A gift from Soviet children spied on America for 7 years
A carved wooden eagle hung behind the desk of the American ambassador in Moscow for 7 years, and the whole time a Soviet microphone was buried inside the wood.
Valve says its Steam Machine and Steam Frame are shipping this summer
Valve just gave its long-promised living-room PC and VR headset a real launch window.
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.
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.