for my first job and got 21 first round interviews, but almost none of that happened until I fixed my actual resume. before that, mostly silence no matter how many people I messaged. biggest thing was having my GPA above my work experience. made sense to me at the time, I was proud of it, but a recruiter skimming for six seconds doesn't care what classes I took. she cares if she can picture me doing the job. moved one internship above the education section and responses picked up almost immediately.

also had bullet points like "assisted with project governance" which sounds fine but says nothing. rewrote it to actually show what happened because of the work and the same line suddenly had weight to it.metrics thing scared me at first honestly, I didn't have impressive numbers from an internship. turns out that's not really the point, they care more that you bothered to measure something at all. even something small like "scored higher than the class average" shows you know how to track impact apparently.

used to send the same resume to every job too because tailoring felt like too much work. cutting it down to three or five roles at a time and adjusting the language actually moved things, not just sending more.and the formatting thing stung a little. tiny inconsistent dashes and spacing most people wouldn't even notice but reads as careless to someone deciding in six seconds whether to keep going.

none of this felt obvious at the time, took getting ignored for months to actually fix it.