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MSI has put its Vector 16 gaming laptop on sale for just $1,299 at Walmart, offering a 35% discount for a beastly hardware combo. You get a Ryzen 9 8940HX, an RTX 5070 Ti, 16 GB of RAM, and a 1 TB SSD, all backed up with a 90Wh battery. As far as RTX 5070 Ti laptops go, it has never gotten any cheaper.

Unbeatable Presidents Day deal slashes $580 off powerful OLED RTX 5080 Lenovo Pro 7i Gen 10 gaming laptop - comes armed with 64GB of memory and 1TB SSD

14 February 2026 @ 7:31 pm

Lenovo's Legion 7i Pro Gen 10 is 18% off ahead of Presidents Day, dropping its price all the way down to just $2,619.99.

"Like new" Ryzen 9 9900X3D Amazon order turns into a shocking CPU bait-and-switch scandal — shopper duped in outrageous Ryzen 9 3900X scam

14 February 2026 @ 6:10 pm

To save a few bucks, someone ordered a used Ryzen 9 9900X3D worth $530 from Amazon but received a $150 Ryzen 9 3900X instead. The CPU had been replaced inside the box to deceive any inspection and was likely resold to the unlucky buyer, who ended up getting much less valuable silicon than they paid for.

Acer and Asus halt PC and laptop sales in Germany amid H.264 codec patent dispute — Nokia wins patent ruling, forcing tech giants to license HEVC codec

14 February 2026 @ 4:55 pm

Acer's and Asus's use of HEVC on their laptops and desktop PCs is allegedly infringing on Nokia's patent. Because of this, a German court ruled that they cannot sell their products in Germany until the matter is settled.

Sony-led program offers PS5 rentals starting at $13.50 a month in the UK across 12, 24, or 36-month leases — console has to be returned at the end of the contract

14 February 2026 @ 4:08 pm

Sony is offering PlayStation 5 hardware for rent to customers in the UK. The selection includes PS5 consoles, controllers, PSVR 2, and even the PlayStation Portal. The cheapest offer starts from £9.50 per month for a base PS5 Slim, with leases for 12, 24, or 36 months. You can also pay a flat £19.50/month to get the console on a rolling basis with no commitments.

Enthusiast scores watercooled dual Nvidia GTX Titan X GPUs for $86 — $1,000 older flagship graphics card with custom water cooling for a bargain

14 February 2026 @ 3:34 pm

These dual Nvidia GTX Titan X GPUs in SLI are a solid upgrade for the user's current GTX 1650 GPU, provided they can make it work.

Intel fined $3 million by India’s antitrust regulator over discriminatory CPU warranty policy — says Intel abused its dominant position in the boxed processor market.

14 February 2026 @ 3:17 pm

Following a complaint filed in 2016, the Competition Commission of India concluded that Intel’s India-only warranty rules were discriminatory compared to policies in other countries.

President's Day GPU bonanza brings RTX 5060 Ti 8GB back to $379 MSRP — score a Blackwell GPU at MSRP, and get a free 650W power supply

14 February 2026 @ 1:59 pm

While the 8GB VRAM does impose limits at higher settings and resolutions, MSI’s RTX 5060 Ti 8GB makes sense for 1080p gaming.

Ponzi schemer behind $201 million Bitcoin scam sentenced to 20 years in federal prison — promised 3% daily returns on Bitcoin investments, left investors reeling

14 February 2026 @ 12:40 pm

BTC Ponzi scheme yields 20 years in prison for mastermind

7x increase in memory costs fueling price increases in ISP-provided routers, gateways, and set-top boxes — home fiber rollouts may slow, and installations could become more expensive

14 February 2026 @ 12:20 pm

7x DRAM price jump affecting ISP routers, gateways, and STBs

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