Codex's $230 keyboard turns chats into glowing keys
OpenAI has turned six Codex chats into glowing keyboard buttons. Each button changes color when Codex finishes, fails or needs a reply.
The solar-versus-nuclear fight won't keep your lights on
Every bit of spent fuel from America's commercial nuclear reactors since the 1950s would fit on a single football field, stacked less than 10 yards deep.
Your toaster needs an update
A toaster that asks for software updates isn't a joke anymore. Revolution Cooking sells a $399.95 R180 Connect with Wi-Fi.
Flipper Zero now has a ready-made kit for building apps in Zig
Developers can now build apps for the Flipper Zero in a programming language called Zig.
AnandTech shut down, and its archive didn't even last a year
A famous tech site ran for 27 years. Its owner swore to keep every article online forever. Less than a year later, the whole thing was gone.
RAM prices doubled in eight months and AI is the reason
A 32GB stick of DDR5 RAM cost about $150 in the summer of 2025. Today it goes for $300 or more. That's graphics card money.
The floppy disk is still running critical infrastructure in 2026
Some trains and government offices still run on floppy disks, the flat plastic storage squares from the 1980s that hold barely any data.
Why Custom Mechanical Keyboards Took Over the Enthusiast Scene
You can now build a keyboard in one evening that types better than anything on a store shelf. No soldering iron, no year-long wait, just snap the parts together and start typing.
Cheap USB-C cables can damage your devices and you can't tell by looking
A USB-C cable that costs a few dollars can sometimes kill the device you plug it into. Not always. Most cheap cables are fine.