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Updated 2026-05-19 06:00
New report shows RAM prices are continuing to fall in Germany, US trends less certain — SSDs and HDDs are more expensive than ever in the States
Memory prices have stabilized in Germany, with some kits even experiencing price cuts over the past month, showing decent progress towards normalization. They're still over 300% more expensive than they were five months ago, though. In contrast, HDDs and SSDs have become more expensive, and their prices continue to rise.
OpenAI hires 'genius' OpenClaw creator, but popular AI assistant will remain open source — Sam Altman says creator will work on 'smart agents' in new role
OpenAI has hired the creator of popular agentic AI tool OpenClaw, but has decided to keep the project open source. Despite its old Claude-inspired name, Anthropic threatened Steinberger with legal action ahead of multiple name changes.
Brace for a barren landscape of new hardware launches, as AI demand reshapes the world of consumer electronics — trillions in AI investment threaten to derail entire industries
Amid the ongoing DRAM supply squeeze, the world of consumer electronics is evolving, and it threatens to derail entire industries with its sheer scale and monetary backing.
NZXT unveils new H2 mini PC with 9800X3D, Intel 285K configurations — H2 Flow Mini-ITX case and C850 SFX power supply for builders
NZXT has unveiled a new H2 Mini Pc for the U.S. market, as well as a compact power supply and H2 Flow Mini-ITX case.
Dell XPS 14 (2026) review: Two steps forward
The Dell XPS 14 is a significant improvement over previous revisions, with an attractive design and a physical function row on the keyboard. There are also solid speakers and long battery life on the 1200p version. But the low-travel keyboard takes some getting used to.
Japanese toilet maker 'the most undervalued and overlooked AI memory beneficiary,' investors claim — shares up nearly 40% in first two months of 2026
A company most famous for toilets and bidets is seeing meteoric stock growth due to demand for its advanced ceramics products.
This Corsair RAM and Gigabyte AM5 motherboard bundle is just $67 more than buying the RAM alone – 32GB of RAM and B850 Aorus Elite Wifi 7 shaves $133 off buying separately
Score 20% off at Newegg on a Gigabyte B850 Aorus Elite Wifi 7 + 32GB Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5-6400 bundle-under $505 for AMD AM5 support, Wi-Fi 7, PCIe 5.0 M.2/slot, and eye-catching RGB.
Sony considering PlayStation 6 delay to 2029, while Nintendo could hike Switch 2 price, according to report — memory and storage chip shortage now impacting products outside of RAM, storage, and
The two gaming giants are reportedly taking widely different approaches to the memory chip shortage as the situation is starting to affect consumer electronics outside of PCs.
SATA SSD cheated death from failed attempt at data destruction with a drill — drive emerges victorious in face-off against IT worker
An IT employee reportedly attempted to destroy sensitive company data by drilling a hole through a SATA SSD before disposing of it.
Valve confirms Steam Deck is out of stock due to memory and storage shortages — supply of popular gaming handheld in trouble because of massive AI demand
Valve is blaming memory and chip shortages as Steam Deck availability becomes intermittent in several regions.
Tech tinkerer gets Gemini to help him 'vibe code' an x86 motherboard design — bot help was impressive, but project still required human awareness and intervention
Tech thinkerer gets Gemini to help him design an x86 motherboard
Engineer finds his smart sleep mask can read other people's brainwaves due to poor software security — superpower granted via poor-quality software with hardcoded high-level credentials
Engineer finds his smart sleep mask can read other people's brainwaves
Turtle Beach's rotating button Stealth Pivot wireless controller falls to just $99.99 — this hall effect gamepad hits its lowest ever price
The Turtle Beach Stealth Pivot HE gamepad falls to the all-time low price of $99.99. Rotating button modules give you multi-controller customizability.
$50 junk second-hand motherboard turns into a SSD treasure trove worth $1,500 — 12 terabytes of blazing-fast storage finds a new owner amid crushing shortages
A Redditor buys a damaged Z690 motherboard for $50 but discovers up to $1,500 worth of SSDs beneath the heatsinks.
MSI's RTX 5060-equipped Cyborg 15 gaming laptop is down to just $899 on Walmart — Featuring an Intel Core 7 240H CPU, 16GB of RAM and a 144Hz display
Unlike most cheap gaming laptops that cut major corners to cram in beefy hardware, the MSI Cyborg 15 gets rid of all the bells and whistles to focus on what's necessary. Its powerful hardware combo, mixed with that 144Hz screen, makes it one of the best budget machines around that can play any game you throw at it.
Samsung’s 27-inch Odyssey OLED G5 G50SF goes on sale at Amazon — 1440p resolution, 180 Hz refresh rate, 0.03ms response time for under $400
This 27-inch QD-OLED gaming monitor pairs a 2560*1440 resolution with up to a 180 Hz refresh rate and a 0.03ms response time for fast and fluid gameplay.
Save up to $40 on Samsung’s 800MB/s P9 Express microSD card this Presidents' Day — super-speedy storage for your Nintendo Switch 2
Samsung's P9 Express microSD card delivers up to 800MB/s speeds using PCIe and NVMe, and it's now significantly cheaper on Amazon.
Rufus devs blame Microsoft for blocking latest Windows 11 ISOs, resulting in IP bans — Windows Insiders can't download latest Insider ISOs and are met with IP bans
Multiple Windows Insider users and one of Rufus' developers reveal that they can't download any of Microsoft's latest Insider Preview ISOs. Users who try to are met with an IP block.
Save $100 Asus ROG Azoth X gaming keyboard, now down to $199 at Best Buy — Featuring a 75% hot swap PCB, tri-mode connectivity & OLED screen
If you've been looking for a high-end gaming keyboard but didn't want to overspend, Best Buy has discounted the ROG Azoth X by $100. You can grab this 75% mechanical keyboard with a hot swap PCB, five-layer sound dampening, tri-mode connectivity, multi-function knob, and customizable OLED display for just $200!
SoftBank’s $4.2bn OpenAI gain lifts quarterly profits as AI exposure deepens — company swings back to profitability in Q3 results
SoftBank swung back to profitability in its fiscal third quarter, reporting net income of 248.6 billion yuan - roughly $1.6 billion - for the three months ending December.
Elegoo sale pairs colored PLA filament with its Centauri Carbon 2 3D printer for just $475 — Presidents' Day printing bonanza
Elegoo's Presidents' Day 3D printer bundle deal comes with 4KG of PLA for just $475.
This external disc drive can play 4K 3D Blu-rays, along with all your old CDs and DVDs, now for 43% off — TROPRO's media player is just $79.99
If you've been looking for a way to access your Blu-ray collection on PC without breaking the bank, TROPRO's external disc drive has got you covered. With up to 6X Blu-ray, 8X DVD, and 24X CD read/write speeds, it can play essentially any disc on your computer thanks to its USB 3.0 connection with both Type-A and Type-C plugs.
Grab the HP Omen 35L prebuilt gaming PC for $360 off with 64GB RAM, Intel Core Ultra 9 and RTX 5080 — Presidents' Day deal sees price drop to under $3,000
HP's flagship Omen 35L gaming desktop packs Intel's Core Ultra 9 285K, an RTX 5080, and 64GB of DDR5 memory.
Become the predator with an RTX 5070 Ti gaming laptop with $740 off the MSRP — revolutionary laptop deal during the President's Day sale
The Acer Predator Helios Neo 16 AI, featuring the Core Ultra 9 275HX and GeForce RTX 5070 Ti, goes on sale for $1,359.99, $740 off its regular price.
TSMC considers an additional $100 billion investment into Arizona fabs to bolster American chipmaking efforts — move would help TSMC's chips avoid tariffs due to local production
TSMC, other companies to invest $250 billion in the U.S. as part of trade deal, TSMC reportedly mulls additional $100 billion investment and four more fab modules.
The ‘Father of Sega Hardware' has passed away, designed all of Sega's consoles — Hideki Sato worked his way up from engineer to become Sega’s acting president, spending 33 years at t
Hideki Sato, the Father of Sega Hardware,' passed away just ahead of the weekend.
The future of Quantum computing — the tech, companies, and roadmaps that map out a coherent quantum future
In this roadmap, we analyze what the future of Quantum Computing might look like over the next decade, including the future of qubit scaling, trapped ions, and superconducting chips.
Corsair AI Workstation 300 review: Strix Halo sets sail in a compact and classy (but pricey) package
Corsair's AI Workstation 300 wraps up AMD's popular Strix Halo platform in a compact and classy chassis that delivers all of that chip's performance potential, along with plenty of connectivity options for general PC use. But a recent price hike and stiff competition in the local AI market from Nvidia GB10 systems make it a tougher sell than it once was.
IBM triples entry-level hires for 2026 despite AI adoption, bucking industry trends — Chief HR officer says that AI can do most entry-level jobs, but work still requires a human touch
IBM is tripling its entry-level hiring in the U.S. in 2026, according to a new report. This stands in stark contrast to many of the country's largest firms, especially in the tech world, which have conducted large-scale layoffs.
BenQ Mobiuz EX271UZ 27-inch 240 Hz 4K OLED gaming monitor review: BenQ shines with its first gaming OLED monitor
BenQ rocks out its first-ever OLED gaming monitor with the Mobiuz EX271UZ. It's a 27-inch 4K panel with Quantum Dot color, 240 Hz, Adaptive-Sync, HDR400 and a few unique features.
Seagate's enormous 20TB IronWolf HDDs are just $419, or $21 per-terabyte — large-capacity storage deal from Newegg is perfect for your NAS
Newegg's Presidents' Day dealon storage lists the 20TB Seagate IronWolf Pro for just $419
LaserPecker LX2 review: Large scale dual laser cutter
Excellent cutting with the 40W diode and engraving with the 2W IR laser, let down by inconsistent positioning and measuring probe.
Turkish wedding party receives Nvidia RTX 5090, RAM necklaces, and Intel CPU for elaborate wedding gifts — A Turkish tech delight for the age of PC shortages
A video from a Turkish wedding reveals a delighted bride and groom being showered with opulent PC tech gifts.
$5,000 RTX 5090 Lightning Z gets killed in extreme overclocking attempt, thermal shock cracks the GPU core — MSI's 2,500-Watt XOC BIOS pushed too high a voltage to the core
In a sudden moment of thermal shock, a $5,000 RTX 5090 ended up cracking under pressure when too much voltage was pushed to the core at once. The dead card aided in achieving a world record in Geekbench 5 GPU Compute before, with the help of liquid nitrogen.
Western Digital is already sold out of hard drives for all of 2026 — chief says some long-term agreements for 2027 and 2028 already in place
Western Digital's production for 2026 is completely earmarked for its top seven customers, with a few long-term agreements already in place for the next couple of years.
Grab this gigantic, 1600W 80+ Platinum power supply for just 33 cents per watt — Seasonic's Prime TX 1600W is down to just $532
Seasonic makes some of the best power supplies on the market, and its Prime TX-1600 is a great option for high-end builds. Thanks to the native PCIe 5.0 and ATX 3.1 compatibilty, it can easily power any component out there. It's fully modular, rated 80+ Platinum by Cybernetics, and features quite operation all in one solid package.
OpenClaw-fueled ordering frenzy creates Apple Mac shortage — delivery for high Unified Memory units now ranges from 6 days to 6 weeks
The Unified Memory architecture used by Apple Macs and MacBooks make it the ideal device for locally run agentic AI, driving demand for high-memory models and increasing order lead times to more than a month.
Chinese scientists 3D print tiny items in half a second using holographic light fields — scientists precision fabricate complex millimeter-scale objects in record time
A team of scientists have revealed a new technique for the super-high-speed 3D printing of complex objects.
Netgear Nighthawk M7 5G Wi-Fi 7 mobile hotspot review – Global eSIM marketplace is a game-changer
With a price tag of $499, the Netgear Nighthawk M7 isn't cheap. However, it is unmatched in its ability to connect up to 32 devices and supports both physical SIM and eSIM.
You can now file your G.Skill class action claim to get a cut of the $2.4 million settlement — deceptive memory marketing class action now accepting payout submissions
Angeion Group is calling for eligible customers to file a claim for the G.Skill class action settlement. The portal is open until April 7, 2026, giving affected people less than two months to submit a claim form.
Microsoft’s AI boss says AI can replace every white-collar job in 18 months — ‘We’re going to have a human-level performance on most, if not all, professional tasks’
Microsoft AI CEO Mustafa Suleyman claims that AI models will become powerful enough in the next 12 to 18 months that they would start replacing humans in white-collar jobs like lawyers, accountants, project managers, and marketers.
Advanced Pentagon laser weapon shot down party balloons instead of drone by mistake, says report — airport shut down after Customs and Border Protection mistakenly believed it was targeting Mexi
A frighteningly farcical series of events involving laser weaponry, the FAA, Customs and Border Protection (CBP), and the Pentagon has been retold by a trio of insiders talking to the WSJ.
M5Stack AI Pyramid charms with translucent, RGB infused tetrahedral shell and $199 price tag — but it is far more of an edge-AI appliance than a mini-PC
IoT specialist M5Stack has released an affordable, alluring, translucent, RGB-infused, tetrahederal mini-PC dubbed the AI Pyramid Computing Box.
DXRacer Martian Pro Red Triangle review: Built for the fans
The DXRacer Martian Pro is packed to the brim with features, and it comes with a price tag to match. But if you have the cash to burn, you'll come out the other side a happy customer.
Cloud storage company releases its 2025 hard drive reliability report — overall Annualized Failure Rate drops to 1.36%, 21 percentage points lower than last year
Backblaze just released its annual drive reliability report, with the company getting a 1.36% annualized failure rate for 2025. It says that this is its best result since 2022.
Living neurons integrated into modern AI processing, claims SF startup — biological computing power used to boost computer vision, generative video, and more
Startup raises $25m to boost its biological neuron-driven pathway to replace, or augment, silicon compute in AI.
MakerWorld launches Copyright Protection Program to help 3D designers fight stolen files being resold online — stamping out knockoffs is priority number one
The Bambu Lab MakerWorld Copyright Protection Program is a free service for MakerWorld Exclusive Designs and will fight IP infringement on any platform.
Weathr app turns the Linux terminal into a live weather display — background ASCII animated real-time weather show is powered by Open-Meteo
An open-source Rust-based app teleports real-time ASCII art-based weather animations into your terminal backdrop.
Notorious 'Archive Today' website allegedly leads bizarre DDoS campaign against security blogger — Wikipedia considers removing all links to the Archive
Wikipedia may remove links to Archive Today due to DDoS spat
Linux kernel 7.0 finally abandons the 28-year-old Intel 440BX chipset — driver removal marks goodbye to the legendary motherboard chipset
Linux kernel 7.0 does away with 440BX EDAC driver
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