MSI raising PC prices up to 30% as memory crisis drags on
If you’re trying to find gaming hardware on a budget in 2026…maybe just dig in your backyard for gold or oil, you’ll be more likely to find it. According to recent statements from an MSI…
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Gaming desktop PCs get plastic surgery in the RAM crisis
RAM is insanely expensive right now, and it’s likely to get more so in the coming months. In the face of hundreds of dollars needed to outfit memory for a decent gaming system, at least…
Nvidia loves the RAM crisis
Storage is hard to find. Graphics cards are hard to find. RAM is extremely hard to find, even if you’re a PC manufacturing giant. And it’s all thanks to the “AI” data center buildout. But…
Apple’s succession crisis is all part of the plan
Apple’s high-level employees keep leaving. While some might consider this a troubling state of affairs, given that the departures of talented people can be both the cause and effect of low morale at a company,…
Internet collapses in Iran amid protests over economic crisis
Internet connectivity collapsed across Iran on Thursday amid nationwide protests, according to web monitoring firms. “I think we’re at a near-total disconnection from the outside world now,” Amir Rashidi, an Iranian cybersecurity researcher who works…
Artemis Seaford and Ion Stoica cover the ethical crisis at Sessions: AI
As generative AI becomes faster, cheaper, and more convincing, the ethical stakes are no longer theoretical. What happens when the tools to deceive become widely accessible? And how do we build systems that are powerful…
Google’s AI race: A two-year run of crisis and chaos, recapped
Although Google was the first to develop the transformer architecture that underpins modern large language models, it was OpenAI who raised the bar and ushered in a new era with ChatGPT. Google has since been…
Is the Apple Watch suffering an existential crisis?
In recent years, Apple has become quite secretive about the success of the Apple Watch. If it’s supplying figures for that product, they’re more likely to be processor specs or serial numbers than unit sales,…