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Memory cards and flash drives prices rocket 124%, some products peak at 261% jump — increases from 2025 driven by AI chip shortage across a range of formats and capacities

Memory cards and flash drives prices rocket 124%, some products peak at 261% jump — increases from 2025 driven by AI chip shortage across a range of formats and capacities

💡 Verdict: If you need expandable storage, buy it now: the global AI chip shortage is projected to drive memory card and flash drive prices up by as much as 261% in 2025. Check Price: SanDisk Extreme Pro ⚡ Quick Hits * Memory card and flash drive prices are projected to surge by

Valve might be adding a 30-day price tracker to Steam — feature is already available in some EU countries to spoof out fake discounts

Valve might be adding a 30-day price tracker to Steam — feature is already available in some EU countries to spoof out fake discounts

💡 Verdict: Valve is testing a native 30-day price tracker on Steam to help gamers easily identify and avoid fake sales. Check Price: Steam ⚡ Quick Hits * Valve is introducing a 30-day price history tracker directly into the Steam store. * The feature is designed to protect buyers from "fake

YMTC's third Wuhan fab clears Beijing's 50% local tooling threshold as two more are planned — move positions company toward 3D NAND production to capitalize on wafer bonding strengths

YMTC's third Wuhan fab clears Beijing's 50% local tooling threshold as two more are planned — move positions company toward 3D NAND production to capitalize on wafer bonding strengths

💡 Verdict: YMTC's third Wuhan fab has officially surpassed Beijing's 50% local tooling requirement, accelerating its advanced 3D NAND production capabilities and paving the way for two additional planned facilities. Check Price: YMTC 3D NAND ⚡ Quick Hits * YMTC's third fabrication plant in Wuhan successfully met

Nvidia releases open AI models for quantum computing tasks — 'Ising' said to be 2.5x faster and 3x more accurate than existing tools for decoding

Nvidia releases open AI models for quantum computing tasks — 'Ising' said to be 2.5x faster and 3x more accurate than existing tools for decoding

💡 Verdict: Nvidia has launched 'Ising', a new open-source AI model designed for quantum computing tasks that reportedly delivers 2.5 times the speed and triple the accuracy of current decoding tools. Check Price: Nvidia Ising ⚡ Quick Hits * Nvidia has officially released open-source AI models specifically engineered

Anthropic's Claude Mythos might be the best overall AI model for cybersecurity, but cheaper models can attain similar results, research shows — cross-examination of the frontier model raises questions on uptime and reliability

Anthropic's Claude Mythos might be the best overall AI model for cybersecurity, but cheaper models can attain similar results, research shows — cross-examination of the frontier model raises questions on uptime and reliability

💡 Verdict: While Anthropic's Claude Mythos ranks as a top-tier AI model for cybersecurity, new research indicates that budget-friendly alternatives offer similar performance while avoiding its reported uptime and reliability issues. Check Price: Claude Mythos ⚡ Quick Hits * Top-Tier Performance: Claude Mythos is highly effective for complex

Nvidia says AI cuts 10-month, eight-engineer GPU design task to overnight job — company is still 'a long way' from AI designing chips without human input

Nvidia says AI cuts 10-month, eight-engineer GPU design task to overnight job — company is still 'a long way' from AI designing chips without human input

💡 Verdict: Nvidia is leveraging artificial intelligence to shrink an intensive GPU design task from 10 months to an overnight job, though human engineers are still strictly necessary for the broader design process. Check Price: Nvidia AI ⚡ Quick Hits * AI slashes a 10-month, 8-engineer GPU design task down to

New tech can see a CPU's transistors in action — terahertz radiation can potentially steal data as a chip is running

New tech can see a CPU's transistors in action — terahertz radiation can potentially steal data as a chip is running

💡 Verdict: Researchers have discovered a method using terahertz radiation to observe a running CPU's transistors, creating a critical new physical vulnerability for real-time data theft. Check Price: Terahertz CPU Scanner ⚡ Quick Hits * Terahertz radiation can monitor active CPU transistors in real-time. * This breakthrough poses a massive