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Friday, 1-May-2026 14:06:36 (GMT +10) - by Agg
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Motherboard & CPU:
ASUS ROG Strix X870E-E Gaming WiFi7 NEO - A Crosshair by any other name on Tweaktown.
ASRock B860 Rock WiFi 7 Motherboard on FunkyKit.
Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus vs Ultra 9 285K CPUs on ThePCEnthusiast.
NZXT N7 Z890 on TechPowerUp.
MSI MAG B850 Tomahawk Max WiFi II Motherboard on Tweaktown.
Input Etc:
CHERRY XTRFY MX 8.2 PRO TMR Wireless Gaming Keyboard on FunkyKit.
G-Wolves HTX Ultra mouse on TechPowerUp.
Thrustmaster T598 Direct Axial Drive Force Feedback Racing Wheel Bundle on Tweaktown.
CHERRY XTRFY K5 PRO TMR Compact Magnetic Switch Gaming Keyboard on FunkyKit.
Razer DeathAdder V4 Pro Esports Green Gaming Mouse on MadShrimps.
Audio Visual:
beyerdynamic Aventho 200 Over-Ear Wireless Headphones on NikKTech.
Victrola Journey Glow Suitcase Record Player on NeoSeeker.
MSI MPG 271QR QD-OLED X50 Review - 500 Hz for the Elite Few on TechPowerUp.
Edifier M90 Hi-Res Multimedia Speakers on NikKTech.
Storage:
Seagate Ultra Compact SSD 2 TB on TechPowerUp.
Beelink ME Mini 6-Slot Home Storage NAS PC (Intel N95) on FunkyKit.
Portable & Prebuilt:
HP Omen Max 45L Desktop PC Review: Cool, Quiet, Brutally Fast on HotHardware.
Motorola's 2026 Razr Fold Hands-On: Watch Out, Galaxy on HotHardware.
DFRobot LattePanda Iota single-board computer on TechPowerUp.
Lenovo Legion Pro 7 16IAX10H 16" OLED Gaming Laptop on NikKTech.
Dell Pro Max GB10 Review: NVIDIA’s Mini AI Supercomputer Tested on HotHardware.
ASUS ProArt GoPro Edition (PX13, HN7306) Review - Small but Deadly laptop on TechPowerUp.
Power Supply:
Jackery HomePower 2000 Ultra Review Video on FunkyKit.
ADATA SR800 Magnetic Power Bank SSD on ThinkComputers.
BLUETTI FridgePower, BlueCell 200, Display 1 Uninterruptible Power Supply on APHNetworks.
Cases:
Fractal Design Pop 2 Vision Black RGB Computer Case on APHNetworks.
Cooler Master Cosmos Alpha Full-Tower Chassis on Tweaktown.
Fractal Design Pop 2 Vision RGB on TechPowerUp.
Fractal Design Pop 2 Vision on ThinkComputers.
Arctic Xtender VG Black on OCInside.
CORSAIR FRAME 4000D WOOD RS & 4000X RS on Vortez.
I thought the title of this video might be a joke at first, but after watching it, it’s pretty surprising. If you’re curious about how modern chips are made, it's a great explaination of the process covering things like depositing the initial oxide layer on a silicon wafer, photolithography, etching, thin-film deposition, and testing. And, yes, that includes clean up with hydrofluoric acid and piranha solution.
And while we're on the topic of RAM, some Samsung workers are demanding a 15% cut of the company's memory profits and are now threatening to strike after negotiations stalled. Unions involved rejected a recent offer from executives. If talks break down, they will strike for 18 days, starting on May 21, which could throw the memory industry into an even deeper tailspin. This comes after rival memory maker, SK Hynix, is reportedly set to pay an average bonus of around $400,000 to each of its 35,000 employees amid soaring profits.
VideoCardz.com are asking AMD to stop scraping their website when they noticed traffic appearing to originate from AMD, up to 26,000 requests an hour, was creating a lot invalid requests. What caught our attention is that these were not normal page visits. The requests were targeting content that does not exist on our site, which made it clear this was some kind of automated monitoring or scraping activity. The traffic also exposed a war-room-dashboard user agent, which is where the “war room” label comes from. There is no need to send bots after our site, especially when several of our previous emails have gone unanswered (including the one about FSR4 INT8, btw).
Steam summer sales are still a couple of months away but you'll need more than 20,000 games to join the top 120 users on SteamDB. We guess many readers will be familiar with the experience of a digital games library growing into astronomical numbers. But personal three or four-figure game collections are relatively small when you see what the Steam whales are up to. It is still surprising to see that at least 120 people have collections with 20,000 or more games, according to SteamDB’s latest figures. Number one on the leaderboard is Sonix, with a Steam game collection of 43,085 Steam games worth nearly $750,000 at today’s prices.
Open source software is under a bit of an attack right now. One part of the puzzle for Linux to stop the LLM-powered vulnerability attacks is to kill off older drivers. How dare they remove my ISDN CAPI support. Bot-powered bug-busting is in the news of late, with scary-sounding reports of automated tools detecting flaws and vulnerabilities far faster than any unaided humans. Some of these are long-standing howlers, such as a 27-year-old bug in OpenBSD and a 23-year-old flaw in the Linux in-kernel NFS code. The good news is that there's one fairly dramatic but simple approach to handling this: if the bugs are in very old drivers for very old hardware, then don't even try to fix them – just remove them.
They shall grow not old
As we who are left grow old
Age shall not weary them
Nor the years condemn
At the going down of the sun
And in the morning
We will remember them
Lest We Forget
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