Orico IG740-Pro 1TB SSD Review: A small budget sleeper
The Orico IG740-Pro is a competent, no-frills SSD that hits the right performance and power efficiency marks.
Lord of the Rings Online preps new missions and its spring festival
Hot off the hairy Hobbit heels of this week’s Update 47, Lord of the Rings Online began testing its next patch that should go live...
AI vibe-coded operating system is so bad it can’t even run Doom — Vib-OS can’t connect to the internet, browser app is an image viewer
A new vibe-coded operating system performed as woefully as expected during a 9-point check process.
China seeks to enhance rare earth advantages, take ‘extraordinary measures’ to achieve semiconductor breakthroughs — new five-year plan marks doubling down on technological self-reliance
China just released the latest draft of its five-year plan, which mentions it goal of building a more robust “response mechanism” to supply chain threats and focusing on enhancing its “competitive advantages in rare earths.”
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.