A few Japanese computer stores in Akihabara have started limiting the sales of storage and memory modules due to limited inventory. According to Akiba PC Hotline [machine translated], several shops have imposed limits to prevent hoarding, with one limiting customers to just eight items per group. Another one has even more stringent restrictions, only releasing two storage drives or SO-DIMMs and up to four pieces of memory per buyer, although customers buying a completely new PC can negotiate for a higher
New DirectX7 emulation tool brings more games to Steam Deck, SteamOS, and other Linux distros through Vulkan, with caveats
DirectX emulation is the way Linux gamers are running Windows-only games on Linux OSes, thanks to tools such as DXVK. But up until now, DXVK has only supported DirectX 8 and newer. That is now changing; an independent developer has taken up the work of creating their own DirectX 7-to- Vulkan emulation tool, dubbed D7VK (via Phoronix ).
D7VK is a spin-off of DXVK, which uses DXVK's DirectX 9 emulation backend
Investigators recover black boxes from UPS plane crash, detail data recovery process — NTSB successfully extracts cockpit audio from charred remains
The National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) has successfully recovered the black boxes — including the cockpit voice recorder (CVR) and flight data recorder (FDR) — of the ill-fated UPS Airlines Flight 2976, with the agency saying that it has fully pulled the cockpit audio from their charred remains. According to the NTSB’s YouTube briefing, it secured over 2 hours of digitally recorded audio, including the last 25 seconds of the flight during which the accident sequence
Modern motherboard features explained: Connectors, headers, ports, and chipsets decoded
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If you don’t know exactly what you’re looking at, motherboards—particularly high-end models—can look more like the Transformers’ home world of Cybertron than something you might plug your drives, CPU, and graphics card into. And with dozens of models available for most platforms, unless you’re up on all the lingo and the latest tech, it can be tough
Retro PC Gaming the Easy Way with DOSBox Pure Unleashed
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In this how-to, I will show you how to set up, configure, and tweak DOSBox Pure Unleashed to play DOS and Windows-era games.
In the early 1990s,
Gigabyte Aorus FO27Q5P 27-inch 500 Hz QD-OLED gaming monitor review: Superb in every respect
Tom's Hardware Verdict
Aside from slight errors in sRGB gamma, the Gigabyte Aorus FO27Q5P has no real flaws. It delivers a stunning image and a premium gaming experience.
Pros
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Stunning image with deep contrast and saturated color
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Accurate out of the box
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Excellent video processing with many options
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USB ports with KVM and a mic input
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Premium build quality
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Fixed sRGB mode has slight gamma errors
SanDisk reportedly jacks up flash prices by 50% as memory makers cash in on AI-fueled demand
SanDisk has reportedly raised its NAND flash contract prices by a staggering 50% for November, according to DigiTimes Asia . This move underscores a rapidly tightening memory market, driven by both unrelenting demand from AI data centers as well as tightly constrained wafer supply.
The report cites market sources who say SanDisk's pricing update sent a shockwave through the storage supply chain, prompting module makers such as Transcend, Innodisk, and Apacer Technology to pause shipments and re-evaluate quotes. Transcend, in
Samsung teases radical new modular SSD design with swappable NAND and SSD controller that can be detached independently — tiny 4TB PCIe 5.0 M.2 drive is also ready
As the year draws to a close, anticipation for CES 2026 grows. Samsung has provided a preliminary preview of its forthcoming Detachable AutoSSD (AM9C1 E1.A) and PM9E1 M.2 22x42, a 2242 variant of the OEM drive designed to rival the best SSDs in the market. The radical new modular SSD design has a swappable NAND and SSD controller that can be detached independently. The company also
AMD warns the Intel and Nvidia partnership is a risk to its business — quarterly report outlines risk from 'increased competition and pricing pressure'
The Nvidia/Intel partnership announced in mid-September is putting pressure on AMD, as stated in its November 2025 quarterly report. According to the document , Nvidia’s $5-billion stake in Intel is an economic and strategic risk, especially in a market that is “highly competitive and rapidly evolving.” If the two can create an RTX SoC that integrates the expertise of both companies, AMD could lose its advantage in APUs, especially those designed for handheld consoles
CPU collector peels the lid off a Soviet era ‘fish can’ chip to peer inside with multiple microscopes — K565RU3 was a Soviet-era clone of Western chips like the Intel-designed 4116
A fascinating Soviet-era retro electronics artifact was dissected and micrographed by CPU collector CPU Duke this weekend. Under the enthusiast’s selection of microscopes this time was the ‘K565PY3.’ The IC under scrutiny was a Dynamic RAM chip with a 16KB capacity, and this particular sample was believed to have come from the Mezon factory in what is now Moldova. For context, we think the K565PY3 is a reverse-engineered