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Corsair's new RM one thousand e power supply for two thousand twenty six ships with something the industry has quietly needed for years — a temperature-sensing cable that detects dangerous heat at the GPU connector and shuts the system down before anything melts. It's a rare case of a peripheral maker solving a real safety problem rather than chasing a spec sheet number.
On a related note of hardware gone wrong, a Reddit user discovered their Asus Zephyrus M sixteen gaming laptop was overheating and crashing not because of a design flaw, but because of a botched liquid metal application at the factory. Replacing the thermal paste tripled framerates and ended the crashes entirely — a reminder that exotic cooling solutions are only as good as the hands applying them.
And for anyone who grew up mailing back those little cards to get twelve CDs for a penny, Columbia House is finally closing its doors for good. The music club that once introduced millions of Americans to the concept of a subscription model — long before streaming made it feel inevitable — is done. It outlasted the format it was built around by decades, which is its own kind of achievement.
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