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This week on Last Week in Tech, we’re talking about what happens when memory gets expensive and software can’t afford to stay bloated.

RAM prices are climbing fast, Android is tightening memory limits, and companies like Cloudflare are squeezing huge amounts of memory out of their systems through better data structures and smarter engineering. The bigger question is whether memory efficiency is becoming a functional requirement again.

We also cover OpenAI cutting Cursor off after its acquisition by SpaceX AI, Nvidia’s reported move for Hugging Face, Stripe acquiring OpenRouter, why the harness around an AI model may matter more than the model itself, and whether AI is slowly eroding the fundamentals developers used to learn through experience.

Plus, we get into developer security hygiene, Chrome privacy, the growing number of CVEs, and Meta’s massive settlement over teen social media usage.

If you’re a developer, this episode is really about one broader shift: the constraints are coming back, and they may force us to build better software.

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