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Microsoft is reportedly now charging OEMs more for Windows
1+ hour, 21+ min ago (449+ words) Taiwanese news site United Daily News reports that, according to one source, Microsoft is charging Original Equipment Manufacturers (OEMs) significantly more for Windows licensing fees this year than in previous years (via Wccftech). These are the fees that PC makers,…...
Firefox stunts on Edge as Microsoft gears up to neuter adblockers: 'uBlock Origin isn't going anywhere"
2+ hour, 34+ min ago (213+ words) Blocked. Blocked. Blocked. None of these corpo browsers are free of sin. Now, like I said, it's not like Chromium-based browsers are murdering adblockers wholesale. If you wanna block ads, you can still use less-powerful extensions to do so, but…...
I compared prices for actual RAM kits from 2007 to today and spoilers, it's not pretty
3+ hour, 10+ min ago (805+ words) Spoiler: it's not pretty. We all know the cost of RAM is ridiculously high these days thanks to the global memory shortage. But it can be useful (and depressing) to put these prices into context historically. To that end, scientist,…...
The Steam Machine design makes for a frightfully good tissue box
21+ hour, 17+ min ago (319+ words) Maybe useful to catch our tears over memory prices right now. The Steam Machine Style Tissue Box Cover (or 'Enclosure') is, practically speaking, just a tissue box. But I'll be damned if I'm not tempted to buy a 3D printer just…...
This mic-equipped mini keeb lets you chat to a vibe-coding AI agent, and I have my head in my hands
21+ hour, 26+ min ago (396+ words) Stop the train, I want to get off. Apparently it's a tiny, three-button, wireless mini keeb with a scroll wheel, but hidden inside is a microphone that lets you talk to your AI agent as it vibe codes. Yes, we've…...
I've finally found an RTX 5060 Ti gaming PC for $1,000
22+ hour, 58+ min ago (643+ words) It all depends on what RAM you're willing to settle for. As the global memory shortage continues raging my regular search for gaming PC deals is increasingly accompanied by tears and grimaces. So, I was surprised this morning to find…...
Corsair isn't rolling in cash from the memory crisis, as gaming component revenue is still down 9%
23+ hour, 49+ min ago (636+ words) The memory crisis is a complicated beast. If you've looked at memory prices recently, you've probably seen Corsair DIMMs selling for astonishing prices. The 32 GB Vengeance DDR5 RGB kit sitting in my PC right now is selling for $480 at Amazon, whereas…...
If you really need an SSD during this pricing crisis, you could do worse than this PCIe 5.0 drive
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (278+ words) In this messed up market, $174 is tough to beat. This is a strange one. Amazon Germany is still selling this drive far, far cheaper than its US counterpart, and if you're willing to roll the dice on that delivery, it's…...
Turns out you can use a Nintendo Wii Nunchuk as a macropad, and it may be the geekiest tool I need
3+ day, 22+ hour ago (452+ words) What a wonderfully geeky way to edit. If you spend your time editing videos, you may have already invested in a macropad. Or, you're probably used to the monotony of spamming shortcuts on your keyboard to swap between different tools....
An ex-Google employee has made an LLM spoof called ChatTJB where he just sort of talks to people
4+ day, 1+ hour ago (565+ words) Bryant will answer any questions asked (eventually) and will even scribble images for users. ChatTJB, according to its Crunchbase profile, is a service that "provides a personal conversational response where an individual directly receives, processes, and writes answers to user…...