🔥 First Western Digital, now Sony: The tech giant suspends SD card sales

｢ Sony is suspending orders for almost all SD card sales from both vendors and consumers, per PetaPixel. The announcement was made on Sony's Japanese website, and explicitly blamed the lack of available memory as a reason why it can't fulfill SD card orders for the time being. ｣
https://mashable.com/article/sony-sd-card-sales-suspended-memory-shortage

#sdcard #memoryshortage #ai #datacentera

Lilbits: Intel Wildcat Lake specs leaked, Pixel 11 and Onn 4K Stick leaks, and would you buy a Bookshop.org eReader?

Intel’s Alder Lake-N and Twin Lake processors have been incredibly popular with makers of budget mini PCs, Chromebooks, and other entry-level computers. With up to eight 12th-gen Intel Efficiency CPU cores, these cheap, low-power chips brought big performance gains over Intel’s earlier Atom, Celeron, and Pentium Silver processors.

But they’re starting to show their age, which is why I’ve had […]

Sony Shuts Down Nearly Its Entire Memory Card Business Due to SSD Shortage

Sony has announced that it is suspending fulfillment of all orders for nearly its entire SD and CFexpress memory card product lines.

The "Vampire SD Card Adapter" by Mathias Münch is an alternative for using SD cards with Vampire Standalone, Firebird, or Manticore, which also allows booting from SD cards. All documentation and schematics required to build the adapter are available on GitHub under the MIT License.

https://www.amiga-news.de/en/news/AN-2026-03-00091-EN.html

#Amiga #Vampire #ApolloComputer #SDcard

SD Midi Player M5Stack Core and M5 Synth Unit

https://makertube.net/w/5E1yTzbrDYK6un4TiYDkWH

Oh crap.

Tiny smidge plastic part from the front corner of a #sdcard came off. My SD card reader recognises it all right and let me pull the files off, but the camera (Nikon D780) doesn't think the card is inserted any more.

I think this is the *second* Sandisk Extreme 128GB I've used had that failed. Though admittedly this is the first time I've seen that the SD card body itself causes a problem, usually it's contacts going bad or flash getting worn out. Starting to think these aren't as Extreme as they claim to be.

Guess I have to grab more SD cards when I go to the towne

#photography

60W Pocket Cloud is a microSD card reader with USB PD passthrough for your smartphone (Crowdfunding)

https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://www.cnx-software.com/2026/02/17/60w-pocket-cloud-microsd-card-reader-for-your-smartphone-with-usb-pd-passthrough/