An old SATA SSD makes a better Windows boot drive than you’d think, and NVMe barely helps what you do every day

RAM crisis could last until 2030 — and then get ready for the robots

RAM crisis will last the rest of this decade according to SK Hynix, and then ‘physical AI’ will come into play.

Touchscreen MacBook live blog: On the ground at Apple’s launch event

Apple has already had a busy week. On Monday, it announced a new iPad Mini with an upgraded OLED display, and on Tuesday, we got M6 chip upgrades for the MacBook Pro and iMac. The Macs are the definition of iterative updates - they’re quiet refreshes that look just like their direct predecessors.

My laptop’s NPU sat unused for a year, and I finally found the one local AI job it’s actually good at

Most data centers and servers on the planet could be vulnerable to dangerous UEFI firmware flaw — here’s what we know

A 9.5/10 flaw will take months to fully remediate, so stay on your guard.

China Is So Desperate for AI Memory That It’s Producing Chips With a 70% Failure Rate

The country’s largest DRAM maker is expected to push ahead with limited production of advanced memory chips in the next two months.

Amazon’s latest Echo smart displays and speakers reinforce Google Home’s lost lead

Amazon just launched a new lineup of Echo smart speakers and a new smart display, all while Google Home’s lineup remains pretty quiet. more…

I replaced my Raspberry Pi 5 emulation box with an N100 mini-PC, and the difference is night and day

Even PS2 games are no match for my N100 mini-PC