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Back-to-back Amazon CPU scam delivers empty Ryzen 5 9600X boxes in 72 hours — $ 10,000-a-month business customer captures fraud on camera Computers & IT
Storage unit auction winner finds retro Pentium 4 PC with a see-through, UV-reactive PSU — Y2K time capsule discovered among 100 laptops and hundreds of RAM sticks Computers & IT
Even dead websites aren’t safe — experts warn hackers are spending millions on expired domains to enable malware scams Computers & IT
No driver, no problem — devs use Claude AI to craft native macOS tool for an ‘obscure’ Windows-only printer Computers & IT
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CPU-Z gets biggest update since 2001 with V3 — 100+ health checks, built-in stress testing, and XOC effective clock tracking Computers & IT
DDR5 scalper bots now outnumber shoppers 10 to 1 — automated scraping hits listings every 6.5 seconds as 32GB kits surge from $72 to $392, DataDome researcher says Computers & IT
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Enterprise SSDs cost 18.6 times more than HDDs as 30TB drives hit $22,600 — hard drive supply is sold out through 2027 Computers & IT
Sandisk’s new $2,200 NAS SSD lets you fill the drive every day for five years — 7.68TB M.2 flaunts eye-popping 14,000 TBW rating Computers & IT
‘Every single month the update breaks something’: Windows 11 users are getting sick of bugs as August patch crashes some games, including Arc Raiders Computers & IT
Movie theatres considering banning Meta Ray-Bans in the UK — forget legality changes, at this rate you won’t be able to use smart glasses anywhere anyways Computers & IT
Grab Keychron’s compact K8 wireless mechanical keyboard for an all-time low of $34 — 87-keys, Gateron Red switches, and white backlight keeb is 56% off Computers & IT
Hackers are using “evolved” capabilities in AI-generated malware to hit US critical infrastructure at an unprecedented scale — “active threat” currently hitting energy, water and agricultural industries Computers & IT
