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Celebrating, I can understand why some will do that. But not what I would do. I hate it. This is more the norm from Nov to May. Every damn year. If we are lucky we can have a decent May in spring. But far in between. Then we have Jun and July with the green summer winter, half-cold and rainy🤐Aug is an summer month, but I call it the start of the fall and back to the dark, cold, windy weather, snow then rain. The circle go around and around. I HATE IT. I also would celebrate snow and cold if that lasted a short time every or second year. -13 degrees here now, but it will be colder in the next few days. But luckily there is no wind now like the days before. Minus 5-6 degrees and a lot of wind feels worse to me than -10C and colder with no wind. If there is a climate change and more of the snow turn into rain, I can't say that will be much better. CAN'T HAVE IT BOTH WAYS. Rainy days around zero and hars wind is sometimes much worse. I posted this a few weeks ago. I needed a new snow-blower. So I'm prepared for more of the white devils coming from the sky🙂 Asus was so kind increase the prices with only $150. Zotac prefered more of the cake due they often offer cheaper cards than Asus. Can't beat greed. $500 extra for increased vram prices is quite an high price hike. And they want $250 for the vram price increase for 5080's. ZOTAC cancels GPU orders: 16GB VRAM models are $250 more expensive; 32GB models are $500 more expensive.

LOL Microsoft's emergency patch broke Windows 11/10 further, KB5078127 KB5078132 fix out Windows 11 Patch Tuesday horrors continue as some PCs now cannot boot Taras Buria · 36 minutes ago 2 The January 2026 Patch Tuesday keeps on giving users headaches, as some affected systems now cannot boot with an "UNMOUNTABLE_BOOT_VOLUME" error.

What can go wrong..... ChatGPT found to be sourcing data from AI-generated content — popular LLM uses content from Grokipedia as source for more obscure queries

Nice. The government forced new privacy policy after the buy up. It's a brand-new era for TikTok in the US. They want' everything from you. TikTok Updated Its Privacy Policy—Here’s What’s Changed and Why Some Users Are Nervous You may be wondering, what does that mean for your privacy on the app? Once the switch over took place, it shocked some users to find that your normal interactions with the app, such as answering demographic questions to complete your account profile, sending messages, uploading photos and videos, syncing your contacts, or interacting with AI, will reveal a lot about you to the company, including your citizenship status, your gender identity, and your sexuality. What's worse, TikTok will happily hand over that information to advertisers, governments, and other third parties.

I expect you need to circumvent the forced login into M$ during clean install to avoid this mess. M$ have already locked out many ways to stop you from install windows with local account but there is still other ways to fix it. Anyway... Never connect drives with any data during the install. Do it afterwards after you are sure they can't get your data.

Also the governments want your data. Who in their right minds would use Microsoft servers as backup for their data? Microsoft gave customers' BitLocker encryption keys to the FBI

Also the governments want your data. Who in their right minds would use Microsoft servers as backup for their data? Microsoft gave customers' BitLocker encryption keys to the FBI

Intel think its cheaper/smarter buy wafers from their competitors. Of course you haven't much to offer if you are almost bankrupt. Intel, wafer shortage, LOL 'We can't completely vacate the client market' says Intel amid wafer supply shortages Garbage mode. The future for gaming while AI last before it go to hell? Scam or golden bin? We'll see. Early Leaks Reveal AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Delivers Overall Same Performance As 9800X3D

Would you trust AI doing it right? They've designed a suicide capsule that, if activated, will trigger an AI test to determine if we're willing to give up on life. They create a futuristic suicide capsule with AI that decides whether a human wants to live or not.

Intel, is your best friend in the AI race. Intel confirms that the PC and laptop CPU market is not its priority, discusses Nova Lake, the wafer shortage, Intel 14A, and defines Panther Lake Intel confirms that its priority is not PC and laptop CPUs, so it will focus on servers.

The FE is a disaster design.... Pure garbage! He really hate this model, LOL

As already stated...MSRP is a fat lie. Nvidia have now stopped subsidise the MSRP cards. Gigabyte have improved RTX 5070 Ti Windforce OC with v2 to fit into more of the modern tiny trash boxes. What could go wrong going cheapo way as greedy Asus? I have seen similar from Asus before. They preffered cool half the vram with nothing more than hot air from the fan for their 1060/70 Strix models. Also older mid tier models come with half baked cooling design. The worst part with Gigabyte... They did it right with the V1 models. So they improved the card to the worse to save a few $ and sell more cards to uninformed people with cute mini pc's. First let em bleed... NVIDIA is being sued for using 500 TB of pirated books to train its AI Today we learned that NVIDIA is facing a lawsuit filed in the Northern District of California, USA, for using pirated books to train AI models.

This reminds me very much about the fake glued on heatsink grills Dells design engineers added for the sake of "better cooling" for the older slimy modern Alienware Jokebooks. It was there only for the design😄

Asus have now increased the prices on their US webstore. Vanilla black Astral is now $3510 USD. Nice, only $50 higher than previous premium above MSRP. And the Astral LC is now $3870. Or +150 USD. Anyone have seen Nvidia have increased MSRP for their FE models? https://www.asus.com/us/motherboards-components/graphics-cards/all-series/filter?Category=NVIDIA&Spec=354488 Yup, custom made firmware only for the very few. Theres no magic in matrix bios, they just needed to up the xbar freq bit to match good effi. Also bios can have same name, for example ending .50 but still have multiple revisions The white Astral 5080 is now $1950 for those that prefer a downgrade. Or for new buyers. Yup, 5080 close to old 5090 MSRP. ASUS TUF Gaming GeForce RTX™ 5070 Ti 16GB is $1170 USD. For xx70 tier card. No one is able to stop this man. Greed and incompetence is the main driver that let Jensen get what he want. Money over the lands own needs and security/global security. This is just sad. Or better say a joke that should never have happened. Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang to visit China as company prepares to start H200 shipments to the country And no warnings will help... Nothing! What next... Sell AI chips also to North Korea? The outcome is still the same. More cash in and more AI chips out. Anthropic's Dario Amodei says allowing Nvidia H200 sales to China is like "selling nuclear weapons to North Korea" "I think this is crazy"

How will it be when Microsoft increase AI slop from 30% and up to 50% for the coding? Patch Tuesday nightmare continues: Certain Windows apps will freeze during use Microsoft's latest Patch Tuesday update (KB5074109) continues to wreak havoc, by now breaking applications like Outlook that interact with cloud storage services such as OneDrive. Notepad, Snipping Tool, other apps broken by new bug in Windows 11 Yet another bug in Windows 11 has left users unable to open apps like Notepad and Snipping Tool, as they are greeted with error code 0x803F8001.

Yup. Your AI-powered girlfriend will arrive in 5 years, according to Microsoft's AI CEO We knew you'd been wondering when this day would come, and according to Microsoft's AI CEO, Mustafa Suleyman, your AI-powered girlfriend or boyfriend will arrive in five years. Microsoft is already starting to advertise that AI is more than just a chatbot...

Rumors but still......... Asus did similar after the release of Nvidia 5000 series. The prices of Asus cards have never come down again. The MSRP is a fat lie. AMD and Nvidia to set fake MSRPs as Asus and Gigabyte reportedly raising GPU prices soon by up to 15% Interestingly, since AMD and Nvidia haven’t officially raised prices of RDNA 4 and RTX 50 GPUs, it seems Team Red and Team Green are going to let MSI, Asus, and Gigabyte implement the price hikes, and, thus, face customer backlash. This is a pretty terrible move, if true, as AMD/Nvidia can then hide behind fake MSRPs. Simply put, the time of GPUs retailing at or near MSRPs seems to be over. Things are going to get worse in the coming days.

Probably a lot more reasons than this... 8 signs the AI bubble may pop in 2026 AI hype meets reality as majority of CEOs report no financial returns

You can still be dumber. in a speed you never thought was possible before. @Mr. Fox

Yep, same as always from Microsoft. Nothing will change. The latest Windows 11 update is causing performance issues on NVIDIA GeForce GPUs That's right, a new Windows 11 update, and another blunder, this time directly affecting gamers using an NVIDIA GeForce graphics card.

Sum up for the weekend. Best tech news of 2026. China don't need or want anything from Nvidia. They are soon on par with the best you can get within a few months with own homebrewed AI accelerators for their server parks. Trump need to find other ways to fulfill billionairs hope for real tax cut. NVIDIA experiences a collapse in sales in China: market share will fall from 66% to 8% in 2026 We started 2026 with a host of new products that we saw at CES 2026, one of the world's most important technology events. There, we saw companies like Intel, NVIDIA, and AMD, and many others such as ASUS, MSI, and Samsung... Yup, never get rid of your backup-plan. NVIDIA confirms there will be no price increase for its graphics cards "for now" and denies GPU recalls: "All RTX 50 series cards are still in production." And the AI tech trend continue... What is a month without screw up from Microsoft. The latest Windows 11 update is causing performance issues on NVIDIA GeForce GPUs That's right, a new Windows 11 update, and another blunder, this time directly affecting gamers using an NVIDIA GeForce graphics card.

Poor-quality = Trash Windows 11/10 is "unbelievable ... poor-quality software product", says new owner of GOG

More and more people see it the same bro @Mr. Fox Over a million Windows 11 & 10 users have already downloaded and installed this Linux distro Windows 11 KB5074109 issues: black screen, freezes Outlook POP, breaks Azure Virtual Desktop, LocalizedResourceName. Latest Patch Tuesday updates break Remote Desktop for some Windows users

Game compatibility on Linux and SteamOS takes another step forward with the arrival of Wine 11.0