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ASUS To Raise PC Prices Over Surging RAM And Storage Costs

ASUS To Raise PC Prices Over Surging RAM And Storage Costs Dell raised its prices by roughly 10-30% on December 17th, and ASUS will be following suit on January 5th, per a report from TrendForce. As the report notes, this is not an unexpected move—and previous statements from Acer and ASUS indicate that "passing on soaring memory costs has become an industry-wide consensus". It's not just PC makers,
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PlayStation 6 & Next-Gen Xbox Face Possible Delay Amid DRAM Crisis

PlayStation 6 & Next-Gen Xbox Face Possible Delay Amid DRAM Crisis No one is safe from RAMmageddon, including gaming console manufacturers. According to a recent report, console manufacturers are debating whether next-gen devices should be delayed to post 2027-2028, breaking the common 7-year cadence between console generations. If the rumors circulating about next-generation consoles and their gratuitous
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WIRED Database Leak Exposes Millions And Hacker Threatens 40 Million More

WIRED Database Leak Exposes Millions And Hacker Threatens 40 Million More  2.3 million user records from the WIRED database have leaked and the hackers who did it claim that millions of other records from other Condé Nast-owned publications (like The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, and more) will also be released soon. Analysis of the leak from Infostealers seems to verify that the records are legitimate and worse yet,
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Ayaneo Pocket Vert Retro Gaming Handheld Gets A Great Pre-Launch Discount

Ayaneo Pocket Vert Retro Gaming Handheld Gets A Great Pre-Launch Discount Ayaneo Pocket Vert is here, and if you hop on the bandwagon soon enough, you can get it for as low as $269 USD for the 8GB RAM + 128GB storage configuration, or $349 for the top-end 12GB RAM + 256GB storage config (or $369 if you want it in red). The vertical retro handheld market has been heating up in the past few years, but the Pocket Vert
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Leaker That Apple Sued Doubles Down With A Huge iPhone Foldable Leak

Leaker That Apple Sued Doubles Down With A Huge iPhone Foldable Leak Ever dreamt of an iPhone that transforms into an iPad? If you have, the iPhone Fold renders leaked by Jon Prosser, aka YouTube's fpt., will be of interest. Jon uploaded a video showcasing the some official-looking renders of the upcoming device, which when folded, appears similar to a standard 5.5-inch iPhone with 9 millimeters of thickness. While
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CES Expected To Usher In Game-Changing TV Tech For 2026

CES Expected To Usher In Game-Changing TV Tech For 2026 CES 2026 will be the launching pad for lots of new hardware, including a new wave of enhanced Mini LED TVs, which manufacturers are branding in a variety of ways. Some companies will call them "true color TVs", while others are being more literal -- like Hisense -- and calling out RGB Mini LED technology specifically, or using the Micro RGB
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New Motherboards With PhantomLink Seen Powering A Radeon RX 9070 XT Without Cables

New Motherboards With PhantomLink Seen Powering A Radeon RX 9070 XT Without Cables Ahead of CES 2026, Sapphire is showing off a pair of "PhantomLink" (its equivalent to ASUS' BTF) AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT GPUs and motherboards. Both will come in white or black colorways and are (for now) China-exclusives. This launch from Sapphire shows a continued push from AIB GPU partners and motherboard manufacturers to minimize cable
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Microsoft's Hardware-Accelerated BitLocker Promises A Huge Performance Boost

Microsoft's Hardware-Accelerated BitLocker Promises A Huge Performance Boost For Windows' BitLocker drive encryption, performance has been a long-standing pain point, especially as high-speed NVMe drives have become more dominant in the market. Fortunately, Microsoft has taken note and will soon be introducing hardware-accelerated BitLocker drive encryption and decryption on supported hardware, with future updates
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AMD's Next-Gen RDNA 5 Radeon GPUs Rumored For TSMC N3P And 2027 Launch

AMD's Next-Gen RDNA 5 Radeon GPUs Rumored For TSMC N3P And 2027 Launch Over on X, Kepler_L2, one of the more trusted leakers in the industry, claims that AMD's next-generation RDNA 5 graphics architecture is slated for a mid-2027 release date, with chips being built on TSMC's N3P process. This claim emerged as a direct response to a quote tweet where another leaker, Jukan05, claimed AMD RDNA 5 would be made on
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