a limited-time Newegg bundle drops the effective price of a 16GB RX 9070 XT to $659 — here's whether that's actually a good local-AI buy
Nadia Rahman · 22m ago · 5 min
Local-AI hardware
Which card runs a model, what fits at your context length, and what it costs to rent — computed from each model's own config and live provider prices. Not opinion.
MI50s and P40s are cheap because they were built for server racks, not your desk, and the gap between cheap and working is where most people give up
Ravi Malhotra · 22m ago · 6 min
the model that made headlines for being nearly free to rent turns out to be one of the most expensive things you could try to self-host
Lena Fischer · 22m ago · 6 min
The AMD Instinct MI50 32GB sells used for $120-250 with more VRAM and bandwidth than most 2026 consumer cards. AMD just made owning one a lot riskier.
Ravi Malhotra · 2h ago · 7 min
Arc B580, RX 9060 XT 16GB, and RTX 5060 Ti 16GB are all fighting for the same budget local-AI buyer in 2026. Real prices and real bandwidth numbers settle it.
Ravi Malhotra · 2h ago · 6 min
GDDR7 modules and TSMC wafer costs just pushed every RTX 50 card higher this week — but the ugliest number isn't the one everyone's quoting.
Ravi Malhotra · 2h ago · 6 min
A new open-source physics engine lets Nvidia GPUs simulate thousands of surgical robot training runs in parallel — and hospitals, not gamers, are the ones lining up to use it.
Lena Fischer · 4h ago · 7 min
CVE-2026-18577 lets an attacker skip the login screen entirely and pivot straight into every endpoint N-central manages — CISA added it to its must-patch list within 24 hours.
Priya Nair · 4h ago · 6 min
V4-Flash is more than 100x cheaper than Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 on the same benchmark — here's what that price gap actually buys you, and what it costs you.
Lena Fischer · 4h ago · 7 min
MI50s and P40s are cheap because they were built for server racks, not your desk, and the gap between cheap and working is where most people give up
Ravi Malhotra · 22m ago · 6 min
The AMD Instinct MI50 32GB sells used for $120-250 with more VRAM and bandwidth than most 2026 consumer cards. AMD just made owning one a lot riskier.
Ravi Malhotra · 2h ago · 7 min
Arc B580, RX 9060 XT 16GB, and RTX 5060 Ti 16GB are all fighting for the same budget local-AI buyer in 2026. Real prices and real bandwidth numbers settle it.
Ravi Malhotra · 2h ago · 6 min
the model that made headlines for being nearly free to rent turns out to be one of the most expensive things you could try to self-host
Lena Fischer · 22m ago · 6 min
A new open-source physics engine lets Nvidia GPUs simulate thousands of surgical robot training runs in parallel — and hospitals, not gamers, are the ones lining up to use it.
Lena Fischer · 4h ago · 7 min
V4-Flash is more than 100x cheaper than Anthropic's Claude Fable 5 on the same benchmark — here's what that price gap actually buys you, and what it costs you.
Lena Fischer · 4h ago · 7 min
Fresh off an Xbox reset, Bethesda laid out a huge Fallout roadmap: remasters of Fallout 3 and New Vegas, Fallout 5 in pre-production, and a new Fallout from Obsidian. The catch? Elder Scrolls 6 comes first.
Diego Santos · 3d ago · 9 min
Ryan Cohen shrugged off the death of physical games because they're now under 12% of GameStop's business. The company built on selling discs has quietly moved on — and that tells you where gaming is headed.
Diego Santos · 3d ago · 9 min
The Xbox controller is still the safe pick, but the 8BitDo Ultimate 2 quietly out-features it for the same money. Here's the honest PC controller guide for 2026.
Diego Santos · 4d ago · 11 min
CVE-2026-18577 lets an attacker skip the login screen entirely and pivot straight into every endpoint N-central manages — CISA added it to its must-patch list within 24 hours.
Priya Nair · 4h ago · 6 min
Medical Computer Business Services never treated a single patient — it just processed the bill. That was enough for the PEAR ransomware group to walk off with Social Security numbers, diagnoses and 3.3 terabytes of data.
Priya Nair · 10h ago · 6 min
ExfilSquad posted 15.1GB of alleged Allstate data to its leak site on July 26 — recruitment files, licensing records, employee accounts. The insurer has confirmed an incident but not the scope.
Priya Nair · 10h ago · 6 min