The Daily Grind: Have you ever actually gotten kicked out of an MMO group for elitist reasons?
One of the curious things, at least to me, about the modern MMO landscape is that it sometimes seems to exist in an odd parallel...
Spiralling memory spot prices could trigger ‘industry cycle collapse,’ report warns — NAND wafer costs surge 25% in a single month
DDR5 16G (2Gx8) chips averaged $39, up 7.4% month-over-month, while 1Tb TLC flash wafers jumped 25% to $25.
M4 MacBook Air with 24GB of RAM plunges to lowest-ever price following M5 announcement — $300 off is a steal on Apple’s highest-spec RAM configuration
Apple’s 15-inch MacBook Air with the M4 goes on sale for $1,299, its lowest-ever price at Amazon.
For under $1000, land the fastest gaming CPU, motherboard, and 32GB of RAM — AMD’s Ryzen 7 9850X3D, MSI MAG X870, and Corsair Vengeance RAM saves you $196 in today’s Newegg combo deal
AMD’s Ryzen 7 9850X3D, MSI MAG X870, and Corsair Vengeance RAM are just $999 in today’s Newegg combo deal.
Nintendo Switch 2 users buying fewer games because of AI storage crisis, report claims — game demand under threat as titles get bigger and storage gets more expensive
The lack of storage capacity on the Nintendo Switch 2 and increasing game sizes are forcing some Switch 2 owners to reconsider shopping for game titles, especially as microSD Express Card prices skyrocket due to the global memory and storage chip shortage.
OpenAI building GitHub alternative after frequent platform outages and disruptions — a public OpenAI code repository would directly compete with one of its biggest investors
OpenAI is building its own code repository, prompted by a rise in GitHub outages and disruptions that left its engineers unable to work for hours at a time.
Nvidia reportedly working on RTX 5050 with 9GB of VRAM on a 96-bit bus, featuring 28 Gbps GDDR7 modules — RTX 5060 with cut-down GB205 GPU also planned
Nvidia is reportedly working on a new RTX 5050 with 9GB of GDDR7 VRAM, up from 8GB GDDR6 on the existing model. Moving from 20 Gbps chips to 28 Gbps chips, the memory interface is also said to be reduced to 96-bit, from 128-bit on the original. Moreover, an RTX 5060 with a cut-down GB205 die is also said to be in the works, with otherwise same specs.
Intel CEO embraces its 18A node for external customers as 18A-P gets ‘inbound interest’ — company cites increasing yields
Intel sees ‘inbound interest’ for 18A-P process technology despite 18A process variability.
Popular budget-friendly Chinese brand exposed for shocking CPU scam in its laptops — advertised CPU secretly swapped for an outdated chip
Publication Notebookcheck reports that Chuwi is shipping a different processor in the Chuwi CoreBook X than the one advertised.
Europe achieves record-breaking gigabit per second data transfer between a geostationary satellite and an aircraft
The European Space Agency has successfully tested a 2.6 Gbps data transmission from a laser satellite orbiting Earth 36,000 km away.