While thumbing through the New Oxford Dictionary for Writers and Editors, I found out Kilobyte should be abbreviated as KB. I had always preferred Kb (with a lowercase ‘b’) just because ‘KB’ seemed like an abbreviated ‘KGB’ abbreviation.

However, according to Oxford, ‘Kb’ stands for Kilobit (1,024 bits) and ‘KB’ is Kilobyte (1,024 bytes).

Now you may safely go about your day.