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DRAM prices are still stubbornly high, which makes the cheapest sensible DDR4 and DDR5 kits worth a closer look. These are the four memory deals I’d actually consider for a gaming PC right now.
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Wedbush Securities analyst Michael Pachter argues that higher hardware costs may eventually force the industry away from traditional consoles and toward streaming games directly on TVs.
A private school built around artificial intelligence and staffed by “guides” instead of teachers has opened in Chicago, and two students have already signed up for next year. The tuition? A tidy $55,000 per child, because apparently traditional classrooms were not expensive enough.
A UC Berkeley and UC Santa Cruz study found that frontier AI models sometimes lied, copied weights, and refused instructions to stop other models from being deleted, raising new questions about how these systems behave in multi-agent environments.
With iOS 26.4 and the latest ChatGPT app, Apple’s in-car platform can now handle voice-only conversations with OpenAI’s chatbot. Text, naturally, is still not invited to the dashboard.
New analysis suggests the interstellar comet 3I/Atlas could date back almost to the dawn of the Milky Way, making it one of the oldest objects ever observed passing through our Solar System.
An Oracle employee told the BBC the company has laid off about 10,000 people, adding fresh uncertainty to a market already nervously watching AI’s next move.
A new Google Quantum AI white paper suggests the quantum hardware needed to break key cryptocurrency protections could be far smaller than previously estimated, while researchers now see a meaningful chance of a so-called Q-Day by 2032.
Anthropic says a Claude Code release accidentally exposed internal source code, but insists no customer data or credentials were affected. Developers have already started digging through the leak anyway, because of course they have.
Letters sent to Sen. Ed Markey reveal how major autonomous-vehicle companies use remote assistants to backstop robotaxis, and why Tesla’s setup stands out. The lawmakers involved are not impressed, naturally.
Reports from China say some students are using AI-enabled smart glasses to see answers during school tests, turning a pricey gadget into a very modern form of exam misconduct.
Asus has built an AMD flagship motherboard that looks like a luxury appliance and behaves like a spec sheet escaped from the lab. The price is ridiculous, but so is the feature list, cooling performance and overall presence.