The dominoes are falling: motherboard sales down 50% as PC enthusiasts are put off by stinking memory prices

I’m not sure I love that we’ve started flippantly calling it ‘the memory apocalypse,’ but given just how much hardware this peaking pricing could affect, it does feel fitting. Motherboard sales are apparently just the latest victim, with some retailers apparently seeing a devastating year-on-year decline. According to Hong Kong hardware site, HKEPC, a number…

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Windows 11’s latest update includes a free File Explorer flashbang bug for dark mode users wanting to relive their early Counter-Strike days

In a move that no longer seems even remotely surprising, a recent update to Windows 11 has introduced a new bug. While this one is fairly innocuous compared to others in recent times, dark mode users might want to be a touch wary about opening up File Explorer. That’s because in some cases, the window…

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My idle vending-machine sim obsession has dropped a big new update, so don’t expect me to get any work done while I fixate on Oolong Tea

Vending Dokan!: Kozy Kiosk consumed a lot of my summer after it was released in June. I underestimated just how satisfying watching little avatars interact with my machines to buy drinks on their commute to work would be, let alone how pleasing it was to restock and clean my machines every now and then. But,…

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Memory crisis and sky-high DRAM prices could run past 2028 as Samsung and SK Hynix opt to ‘minimize the risk of oversupply’

Brace yourself for the latest update to the memory supply crisis. And it’s not good news. Not at all. Samsung and SK Hynix, who together are responsible for 70% of the DRAM market, have signalled their reluctance and inability, respectively, to sufficiently expand memory production. And that has lead some industry observers to conclude the…

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Runescape: Dragonwilds rolls out its farming update next week, and I can’t wait to use it as another excuse to not complete the main quests

When I first played Runescape: Dragonwilds during April’s launch, it didn’t take long for me to immediately disregard all of the quests to spend hours upon hours crafting the perfect house. Don’t get me wrong, I made good progress through my to-do list eventually, but I certainly enjoy spending more time than necessary on the…

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