We should all just take a moment to appreciate Valve announcing new Steam hardware in 2025 and NOT ONCE MENTIONING AI

Being a tech journalist, hell, even just being a PC gamer in 2025, means that you have to accept that every time you hear from a hardware company about some new product they’re releasing, or feature they’re adding, it will almost exclusively be something to do with AI. Whether directly, indirectly, tangentially, or just plain…

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One small indie developer has accidentally saddled itself with almost 65,000 extra people to thank after initially asking for 100 names to pad out its credits

You know, if you’re a small game development team it probably makes sense you’d want to pad out your credits lest you end up with a “produced, directed, written, and starring” situation. But I assume that Japanese indie studio ConnectedShadowGames wasn’t exactly expecting over 60,000 people to request a special thanks as the credits roll….

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If your Windows 10 Extended Security Updates weren’t working, they should now after Microsoft’s latest patch

It’s been exactly one month since Windows 10 went kinda-sorta-not-really EOL. Microsoft’s previous operating system has stopped receiving official support for most things, but you can at least opt into a year of security updates and keep your system’s defenses, well, up to date. That’s just as long as those updates actually get downloaded and…

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‘We’re facing [what has] never happened before: HDD, DRAM, HBM, NAND… all in severe shortage in 2026’ says Silicon Motion’s CEO as memory prices continue to soar

In case you’ve been living under a rock, memory prices have been rising at an astounding rate recently, thanks to an ongoing supply shortage, which is largely attributed to AI server demand swallowing up all the available DRAM modules. NAND flash is also in short supply, and so is… well, I’ll let the CEO of…

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