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Valve is quietly closing the book on its Index VR headset, marking the end of an era for one of PC gaming's most ambitious hardware bets. With the Steam Frame now taking its place, remaining Index units are on sale for three hundred ninety-nine dollars and twenty cents — down from the original four hundred ninety-nine — though controllers and base stations are no longer bundled, so buyers should factor in what they're actually getting.
Shifting gears to the workstation space, Minisforum has put its MS-S1 MAX-P four ninety-five on pre-order at seven thousand three hundred ninety-nine dollars. The headline isn't the sixteen cores or the fifty-five TOPS of AI performance — it's the one hundred ninety-two gigabytes of unified memory, with one hundred sixty gigabytes allocated to the GPU, enough to run a two hundred eighty-four billion parameter AI model locally. That's a meaningful threshold for serious AI development work.
On the database side, SurrealDB has announced SurrealKV, a Rust-built replacement for RocksDB, the storage engine underpinning countless production systems. Moving away from a C-plus-plus foundation toward Rust signals a broader industry conversation about memory safety and long-term infrastructure reliability.
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