A Reddit user posting as antisocialnae reported that a stray bullet passed through their home's exterior and interior walls before being stopped by their ASUS TUF VG258QM 280Hz gaming monitor while they were playing Call of Duty at night. The user shared photos of the bullet hole and the damaged monitor, calling it 'the best $280 I ever spent,' and ASUS has publicly responded saying it will look into the incident, though no replacement has been confirmed.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-11-02
Amutable, co-founded by SystemD creator Lennart Poettering after he left Microsoft, has opened signups for a private preview of Amutable Foundations, a managed service for running cryptographically verified, image-based Linux systems. The platform builds on two existing open-source tools, tine and Quarry, and adds a hosted control plane that manages signed OS images, updates and vulnerability fixes. Machines boot only signed images and continuously send signed reports of their state, which Amutable's control plane checks against the declared configuration using systemd-report, an experimental systemd 260 feature the company helped develop.
tech.slashdot.org
· 2026-11-01
Walmart is offering steep discounts on several gaming laptops, including the Asus TUF Gaming A16 with an RTX 5050 (now $1,099), the TUF Gaming F16 with an RTX 5060 (now $1,199), and the MSI Cyborg A15 AI with an RTX 5070 priced at $1,299 after an $800 cut. All three include 16GB of memory and fast PCIe 4.0 SSDs, with the Cyborg model offering a larger 1TB drive.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-10-09
Newegg is offering a combo deal featuring AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D CPU, 32GB of Corsair Vengeance DDR5-6000 RAM, and an Asus TUF Gaming X870E-Plus Wifi motherboard for $1,050, a $149 discount off buying the parts separately. The bundle also includes a free Rosewill FrostMax 240mm AIO cooler valued at $70, and the discount effectively brings the RAM's standalone price down to $351 amid rising memory costs.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-24
Nvidia's RTX 5090 has vanished from first-party retail listings at Newegg and Amazon, leaving only third-party marketplace sellers offering the card at prices ranging from roughly $6,400 to $8,700, with some listings even higher. This marks a sharp jump from the $4,299 median price seen in June and the $5,199 low tracked in early September, with stock disappearing entirely within about two weeks. Micro Center remains the lone major retailer still selling the card near its typical price.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-14
Newegg is offering a combo deal pairing AMD's Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor with an Asus TUF Gaming X870E-Plus motherboard and 32GB of Corsair Vengeance RGB DDR5-6000 memory for $1,109.99. The package also throws in a 240mm Cooler Master AIO liquid cooler and a copy of Onimusha: Way of the Sword at no extra cost, saving buyers roughly $150 versus buying the parts separately.
tomshardware.com
· 2026-09-13
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