Spoof program monitors and emails your RAM usage to Sam Altman if under 90% utilization

Tom's Hardware
By Mark TysonNov 9, 2026, 7:31 am183 ptsTrendingTop
A new GitHub repository dubbed ram-altman features a script to monitor your PC’s RAM usage and report back to the eponymous OpenAI boss. Sam Altman infamously described people having spare DRAM in computers at home as “quite terrible” in a recent podcast. Thus, developer Iain Kay was inspired to write a…

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