RAM crisis shows (slight) signs of easing as DDR5 prices drop — but there’s a sting in the tail
Sick of RAM price hikes yet? All of us surely are, but there’s at least some cause for optimism this month.
Save $558 on a Ryzen 7 9850X3D and X870 motherboard bundle at Newegg — $1,339 includes RAM priced at $1,129, free 2TB portable SSD, and AMD’s latest gaming chip
RAM, CPU, and Mobo are all included in Newegg’s latest bundle deal. Save $177 on 64GB of Corsair Vengeance memory.
I can save you from the RAMpocalypse, but you’ll need to act fast and trust AliExpress
You’ll be hard-pressed to find mainstream RAM kits that aren’t exorbitantly priced, but there’s a temporary solution for that.
Nintendo’s Game & Watch hacked and turned into retro emulation beast — Solder job unlocks device from its Zelda-only cage thanks to a custom SD card slot
Macho Nacho Productions has modded an original Zelda-edition Game & Watch to run Retro-Go, a custom firmware that unlocks the hardware’s full potential. This hacked Game & Watch can now emulate various consoles, includes support for save states, and even has a microSD card slot. But getting here wasn’t easy.
User accidentally gains control of over 6,700 robot vacuums while tinkering with their own device to enable control with a PlayStation controller — security flaw reveals floor plans and live video feeds
An AI strategist used Claude Code to reverse engineer his robot vacuum and control it with a PlayStation controller, but it accidentally gave him control of thousands of similar devices spread all across the world.
Grab this $8.99 TP-Link gigabit Ethernet switch before it sells out — compact 5-port unmanaged switch offers instant wired LAN expansion and silent operation for 4K streaming and gaming
There’s a nearly half-price discount on this TP-Link 5-port unmanaged ethernet switch, down to just $8.98 in this limited-time Amazon deal, unlocking five extra ports for your network at a brilliantly low price.
NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 Super And RTX 60 Launch Timing Allegedly At Risk Amid Memory Shortage
According to “two people with direct knowledge of the matter” speaking to The Information, NVIDIA will not be releasing new consumer GeForce GPUs this year. When pressed on the matter, an NVIDIA spokesperson remarked that “Demand for RTX GPUs is strong, and memory supply is constrained”, but otherwise did not confirm or deny any delays. Based
Hard drive pricing in the UK is so high that a person flew to the US to buy them instead, saving money despite flight and hotel costs — HDD deal seeker saved more than $2,000 by taking a trip
The $370 price difference between the U.S. and the U.K. on 28TB hard drives meant that it’s more cost effective to pay for a round-trip ticket and a hotel stay than to just purchase 10 drives locally.
55 years ago, the first computer search warrant was issued — in February 1971, a Santa Clara judge authorized police to seize punch cards and a ‘computer memory bank’
In February 1971, an order authorized Oakland Police to enter offices in Palo Alto and homes in Menlo Park to look not just for papers but also for data stored on machines.
Hands-on: G’AIM’E 30th Anniversary Time Crisis Light Gun Game
Peripheral maker G’AIM’E brings the lightgun back to the living room, with a bang. Celebrating 30 years since Time Crisis was out in the arcades, Richard Miller is back and ready to mow down hordes of bad guys in this officially licensed release.