Nvidia's excellent RTX 5070 is selling for an all-time low price of just $489 on Walmart — Get PNY's overclocked variant with a solid, triple-fan cooler on sale right now

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Amidst the current DRAM and NAND shortage, one PC component has seemingly become cheaper than ever, at least for now. Graphics cards, historically the primary victim of shortages and scalpers, are now increasingly selling at MSRP, and sometimes even below that! We've sourced one such deal for you: PNY's overclocked RTX 5070 is on sale for just $489 on Walmart right now , a whole $60 less than even its suggested pricing

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Asus, MSI, other manufacturers panic-buying RAM stocks, while major memory chipmakers rake in profits — massive demand for HBM and RDIMM for data centers driving shortage

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Major PC brands, system integrators, and memory makers are now panic-buying memory chips and modules as the DRAM and NAND chip shortage is taking hold. According to DigiTimes , numerous companies are in a race to build up their stocks as data centers are swallowing up supply, leaving the consumer industry scrambling to get memory modules. Asus said that its memory inventory for production and those that are already in finished products sit at two months, which should be enough for the remainder

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The NVMe Destroyinator can wipe 16 NVMe drives simultaneously at speeds up to 64 GB/s — it could be the data shredder of your dreams, or nightmares

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The NVMe Destroyinator has been announced by enterprise storage solutions provider 45Drives. A device of a security professional’s dreams, or a data hoarder’s nightmares, this rack solution can wipe up to 16 NVMe , SATA & SAS drives at once, hit 64GB/sec wipe speeds, and "each wipe is verifiable, audit ready, and backed by tamper-proof certificates of erasure," explains 45Drives on its product pages.

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Microsoft Windows boss posts lackluster response to ‘agentic OS’ backlash — Microsoft is working to address broad problems with the OS

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Earlier this month, Microsoft described its vision of Windows evolving into an “agentic” operating system that takes action on your behalf, prompting a wave of backlash from users who argued the company had deprioritized performance in favor of automation that nobody wanted nor asked for. Many pointed to longstanding issues with performance, UX fragmentation, and developer-hostile defaults, asking why those problems weren’t being addressed first.

In a recent reply posted to X, aimed at an original post by writer and

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Intel's upcoming Arrow Lake desktop refresh detailed in new leak — Core Ultra 290K Plus, 270K Plus, & 250K Plus will ship with improved clocks and more E-cores, along with DDR5-7200 support

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After what could only be described as an underwhelming release, Intel is ready to refresh its Arrow Lake-S lineup of desktop CPUs with three new models, all set to bring marginal improvements. According to Videocardz , the company is preparing the Core Ultra 290K Plus, Core Ultra 270K Plus, and Core Ultra 250K Plus processors as the final products to launch on the outgoing LGA 1851 socket, soon to be replaced with LGA 1

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Elecom releases Huge Plus trackball mouse with massive 52mm ball and 10 programmable buttons — now comes with wireless connectivity

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Japanese consumer electronics manufacturer Elecom just updated the Huge trackball mouse, which launched in 2017. The new model, called Huge Plus , still features the iconic 52mm trackball, which is around 52% larger than standard trackballs, but comes with several improvements that make it a great productivity tool.

The biggest change to Elecom’s flagship mouse is the addition of tri-mode connectivity, allowing you to connect to multiple devices via Bluetooth, 2.4 GHz,

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SilverStone takes the wraps off the FLP03, its latest homage to beige 1980s PC design — retro micro-ATX case has modern amenities

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SilverStone has taken attendees to its EXPO 2025 in Japan by surprise with an early appearance of the unannounced FLP03. If you are a fan of these cases, cooling and power specialist’s prior tributes to 1980s era PC chassis, then you will be interested in this. It is another tower form factor design, but a little smaller, targeting Micro ATX builds. We have a full comparison below.

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Intel's next-gen Granite Rapids-WS server CPU lineup leaked — Xeon 654 18-core chip posts solid numbers in early Geekbench listing

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Intel is currently preparing a serious rival to AMD's Threadripper 9000WX series: Granite Rapids-WS . The company has been mainly out of competition with AMD in the server market, with Granite Rapids restoring core parity between the two only last year. Granite Rapids-WS now looks to gain even more ground with potentially class-leading specs in the workstation space. Seasoned leaker momomo_us has seemingly found out every SKU that will be part of this lineup, along

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The MP944 was the ‘real’ world’s first microprocessor, but it was top secret for nearly 30 years — F-14 Tomcat's chip lived in the shadow of the Intel 4004, but was eight times faster

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For a long time, what is now considered to be a prime candidate for the title of the ‘world’s first microprocessor’ was a very well-kept secret. The MP944 is the inauspicious name of the chip we want to highlight today. It was developed to be the brains behind U.S. Navy’s F-14 Tomcat’s Central Air Data Computer (CADC). Thus, it isn’t surprising that the MP9

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Wolfenstein 3D publisher recalls fight to distribute game in Germany — porn stores and plain packaging came to the rescue of 1990s FPS gamers

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The publisher of Wolfenstein 3D has recalled the struggle to distribute copies of this seminal FPS game in Germany back in the early 1990s. Released as shareware by Apogee in 1992, the game was an instant hit around the globe, but the Nazi symbols and imagery clashed with Strafgesetzbuch section 86a, Germany’s postwar criminal code, which prohibited unconstitutional iconography.

As Sandy said, Wolf3D was hard to get to Germany

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