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12 Oct 2026Updated

FortifAI Claims 118x Data Cost Edge Over Google RE2 [2026]

Owen Castellanos12 Oct 202615 minNews

Build a Portable M.2 SSD: 12 Steps to 6,000MB/s [2026]

Owen Castellanos12 Oct 202622 minTutorial

NVIDIA Pulls RTX 5090, Shifts GB202 to RTX Pro [2026]

Owen Castellanos11 Oct 202612 minNews

Date	Story	Desk	Type	Read
11 Oct 2026	Thunderbolt 5 vs USB4 2.0 SSDs: 6,000MB/s for $400/TB [2026] External storage just split into two camps. On one side sits Thunderbolt 5, the interface OWC calls the fastest portable SSD connection ever shipped, rated past 6,000MB/s and...	HW	Comparison	22 min
11 Oct 2026	Best Portable SSD 2026: USB4 Hits 3,800MB/s vs $110 Shopping for the best portable SSD in 2026 means picking a side in a fight most buyers never see coming: the interface war. A drive that reads 3,800...	HW	Comparison	22 min
11 Oct 2026	Gigabyte BIOS Hints at Intel 2027 CPUs With Dual RAM [2026] GIGABYTE has quietly confirmed that Intel is preparing another generation of LGA1700 processors, and it did so not through a press conference but through a routine BIOS update....	HW	News	13 min
11 Oct 2026	Best Mechanical Keyboards 2026: 13 Steps, 45 Min Picking a mechanical keyboard in October 2026 means wading through a market that has quietly split in two. On one side sit the traditional switch boards that defined...	HW	Tutorial	22 min
10 Oct 2026	AMD Hikes GDDR6 Prices Oct. 1; Nvidia Holds on GDDR7 [2026] AMD has told its graphics card board partners that GDDR6 memory prices are going up starting October 1, 2026, according to reports from Wccftech and TechPowerUp. The notice,...	HW	News	14 min
10 Oct 2026	Snapdragon X2 vs Core Ultra 3: 24% Faster, $600 Less [2026] Two laptop processors launched within months of each other in 2026, and both companies are making the same pitch: buy our chip, get more battery life and more...	HW	Comparison	22 min
9 Oct 2026	Switch 2 vs ROG Xbox Ally X: 42 FPS at 2x the Price [2026] Nintendo's handheld costs $499.99. ASUS and Microsoft's Windows-powered rival costs $999.99. That is not a typo, and it is exactly why "Switch 2 vs ROG Xbox Ally X"...	HW	Comparison	21 min
9 Oct 2026	RTX 5080 vs RX 9070 XT: 38% Faster, $400 Pricier [2026] Two graphics cards keep showing up in the same breath this October: the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 and the AMD Radeon RX 9070 XT. Both launched back in...	HW	Comparison	22 min
15 Jan 2023	The SQIF is A new Algorithm that Can Encryption Break Quantum Algorithm Researchers from China’s Tsinghua University have recently developed an algorithm that could potentially break today’s most secure encryption standards. Dubbed Sublinear-Resource Quantum Integer Factorization (SQIF), the algorithm claims...	HW	News	2 min