… Nintendo’s pricing move means all three current major consoles have now increased in price since launch. Sony’s PS5 got its second price increase in March , just eight months after its first price hike . …
… The 200 percent price hike and Plex’s admission that it has mulled killing Lifetime Passes illustrate Plex’s shifting priorities as it seeks profitability . Notably, Plex didn’t announce any pricing hikes for its monthly or annual subscription tiers. …
… Kyle Orland has been the Senior Gaming Editor at Ars Technica since 2012, writing primarily about the business, tech, and culture behind video games. …
… Asus and HP have also announced some early products. Most manufacturers that have announced Wildcat Lake laptops are playing coy about pricing and availability—this is somewhat understandable, given ongoing pricing volatility and component supply shortages. …
… Coder Henri Kinnunen writes that they only burned 161 credits in a “productive day” of using GPT 5.3-Codex through Copilot, thanks to limiting themselves to “very focused and deliberate changes with AI.” Over on Bluesky, coder Neil Hewitt wisely noted that continuing a three-day-old chat session on… …
… Musk blamed the violation on the contractor that built the drones for the government. The Reuters report, based on Pentagon documents and interviews with sources familiar with the pricing talks, said that SpaceX recently asked the military to pay $25,000 for Starshield access on each kamikaze drone. …
… But Apple isn’t immune to the industry-wide RAM shortage: Cook said that Apple expected “significantly higher memory costs” for Q3 than it paid in Q2 and that “memory costs will drive an increasing impact on our business” going forward. …
… PCMag reported today that the $10 rental fee “appears to be rolling out globally, popping up on Starlink.com for new customers in the US, Canada, the UK, France, Australia, and Mexico.” We did not see any option to buy hardware in the Starlink sign-up page today, but the support article said it is … …
… On Monday, though, Anthropic abruptly announced it had paused those pricing changes just as they were set to take effect, allowing Agent SDK users to continue drawing from the more generous usage limits in their existing Claude subscriptions. …
… MSRP is in line with current inflated street pricing for other 1440p-to-4K cards RDNA 4 architecture supports FSR 4 upscaling with a minimal performance hit compared to what older architectures will deal with The bad Can’t beat the RTX 5070 most of the time 12GB RAM will be a problem at 4K sometime… …