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Critical motherboard flaw allows game cheats, Riot Games blocks 'Valorant' players that don't update BIOS — security patches pushed live by all major motherboard vendors

amazing, I approve of this. People should get locked out of playing if they have old systems that no longer receive BIOS updates. And also if they don’t even know what BIOS is. Once this kind of inconvenience gets more broad and companies will start losing players then maybe this BS with intrusive anti-cheats will stop… I hope

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Hard drive prices have surged by an average of 46% since September — iconic 24TB Seagate BarraCuda now $500 as AI claims another victim

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It’s a cascade effect. Memory pricing went up -> Increased price of SSD with DRAM cache -> Increased pricing of DRAM-less SSDs after demand shifted -> HDDs became significantly more cost effective again as a storage device but now the demand for them increased so price went up for them as well.

2 months ago I’ve got Samsung 990 EVO Plus 4TB for 235€ now that’s the price of 2TB and the 4TB is almost 400€.

I’ve got 8TB Seagate Exos 7E10 8TB for 182€ in May now it’s almost 260€.

We’re fucked…