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Dell PC teardown shows mechanically locked 12V-2×6 GPU power connector

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Hard drives already sold out for this year – AI to blame

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China’s cut-rate DRAM tests Samsung, SK in HBM4 race (CXMT has been offering DDR4 chips at about half the prevailing market rate )

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The Making of a Premium Laptop: An In-Depth Factory Documentary [39:02]

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Removing The BIOS Administrator Password On A ThinkPad Takes Timing

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Backblaze Drive Stats for 2025

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How and When the Memory Chip Shortage Will End Despite new fabs and new technology, prices will stay highSamuel K. Moore10 Feb 20266 min read - IEEE Spectrum

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The HDD Clicker: Add Hard Drive Sounds to SD/CF/SSDs [LGR Blerbs] [14:35]

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Memory Prices Surge Up to 90% From Q4 2025

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Latest VirtualBox Code Begins Supporting KVM Backend

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Nvidia won't release new gaming GPU for 'first year in three decades' due to RAM shortage — and it's also slashing RTX 50 production

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Leading PC manufacturers considering using Chinese memory chips, report claims — HP and Dell qualifying CXMT DRAM, Acer and Asus asking Chinese partners to source locally-made memory chips

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Adobe actually won’t discontinue Animate

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Adobe Is Killing A Popular Animation And Game Development Program

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Zotac warns component shortages threaten the 'very survival' of GPU manufacturers and distributors — message to Korean customers suggests that the worst could be yet to come

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ReactOS Celebrates 30 Years

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AMD Releases MLIR-AIE 1.2 Compiler Toolchain For Targeting Ryzen AI NPUs

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SSDs now cost 16x more than HDDs due to AI supply chain crisis — hybrid SSD + HDD datacenter deployments are now significantly cheaper to deploy than SSD-only equivalents

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ReactOS Celebrates 30 Years In Striving To Be An Open-Source Windows Implementation - Phoronix

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Kioxia exec says the AI boom means the era of the cheap 1TB SSD is over —company's NAND supply is sold out for this year and likely through 2027 | Tom's Hardware

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10GbE in 2026 is Finally Hitting the Tipping Point

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The DC-ROMA II is the fastest RISC-V laptop and is odd (Framework laptop)

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Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim

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Clone Wars: IBM Edition

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Running cheap and crappy USB hard drives in RAID0 is indeed a very terrible idea

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